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        Diagram Palette
 Up close & personal with the guitar neck.
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Most students begin their training by poring
through books of songs by popular songwriters
like Bob Dylan, James Taylor, or The Beatles.
Not only are these songs pretty cool they're also
extremely easy to play.  This is aided by the fact
that they all contain convenient Chord Diagrams!

The Diagram Palette is no substitute for all those books, but it gives you a
simple and isolated view of the information presented on the Guitar Palette.
Here you can see all the numbered note functions as they apply to your chord
or your key.  What you don't get is which fingers to put there.

If you want to know which fingers to use take this as a general guide: If it
looks like a familiar chord try it that way and make adjustments to find a
comfortable way to add whatever extensions there might be.

In the meantime here's what you get:

• Fret Number
  The diagram represents a small portion of the neck.  To get oriented we need
  the lowest fret number.  This is shown at the top-left corner.

• Dots, etc.
  Each dot on the diagram represents a tone in your chord.  These tones are
  numbered according to the Major Scale and give a chord its name.  Those
  numbers are shown here, either as a function of the chord or a function of
  the Key, depending on the Key/Root Gadget described below.

  No matter where you play your chord on the neck you may have the option to
  play one or more open notes.  If there is no note available within the bracket
  and an open note is available to play, this will be shown in red at the bottom
  of the diagram.

  If no note is available either in the bracketed region or on the open string
  then there will be an X instead of a tone number.  This string should be
  damped.


There is a single gadget in the Diagram Palette:

• The Key / Root Gadget

   • In  ◊   position the tones are numbered beginning with the root of the
      chord  (i.e., the YELLOW dot on the guitar neck).
   • In  ◊   position the tones are shown as functions of the key that is
      associated with the chord.