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Where every note lives on the neck — one note at a time, or a whole scale, in any tuning.
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C — 6 places on the neck.
About this tool
The same note appears in several places on a guitar neck, and the map of where is the thing that separates players who can find a note from players who have memorised one shape. This shows all of them at once.
Ask for a single note and every position lights up; ask for a scale and the whole shape appears across the neck. Tuning is yours to set, so a piece in DADGAD or drop D is shown as it actually is rather than transposed in your head.
How to use it
- Choose a tuning, or keep standard.
- Pick a single note to see everywhere it appears.
- Or pick a scale to see the shape across the whole neck.
Questions
- Does it support tunings other than standard?
- Yes. Every string can be set independently, so drop D, DADGAD, open G and anything else you use are all available.
- Why does the same note appear so many times?
- Because the strings overlap. Any note above the fifth fret of a string is also available on the string below it, which is what makes alternative fingerings possible.
- Can I use it for bass or ukulele?
- Yes, by setting the strings to that instrument's tuning. The neck is drawn from the tuning rather than assumed.