The Note Info palette provides additional details about the tones
currently selected in the Scale Palette and Guitar Palette. You can refer to this palette
whenever you're curious about the chord-relative functions of the
tones with which you're working.
Palette Features
- Scale Cursor Tone
- The tone at the scale cursor. This tone will always be the root note
of the chord unless the root is locked.
- Primary Chord Function
- The primary function of the tone at the scale cursor with respect to
the root of the chord. Note that this will always be "R"
unless the root is locked, since the scale cursor determines the
root of the chord otherwise.
- Secondary Chord Function
- The secondary (second octave) function of the tone at the scale
cursor with respect to the root of the chord.
- Sol-Fa Name
-
The Sol-Fa Name is a simple phoneme that corresponds to the scale
tone. Phonetic systems have long been used to encourage music
students to sing and mentally integrate the tones of the Major
Scale. In this system the Major scale is sung with the syllables
"Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do," pronounced
"Doe, Ray, Mee, Fah, Sole, Lah, Tee, Doe."
The original Sol-Fa system comes from a Benedictine monk called
Guido of Arezzo, who took the first notes of each line in a
Latin hymn written around 770 A.D. This system was later
popularized by John Curwen
of England in the mid-19th century, and Zoltán
Kodály of Hungary in the 20th Century. If that name sounds
familiar, you probably heard it in a movie. Close Encounters
of the Third Kind prominently features the system of
hand-signs invented by John Curwen and propagated by Zoltán
Kodály. Watch for it next time.
- Guitar Cursor Tone
- This is the tone on the guitar at the Fret Cursor.
- Primary Function
- Primary Function indicates the function of the Guitar Cursor Tone
with respect to the root of the Current Chord.
- Secondary Function
- Secondary Function indicates how the Fret Cursor Note fits into
the Current Chord in the second octave.
- Note Intervals
- This is the interval between the scale tone and the guitar tone
expressed in both directions within a single octave. This interval
is expressed as two intervals that are always reciprocal of one
other. That means that as one interval ascends the other descends,
and the same intervals will always appear together.
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For more insight into the role of harmonies check out the
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