1/31/2024 0 Comments Neck diagrams softwareAs a sign of its pedigree - you just need to take a look at the UK Future Publishing family of magazines to see this product at work, I even used this program recently with Martin Goulding to put together his fantastic "Play Metal Now" magazine and DVD set, so before you even try to use it, you know you're going to be using something that the pros use. So, lets get onto the program and the diagrams it creates. ![]() ![]() This way everything is stored in one place so you can dip in on the fly and print out resources for your students or your own personal use. Here you'll be able to store all of your work in folders - this is perfect for a busy teacher, you can break everything up drop chords, pentatonic shapes, CAGED arpeggios, 4nps extended fingering patterns, symmetrical shapes etc. Next we have our organisation system - the diagrams gallery. You also have the option to create instrumets - so what more could you ask for? ok this may be an exaggeration, but whatever you need, you're covered here. The first thing to take note of is the sheer range of options we have here, aside from the obvious electric guitar (6, 7 and 8 string options with fully customizable tuning options) we also have bass (4, 5 and 6) banjo (4 and 5), madolin, Chapman Stick (8 and 10 strings) and even Bouzouki (giving us further options - Greek Trichordo, Irish (Zouk) and Greek Tetrachordo) I cant tell you how often I've had a Bouzouki student coming over and have had to hand draw his scale diagrams. Of course, there is a lot more to this program than just being able to draw a few scale diagrams, so lets take look at it in depth. If you're like me - you will meet that inevitable frustration when you cant draw scale diagrams, well the good people at Neck Diagrams finally have your solution. You're preparing a lesson for a student and its all there - you've used sibelius/powertab/guitarpro to write out all of your material, there are licks, exercises and maybe even chord diagrams. You won't have to draw the strings in and you are pretty much ready to have a template to start drawing your scales, or chords in.If you're a guitar teacher you will certainly be familiar with this scenario. UPDATE (Append): If you have a decent digital camera, take a picture of your own fretboard, transfer to your computer and use what ever picture editor you have to crop and enhance. You can easily download these images by right clicking and select "save as". Here is an example as used with Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Paint. ![]() Then add markers for your scales or chords and save by scale name, such as E minor Pentatonic. Once there, you can copy the element several times to fill the page. Under Paint, you can pull the image in from 'paste from' and then add the strings if these are missing in the photo. Download the image, then edited to tweak the brightness and contrast, crop as needed as offered under Microsoft Office Picture Manager. However, the fastest thing I found was to locate a high resolution shot of a guitar fretboard via Google images. The most relevant things are set the guitar string size to progress from large to small, left to right, put the standard fretboard makers in the right place. I have used a number of roll your own versions to create a fretboard and then draw by hand or with other tools to make patterns for scales and arpeggios.
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