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Saving my favorite VIOLA fingerboard map here.
Hope to get around to drawing one that includes the Violin E string for 5-string Violins/Violas, and also the low F string for 6-string Violins.
Really like the fingerboard maps that show circles as the notes, starting at the scroll end - then increasingly more 'squashed' ovals as the notes get closer together, toward the bridge end.
Of course I'm totally inept at using any software... now where'd my ruler go. 🤭 Sure miss the good Ol' days, before I had any 'help' cleaning/organizing the house.
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Or I've been told there's this thing called...scales? if you want to familiarise yourself?
I had maps for guitar and uke when I was a fingerboard noob, but they were hella confusing.
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Gordon Shumway said
Or I've been told there's this thing called...scales? if you want to familiarise yourself?
What?
Don't you recognize what 'scale' this is?
...the 'map' represents the Chromatic Scale.
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There's broader implications to this 'map'.
Everyone knows some tunes are more easily played than others - because of the string layout (and tuning). The map could help me see key options I might otherwise miss, for easier playing.
I also find it more useful to use virtual keyboards to test out chords, their inversions & progressions. This map can serve a similar purpose of seeing a keyboard layout. It can help me see what options work best on these strings, maybe help take the guesswork out of planning best fingerings & positions - or find new pathways I want to target.
...it's why I want to expand the map, to possibly make better use of my 6 strings - it's a visual aid.
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for 29.00 this will allow one to make custom fingerboard diagrams on multiple instruments. Its uswd mainly in the fretted world but will still be useful here... I used in a jazz guitar class when i took that for a while. pretty handy the maps and diagrams it can make. Once i learned the fretboard layout i wasnt using it as much except for help on fancy chords. barely remember most of them...if any. 😅
anyway.. here is the software link.. the tuning can be changed and different instruments selected.. i would suggest the mandolin as a start. then maybe experiment with tuning..
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@ABitRusty -
Hey, Thank you!
Went & looked at the software, but then found some free 6-string fretboard blanks to print at Fretjam. They print faint enough I can just darken what I want to see.
Geez, if I can get Kevin to grab my x-acto blades, my straight edge & cutting mat tomorrow... I'd have one that looks like the OP done for 6 strings in less time than it takes to load software! Neanderthal tech = 'cut & paste', print as many as I want & highlight as I need. 🤣
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