Printable Version of Topic
Click here to view this topic in its original format
GMC Forum _ Instructors Corner _ Free Program For Scale Diagrams
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 2 2008, 06:53 PM
Well, now I start working with the "Exploring guitar", a free program to do the diagrams and it's great, now I'm able to do a complete diagram in few seconds, hehe, but it has a problem. This was that the neck was very different than instructors usually use, so I was thinking how to resolve this problem and I decided to paint a new diagram that works in this program and that was as similar as the GMC one.
Well, just dowload the program, and to change the freatboard just copy my diagram in the folder GRAPHICS (well it's not ecesary to put in this folderm but I think it's the best place to put it 
) and in the program click in 'guitar neck' and 'load new guitar neck' and then choose my freatboard 
)
Here is my diagram:
..ah, and I put www.guitarmasterclass.net
Here is the http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/misc-lessons/exploring-guitar-software-tutorial
ah, the 88 and 87 is the % in the size reduction that I need to obtain the 692x125 (which is the size for the diagrams in the lessons 
)
Posted by: Muris Mar 2 2008, 07:39 PM
Looks great Juan,any chance to get 24 frets version?
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 2 2008, 08:15 PM
I don't seem to understand man... Do you have some sort of program for generating scales?
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 2 2008, 11:53 PM
yeah, I have the program "Exploring guitar"
but the fretboard that it have is very different so I did a new one
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 3 2008, 03:49 PM
Can we use the program or something?
Posted by: lavendell Mar 3 2008, 04:06 PM
A quick Google search led me to http://www.vestlending.com/Exploring-Guitar.html
Cool free program ... not avaliable for Mac though! But I'm getting used to that!
Edit by Maria: link updated
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 3 2008, 04:12 PM
thanks Marcus !!! yeah, of course, all who wants can use it, I'm gonna edit first post and tell you wat to do to change the freatboard 
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 3 2008, 04:24 PM
2 examples:
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 3 2008, 04:39 PM
Well, can we use these new templates? I mean they are s little different than those before, but these look just as nice, and it will boost our productivity for sure.
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 3 2008, 09:14 PM
mmm I supose that we can use this templates... well, with the dimensions 692x125... but is Kris who may say it
Posted by: Marcus Siepen Mar 7 2008, 06:53 PM
Seems to be a cool software, I will also experiment a bit with it I guess
Posted by: Dejan Mar 10 2008, 02:31 PM
I like the both views, but especialy the second one which can help memorizing intervals
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 10 2008, 02:46 PM
yeah, now it's easier for me to do this diagrams so if it's easier for someone else I will be happy
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 10 2008, 04:42 PM
I'll try this new diagrams too Juan. THanks for the tip!
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 10 2008, 09:36 PM
yeah, I like to seem my diagrams in your lessons Now it's really easy to paint the scales !!! (it was the worse work for me )
Posted by: Muris Mar 10 2008, 10:07 PM
Hmm,there's only one thing
How do you export jpeg?
Printscreen or? 
Another thing,I cannot import your template into EG Juan,
says invalid file type,am I missing something?
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 10 2008, 10:12 PM
print screen... maybe for the next version but now it's not posible to export directly to jpg
Posted by: Muris Mar 10 2008, 10:16 PM
My bad,I downloaded PNG version,BMP is fine,sorry.
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 11 2008, 12:32 AM
Oh, now it's al ok, isn't it ???
Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Mar 11 2008, 09:45 AM
Good found Juan! I think the scale diagrams in http://www2.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/country-bluegrass-solo-advanced/ work - so if you want to speed things up with this software it sounds like an excellent idea!
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Mar 11 2008, 01:30 PM
Very cool Juan - really increases productivity!
Posted by: Trond Vold Mar 11 2008, 02:04 PM
Excellent!
I'm definetly going to use this if it's got the ok signal
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 11 2008, 02:35 PM
thanks Kristofer !!! I will use this software in all my lessons
Posted by: Wallimann Mar 12 2008, 06:26 PM
Thanks Juan!
This is awesome and saves em a lot of time! :-)
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 12 2008, 06:28 PM
yeah, thanks you for writing !!!
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 14 2008, 11:27 AM
Uhm, Juan man, I can't properly use the software, because that custom fretboard is not the same as the one in the program. The one in the program is some like "curved" and I can't set the dots properly. Did you have a similar issue?
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Mar 14 2008, 12:32 PM
Thanks Juan! I'll try it!
Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Mar 14 2008, 01:31 PM
I found this too, but you need to pick the alternate notes as well and it works fine!
(Away from my home PC at the moment so I canlt give you the exact steps)
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 16 2008, 09:13 AM
Ah, first of all you must change this curve neck... hehe, I tell you how in few minutes, now I'm reinstalling this software
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 17 2008, 04:20 PM
Just click on:
Guitar Neck (Menu) --> Load new more buttons --> NewNotes
and that's all
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 18 2008, 07:21 PM
I don't understand really... WHen I press load new notes it asks for .ini file. What should I do?
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 18 2008, 11:24 PM
search in the sub-folder graphics (in the folder Exploring Guitar)
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 19 2008, 10:06 AM
Got it!
Thanks a lot for sharing Juan, software is great.
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 19 2008, 05:03 PM
yeah, thanks to you I hope all is ok now
Powered by Invision Power Board (http://www.invisionboard.com)
© Invision Power Services (http://www.invisionpower.com)