https://github.com/cuadue/chordimate

Animates guitar chords, scales, and modes on a fretboard in your browser
https://github.com/cuadue/chordimate

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Animates guitar chords, scales, and modes on a fretboard in your browser

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cuadue/chordimate
• Owner: cuadue
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-06-16T00:25:57.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-06-19T07:53:43.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-20T12:24:33.369Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 668 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Chordimate (Chord Animate)

*Chordimate* is a jQuery plugin to display and animate chords, modes, and

scales on a guitar fretboard.

[Live Preview and Demo](http://cuadue.github.com/chordimate)

# Requires 

[jQuery](http://jquery.com) and a modern-ish browser (tested in Chrome and

Firefox)

# Usage

``` javascript

    $(function() {

        $('#fretboard').chordimate()

        var c_maj = music_theory.make_scale('C', 'major')

        var g_min = music_theory.make_scale('G', 'minor', 'desc')

        $('#cmajor').click(function() {

            $('#fretboard').chordimate('change', c_maj)

        })

        $('#gmin').click(function() {

            $('#fretboard').chordimate('change', g_min)

        })

    })

```

# Motivation

I don't claim that traditional music notation is dead, but its learning curve

is steep. Tablature is more acessable, but it's limited:

* It only notates one fret position per string at a time

* It tries to mimic traditional notation where each note is prescribed. This

  can lead to an awful ocean of numerals, wherein locating differences is

  difficult.

* It's very difficult to synthesize any scale from the notes.

* It doesn't offer a particularly good way to indicate changes.

*Chordimate* tries to solve these things and encourage improvisation even if

you don't know Myxolyidian mode or how to spell a Cmin#7b9.

The display is something like [Guitar Chord Generator]() but this project

doesn't claim to be an authority on any theory beyond the dead-simple. The idea

here is to assist the creative process, not to suggest or impose anything. The

user could, for example:

1. Write a song

2. Spell the chords

3. Fit those chords into scales or modes

4. Type those chords into *Chordimate* and line up the timing.

5. Send that score to the rest of the band

[MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)