GTK - Guitar Player's Toolkit

Over the many phases of my guitar playing journey, I got my head around concepts such as chord composition, triads, scales, modes, transpositions, but then had difficulty applying this to the fretboard. A disconnect between theory and the guitar held me back.

This toolkit isn't a primer on theory, but a collection of very useful tools, showing how theory maps to the fretboard making it more accessible and memorable. Theory doesn't have to be difficult. I built these tools for me, and now you get to use them too.

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The Guitar Player's Toolkit includes:

Practice tools:

1) Note Practice
• Learn where every note is on the fretboard
• Set a tempo/pace to practice at. Choose the strings, notes, and enharmonic format, and you'll be given a note and a string number to play.
• Hear the note and compare it to what you hear on your guitar. See the note on the fretboard to help you learn.
• Start with a single string, and work up to string pairs or collections.

2) Triad Practice
• Triads are 3 notes that make up chords. Learn these across string sets, and extend your mastery of the fretboard.
• Like Note Practice - pick your chords, string set, type of chord (Maj/Min/Aug/Dim), an inversion (Root/1st/2nd), and a tempo.
• Hear the chord/triad and compare it to what you hear on your guitar. See the triad on the fretboard to help you learn.
• Start with a single string set, Maj/Min and increase the complexity in terms of diminished/augmented, and multiple string sets

Chord Theory

3) Chord Master
• A comprehensive chord library containing around 3600 chords.
• Create custom chords
• Know where to put the fingers, but don't know the name? Use this tool
• Know the notes, but don't know the name? Use this tool.
• Use the triad library to learn the finger positions across different string sets, inversions, and starting frets
• use the key based diatonic progressions library to help with song writing and melody construction
• All chords can be played with guitar accurate sounds to suit Nylon, Classical, and Steel strings.

4) Scales
• Show notes across every key - major, minor, diminished, augmented, but also modes, pentatonics, blues, jazz, Arabic / middle eastern, exotic, symmetrical, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and so on.
• Compare up to 4 scales, triads, or chords at once on a single, colour-coded fretboard in Scale Sharing, with shared notes marked and notes of interest highlighted.
• See diatonic chords for scales that have them (Major/Minor and modes, Harmonic Minor/Major, Melodic Minor), and explore a triad library across different string sets and inversions for any chord progression you build
• For scales with a diatonic chord sequence, toggle between the scale's note description and its chord sequence

5) Position Finder
• Play notes in a specific key, but at a place in the fretboard that suits you.
• Want to play without having to slide your hand up and down the fretboard?
• This tool shows you the notes in the scale, and where they sit on the fretboard around a fret you choose. You can play in a position without sliding your hand up and down the neck. Toggle between key and mode context to quickly see how the same shape works across different modes.

6) Chord Transposer
• If a song has chords you either don't like, or don't suit your voice, use this to transpose all chords to a different key, or recalculate them using a capo

7) Circle of Fifths
• Invaluable for song writing. Show the relationship between keys and chords and work with modes.

8) Mode converter
• Convert from one musical mode to another

Practical

9) Tuner
• Chromatic tuner to identify any note. Tune your guitar to any tuning scheme

10) Metronome
• Provide regular beats per minute and beats per measure. Manually tap a tempo to match a beat in your head