Fingerboard Software (And How I came To Find It)

Hi all,
I have promised to build my 9 year old nephew a guitar.
I was showing The Nation to some relatives during our family Christmas gathering, and Jake got hooked.
When Jake was 5, he tangled with a piece of lawn equipment and lost his left hand and half his left forearm.
He has decided he doesn't want to learn to strum with the nub..... he wants to play slide and be able to finger pick.
Well, I happened to have a bottleneck with me, and (don't ask why) some aluminum TIG rods in the trunk of the car.
I spent several minutes twisting up a prototype prosthetic slide for him, taught him to count 4 while tapping his foot, and explained Open, 5th, 7th, and 12th frets.
Well, he spent the next 90 minutes knocking out some rattly..... but steady... rhythm.
I've been working on a more controllable and permanent prosthesis.
It occurred to me today that he would be well served by knowing the notes he'll be playing.(duh)
I started drawing out a fingerboard chart and realized, well... realized that is too darn much work. So I started looking for one I could copy and print from online.

And so we finally arrive at the point of this post. Lol.
I found this dandy little online program that will create a printable chart for almost any tuning and number of strings.
It calculates fret by fret notes, chords, scales........ I hope it helps someone.



Jeff

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Comment by Dianne Woods on April 14, 2010 at 5:45am
Jeff, thanks for sharing that wonderful story with us. That is great you made something for your nephew to play the slide. More power to you.
Comment by RL Mott on January 16, 2010 at 9:05am
great link . The music paper printouts (link under bass tools ) are handy to have also .
Jake and his uncle brightened my day .
Comment by Penny Nelson on January 14, 2010 at 5:19pm
thanks for the link and even more thanks for the inspiring story - cant wait to hear Jake on YouTube : D BeMuzic did a very clever thing (as I'm horridly selfconscious about being caught on film) point the Video out the window whilst recording get the music and the passing view..
Comment by Jeff "Sweet T" Tinsley on January 13, 2010 at 7:57pm

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