I Finished Elementary · Music
Every tone on a seven-string guitar named by one of twelve letters and one of twelve colours, in a tuning where every string sits the same distance above the one below it. Click any chart to open it at full size; the buttons download the 4K PNG or the SVG.
The tuning is not standard tuning. Each string is tuned five steps above the one below it (musicians call this all-fourths, one of the "regular" tunings), so the open strings, thickest to thinnest, are L E J C H A F (old names B E A D G C F). Standard tuning breaks its own rule once, between the old G and B strings, so every shape that crosses that pair has to be learned twice, shifted by a fret. Here there is no break: one shape works for a scale, a chord or an interval on any pair of strings, anywhere on the neck.
Positions are counted from the nut: the nut is 1, and the twelfth fret of the old count is 1 again, one octave up, marked with a second dot. Ten, eleven and twelve are written with one glyph each, ♦ ♥ ♣, so no position ever needs two digits. The letters and colours are the ones used throughout Count to Twelve:
Four orientations of the same neck. Right- or left-handed, and with the thinnest string on top (the usual diagram convention) or the thickest string on top (the way you actually see the neck when you look down at it).
The full 24-fret neck of the old count. The upper octave is drawn at its true spacing, so the discs shrink as the frets do; at 4K every letter is still readable.
