Chord diagrams

Draw a chord's shape on the designer, pick one of the library's voicings, and keep your own shapes.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Adding a chord diagram

A chord diagram shows where the fingers go: the strings down, the frets across, a dot on each fretted note, × over a string not played and ○ over an open one. It goes over the beat at the cursor, on its track.

Put the cursor on the beat and choose Attach › Diagram (Score › Chord Diagram, ⇧⌘K). The Chord Diagram dialog has the Chord Name dialog’s chord at its top (Root Note, Quality, Symbol, Inversion: see Chord names), then the shape. Apply writes the diagram.

To change a diagram, select it with the Select tool, tapclick it again for its popup, and choose Edit.

The designer

The designer is a neck of five frets, one column per string of the track:

• Above a string: tapclick to switch it between not played (×) and open (○).
• On a fret: tapclick to put the string’s dot there; again to take it off.
• Under a string: its finger, 1 to 4, or T for the thumb. TapClick it to go to the next one.
• Base fret: the fret the diagram starts at, for a shape up the neck; auto follows the dots.
• Auto fingering: Reflow picks the fingers. Setting a finger yourself turns it off.
• Barre: Reflow draws a barre where one finger holds several strings. TapClick a barre to take it away.
• Calculate: the fingers and the barre worked out again, from the dots.

The library's voicings

Under the designer, Voicings lists the library’s shapes for the chord you picked. TapClick one to put it on the designer, then change it there if you like. The library’s shapes are for six-string tracks; on a bass or a seven-string, draw the shape on the designer.

Your own shapes

Save shape…, beside Calculate, keeps the shape on the designer in your own library. Your shapes come back under My Shapes, above the library’s voicings, whenever you pick the same chord on a track in the same tuning. To take one out, touch and hold itControl-click it and choose Remove.

Your shapes are kept on this iPadiPhoneMac, for every score.