Hendrix Help
Hendrix

The Chords Generator

A program written by guitarists for guitarists

Overview	Hendrix Overview

Functions	Description of Hendrix functions

Video	Description of the objects in the screen

Menu	Description of menus

Keyboard	Access to the program through the keyboard (Hot Keys)

Glossary	Used terms


Hendrix Overview

This program, developed by guitarists for other guitarists, allows everybody to make a series of operations that normal guitar handbooks can not allow: for instance the possibility to represent all theoretical chords positions.

It contains powerful elaboration and search tools that allow to generate all the positions referred to the stated performing parameters.

Hendrix was conceived as a very interactive tool, that is able to adapt, to all objects present in the screen, all changes operated.

Considering that the program will be executed together with a guitar, we have tried to find the easiest and faster way of getting results.

All funcionts can be carried out by the mouse, the menu and the keyboard.

Obviously, in the age of multimedias, this kind of program gives the opportunity to recreate the sound of everything represented in graphical and musical ways.

Most remarkable available functions in Hendrix:

-	Choose the chord type from a list of standard chords.

-	Set the chord type by working directly on the musical intervals.

-	Set the fret band to develop all chords positions.

-	Pratically modify positions on the chord fretboard window.

-	Attributes possible chords naming to positions entered by user.

-	Point out most suitable fingering position.

-	Choose from the summary page (map) the chord position to work with.

-	Develop chords position on a variable number of strings, with a minimum of three ones.

-	Set the guitar tuning, by choosing among a lot of "open" tunings or to set a custom tuning.

-	Show chords position and scales on piano keyboard.

-	Read chords positions from chords and scales in musical notes.

-	Set MIDI parameters for sound performance.

-	Listen to, by the MIDI card, the chord position and the selected scale.

-	Play single notes that form chords and scales on the guitar, on the stave and 	on the piano.

-	Define the tonal context by choosing a scale among the ones including all set chord.

-	Set different filters for searching a scale among the ones containing the set chord.

-	Save chord sequences with all relevant contexts (tuning, number of strings, chord type, fret number, position number, ...).

-	Save chords sequence in Midi File format.

-	Change chord and scale performance parameters by choosing among a great number 	of musical rhythms.

-	Use the mouse to open single chords saved in the sequences.

-	Listen to chord sequences in different ways: arpeggio, rhythmic accompaniment....

Thanks for trying Hendrix, we hope you will find it useful !!

The authors                      Paolo Piga & Paolo Mereu


Hendrix Menu
Menu

File

Load    	Open a chord sequence

Save        	Save a chord sequence

Exit          	Quit the program

Tuning

Standard	Restore standard tuning

Custom Tunings	Setting program defined and user tunings

Scale

Scales List	Choose scales among the ones containing Chord

Play Guitar Scale	Setting scale performing paremeters showed on the guitar

Play Score Scale	Setting scale performing paremeters showed on the five-line stave

Chord

Standard chord	Choose the chord from a list of stated chords

Positions map	Shows all chords positions on the chosen button

Play chord	Setting chord performing parameters

Search	Setting search parameters of a chord position

Interpretations	Choose a chord interpretation name

The Circle of fifths	Access to modify the chord in the circle of the fifth

Photographs

Play Photographs	Setting chord sequences performing parameters

Memorize Chord Position	Save the current chord-set in a frame

Erase Empty Frames	Zipping the film by the elimination of empty frames

Erase Photo	Procedure description

Erase all...	Remove film content

Options

12 Strings Sound	Activate 12 strings sound option

MIDI Setting	Set MIDI parameters

Default	Restore program at the default conditions

Undo	Delete the last change

Help

Summary	HELP references

Help Labels	Enable help yellow labels

About Hendrix	Hendrix Informations


Load
Menu File

Load

When this voice is selected you open a dialog box that allows you to choose the subject you  want to load on memory.


Save
Menu File

Save

When this voice is selected, you open a dialog box that allows you to choose the subject you want to save on disk.


Exit
Menu File

Exit

When you select this voice you quit the program HENDRIX.


Standard Tuning
Menu Tuning

Standard

When you select this voice from the menu you can restore the guitar standard tuning.

If the tuning is the standard one, the  voice of the menu is disabled.

See: Tuning


Custom Tunings
Menu Tuning

Custom Tunings

When you select this voice, you open a dialog box that allows you to choose one of the program defined tunings or to set one of your owns.

See: Tuning


Scales List
Menu Scale

Scales List

When you select this voice, you open a dialog box that allows you to choose one of the scales, compatible with the current chord.

See: Scale


Play Guitar Scale
Menu Scale

Play Guitar Scale

When you select this voice you open a dialog box that allows you to set all parameters related to the scale music performance shown on the guitar keyboard.

See: Play Guitar Scale


Play Score Scale
Menu Scale

Play Score Scale

When you select this voice, you open a dialog box that allows you to set all parameters related to the scale music performance, shown on stave.

See: Play Score Scale


Standard Chords
Menu Chord

Standard Chords

When you select this voice you open a dialog box that allows you to choose among different types of chords.

See: Chord Setting


Positions Map
Menu Chord

Positions Map

When you select this voice, you open a window that shows all current chord positions, availables on the current fretboard section.

When you select a position, you'll be able to process it by clicking the mouse button.

See: Button Map


Play Chord
Menu Chord

Play Chord

When you select this voice, you open a dialog box that allows you to set all parameters related to the current chord music performance.

See:Play Chord Position


Menu Search
Menu Chord

Search Chord

When you select this voice you open a dialog box that allows you to set all search parameters of a current chord position.

See: Search Chord Position


Chord Name Interpretation
Menu Chord

Chord Name Interpretation

When you select this voice you open a dialog box that allows you to choose among one of the possible current chord  interpretation name, taking each time as a chord root note all  notes belonging to it.

See:Chord Name Interpretation


The Circle Of The Fifths
Menu Chord

The Circle Of The Fifths

When you select this voice, you open a windows  that allows you to set graphically the chord represented in the circle of the fifth.

The chord is represented by a delimited side of lines that links notes belonging to it. The chord is translated with a signature tune in the display.

When you click the left mouse button on a note, the note itself is enclosed in chord composition. If the notes already exists in the chord it is eliminated.

A note is played by clicking the right muose button.

All tools available in the extreme right of the window allow to change the chord and its context.

You can use the tools by clicking the left mouse button to decrease and the right mouse button to increase their parameters

The first tool at the top allows you to change the reference tonal context. The tonality is put in evidence in the circle of the fifht both with the name of major scale and its related minor one and with the diferent colour that graphically separates the circle of the fifth into two opposite semicircles. The change is shown with a rotary movement that causes an ascending and a descending gap.

The second tool allows you to change the reference root chord note. It makes "rotate" it among all notes included in the chord

The third tool allows you to lift  the chord. It makes "rotate" it of about an upper or lower  fifht

The remaining of the tools allow a chord transposition depending on a mirror-like movement suggested by the dividing line present in the single tools icon.

When you click the left mouse button on each of any area of the window, the chord, represented in the circle of the fifth, is played.

The O.K and EXIT buttons allow you to confirm and cancel all modifies made in the chord.


Play Photographs
Menu Photographs

Play Photographs

When you select this voice, you open a dialog box that allows you to set all parameters related to the saved chord sequence music performance.

The chord sequence is represented by a photographic film shown on the bottom of the window.

If the film does not contain any chord, this menu voice is disabled.

See: Play Photographs


Memorize Chord Position
Menu Photographs

Memorize Chord Position

When you select this voice from the menu, you save the chord current position in a memory area that may contain a 25 chords sequence.

The buffer is represented by a photographic film; if these frames are exposed, they will contain the miniature chord position.

Besides the chord position all parameters necessary to the performance are saved (tuning, fret number, strings number).

The film is automatically set on the next free frame.

The chord sequence, previously saved in the buffer, can be saved on disk by choosing the option Save from the menu File.

A chord sequence previously saved can be loaded in the disk by choosing the option Load in the menu File.

See: Photographs


Erase Empty Frames
Menu Photographs

Erase Empty Frames

When you select this voice from the menu, you have the possibility to remove all empty frames resulting from the elimination of sequence chords.

In this way you will obtain a zipped film.

If the frame does not contain any chord this voice of the menu will be disabled.

See:Photographs


Erase Photo
Menu Photographs

Erase Photo

When you select this voice from the menu you have the procedure description to remove a frame.

To remove a frame you have to put the mouse arrow on the frame you want to cancel and to click the right button.

If the film does not contain any chord, this voice of the menu will be disabled.

See: Photographs


Erase All
Menu Photographs

Erase All

When you select this voice from the menu, you erase all film content.

This procedure is preceded by a message asking to confirm erase operation.

If the film does not contain any chords, this voice of the menu will be disabled.

See: Photographs


12 Strings Sound
Menu Options

12 Strings Sound

When you select this voice from the menu, you open a dialog box that allows you to open the 12 strings sound, by setting the additional strings tuning.


Midi Setting
Menu Options

MIDI Setting

When you select this voice from the menu, you open a dialog box that allows you to set the parameters of the MIDI device installed.

See: MIDI


Default
Menu Options

Default

When you select this voice from the menu, you can set the program with the default parameters (tuning, number of strings, chord type, fret, ...).


Undo
Menu Options

Undo

When you select this voice from the menu, you return to the program condition that precedes the last confirm done by clicking the button

This voice of the menu, is available only if you have set the program in a way that allows the button to blink.  , otherwise the voice is disabled.


Summary
Menu Help

Summary

Shows help for using Hendrix program ... the one you are now playing.


Help Labels
Menu Help

Help Labels

Shows a short definition of commands present on screen, simply putting on the mouse cursor and waiting a little bit.

When this function is active the voice of  the menu is preceded by a tick.


About Hendrix
Menu Help

About Hendrix

Shows all informations about Hendrix.


Hendrix Keyboard
Keyboard

Access to the program functions through the computer keyboard

Key	Menu Voice/Button	Action

Alt+F	File	Open menu File
L	Load...	Load file...
S	Save...	Save file...
E	Exit ...	Exit from Hendrix
Alt+T	Tuning	Open menu Tuning
S	Standard	Restore standard tuning
C	Custom ...	Access to the dialog box Tuning
Alt+S	Scale	Open Menu Scale
S	Scales List ...	Access to the dialog box Scale
P	Play Guitar Scale ...	Access to the dialog box  Play guitar scale
L	Play Score Scale ...	Access to the dialog box  Play Score scale
Alt+C	Chord	Open Menu Chord
C	Standard Chord ...	Access to the dialog box CHORD
M	Positions Map	Open summary Window of the Chord Positions
P	Play Chord ...	Access to the dialog box Play Chord
S	Search ...	Access to the dialog box Search
I	Interpretations...	Access to the dialog box Chord Performances
F	The Circle Of Fifths ...	Open the circle of the fifth window
Alt+P	Photos	Open Menu Photos
P	Play Photo...	Access to the dialog box Play Photos
M	Memorize Chord Position	Save Chord-set and current position
F	Erase Empty Frames	Zipping film
E	Erase Photo	Procedure description
A	Erase All ...	Erase film contents
Alt+O	Options	Menu Options
S	12 Strings Sound ...	Access to the dialog box 12 Chord sound
M	MIDI Setting ...	Access to the dialog box MIDI
D	Default	Restore Program to the default conditions
U	Undo	Cancel last Change
Alt+H	Help	Menu Help
S	Summary	Consulting HELP
L	Help Labels	Shows a short help about program objects
H	About Hendrix ...	About Hendrix informations
c		Access to the dialog box CHORD
t		Access to the dialog box TUNING
d		Access to the dialog box MIDI
l		Musical performance of the  guitar scale
Shift+l		Access to the dialog box PLAY GUITAR SCALE
m		Open MAP window
p		Musical performance of the guitar chord
Shift+p		Access to the dialog box PLAY GUITAR CHORD
r		Carring out chord search
Shift+r		Access to the dialog box SEARCH
s		Access to the dialog box SCALE
y		Musical performance of the chord sequence
Shift+y		Access to the dialog box Play Chord Sequences
Arrow <-		Previous position
Arrow ->		Next position
Up Arrow		Previous Scale
Down Arrow		Next Scale
-		Decrease fret
+		Increase fret
1		Change root
3		Change The Third
5		Change The Fifth Chord
7		Change The Seventh
9		Change The Ninth
4		Change The forth/eleventh
6		Change The Sixth/therteen
?		Access to the dialog box Chord Interpretation
Enter		Confirm Changes


Hendrix Video
Video

Tuning Display

Set Tuning Button

Set Chord Button

Chord Display

Search Chord Button

Map Button

Modify Chord Position Button

X Button

X Reset Button

Fret Number Display

Play Chord Button

Decrease/Increase Position number Button

Chord Position Display

Play Guitar Scale Button

Display Scale Button

Decrease/Increase Scale Button

OK Button

# (Sharp) and b (Flat) Buttons

Chord Intervals Buttons

Chord Name Interpretation Button

Repeated Notes Button

Scale Octave Display

Scale Speed Display

Ascending Scale Button

Descending Scale Button

Play Five-line stave Scale Button

MIDI Button

MIDI channel Display

MIDI Program Change Display

Metronomo Button

Memorize Chord Position Button

Chord Photograph Window

Play Photograph Button

Guitar Scale Window

Five-line stave Scale Window

Piano Keyboard Window

Guitar Chord Window

Five-line stave Chord Window

Piano Chord Window

Guitar Fret Window


Tuning Display

This display contains the current tuning name and all notes belonging to it

See: Tuning


Chord Display

It shows the current chord name.

First letter identify the chord root, possibly alterated by an accidental mark.

If the chord is major, the 3rd is not declared, whereas if the chord is minor the display of the basic chord is followed by the little letter m .

If the chord contains a perfect 5th interval, the 5th is not declared, whereas if the 5th is diminuished or augmented it is declared by the number 5 followed by a necessary alteration.

The declaration follows about other possible intervals present on the chord.

See: Setting Chord, Chord Position Modify


Chord Position Display

The number shown in the display, points the order of current position, inside the position sequencies developed on the chosen fret, for current chord.

You can look for the desired position number with the mouse.

You increase the position number by clicking  left button, you decrease it by clicking  the right button.

. This button blinks when the position number is modified.

Press the button to confirm the choise.

See: Button Map


MIDI Channel Display

It is possible to change the MIDI channel number shown in this diplay, by using the mouse

You decrease the MIDI channel number (1-16) by clicking the left mouse button.

You increase it by clicking the right button.

The choice has an immediate effect and does not need a confirm.

See: MIDI


MIDI Program Change Display

It is possible to change the program change code shown in this diplay, by using the mouse.

You decrease the Program change by clicking the left mouse button code (1-128).

You increase it by clicking the right button.

The choice has an immediate effect and does not need a confirm.

See: MIDI


Pulsante Metronomo
Metronomo on/off

With this button you can set the metronomo.

See:MIDI


Scales List Button

When you press the button SCALE you get the dialog box that allows you to choose one of the scales compatible with the current chord

The display shows the selected scale names for current chord

If you use the mouse in this display, scales scroll on (right button) or back (left button)

When the search scale appears you can confirm your choice by the blinking button

See: Scala


Pulsante Note Ribattute
Repeated Notes

With this button you can set the repeated notes function for the musical performances.

See:Scala Play Chitarra, Scala Play Spartito


Scale Speed Display

It is possible to change the current scale speed performance shown in this display, by using the mouse

You decrease the performance speed by clicking the left mouse button speed , you increase it by clicking the right button

. The choice has an immediate effect and does not need a confirm

See: Play guitar scale, Play scale score


Scale Octave Display

It is possible to change the current octave of the scale, shown in this diplay, both in the musical notation and in the musical performance,  by using the mouse.

You decrease the scale octave by clicking the left mouse button, you increase it by clicking the right button (1-128)

The choice has an immediate effect and does not need a confirm.

See: Play scale score


Fret Display

This display selects a fret where a chord is developed

The selected fret is shown in romanic numbers

You can get a choice with the mouse:

Left button: previous fret

Right button: next fret

 This button blinks when the fret is modified

Click on this button to confirm fret choice

See: Fret


Chord Diagram Window

 This window shows the selected chord positions

Numbers within circles indicate the suggested fingering, empty circles indicate open strings

If the position can not be fingered all circles will be empty

It is possible to play single notes belonging to the chord by clicking the mouse on the corresponding note.

See: Setting Chord, Play Chord, Chord Position Modify


Oggetto Accordo Pentagramma
Five-line Stave Chord Window

 This window shows the chord position in a musical notation.

Representation in musical notation is in operation of the current current selected scale

You get the corresponding sounds by clicking on single notes

See: Setting Chord, Chord Name Interpretation, Chord Position Modify


Piano Chord Window

Keys in a green colour on the piano keyboard represent the transposition of the chord position developed on the guitar finger board.

It is possible to play each piano keys using the mouse.

See: Setting Chord, Chord Name Interpretation, Chord Position Modify


Chord Photographs Window

Each frame represents a photographed position

It is possible to photograph 25 positions using this button [image].

Pointing the mouse cursor on a frame you get an immage of the position

When you press the right mouse button on a frame you get the tools that allow to select, to play or to cancel a position

When you press the left mouse button on a frame you select/play/cancel the chord for the chosen instrument

See: Photographs


Scale Diagram Window

. All available notes of a selected scale will appear in a sector of the fretboard, among the ones that you can use with the chosen chord..

The shadowed rectangles indicate the chord notes in the scale, the green ones indicate the root.

When you click on the notes youll get the corresponding sounds.

See: Scale


Scale Five-lines Stave Window

. Scales compatible with the chosen chord will appear in musical notation

I All characters put at the bottom of the five-line stave, next to some basic notes of the scale,  indicate corresponding degrees of the current chord.

1= root,  3M= the third major...

When you click on the notes, youll get the corresponding sounds.

See: Scale


Piano Scale Window

. All keys in a yellow colour represent the selected scale notes on the piano keyboard.

It is possible to play each key of the piano keyboard with the mouse.

See: Scale


Set Fret Number Window

When the mouse opens this window its cursor take an upright double arrows shape. By clicking and scrolling up and down the frame along the finger board, you choose a finger board section where it is possible to develope the chosen chord position.

You will automatically get a confirm of the chosen button, when you exit from the window that contains the guitar.

See: Fret


Set Tuning Button

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to select one of the available tuning in the list or to set one of your own.

See: Tuning


Set Chord Button

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to select one of the program defined chords available in the list.

See: Setting Chord


Set Chord By Intervals Button
Set Chord By Intervals Buttons

You can obtain some chords by a sum of intervals: you can include the perfect corresponding interval or omit it by clicking on these buttons

The root of a chord is an exception because it cannot be omitted

It is possible to change all contents of a dialog box, if you point the mouse cursor on the displays and click the left mouse button to decrease the interval or the right mouse button to increase it.

You have to notice that "sus 4" is considered alternative of the third so it is set by the display as an interval of the third

You can use the computer keyboard instead of the mouse

. This button blinks when a chord interval is changed

Click on this button to confirm the changed chord


Sharp and Flat Buttons

You can choose to perform all notes alteration, as sharp or flat, with this switch.

For instance, C# (C sharp) as Db (D flat).


Memorize Chord Position Button

When you clich on this button with the left mouse button you can save the current chord in a buffer that can memorize a sequence of 25 chords

The buffer is represented by a film. Its frames, if exposed, contain a very small chord position image.

The film gets on the first free frame when you photograph it.

All parameters that the program needs to process a chord position (tuning, fret number, strings number, position number) are saved.

The chord sequences may be saved in the hard disk by choosing the option "Save" in the File menu

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to load a chord sequence, previously saved, in the film.

See:  Photographs


Play Photograph Button

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to set the musical performance parameters of a  chord sequence in a film.

When you click on this with the left mouse button you will get the nusical performance of the chord sequence in the film

See: Photographs


Chord Play Button
Chord Name Interpretation Button

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to choose among all possible chord interpretation

You get a list which contains the names of notes  by taking every time as Root each of the notes belonging to the chord

It also indicates the omitted degrees and the ones that can not be classified.

See: Chord Name Interpretation


Chord Position Modify Button
Modify Chord Position Button

When you click on this button you get the set chord mode that allows you to define graphically the chosen position, You can draw your position by dragging the notes with the mouse.

Click again the button to exit from this mode

It will be possible to click this button [image]  to confirm all changes, if  a position is changed and the button blinks

See: Change Position Chord


Map Button

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to show all current chord positions that can be referred to the chosen fret .

. When you open this window it is possible to get one of the shown positions by clicking a mouse button or to select the position with the computer arrows keys confirming your choice pressing Enter.

The current position is shown inside the window.

Click a mouse button outside the window to exit from it without making a choice; or press Esc on the computer keyboard.


MIDI Button

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to set all MIDImidi parameters

It is possible to modify some MIDI parameters if an audio card or a MIDI port are regularly installed in Window

See: MIDI


O.K. Button

This button blinks when a change needing a confirm is done

Press OK or Enter to confirm the changes

You have to select UNDO from Options Menu or press Del in the computer keyboard to undo the last change


Play Chord Button

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to set the musical performance parameters of the chord positions

When you click on it with the left mouse button you get the musical performance, with all previously defined parameters of the current chord position

The chord will be automatically played each time you change it, if the flag Autoplay is set (Play will appear in a green colour)

It is possible to modify all parameters of the Program Change and the Midi Channel, on the display that is at the top of the piano keyboard

See: Play Chord


Play Guitar Scale Button

When you click on this button with the right mouse button you get a dialog box that allows you to set all scale musical performance parameters

When you click on it with the right mouse button you get the musical performance, with all previously defined parameters of the current scale

The scale will be automatically played each time you change it, if the flag Autoplay is set (Play will appear in a yellow colour)

See: Play Guitar Scale


Play Five-Line Stave Scale Button

When you click on this button with the right mouse button you get a dialog box that allows you to set all scale musical performance parameters

When you click on it with the left mouse button you get the musical performance, with all previously defined parameters of the current scale

The scale will be automatically played each time you change it, if the flag Autoplay is set (Play will appear in a yellow colour)

See: Play Score Scale


Find Chord Position Number Buttons

Decrease [image] Increase

When you click on the left button you decrease the number of the current chord position

When you click on the right button you increase the number of the current chord position

 This display shows the number of the chord position

The choice has an immediate effect and does not need a confirm

All chord windows, the five line stave and the piano that can be referred to the guitar are brought up to date

See: Map Button


Search: Set Filters Button

When you click on this button with the right mouse button  you get a dialog box that allows you to set all search parameters of a current chord position

When you click on this button with the left mouse button  you search a chord position as the previously set search parameters

See: Search Position Chord


Scales List ButtonKVideo
KScales List Button

When you click on this button you get a dialog box that allows you to choose a scale among the ones that are compatible with the current chord

See:Scale


Ascending Scale Button

When you click on this button you get a scale musical performance that goes from the lowest note to the highest one.

It is possible to activate this mode at the same time with the descending performance

It is not possible to disable both choices

See: Play Guitar Scale, Play Score Scale


Descending Scale Button

When you click on this button you get a scale musical performance that goes from the highest note to the lowest one.

It is possible to activate this modality at the same time with the ascending performance.

It is not possible to disable both choices.

See: Play Guitar Scale, Play Score Scale


Decrease Scale Button

When you click on this button you get the previous scale to the current one among the scales compatible with the current chord

See: Scale


Increase Scale Button

 Decrease	Increase

When you click on the button at the top you get the previous scale among the ones belonging to the chord

When you click on the button at the bottom you get the following scale among the ones belonging to the chord

See: Scale


Set Strings Number Button
Set Strings Number  (X)  Button

When you press this button the icon will disappear from the button and the mouse cursor will take an X shape that allows you  to change the string numbers and to develope all chord positions

Press again the button to exit from this mode

See: Choice Strings


Reset Strings Number Button
Reset Strings Number (X) Button

When you press this button you will restore the string numbers (six) used to develope the chord

All disabled strings will be enabled

This button will disappear after pressing it. Its presence depends on at least one string disabled

See: Choice Strings Number


Hendrix Functions
Functions

Tuning

Chord Setting

Chord Interpretation

Chord Position Modify

Chord Position Play

Chord Position Search

Strings Choose

Photos

Photos Play

MIDI

Scale

Scale Guitar Play

Scale Score Play

Fret


Tuning

The tuning display shows the chord name and all notes belonging to it.

 When you press this button you get the Dialog Box TUNING that allows you to modify current tuning.

You can open the dialog box TUNING even from the menu or the computer keyboard.

 It is possible to choose a tuning.

-	by selecting it from a list of program defined tunings.

-	by clicking on button NEW to create your own tuning.

When you choose option NEW, the dialog box TUNING will be closed and you can set a change on the single notes shown in a green colour on the guitar capotasto.

The left mousebutton decreases note.

The right mousebutton increases note.

 Sharp and Flat buttons allow you to change the way the alteration of notes are shown.

When you press this button you obtain the tuning sound.

This button blinks awaiting a confirm when a tuning is changed.

Press this button to confirm tuning change.

It is possible to restore the standard tuning by choosing the corresponding voice of the menu.


Setting Chord
Setting Chord Formula

The display CHORD shows the new selected chord name.

 When you press this button you get the Dialog Box CHORD.

In the Dialog Box CHORD you can choose the chord to elaborate among a list of program defined chords.

You can open the dialog box CHORD even from the menu or the computer keyboard.

 The dialog box CHORD allows you to set a chord by choosing the root, the third and the  chord type.

You can choose the root of a chord from a list containing all chromatic notes.

Alterated notes are represented with a diesis or a flat mark as shown on the button.

You can choose the third of a chord from a list containing major (M) and minor (m) procedures.

You can choose the quality of a chord from a list containing all defined chords.

This is the faster way to choose a chord among the most common ones.

You can use the single interval button to set more complex chords.

When you set a chord, you have the choice to eliminate or to activate the interval you want, by clicking on one of these buttons.

The Root  of a chord can not be ommitted.

You can point the arrow of the mouse on corresponding displays to obtain an alteration of single intervals.

You can press the left mouse button to decrease an interval, and the right mouse button to increase it.

The same action may be done using the corresponding keys of the computer keyboard.

This button blinks awaiting a confirm when a chord  interval is changed.

Press this button to confirm the chord changes.

However the two displays are linked together,  they show all changes  made on set chords.


Chord Name Interpretation
Interpretation Chord Name

A chord may be considered like a blend of notes that, when linked together, have a particular "texture" and, as in a picture all sensations are transmitted by a combination of colours, so the harmonic feelings come out from a chord succession.

The present software, from this point of view, allows you to generate all possible changes in each chord and it also allows you to processes chords, taking as a point of reference (root) each single note belonging to it.

 When you press this button you get the dialog box that allows you to see and then to choose the possible interpretations of the name of the current chord.

You can open the dialog box INTERPRETATION CHORD even from the menu or the computer keyboard

 The dialog box shows a list of possible chords interpretation. The list contains so many chords as the notes of current chord.

Interpretation contains: the root; the chord definition, and all omissions.

You can choose the interpretation by clicking the left mousebutton and the OK button.

Omissions of the  third and the fifth and the number of notes that can not be performed are shown in the interpretation list.

These ones can be revealed in the presence of cluster semitones of the chord.


Chord Position Modify
Modify Chord Position

When you press this button you get the graphic function to modify  a chord position.

A chromatic scale will be shown on a sector of the fretboard in the mode SCALE.

You can set a new chord position clicking  the left mouse button on a note of a string, then confirming the action with the OK button.

This option is useful when you know a chord position on the fretboard but you do not know its name.

The shape of the mouse pointer changes and it is transformed in a hand; in this way, you can drag the notes upon the strings to have a new input for next processing.

You can change every position both in the fretboard SCALE or CHORD.

The chord is automatically performed when the position is changed, and its new name is shown in the corresponding display.

 When you press this button you can go to other new informations connecting the chord to a root one chosen among the note belonging to it.

 You can exit from this option by clicking on the button containing the hand (in this way it will appear empty).

If the position has been changed you have to click the button [image] to confirm changes.


Chord Play
Play Chord Position

 When you press this with the  left mouse button you get a musical performance of the current chord position.

When you press this with the right mouse button, you get the dialog box to set all parameters of chord musical performances.

 You can open the dialog box even from the menu or the computer keyboard.

When you choose one of the following performing parameters you are excluding the others two, i.e. they are optionals

The parameters you can change are:

Arpeggio : allows you to choose an arpeggio from a list of defined arpeggios to apply to a chord position performance.

Plectrum : allows you to choose a rhythm from a list of defined rhythms to apply to a chord position performance.

Chord : determines a chord position performance.

Selecting Options

Performance Speed : allows you to change chord performance speed choosing this option among a list of speed values that goes from 1 to 9.

Metronome : with this option a metronome will beep  on each chord position. Metronome MIDI parameters. (Program Change, notes, speed) can be set from the dialog box MIDI

Autoplay : You get automatically a chord performance every time you choose a new position.

When you choose this option the colour of PLAY text in the button will change from a white to a green colour.

PLAY This button allows you to listen to the chord  performance inside the dialog box together to all new chords settled.

All parameters, set in the dialog box, begin active if confirmed. They determine the chord performance way by clicking the button...


Search Chord Position

When you press it  with the left mouse button, a search is done about the chord position, depending on all parameters set in the dialog box shown near here.

You can select all options of  SEARCH CHORD by clicking  this button [image]  with the right mouse button.

You can open the dialog box SEARCH CHORD even from the menu or the computer keyboard.

All parameters of a search position chord are set inside the dialog box SEARCH CHORD; four alternative ways of searching  are available and a filter works upon all positions to be shown.

Search Frets : looks for  a chord position on the fret following the current one. If a complete chord position is not identified on the next fret, searching will continue on the following frets.

Search Strings : looks for a complete chord position into the current used fret, showing all positions found on a certain group of strings.

Bass Note : When you select this mode it is possible to set a search and to decide what kind of note among the chords ones, will be played on bass.

List containes all intervals belonging to the current chord and they are represented by roman numbers (I, III, V..) ; the search will be done first on the current fret, then on the following frets.

Highest Note : The same as above but it is referred to the highest note.

Only Fingering Position : this filter allows you to show only fingering positions identified by the program.

A search will begin when you clik on the OK button on the dialog box SEARCH.

The selected setting, when confirmed, will be always active, so it is possible to search fastly chords position that correspond to the preset parameters pressing with the left mouse button, the following button [image].


Choise Strings
Choose Strings Number

When you press this button the cursor of the mouse gets a X shape.

The  cursor allows you to activate or disactivate one or more strings.

You have to point the  cursor on a string and to press the left mouse button to activate or disactivate it.

If the number of the strings is below to 6, this window will show the button RESET that allows you a fast reset of all 6 strings.

The right mouse button is always available to play the chord notes.

To exit the function CHOOSE STRINGS press again the button


Photos

 When you press this button with the left mouse button, you memorize a chord and its context (tuning, chord number, fret...).

You can go to  this function even from the menu or the computer keyboard

The memorized position will fill the first free frame of the film shown at the bottom of the window.

At present 25 frames  can be memorized

When you point the left mouse button on a frame you get the enlargement of the position that it containes.

When you click the right mouse button on any one of the frame you get a box that containes three tools:

an arrow, a musical note and a rubber.

You can use these tools by clicking the left mouse button on the frame you need.

The tool funcionts are:

Arrow: it allows you to elaborate a memorazed  position and its context;

Note: it allows a memorized position musical performance ;

Rubber: it allows you to erase a memorized position ;

The memorized positions represent a chord sequence.

When you press this button with the left mouse button you get the chord sequence musical performance.

With the right mouse button you get the play parameters modifies.

It is possible to save or to load a chord sequence by choosing the options from the menu


Play Photo
Play Photos

 When you press this button you get the chord sequences musical performance.

When you press it  with the left mouse button, you get the dialog box PLAY CHORD SEQUENCE.

You can open the dialog box that sets all performance parameters even from the menu or the computer keyboard

Frames : It allows you to choose in which sequence frame you can set performance parameters.

Arpeggio : It allows you to assign an arpeggio to the selected frame musical performance.

Plectrum : It allows you to assign a rhythm to the selected frame musical performance.

Chord : It allows you to listen only once  to the chord performance.

Play : It allows you to listen to the musical performance of a single selected frame.

Metronome : You get a metronome beat during the musical performance.

Performance Speed : It determines a metronome tempo speed of the chord sequence musical performance.

PLAY : This button opens a chord sequence musical performance without exiting from the dialog box.


MIDI

Press this button to get the dialog box MIDI

You can open the dialog box that set all MIDI parameters even from the menu or the computer keyboard.

The dialog box is divided into two sections that allow you to change both the timbre setting and the metronome.

SOUND

Channel : It determines the MIDI channel on which to send audio play messages (1-16)

Sound : (program change) It allows you to select the MIDI sound by choosing a number among 1 and 128.

Velocity : It controls the sound intensity with a value included among 1 and 128.

METRONOME

MIDI Channel : It defines the MIDI channel to use 1-16) the metronome (usually channel 10).

Notes : It allows you to select the sound that marks metronome tempo.

Velocity : It controls the intensity of metronome beeps, in a value range among 1 and 128.


Scales List
Scale

 The current scale name is shown on the display.

It is possible to scroll the list of the current compatibles scales, positioning the cursor of the mouse on the display and clicking the left or the right buttons.

 This button blinks when a new scale is used.

Press this button to confirm the chord changes.

 Press the SCALE button to go to the dialog box SCALES

You can go to  the dialog box even from the menu or the computer keyboard.

 It is possible to change the tonal contest of the current chord, choosing a scale among a list of scale names that are compatible with the chord.

Every list names are represented by a scale root followed by the name of the scale.

When you choose a new scale, this shows an immediate scale up to date in the windows scale and on the stave.


Scale Play
Play Guitar Scale

 When you press this button with the left mouse button, you get the scale musical performance represented on the fretboard.

When you press this button with the right mouse button you get the dialog box that allows you to set all scale musical performance parameters.

You can open the dialog box PLAY GUITAR SCALE even from the menu or the computer keyboard.

The changeable parameters are:

Mode : It allows you to change the scale performance mode, by choosing it among a list that containes the following modes:

The 1st degree : (the 2nd, the 3rd,... the 7th degree) a current scale performance is obtained in a range of an octave beginning from a chosen degree.

Chord Root : The scale is performed in octave beginning from the root of the current chord.

All notes :  The scale is performed beginning from the first note available on a sector of the guitar fretboard ending with the last available note.

When you choose one of the following performing parameters you are excluding the others.

Ascending : The scale is played beginning from the lowest note and ending to the highest one of a chosen mode.

Descending : The scale is played beginning from the highest note and ending to  the lowest one of a chosen mode.

Ascending/descending : The scale is played first in an ascending way and then in a descending one.

All choices are shown on the corresponding buttons set above the piano keyboard

Performance speed : It allows you to change the performance speed choosing the time value to be used among a list that containes a series of numbers (1-9)

Repeated note : Each note of a scale is played twice.

Autoplay  Each scale will be automatically performed every time the scale used is changed.

When this option is activated the written word on the button [image] will change from a white to a yellow colour.

All parameters, set in the dialog box, are activated if confirmed.

They determine the scale performance by clicking the button... .


Stave Scale Play
Play Scale Score

When you press this button with the left mouse button, you get the scale musical performance.

When you press this button with the right mouse button you get the dialog box that allows you to change all scale musical performance parameters represented on the five-line stave.

You can go to the dialog box even from the menu or the computer keyboard.

The changeable parameters are:

When you choose one of the following performing parameters you are excluding the others.

Ascending : The scale is played beginning from the lowest note and ending to the highest one.

Descending : The scale is played beginning from the highest note and ending to  the lowest one.

Ascending/descending : The scale is played first in an ascending way and then in a descending one.

All choices are shown on the corresponding buttons set below the five-line stave scales.

Octave : it allows you to change the used octave to show and to listen again to the stave scale, choosing it among a list that has a series of numbers (1-4) which identifies the octave.

Performance speed : It allows you to change the performance speed choosing a list that has a series of numbers (1-9) representing its speed.

Repeated note : Each note of a scale is played twice.

Autoplay :Each new selected scale will be automatically performed.

When this option is activated the written word on the button [image] will change from a white to yellow colour.

All parameters, set in the dialog box, begin active if confirmed. They determine the scale performance by clicking the button...


Fret

It is possible to change a group of  frets in two ways; from here onwards chord positions (diagrams) are developed: setting it graphically on the fretboard or in the corresponding display.

The fret  graphical setting is done by positioning the cursor of the mouse on the fretboard (the cursor is shown as a double upright arrow), clicking and dragging the white box along the fretboard.

This button blinks when a group of frets  position is moved.

A choice is automatically confirmed when the mouse cursor exits from a window.

In this display it is possible to set the fret;  from here onwards the chord will develop itself. You will decrease the fret clicking on the left mouse button; you will increase the fret number clicking on the right mouse button. The fret position will be shown in the display as roman numbers (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII)

This button blinks when the key position is changed.

Click to confirm changes.


Hendrix Glossary
Glossary

A

A

accidental

alteration

arpeggio

augmented

B

B

bichord

C

C

chord

chromatic

cluster

common chord (triad)

D

D

degree

diatonic

dominant

E

E

enharmonic

excedent

F

F

fingering

five-line stave

flat

G

G

H

harmonic

harmony

I

improvisation

interval

M

major

MIDI

minor

N

natural

notation

note

O

octave

P

perfect

R

rhythm

root

S

scale

semitone

sharp

subdominant

T

tablature

third

tonality

tone

tonic

triad

tuning

U

unison


A

It is Synonim of the A major Chord


Accident

Notation-mark used in the western musical system that preceding a note alterates it respectively :

sharp and double sharp: marks rise a note of a semitone and a tone

flat and double flat: marks low a note of a semitone and a tone

natural and double natural: marks undo former marks


Tuning

Adjusting  guitar strings tension to obtain the right tuning according with the tuning-fork..

The most  used  tuning of the guitar (starting from the highest tuned string) is: e, b, g, d, a, e

An open tuning means the whole notes tuned for obtaining a specific chord sound.

The program gives the most frequently used open tunings.


Chord

A simultaneous combination of at least three sounds (triad).

The bichord is not considered a chord because it is indetermined from a tonal system point of view.

Taking the lowest note as reference, chords may be represented as root if the lowest note is the one giving the chord his name; or as inversion if it is one among others notes that belong to the   chord (the first, the second, the third inversion,...).

Harmony is the science that formulates the theory of nature, caracteristics and relations among chords.


Alteration

A temporary alteration of a note of about one or two semitones towards high and low sounds in relation with his basic tonality tune.

Alterations, also called accidental, define the passage tonality when they are  marked with a key.


Harmony

A whole of rules that define the chords structure on the bases of tonality principles and control their course in time.


Harmonic

Or harmonic sound, is the sound you can get by vibrating a guitar string in one of the fractional point of its length (1/2, 1/3, 1/4...).


Arpeggio

The consecutive performance of singles and more notes of a musical chord.


Augmented

See: Excedent.


B

It is Synonim of the B major Chord


Flat

Alteration mark that put next to a note lows it of a chromatic semitone.

To low a note of two semitones you use the double flat.


Bichord

It joins only two sounds (excluding unison and octave).


C

It is Synonim of the C major Chord


Cantino


Capotasto

Barretta rigida applicata trasversalmente alla parte iniziale della tastiera della chitarra.

Il capotasto tiene le corde sollevate tanto da permettere loro di vibrare.


Cluster

An harmonic group of adjacent sounds.


Chromatic

Chromatic interval: it shows a semitone interval In the temperato system.

Chromatic scale: it defines a succession of 12 simultaneous semitones.

It is possible to use chromatic scales having third or forth tones,  in other systems.

See also diatonic and enharmonic.


D

It is Synonim of the D major Chord


Diatonic

It is a system based on a scale of 7 notes that subdivide an octave interval in 5 tones and 2 semitones in a sequence that avoids semitones to be adjacent.

See also chromatic and enharmonic


Diesis (sharp)

A alteration mark that  rises a note of about a semitone.

Double diesis (sharp) is used to rise a note of about 2 semitones.


Fingering

The choice of fingers as in playing a chord, a scale or a musical phrasing.

Fingers are indicated with numbers:

1= INDEX FINGER

2= MIDDLE FINGER

3= RING FINGER

4= LITTLE FINGER


Dominant

In the tonal system indicates the fifht degree of a major or minor scale, and it has the most important degree after the  tonic.


E

It is Synonim of the E major Chord


Excedent

Every musical interval that rise of a semitone the second, the third, the sixth and the seventh major intervals, and the forth, the fifth and octave perfect intervals.


Enharmonic

It indicates the relation between two notes named in a different way but having the same height.

See also diatonic and chromatic.


F

It is Synonim of the F major Chord


Root

It indicates a sound that produces a triad, in harmony.

It is a synonimous of tonic in the musical scale.


G

It is Synonim of the G major Chord


Perfect

A forth, fifth and octave interval and all intervals that could be brought back  (the eleventh, the twelfth ..).

When it is not exceed  or diminuished of a semitone.


Degree

It indicates the notes position on the diatonic scale (the first, the second, the third degree) in relation with the tonic or the basic ones, named the first tonic degree.

The scale degrees are called tonic, overtonic, characteristic, subdominant, dominant, overdominant, sensible as  the role they play in the tonal range.


Improvisation

A musical composition created during the performance.

In Jazz, the improvisation is often linked to harmonic models and/or predifined rhythmic schemes.


Tablature

A system of representing chords, scales and musical phrasing related with a performance (string, key, fingering...) for string instruments.


Interval

The height difference between two sounds.

The temperato system divides an octave into 12 same parts so determining the minimum semitone interval.

So you have:

the second, third, sixth and seventh major and minor  intervals

the forth, fifth and octave perfect intervals

augmented and diminuished intervals


La

Nome del sesto grado della scala maggiore naturale di do. Nei paesi anglosassoni la nota si indica con la lettera A.

La nota la viene utilizzata come riferimento per l'intonazione degli strumenti.

Per convenzione la frequenza del la utilizzato come diapason è 440 Hz.


Major

It shows an interval amplitude, a chord structure, a scale or a tonality mode.

The major scale is an ascending succession of two tones, a semitone, three tones and a semitone.

For each major tonality exists a relative minor tonality, the tonic corresponding to the sixth degree in the major scale.

In the tonic system the major mode is opposed to the minor one.


Minor

It shows an interval amplitude, a chord structure, a scale or a tonality mode.

The minor melodic scale is an ascending succession of a tone, a semitone, four tones and a semitone.

The minor harmonic scale is an ascending succession of a tone, a semitone, two tones, a semitone, a half and a tone and a semitone.

For each minor tonality, exists a relative major tonality, the tonic corresponding to the third degree in the minor scale

In the tonal system the minor way is opposed to the major one.


MIDI

Acrostic for: Musical Instrument Digital Interface.


Natural

A note that is not alterated by a flat, double flat, sharp (sharp) or double sharp (sharp) mark.

Alteration mark that put next to a note undo the effect of a previous alteration.

The double natural mark undo the effect of previous double flat or double sharp.


Note

A graphic symbol, usually alterated by a alteration mark, representing a musical sound and its related duration.

A note is also the height of a specific sound, indicated by a particular name or letter.


Notation

System of codifies used to write the music.


Notazione Anglosassone

A=LA

B=SI

C=DO

D=RE

E=MI

F=FA

G=SOL


Octave

A height interval between two sounds with the same name. One of them has a double frequence compared with the other one.


Five-Line Stave

A group of five horizontal lines and four spaces between a line and another one Notes, intervals and dinamic marks are written on it.

A key is shown at the beginning of the five-line stave; it establishes the referring note position which determines the position of all notes.

When a note is written outside the five-line stave, because of its height, usually it has a sign at the top or at the bottom of the line.


Rhythm

A music dimension related to the organization of sound length, that determines the identity of the music in a very strong way.


Scale

A succession of notes performed in ascending and descending order through an octave interval in a certain number of intervals.

The theoretical system in which western music is based is the result of the temperata scale definition that is divided into the same 12 semitones.


Semitone

It is the smallest interval in the temperato system.


Subdominant

The forth degree of the diatonic scale.

It is the same both in major and in minor ways.

The presence of the subdominant in a tonic range is particurarly important because of its link between the static aspect of tonic and the dominant one of dinamic.


Third

A interval between two separate notes, in the continuing succession of the diatonic scale, only starting from a third note.

Third is called major, minor, diminuished or exceding because it contains two tones, a half and a tone, a tone or two halves and a tone.


Tonality

A system of organizing chords in connenction to a main chord called tonic chord.


Tonic (Root)

The most important pole in tonic system.

The first degree ot the diatonic scale, or basic sound, and a base for the perfect major and minor chord.


Tone

A major second interval.


Triad

A chord of three sounds, made of two laid third intervals.

Triad gives rise to four different chords in accordance with the nature  of the third intervals: major, minor, exceding and diminuishing.


Unison

Equality between two sounds with the same height even if they have different timbre.