User Guide

Chapter 6: Guitar Options Settings36
Chapter 6: Guitar Options Settings
Guitar Options…
This menu item launches the guitar options panel, in which you can change
settings for the display of the on-screen guitar fretboard.
On-Screen Guitar Fretboard
Guitar Fretboard
The on-screen guitar fretboard is a graphical representation of a guitar neck,
displayed with the highest strings (notes) of the guitar at the top, and the open
position of the guitar (headstock) on the left.
Guide-Notes
Guide-Note names can also be displayed for each key in two scale positions
on the on-screen guitar fretboard. The first position displayed is
Phrygian
Position
, and it begins at the 3rd of the scale on the lowest string. The second
position is
Aeolian Position
, and it is the 6th of the scale on the lowest string.
Ellipses are drawn for each of these scale position notes, roots are in red, 3rds
and 5ths are in purple, and the remainder of the scale tones are indicated in
grey. Notes not in the scale are not displayed as guide notes.
When notes are sounded in the program, they are displayed on the guitar
fretboard. Notes displayed that are scale tones in the current key are displayed
in Green. Notes displayed that are not scale tones of the current key are
displayed in Yellow.
Guitar Options Window
The Guitar Options dialog can be accessed from the File Menu. This dialog
contains many setting for you to adjust the display of the on-screen guitar
fretboard.