Guitar Fretboard Visualization System
(Card Index)
This page is intended to provide a thumbnail image of each of the cards, together with a brief description of some of their uses.
If you are a guitar teacher, the cards will make a superb reference from which to teach music theory.
If you are a student, the cards map out music theory in a very thorough and consistent way, enabling you to visualize notes, intervals, scales and chords over the entire fretboard.
Simply reference them as you read any good music theory text book and they will make the information come to life.
Uses for Cards F01 to F03:
1. Learning the Fretboard (note names and music notation)
2. Finding notes given Standard Music Notation
3. Understanding the layout of the octaves
4. Very useful for Ear Training
Cards F01 - F03 have been designed to work together to enable guitarists to learn the names, locations, and standard music notation of all the notes on the fretboard. Learning the fretboard by string, fret, and note will make the information permanent, ensuring that you are able to locate notes instantly.
Uses:
1. Learning interval shapes and their sound qualities
2. Learning universal scale degrees (used in scale and chord formulas)
3. Very useful for ear training
This card shows all the possible spellings for each of the practical intervals within one octave.
Uses:
1. Learning interval spellings
2. Very useful for ear training
This card shows all the Major and Minor keys, the notes in the scales, the key signature, the circle of 5ths (the relationship between the keys), and the chords diatonic to (related to) the key.
Using this card, you will be able to play the scales in all keys using the entire fretboard, knowing the names of the notes and the universal scale degrees and intervals they represent.
If you are a guitar teacher, the cards will make a superb reference from which to teach music theory.
If you are a student, the cards map out music theory in a very thorough and consistent way, enabling you to visualize notes, intervals, scales and chords over the entire fretboard.
Simply reference them as you read any good music theory text book and they will make the information come to life.
Card F01 - The Fretboard in Standard Music Notation
The notes on the fretboard are the one constant; they don't move, they are the foundation on which all scales and chords are built. Failing to learn this information will put you at a serious disadvantage, ultimately limiting your potential.
Card F02 - The Fretboard by Note in Standard Music Notation
This card displays the notes and their standard music notation by note name.Uses for Cards F01 to F03:
1. Learning the Fretboard (note names and music notation)
2. Finding notes given Standard Music Notation
3. Understanding the layout of the octaves
4. Very useful for Ear Training
Card F03 - The Fretboard by Fret in Standard Music Notation
This card displays the notes and their standard music notation by fret.Cards F01 - F03 have been designed to work together to enable guitarists to learn the names, locations, and standard music notation of all the notes on the fretboard. Learning the fretboard by string, fret, and note will make the information permanent, ensuring that you are able to locate notes instantly.
Card I01 - Interval Shapes & Universal Scale Degrees
An interval is the distance (measured in semi-tones) between two notes. It is this distance that creates our emotional response to the music. Intervals are used to create many different effects or emotions including tension, sadness, happiness, and resolution (a feeling of coming home or ending). The emotions in a piece of music are created by the complex interaction of all the intervals it contains. Understanding intervals at this level and having the ability to construct them over the entire fretboard will reveal the full spectrum of sounds on the guitar.Uses:
1. Learning interval shapes and their sound qualities
2. Learning universal scale degrees (used in scale and chord formulas)
3. Very useful for ear training
Card I02 - Interval Spellings
Spelling intervals is just a matter of convention. When naming the notes in a scale or chord we do not allow any individual letter to appear more than once (with the exception of the first and last notes in a one octave scale which always share the same name). For example, we can't have C and C sharp in the same scale. We would have to call C sharp by its alternative name, D flat.This card shows all the possible spellings for each of the practical intervals within one octave.
Uses:
1. Learning interval spellings
2. Very useful for ear training
Card K01 - Major and Minor Keys
Western music has a tonal center (or key). All the notes in an octave have a specific relationship with the Root or Tonic (the starting note). The Root establishes the tonal center (or key). Some notes create tension when compared to the Root and others sound pleasing. Each time the Root is played in a piece of music, it creates the sensation of returning home and the music is said to have reached a resolution or resolved. Returning to the Root produces the strongest resolution and that is why many pieces start and finish on it. Interestingly, jazz constantly changes its tonal center, which is why it is almost impossible to predict what is coming next; you never really get the opportunity to hold on to the home sound for very long.This card shows all the Major and Minor keys, the notes in the scales, the key signature, the circle of 5ths (the relationship between the keys), and the chords diatonic to (related to) the key.
Card K02 - Scale and Chord Formulas
This card shows the formulas for over 70 scale and chord types. They are grouped by type (major scale types, minor scale types, major chord types, minor chord types, augmented chord types, diminished chord types, dominant chord types, and other chord types) to highlight the relationships between them.
Card S01 - Common Scale Patterns
This card shows 14 of the most commonly used scales including the Major Scale and its Modes, the Chromatic Scale, the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales, the Blues Scale, and the Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales.Using this card, you will be able to play the scales in all keys using the entire fretboard, knowing the names of the notes and the universal scale degrees and intervals they represent.
