Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, intervals, backing tracks

Re:Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, interval... by ahub on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @04:58AM (#30256620)

I play the banjo, which is way less popular and has a specific quirk : you don't havea single tuning but dozens ! You swap then and retune the instrument according to the current song/type of music. That's additionnal burden on memory, so the help of a tool can be tremendous.

Most sites/app (this on included) let you change the tuning but I'd love to find one that can handle a list of presets, so I don't have to wrestle the GUI to change each string when I want to play another song.

Any recommendations ?

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Re:Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, interval... by uhoh-itsmaciek on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:07PM (#30262944)

Check out https://fretboard.cool and tell me what tunings to add! Or submit a PR [1].

[1]: https://github.com/uhoh-itsmaciek/fretboard.cool/blob/master... (there's a quirk noted in the TODO there so you need to shift the fifth string down a fourth when specifying the tuning).

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Re:Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, interval... by _glass on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:52AM (#30256992)

A long time ago I wrote a small Processing tool for guitar, but adjusted it already for ukulele, and saz/bouzouki. Maybe that's useful for you.

https://github.com/rglass/guitar/blob/master/guitar.pde

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Re:Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, interval... by ChordFunc on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:01AM (#30256649)

Fretastic supports saving presets. It doessent currently support 5-string banjo though. Would be open to adding it.

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Re:Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, interval... by RickJWagner on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:55PM (#30264568)

Please do!

Another banjo player here. We're few, but enthusiastic.

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