The Modes should be in order, Ionian - I Dorian - ii Phrygian - iii Lydian - IV Mixolydian - V Aeolian - vi Locrian - vii Otherwise its a really useful tool, great job.
That was my main complaint as well.
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#72Looks very good - I'll get a chance to look properly on a laptop tomorrow. One thing I'd like is the ability to do 9 string tuning - I have a 9,and yet to get seriously into it, partly because it's so easy to get lost and I'm yet to get on top of the patterns that I already know well on a 6 string... I know it's the same intervals as the bottom 4 strings of a 6 string, but seeing the patterns would help, I think. But as its open source, I guess I should do it myself!
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#73Very nicely done.
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#74I will spend some time on this later next week. At first glance my preferred D standard tuning (DGCFAD) does not seem to be available.
Ditto for "Open D minor (DADFAD)" tuning that I use. Being able to set up an arbitrary tuning would serve this purpose as well, although I suspect generalizing that function might be more work than it is worth. It would also be nice to see other scales, such as major and minor pentatonic and blues scales. I've used jguitar.com in the past for this sort of thing, but I really like visual aspect and unity of guitardash…
+1 for mentioning https://jguitar.com/ which I created.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ditto for "Open D minor (DADFAD)" tuning that I use. Being able to set up an arbitrary tuning would serve this purpose as well, although I suspect generalizing that function might be more work than it is worth. It would also be nice to see other scales, such as major and minor pentatonic and blues scales. I've used jguitar.com in the past for this sort of thing, but I really like visual aspect and unity of guitardash…
+1 for mentioning https://jguitar.com/ which I created.
There aren't a lot of tools for exploring fingering for non-standard tunings, and jguitar.com has served my explorations for the past couple of years.
jguitar.com is also very comprehensive in terms of chord fingering, scales, etc.
One major difference between jquitar.com and guitardashboard.com is that the facets (tuning, chords, scales, etc.) are separated from one other on jguitar.com, whereas guitardashboard.com tries to place them all onto a single screen. My initial reaction to guitardashboard.com is that this approach does succeed. However, jguitar.com has more to offer in total.
My thanks to both authors for helping us explorers of alternate tunings. Any help we can get is appreciated.
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#76the only problem with all of this is that you must ingest the entirety of the information before becoming unconsciously competent. Do you think skilled guitarists actually think about this while they play? It's a complete flow state; prefrontal activity just shuts it down.
Honestly I like seeing the fretboard patterns to identify funky triads or strange chord fingering patterns. It's especially useful for when you change tunings to something you've not used
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#77I will spend some time on this later next week. At first glance my preferred D standard tuning (DGCFAD) does not seem to be available.
It's very easy to add new tunings. I'll collect all the ones from the comments here and add them in the next few days.
Some tunings I would like:
5 string bass: BEADG Baritone guitar: BEADF#B (2.5 steps down) Baritone drop A: AEADF#B (like drop D, tuned 2.5 steps down)
Would be neat if you could just select a standard tuning and then have a spinbox to say how many steps up or down to modify it. Makes lots of combinations available.
Thanks for the tool!
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#78Really cool tool! I've been getting into more theory stuff after playing guitar for quite a while, so it's awesome timing! Thanks!
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best ones I have read take it a little closer to the guitar: "Learn the freboard" Learn why the freboard is the way it is, why it is tuned the way it is, why no one for hundreds of years has been able to come up with a better tuning system -- then learning rhythm, chords and scales will be a bonus side effect. The very excellent book "Fretboard Logic" takes this approach
Not to disagree with your points, but a brief aside you made me think of: The fretboard in its current incarnation works well for western music, at the cost of being quite poor at playing for middle-eastern and eastern music. There have been attempts to address this with microtonal fretboards (which are complicated), but most often they use fretless necks (which are available for guitars and basses). So, as with all…
Your comment is optimized for my local appreciation. Well said.
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#80Wow. This is great. I play left-handed, in fourths tuning and these visualizations are amazing.
Consider adding chords, too!