FretBoard is a PalmOS reference tool for stringed instruments like Guitar, Bass, Banjo and many others. It displays notes, chords and scales on any instrument. Much better than the books which have collected dust on your shelves for years... FretBoard supports 64 tunings and over 50 scales for several instruments. For a complete listing of tunings, chords and scales in the FretBoard database please visit http://fretboard.sourceforge.net/tunings.shtml With FretBoard you can: - display notes. - display chords in every key (with one-touch access to chord spellings) - Major, Major 7th, Major 9th, - 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 6/9, - Minor, Minor 6th, Minor 7th, Minor 9th, - sus4, 7th sus4, - Dim, Dim 5th, 7th Dim 5th, 7th Dim 9th, 9th Dim 5th, - Aug, 7th Aug 5th, 7th Aug 9th, - Stacked fourths (quartic) and fifths (quintal). - a total of 56 chords in the database - display scales and modes in every key - Major, Major Pentatonic, - Natural Minor, Minor Pentatonic, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor - Blues, Major Blues, - Diminished, Whole Tone, - Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aolian, Locrian. - a total of 53 scales in the database - hear the selected note, scale or chord. - add notes to a scale or chord by a simple tap. Many different note symbols are available. - quit the application and the current view is saved as the default. - orient the picture of the neck in whichever direction you prefer. This software is free for you to use, distribute or copy as you wish, as long as you don't charge for it, and you don't get upset if it brings the whole world crashing down round your ears. Anyway, if you would like to support this project, please feel free to donate using the donation system on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=57084 Acknowledgements ================ I used to keep a list of acknowledgements here, but there have been so many people who've offered excellent advice and ideas, that I'm in danger of missing somebody out. I lieu of that though I'd like to thank everybody who tries fretboard and even more so the people who've taken time to write to me to let me know what they think about the app (critical or otherwise). Thanks also to the people who provided the toolset I use for my development (GCC, CoPilot, Pilrc, etc). GNU === This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. Stick ===== Stick, The Stick, Grand Stick, Stick Bass, NS/Stick, Baritone Melody and Matched Reciprocal are trademarks of Stick Enterprises (http://www.stick.com) in the field of stringed instruments and are used in with permission. Happy Strumming/Tapping... The FretBoard Team http://fretboard.sourceforge.net/ Thanks to Dave MacLeod for releasing the sources of the original version of FretBoard v0.9 under GPL license. Otherwise this version of FretBoard would not exist. For latest info please visit http://fretboard.sourceforge.net/ You will find our project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fretboard/ ============= H I S T O R Y ============= v1.2.4 April 24, 2004 --------------------- - added Spanish Eight Tone scale - added Prometheus Neopolitan scale - added Six Tone Symmetrical - total scales now 56 - added "Guitar Legends" tunings: Collins, Cooder, Hendrix, Kottke and Mayfield want us to add tunings from your guitar hero? let us know...! - added Oud for Guitar tuning v1.2.3 March 08, 2004 --------------------- - added 7 string guitar tuning (low B) - added Kokinjoshi scale (total scales now 53) - added new option in preferences to display the dots between frets - added new option in preferences to adjust playing speed - misc: some code & comment reformatting - more to come v1.2.2 March 23, 2003 --------------------- - Fixed an error with the application ID - added Jerry Ballard's Stick tuning - corrected the Gm Banjo tuning from (D-G-Ab-D) to (D-G-Bb-D) and the D Banjo tuning from (D-A-Gb-D) to (D-Gb-A-D) - added five more Banjo tunings: G modal (D-G-C-D), Open C (C-G-C-E), Open C minor (C-G-C-Eb), Open D minor (D-F-A-D), Double C (C-G-C-D) v1.2.1 March 15, 2003 --------------------- - FretBoard is still alive! We now switched the development environment from CodeWarrior to the PRC tools which certainly is the better "open-source" development tool. - Added the new "Chapman Stick XG" 10 string and 12 string Tunings. - Added the NST tuning (C-G-D-A-E-G) for guitars. Thanks Ray. - Added Charango, Dobro (G-B-D-G-B-D), Overtone and Warr 8 string tuning. - Rearranged the Options menu. v1.2 August 25, 2002 -------------------- - FretBoard now sports a database of 56 chords and 52 scales! - FretBoard and FretBoard SE are now merged, so we hold a total of 52 different tunings for 16 different instruments. - Mike did a great job adding new functionality to FretBoard. You can now add notes to a scale or chord by a simple tap of the pen. This is a great feature for handling slash chords or finding melody voicings. Just tap above the note you want to add and a dot appears on the Fretboard. Tap more than once and the note symbol changes to cross or rectangle... v1.1 July 28, 2002 ------------------ - added 31 new chords v1.0 ---- - skipped ;-) v0.9b1 July 17, 2002: --------------------- Initial re-release of the new FretBoard and FretBoard SE. FretBoard by The FretBoard Team at SourceForge http://fretboard.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/fretboard/ Marc Mennigmann (documents/web/coding) James Susinno (coding) Mike McGary (coding) Original version FretBoard v0.9 by Dave MacLeod