Instructions


	Chordstar


	Instructions This section contains some useful information to help guide users and prospective users through the benefits of using Chordstar.

The brass sliders represent the 6 strings, with fret marks and notes etched in the appropriate position. Users can slide these to represent tuning a string up or down. The lowest tuning that this model can be adjusted to is BEADF#B, and the highest being F#BEAC#F#. In total you can see the open tuning (shown in the open tuning window) and the first 15 frets. As on a guitar the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 12th frets are marked with brass inlays for quick fret reference.


	The open tuning window serves a dual purpose as a movable capo. Users can position this at any fret to represent a capo-ed guitar. The picture to the right shows Chordstar with a capo on 2nd fret, in standard tuning (EADGBE)


	Alternate tunings can easily be achieved by arranging the desired tuning in the open tuning window. Virtually any conceivable tuning can be visualised in this way, users can also experiment with creating their own tunings. In this picture I am tuning the bass string down to a D.


	When used in conjunction with a knowledge of scales (or a scale book!) chords can be constructed intelligently. This approach to chord construction helps to expand and remember chord shapes. Using this method a better appreciation of the notes you are playing and the sound you hear can be gained.


	Music written and performed by Nick Riddiford 2007

For example knowing that a major chord is comprised of the 1st, 3rd and 5th notes of a major scale, and that in a C major scale those positions correspond to the notes C (1st) E (3rd) and G (5th), users can easily locate these notes to construct a C major chord anywhere on the fretboard and in any tuning.
In the example to the right, I have highlighted the notes C, E and G to show the options available for different voicings of Cmaj in standard tuning.


	This picture demonstrates the same principle, but in a different tuning (DADGAD). In using this tuning the finger positioning for playing a Cmaj chord changes, but new options become available.


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