GTK - Guitar Player's Toolkit

Over the many phases of my guitar playing journey, I got my head around concepts such as chord composition, triads, scales, modes, transpositions, but then had difficulty applying this to the fretboard. A disconnect between the theory and the guitar held me back.

This toolkit isn't a primer on theory. It's a collection of some very useful tools, some of which show how theory maps to your guitar fretboard making it more accessible and memorable. Theory doesn't have to be difficult. I built these tools for me, and now you get to use them too.

The Guitar Player's Toolkit includes the following tools:

Practice tools:

1) Note Practice
• Learn where every note is on the fretboard
• Set a tempo/pace to practice at. Choose the strings, notes, and enharmonic format, and you'll be given a note and a string number to play.
• Hear the note and compare it to what you hear on your guitar. See the note on the fretboard to help you learn.
• Start with a single string, and work up to string pairs or collections.

2) Triad Practice
• Triads are 3 notes that make up chords. Learn these across string sets, and extend your mastery of the fretboard.
• Like Note Practice - pick your chords, string set, type of chord (Maj/Min/Aug/Dim), an inversion (Root/1st/2nd), and a tempo.
• Hear the chord/triad and compare it to what you hear on your guitar. See the triad on the fretboard to help you learn.
• Start with a single string set, Maj/Min and increase the complexity in terms of diminished/augmented, and multiple string sets

Chord Theory

3) Chord Master
• A comprehensive chord library containing around 3600 chords.
• Create custom chords
• Know where to put the fingers, but don't know the name? Use this tool
• Know the notes, but don't know the name? Use this tool.
• Use the triad library to learn the finger positions across different string sets, inversions, and starting frets
• use the key based diatonic progressions library to help with song writing and melody construction
• All chords can be played with guitar accurate sounds to suit Nylon, Classical, and Steel strings.

4) Scales
• Show notes across every key - major, minor, diminished, augmented, but also modes, pentatonics, blues, jazz, Arabic / middle eastern, exotic, symmetrical, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and so on.
• Compare up to 4 scales, triads, or chords at once on a single, colour-coded fretboard in Scale Sharing, with shared notes marked and notes of interest highlighted.
• See diatonic chords for scales that have them (Major/Minor and modes, Harmonic Minor/Major, Melodic Minor), and explore a triad library across different string sets and inversions for any chord progression you build
• For scales with a diatonic chord sequence, toggle between the scale's note description and its chord sequence

5) Position Finder
• Want to play a scale in a specific key, but at a place in the fretboard that suits you?
• Want to play without having to slide your hand up and down the fretboard?