Program for making chord/scale diagrams

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Does anyone have any reccomendations? Making them in paint is time consuming and they always look awkward. I need to make big, clear diagrams, at a size where I can get four or five to a sheet of A4

saggio

I'm not sure what you mean. You mean a stack of notes on a staff? Or notation like Ebm7? Or are you looking for a program to make finger charts specific to an instrument?

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Specific to guitar sorry. I need to make scale and chord diagrams for my students, hand written ones look unprofessional. I can write them out in tab, but I find people learn much better if they can visualise the shape

PorkChopSandwiches

Unless you're creating non-standard chords and scales, you should be able to find plenty of pre-made images by doing a Google image search for whatever chord/scale you're looking for.

You might check into this.

cramsin

I'm sure there would be some latex extension for chords if you're into that.

Icemopper

There is actually a font you can install where the letters make chords, lower case are generally major and upper, minor, with a bunch of random ones. The font is called Seville, and I've found it very useful. It doesn't do anything, but if you're teaching anything from beginners to pretty decent guitarists it should work. At least for the guitar chord.

As for music chord and the guitar chord at the same time, a great program is Sibelius. Expensive, yes, but man it works so well. You put in notes, then above it you can put in guitar chords, and if they don't have the specific fingering you want, you can make it. I love that program so hard.

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I have Sibelius, but if there's a function for making big chord diagrams I can't find it. Any tips?

I can't use scale diagrams from the web for copyright reasons.

Icemopper

The chords are under the create menu at the top. Click that, scroll to create, then Chord Diagrams.

You can choose from preset ones, or make new ones, it's amazingly simple.

At least I think that's what you're talking about, if it's not, let me know so I can be corrected.

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Can you make full size ones, or just the small accompaniment ones? I mean I could turn it on and go check but the computer is in another room and that's far...

any advice on scale diagrams?

Icemopper

Lemme check real quick, I think they're just small ones... but I'll see about resizing...

EDIT: Ok so you can't resize them unless you make the staff huge probably, so it makes it pretty useless.

If you don't mind, what exactly are you using it for? I know students, but are there certain warm ups or something that need the diagram to be large?

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If you're doing a page on for instance, major chord shapes, it's nice if you can do them at a good size so that they can visualise them easily. Same with scales, tab just doesn't cut it.

limester816

Are you talking about fingerboard paper? If so, I made some, formatted for printing already: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38204071/

I like to just print out a bunch of them, and write with pen/pencil directly on the sheet, this way I can use different colors to signify different things, and erase if I need to.

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That's awesome! Thanks a lot

Quirk

not sure how useful this might be, but I found it handy for finding odd chords, and different chord positions and whatnot, so your students might as well

http://www.gootar.com/folder/guitar.html

Icemopper

The only problem I have with that fingerboard paper, and I'm super picky, is that the frets are not spaced as a guitar really would be. It can be confusing to beginners when it looks on paper as if an entire neck looks spaced the same, but other than that, those things can be really useful.