The Info Palette

The Info Palette serves two functions. It gives you quick access to the Instrument Name and Guitar Tuning, and it tells you about the Fret Cursor Note and its relationship to the scale and to other tones. You should refer to this palette whenever you are curious about the function of a tone on the guitar neck, especially when you are entering chords there.

Palette Features

• The Instrument Popup shows you which sound is being used to play the current Part. You can click here to choose from a list of General MIDI Instruments.

• The Tuning Popup tells you how the guitar is tuned. You can click here to select from a list of tunings.

• The Fret Cursor Note is the tone on the guitar at the Fret Cursor. You can move the Fret Cursor around to learn useful information about any tone.

• Primary Function indicates how the Fret Cursor Note fits into the Current Chord. When the Chord Root Button is set to the primary function also applies to the Current Key, since the root note of the Current Chord will be the same as the root of the Current Key.

• Secondary Function indicates how the Fret Cursor Note fits into the Current Chord in the second octave. When the Chord Root Button is set to the secondary function also applies to the Current Key, since the root note of the Current Chord will be the same as the root of the Current Key.

• The Sol-Fa Name is a standard phonetic device used for singing tones in the Major Scale. The Major scale is sung with the syllables "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do," which are pronounced "Doe, Ray, Mee, Fah, Sole, Lah, Tee, Doe." The importance of singing scales can't be overstressed, so use this device!
  
  If you're curious where the syllables came from, apparently it's an old traditional hymn about John the Baptist. Each note of the scale is sung with a corresponding syllable from this song.

• Interval from Fret Note to Scale Note and
  Interval from Scale Note to Fret Note show the names of the intervals between the two adjustable cursors. The two intervals will always be reciprocal to each other. That means that as one ascends the other descends, and the same intervals will always appear together.