The Clave Is Silent on the One
I built a salsa trainer because “just find the 1” is advice from people who can already hear it.
What it’s about
In a 2-3 clave, the pattern the band lines up to, none of the five strokes lands on the 1. That’s the beat every salsa teacher tells you to find. I built SalsaCoach around that problem.
This is the story of the first night it ran on a real phone, at 1:43 in the morning. Two of the three bugs I was sure it had didn’t exist; the emulator I’d been measuring with was broken. Two bugs I wasn’t looking for did exist, including a “saved” message that was really the failure branch.