Description:
FretBoard is a reference tool for players of the stringed instruments.
It supports:
- Display the position of notes on the fretboard.
- Display of chords in every key (with one-touch access to chord spellings)
- Major, Major 7th, Major 9th,
- 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 6/9,
- Minor, Minor 6th, Minor 7th, Minor 9th,
- sus4, 7th sus4,
- Dim, Dim 5th, 7th Dim 5th, 7th Dim 9th, 9th Dim 5th,
- Aug, 7th Aug 5th, 7th Aug 9th,
- Stacked fourths (quartic) and fifths (quintal).
- Display of scales and modes in every key
- Major, Major Pentatonic,
- Natural Minor, Minor Pentatonic, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor
- Blues, Major Blues,
- Diminished, Whole Tone,
- Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aolian, Locrian.
- Allows you to hear the selected note, scale or chord.
- When you quit, the current view is saved as the default.
- Allows you to orient the picture of the neck in whichever direction you prefer.
There is also an exclusive version for players of the Chapman Stick available. Please search for "FretBoard SE".
This software is free for you to use, distribute or copy as you wish, as long as you don't charge for it, and you don't get upset if it brings the whole world crashing down round your ears.
This application is a work in progress, so if you would like to help with this project, please let me know at marc@mennigmann.com.
We do not only need programmers. We also need web designers, document writers (for the user manual)...
Update Description:
v1.2.4 April 24, 2004:
- Added Spanish Eight Tone scale
- Added Prometheus Neopolitan scale
- Added Six Tone Symmetrical
- Total scales now 56
- Added Jerry Ballard's Stick tuning
- Added "Guitar Legends" tunings:
- Collins, Cooder, Hendrix, Kottke and Mayfield
- Want us to add tunings from your guitar hero? Let us know...!
- Added Oud for Guitar tuning
- You now can donate to the Fretboard Project.
- For more details follow this link.
Reviews:
***** [Sep 17, 2006] by Robert
Fantastic. So many scales, adjustable keys, chords, locations of all the notes on the fretboard. If you're serious about guitar get this.
***** [Apr 4, 2005] by Jony Jons
Well Done. Thankyou for this priceless tool. Without resources such as this we truly would be none the wiser.
***** [May 16, 2003] by Mart, England
WONDERFUL!!!!! Been looking for a pocket book on chording for ages....NOW it all fits in my shirt pocket by way of my nice, shiney, new Tungsten. DOWNLOAD NOW!!!!!
***** [Dec 6, 2002] by Bob Garlough
There's a tremendous amount of music theory packed into this little application. And, us banjo players weren't forgotton!
***** [Sep 1, 2002] by Oscar
Absolutely brilliant. With one quick download you have doubled the value (to me) of my Palm. I have a minor criticism. If it can't be done (or I'm out of step) it's OK - I still love it, but every chord and scale chart I ever used had the finger position BEHIND the named fret - not on it. (Hey I said it was minor). Thanks for a great program.
***** [Jul 25, 2002] by J Jarvis
This program is EXCELLENT! FretBoard takes all those guitar chord/scale books and smashes them together into a highly portable guitar/bass/violin mastermind. I have been using it with my Handspring Visor Pro virtually non-stop since I downloaded it...NO PROBLEMS. This is freeware that shouldn't be free...it WORKS. And the support is better than some commercial software. These guys have a great product, and only want to make it better. DOWNLOAD TODAY!!!
**** [Jul 23, 2002] by Mostho
Good job, performing for me that I play bass guitar. BUT there's a bug on my m515: when tapping on every menu it pulls down a blank menu and you've to re-tap on the white pulled menu to see something... Can you fix it? It will begin perfect.... Bye, Mostho.
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