Guitar SightReader Toolbox comes with a whole arsenal of tools. Tools to make you better in less time.

The Main Window

The Main window is our first port of call. Here we have tools divided into six sections (the circles are in the other tabs of this page).

In the Menu:

Contact
Sean's Video Blog - A message from Sean Clancy
Check out the Guitar SightReader Toolbox Manual (there's a newer version - click here)
License Stuff - Buy Licenses, Activate your License, check activations (and clean your License)
Check Online Status - sends a ping to make your you're online.
Open Updates Tool - this will open automatically if there's an update. This simply open up the last upgrade.
About SightReader Toolbox

The tools:

Metronome

Change tempo, time signature, transparency, volume. Use Tap Bpm, turn off special click on one, click on 2 and 4.

Split your beat into subdivisions. Hover over the number and use the up and down arrows to change the number. Same with Click. Contains a notes per second reference and a splitter volume.

Practice almost anything over bass note cycles.

This will play a chord in 4 different voicings

It's a great way to work on chordal based licks.

At anytime whe the metronome is playing, pressing R will give you a random tempo speed. Here's where you set that up.

This is a audio recording tool attached to the metronome. Although common use is inside a DAW, I included a basic version here.

A simple reference tuner.

Either Click on the Strings or use

E, A, D, G, B and R for the high E string to produce a refence tone.

All instruments available.

Drop Tunings down as far as C can be used.

This practice scheduler effectively organizes your practice sessions.

To get started, enter Design Mode and a list of topics, determining the time allocated for each based on a 1-hour duration.

In Practice Schedule mode, you can adjust the time for each topic according to your available practice time.

You have the option to use a preset or create a custom time limit.

Once you begin, a progress bar will appear in the Main Window.

When your practice time for a topic is complete, you'll hear bells signaling it's time to move on to the next topic.

Scrolling SightReader

A number of years ago, I purchased a book called "For Guitar Players Only" by the late great studio giant Tommy Tedescoe. There was a great section with a few sight-reading examples. I was well-chuffed when, with a little effort, I could read and play them. I was little disappointed when I realized that I had finished that section and re-reading them would lead to memorization rather than pure sight-reading. Thus, an idea was born. This scrolling sight-reader is actually the 3rd iteration of this tool.

You set this up in the SightReader Options window. The bottom panel shows the notes you will be tested on. On top you have the controls.
The way it works is that you start and stop it using the spacebar. The left bar is the bar that is playing, the right bar is the bar that is next.
You can:

Change the tempo. Hot keys "," and "." will speed up or slow down by 10 and the "[" and "]" will change it by 1
The looper is when you hit a phrase and you want another go at it. Pressing "L" will loop that phrase.
You can change either the score volume or the click volume.
You can choose to show the note names in the score
If the time signature is 4/4 you can enable the click to only play on the 2 and 4 (like jazz players often do).

People have written to me about passing sight-reading exams using this tool. There is really no other tool like it.
I did get one curious email from the guy who creates the fretlight guitars about synching the sight-reader to his models.
My thought was this. You'll know you're playing it correctly because the sound of the notes of your guitar will match the sound of the score.

Other ideas

Being able to play just the notes can happen quickly, also playing just the rhythms too. It's when you put them together it gets harder
Learning to be a good Sight-reader takes regular practice
You can work on reading rhythms by just choosing one note on the fretboard.
Using the fretboard in SR Options you work on tricky skills like reading ledger lines
To get back the Options Page, press "o".

SR Options

Here is where you customise exactly what both the scrolling Sight-reading and the Page sight-reading tools will generate.
You can do these things.

Set the Key Signature
Choose any scale - the default is Major
specify how many notes from the preceeding note the next note will be
Choose a Time signature
Choose chords in the sight-reading notation to be included. These are generated from selected Chord Libraries where the Chords fit the notes chosen on the fretboard
The Panel in the middle contains what type of notes will be in the notation. They toggle between None, Rarely, Average and Often.
Ties use the toggle buttons as does Accidentals and chords
From the menus you can manage presets, change the sounds and choose whether The pitch is for guitar music (1 octave below concert pitch) or concert pitch
In Deep Rhthym Editing, you go under the hood to choose exactly what groupings you want. When you use the toggle buttons on the top panel, these will choose Rhthyms from the deep editing page. In Deep Rhthm Editing, for example, you can choose 4 1/8th notes to display and a group of 4 instead of 2 groups of 2.

Page SightReader

Compared to the more arcade version of Scrolling SightReader, the Page SightReader gives a static Page. It has all the same controls as the Scrollng SightReader, but the page regenerates when you hit the generate button. You have the option of 2,4,8,12 and 16 bars of music.

Additionally, we have a count-in button, we can choose which bar will kickoff and there is also a nifty print button.
This will open a print preview which you can printout for sheet music on the go!
There is a switch in the menu. Depending on the OS, sometime the print preview will be upside down and inside out. Under "printing view", click on the tab beneath. Your Print Preview should be appearing properly now. This setting is sticky, meaning that when you run the app again, it will remember your settings.

Because of the nature of the static view, you can take your time learning bar by bar. Nail the bar and then press the spacebar or the play button and see if you can match the score music.

Beginning sight-reading

This is a flash card approach to learning notes and chords on the fretboard. It works like this:

Choose your rootnotes and scales
On the fretboard, left-click to set the lowest fret in the filter and right-click to set the highest fret. This wil be refected in the filter.
The first time press the Generate Button. The tool will use the available string and fret range to choose a note from the scales that you chose. You will see a musical note in the top window.
See if you can play that note. Pressing space will play the note, show it on the fretboard and reveal the name in the top box of the tool.
Press space to go onto the next note.

You'll see that there is a dial which enables to switch between single notes and chords. When you switch to chords, a little applet will open up with all the chord Libraries listed. Simply drag your chord libraries into the top box. Then, the App will use the available notes that fit the chord to present music the same way as single notes.

If you can quickly work out chords, single notes will be way easier!

Quick Chords

Quick Chords provides up to 25 voicings for any chord, along with chord plus scale, scale, or arpeggio options.

All shapes are playable, exportable as JPEGs, and compatible with NeckBuilder, offering a list of scales that correspond to the chord and identifying pluralities (chords with shared notes).

You can view the root note (1) and guide tones (3 and 7) in smaller chord notes, while using the enlarged view reveals the note names or musical spelling of any chosen chord voicing.

Each chord view (including scales) can be saved in one of four button containers for easy access.

Thanks to the integration within Guitar SightReader Toolbox, you can export any chord to the Guitar SightReader Toolbox Clipboard and drag them into any chord space in Chord Libraries.

These are authentic jazz chords utilized by experts.

The Invertor

The Invertor is an advanced tool. You can plot notes on the fretboard, save those to 8 savable button containers, play back using the sequence list
and send to the Neck Builder.
The yellow text notes on the fretboard are the selectable notes you can choose from..
If you make a selection of notes, you can actually morph them up, down, left and right using the mouse in the window or your hotkeys.
This adds great functionality to see shapes and patterns conform to your chosen scale or chord.

Pressing the spacebar will play the pattern back in whichever sequence you have chosen.
As for the selection of the options see notes, see spelling and hide text, This will be reflected in what gets sent to the Neck Builder.
Sending the selection to the NeckBuilder is something I use a lot. It's very usefull for making handouts for my students.

In addition to the sequences being reordered by dragging inside the list, there is a sequence editor.
In the sequence editor, you can edit, delete, add new and audition sequences. It's found in the options menu.

There is nothing like this tool out there - and I find it invaluable.

The Neck Builder

The NeckBuilder is one of the few tools that does not use sound. It's role is to create useful fretboard diagrams for media.

I use it personally for creating student handouts and posters. I usually create something in the Invertor and export to this tool.
As you can see it speaks for itself. You click on the fretboard to add shapes and text. You can add fingering, fret markers and
export your shape to a file or to the computer clipboard.
There is even (right now) a database to add your chord to. I don't personally use it and I may remove it in the future.

Almost every fretboard shape in Guitar SightReader can be sent to this tool.
If you need Student handouts, chord diagrams for videos and posters then this tool is for you!

Changerunner

The tool is a peculiar personal wish list idea. It sports four of your instrument necks. There is no sound in this one,
To use it, click on the Button "Chord/Scale Chooser" and It will open a panel with 4 bars.
In each of the bars You can choose a chord. Then in the scale list it will have all the scales that fit that chord. Without the chord, it will list all of the scales in Guitar SightReader Toolbox. Once you've made your selection, press the submit button. This will populate the necks (or at least the ones that you've chosen).

This is where it get interesting. Each consecutive neck will show you, using red notes which notes to play that weren't there in the preceding neck.
Some notes will stay the same, but the ones in red will be different. You could use those notes as "money notes".

Of course it maybe a little overwhelming to see all the notes all over the fretboard. That is why the filter is there. An easier way to edit the filter is with your mouse over the first neck. Left-click will choose the lowest fret and right-click will choose the highest fret, limiting the notes shown in the filter.

Back in the Chord/Scale Chooser Panel, you can also export the chords to the progression trainer. So you can practice your new "money notes".

Chord Library

One of the vastest tools in the Guitar SightReader Toolbox, it's a compilation of Chords. You can get the chords in one of two ways.
You can create them using the big box on the top right. Here you can choose the root note, fret marker, and where the notes are.
You can, when in Note mode, right-click on the notes to flip their enharmonic names i.e. flipping A# to Bb.
In Spelling mode you can flip the notes to things, for example, from 6 to bb7.
The second way to enter chords is to open Quick Chords in the menu, copy any of their chord shapes to the Guitar SightReader Toolbox Clipboard, exit Quick Chordsa and choose the refresh menu tab under GSRT Clipboard. Open the tab over by the fretboard and just drag the chord shapes into the chord window. Then you can refine them in the Big Fretboard box. Other cool things, you can see any chord in Notation and use text instead of the chord.
There is a lot of menu items in the main menu strip (especially under Notes) and in the right-click menu over chords.

The best way is to go to the help tool and click on Hot keys. This will open a panel telling you all about the menu Items, and what they do.

Scales and their Chords

This tool is guitar non-specific. You can choose any root note and any scale that is in Guitar SightReader Toolbox and get a breakdown of the scale degrees, the scale notes, 3 note chords, 4 or more note chords, scales that share the same notes (i.e. modes), and scales that don't contain all the notes of the scale (but the notes they have are scale notes).

The scale, any chord clicked on, and any scale from the 2 boxes below are playable.

This great for composition and will springboard many cool chord progressions.

Musical Ability Trainer

I was thinking of this tool for while. It's not sound based (unless you count the metronome). It's a text based suggestion box whereby you load up the Edit window, and then, in the Testing Window, you get it to ask you to perform things.
In the Testing Window, you can choose:

Choose between Lick and Technique
Choose between Scale and Chord
The direction (i.e. ascending or descending - but not only)
The rootnote
The application or idea (.e Octave Shape, 3 note per string shape).

The tools starts off with a Load window asking you to choose, duplicate, begin new and delete a Musical Ability File. You can also send them to the desktop for backup.
Then you get to the Edit Window where you can enter in your fields. They are fully editable with copy and paste functions. You can also add as many presets as you like.
All fields are sticky (remembers when reopening) as well as the settings in the Testing Window to the preset.
In the Testing window there is a metronome for practicing your new preset. If you don't like a key for example, go the Edit window and either untick it or delete it.

I find this an excellent lauching pad for new lick variations and to perform any of my skills in a variety of situations. It also sparks creativity for creating Instrumental themes.

Set List Manager

In the beginning the tool was an app I put together quickly so I could play backng tracks and make notes when remembering parts for songs in bands.
I thought "hey - let's put in Guitar SightReader Toolbox". So I have 2 default setlist files.
One with Backing tracks and the other with the full list of songs for the New Zealand School of Music Jazz degree. So from the screenshot above, you know that you can upload images to go with your tunes. There is a Juke box that can play the songs that are ticked one after another. When the next songs starts, it's chord chart also changes.

Here's an interesting thought. You can send a song to the transcriber. Go through it and export hot licks to a lick Library!

Transcriber

In the transcriber, you can open a song file and change the speed of it without changing the pitch.

You can select snippets to loop or play by clicking on the wave. Left-click will set the start point and right-click will set the end point.
The other way to set the end point is to press the V key while it's playing. Below the transcriber is a metronome that synchs to the tempo of the song - including when you slow it down or speed it up. Below that is the audio recorder. Here you can record yourself to see if you are really nailing the lick you're hearing. Under the tempo window, there is a control, which will flip the bottom panel from recording to a guitar and piano view. The tab for piano is back - click to the right of the guitar tab and a piano keyboard will appear. if you click on either of these, the note will play and show in the box to the right. That way you can work out keys and even chord progressions without a guitar. The other cool thing is the export feature. Go to Lick Library, make a library named after your favourite artist. Go back to transcriber, go through that artists album and export snippets to the library. Tab them out in Guitar Pro and add that to the lick in the library.

Lick Library

The Lick Library starts of with a window where you choose, add, and delete Library files. This opens up a main window. You'll have a list of songs.
You can play them, tick them (for work on Ticked Licks) or choose Create a Lick, Edit a Selected Lick, Print Ticked Licks and Delete Selected Lick.

Work on Ticked Licks
This will open a window with a blue panel to the left with information, audio controls in the middle and a wave file to the right.
This difference between this and other LL tools is that this has a fast forward and backward button. These are used to move though licks ticked.

Create a Lick
here you can make a lick to add to a library.
Apart from using a sound file from your computer for the audio, you could also use the record feature. Record first.
You could upload a tab or any other graphic for your lick.

edit a Selected Lick
This is just like Create a Lick, but you can update the selected lick with the changes rather than save a new one.

Print Ticked Licks
Any Lick with a graphic (I use guitar pro screenshots) will print.

Lots of fun to be had here.

The Audio Recorder

One of my favourite techniques builders. It appears in a a number of other tools.

The best way to get good is record yourself so you can listen back in the 3rd person.

You can speed up and slow down the speed of your recording.

For inspiration of what is possible, record yourself and speed it up. Half the battle is knowing how something should sound.
To see how clean your playing is, slow It down to listen for eveness, extraneous sounds and unarticulated notes.
Pressing the blue button ‘Click to Set recording source’ will open the system preference so you can set the input and output settings for your audio.

Exams

Creating and using exams to test yourself is useful to see if you know what you know. You can also make a printout for students.
I originally creating a similar program years ago to learn polsh vocabulary (I was living in Warsaw).

You create a test by adding a new row in the menu. Then you add your questions and answers pressing return after each entry
In the testing phase you can answer the questions. The answer should reflect what you entered.
Lower or uppercase, spaces and 3 for sharps do not matter. At the end of the test, you'll get a mark and time taken.

Progression Center

The progression Center is split into 2 parts. The progession Creators and the progression players. The reason these are in plural is because they both a 4/4 and a 3/4 version.

The Progression player is where you make progressions using roman numerals and chord types. You may want to stay here and practice playing over progressions. Of course, you can save them.

In the progression player, you can use all the progression saved, drag them from the top box on the left into the box on the right. You can choose any number of key centre for them to play in. You can see the chords names in simple notation or Jazz Shorthand. You can also print out as many sheets as you want to the chord progression.

Both these tools play well.

Video Collections

This is a database for your YouTube videos. Right there are all sorts of useful guitar information.
It's link based tool and you popluate the fields and then store it in a category.
I've include great videos, such as Paul Jackon Jr (I once bought his video). There' even some videos of mine (over 10 million views)!

Melodies for Intervals

If you're new to Ear-training, this could be your first stop. To learn the distance between between pitches, you begin with melodies.
In books they'll suggest melodies, but then you have to go and hunt them out. In this tool, you can hear the melodies suggested.
Uusally you are recalling the first 2 notes in a melody to define the interval.

All the melodies start with the note C. Eventually, using audiation (the ability we have to play back a tune in our mind),
You should be to sing a pitch and then sing the interval. Eventually you'll start to hear the distance between notes.
You can test yourself with these tools:,
- Interval Training
- Chords / Scales Test
- Intervals over a Bass
- Melody Movement

Interval Testing

Have you got some Intervals going? This is for doing a workout in relative pitch.

We see a test and replay button, next to that, a results window.
Under this result box we see yet another box where the first note in the interval will show. These are chosen according to the root note options below.
The first check box sets the interval to play ether consecutively or at the same time. The check circle will determine which note is set as the first note.
The white box to the right determines how often it changes.

There's a piano. If you know the notes on a piano, you can use the mouse or the hotkeys (on the piano) to play the second note. Of course, the main use is to click on one of the intervals in the 2 lists to the right.
During simultaneous interval playing, the last list will be disabled and you can only choose from the left of these 2 boxes.

If you get the note right, the result test will be Green, if not - red.
There will be a success score - don't worry, you can take it back to 100% by clicking on it.

Chords / Scales Test

Moving on from intervals, we are going to recognize chords and scales.

At the very top. we can choose either chords or scales. If we do, the preset box, which is right down the bottom will change.
To set this up, we can either choose a preset and load it, or we drag a chord or scale from the right list and drop it into the middle list.
we have a similar root note setup as Interval Testing. The chords can be arpeggiated.

With the test button, it will work as a replay until you give an answer by clicking on what you think it is in the middle list.

If you get a test setup you like, save it as a preset. Small tip - in the menu - you may want to turn off the computer voice.
Because I live in New Zealand, being told I got the answer wrong by some ocker aussie voice setting shackles up.

Intervals Over a Bass

Being able to recognize what degree you are playng over a Bass note is a great key to improvisation.

To give credit, I got this idea from Aussie guitarist Brett Garsed (who has incredible relative pitch).
His idea was to play an open string, then, without looking, play a random note on the fretboard,
name the interval - and possibly the note by listening to the quality of the interval.

This tool recreates is process and with more possibilities for the bass

Melody Movement

A stellar real-world tool for the ear, Melody Movement has a whole bunch of skill building power.
Whether you’re transcribing music by ear, copying licks without an instrument or sitting a music exam, this tool will really help.

You have 2 modes: Spacebar and Timer based. You can either use the list of interval jumps, or the piano keyboard to enter your interval jump.

Spacebar mode: Press start and then spacebar to play the next note. Use either the piano or the list to answer. Press spacebar again and answer the jump distance between the last note and this new note. Get stuck? Play the last 2 notes using the button above. This is a good mode to use if you’re just beginning (get familiar with intervals using the melodies for Interval too).

Timer based mode: The notes will play one after another and you goal is to name them as they go. You can set the speed between notes with the timer slider. The piano can be clicked on, or you can use the hot keys. The tool will remember your setting when closed. Click on the success rate test to reset it to 100%.

Tempo Recognition

Have you ever been caught with your pants around your ankles when it’s your job to start the song and you can’t remember what tempo it is supposed to be? I have – well not the pants thought. totally humiliating.

I have a list of songs here from my record collection that I can play back in my mind (using audiation). If I know the tempo then I can recall the song closest to that tempo and that will be my count.
You simply open a music file using Open Song and then play it.. While it is playing, click on the Tap Tempo button a couple times, matching it with the beat.
Stop and click on Play metronome to Check. If it matches, then you can click on the name to edit it and click Add to List. The list will sort itself according to the speed of the tracks, with the faster tempo being at the top.
If you want to get more familiar with the song, simply click on it and play it. If you haven’t moved its place in your computer, it will play back.

For a standard pop or rock song, the snare drum will fall on the 2 and 4 of the bars. This you can use to get the tempo.

Progression Tests

Imagine being able to hear a progression and know what is happening? Imagine how this would benefit your improv skills and composition ability. Not to mention being able to play the most modern hits at a party even if you’ve only heard the song but you’d never played the song on an instrument before (let’s be honest – if somebody hands you an acoustic guitar at a party, not one wants to hear your harmonic minor licks). So that’s what this tool is for.

You enter in your progression in the top right set of boxes. It’s done using Roman Numerals. There are a bunch of preset chord types to choose from.
You click in the 1st row down to enter your chord. Normally a default chord type will be chosen.
You can change that chord type by the selection, or you can right click to show a list of all the chord types in Guitar SightReader Toolbox.

Under that you can write info on this progression. Perhaps list some songs that use this progression. You can change the Creation Key to whatever key you want, and it will update the root notes of the chords in the progression boxes.

To begin a test.

Choose a folder.
Click on the load button. This will add the included progressions to the box under Success = 100%. They are all ticked here. The test will only test you on the ones that are ticked.
On the left, you have all the variety of key centres as seen in several of the other ear-training tools.
I clicked test and what do you know – it played our old friend 6-5-4- dominant 3 progression – and of course I clicked on it in the box.
The right answer will present in blue. If you get it wrong, it will be red. The information box will be shown regardless of if you get it right or not.

Your success will change depending on your score. You can always set it back to 100% by clicking on it.
If you just want to hear the progressions, select a progression and click the 3rd box down from the top left (listen to a selected progression).

Note Match

This tool is to be used with your guitar or bass. It’s a perfect pitch building tool.
You see the notes in yellow? They are the test possibilities. You can turn off individual notes by clicking on them. You can also select using the filter:

The strings that will be used.
The lowest fret for the range
The highest fret for the range. To select this filtered note selection, click on the use filter button. Press the spacebar and the guitar will play a note.
See if you can find it on your instrument. To see the answer press the spacebar again.

This tool was based off a study I read in an article, where a husband and wife created a small software program that would play a note. Then they would have to find it on the keyboard. They were judging it purely based on the height of the pitch of the note. After a period of time, they were able to nail the note from a cold start.
I thought that was interesting, so I made this test available for us guitarists!

Perfect Pitch Tunes

Now, it’s rare that you are born with perfect pitch – and what a gift.

However, we who were not, we can do a pretty good mimic with a good sense of audiation (the ability to play a song back in our mind) and great relative pitch.
If we listen to song enough, when playing it back in our mind, it will most likely be in the same key we hear it in.
With this tool, we can catalogue these tunes and make points of what notes will jump out at us - help us know what names the notes are, that we can recall.
Basically, we open a song. Listen to it in the player and use our guitars to find the notes.

If we don’t have an instrument ready, we can use the keyboard on the tool to find the notes or the bass notes of the chords.
In the information box is where I enter in info about the notes I can easily recall. I know this works.

I would recommend that you make little visual pictures of these songs – maybe see the YouTube videos of these songs or do something physical to make triggers.

Once you have your pitch, then, if you know your intervals, you can get any other note from the relationship to your solid audiation note.
Additionally, you should practice playing a note in your mind and be able to recreate it accurately with your voice. This is a priority.

Secondly you should practice playing any note in your mind and finding it on the guitar.

Random Notes

This is one of my favourites.

Your goal with this tool is to press spacebar whenever you hear the note selected in the location note box play.
This is all amongst a whole bunch of other notes being played.

To set, play your note a couple of time using the keyboard.
When you press S, it’ll start playing. You’re waiting to hear your tone and when you do press the spacebar.
If you get it right, the text box above will show your note in blue. As you see above, If I get it wrong, it will show in red.
Pressing S again will stop the player, and you can see your score.

Amazing points – the note you’re looking for stays in your mind for ages after using this tool.
Also, you will begin to hear differences in the notes apart from the pitch. Some notes sound thin, some boomy - colours if you will.
I noticed that when I set it to G, I could recognize it because of the thinness of it.
Now, I don’t know if it’s simply the acoustics of my stereo monitors or not. To make it trickier, you can add more octaves in the slider. Hot keys on the keyboard will work too.

Perfect Pitch Method

I was 15 and every guitar player magazine I read had an advertisement for David L. Burge’s Perfect pitch course. I saved up my pocket money until I had enough money to buy it.

I can only imagine the other suckers that bought this course. I received 10 tapes. David L. Burge went on and on in the tapes, talking about how amazing it was that he had developed perfect pitch. It wasn’t until I got the end of the 9th tape that he gave his revelation.
“The F# sounds twangier than the Eb.” Utterly underwhelming. My piano being made of wood, was severely out of tune. I didn’t own a tuner.

I only include this tool to serve as the 2nd person that you’d require to test you on a piano. Click the tick boxes to make the notes active.
I do admit that there may be something to this – make up your own mind on this.

Sheet Music

I think this tool is pretty self-explanatory.

Use your printer to get yourself some sheet music or tab whenever you need it.

Community Content

Here you can go and download various presets and content for tools.
Just choose the tool type at the very top.
A list of content/ presets will be shown. You can download them and then use them if you like.
I will try and provide more content when I can.
Feel free to send to my email content you may want me to add!

Add / Edit Chord List

This is probably one of the first tools I created when making Guitar SightReader Toolbox. I needed to add chords to make use of them.

You can either use the fretboard or the degrees on the page. At the top you can choose a root note (doesn’t really matter what it is).
Then you type your new chord name into the box. Then you choose the other notes in the scale, using degrees. The root note is automatically there.

To get familiar with this, click on any chord in the list and press the load button.

Here we have a chord chosen which is Cmi(add9). The musical spelling of this chord is 1, b3, 5, 9 The 1 is automatically added. We see in the first box down, the 9 is selected. Next is the b3 is because it is a minor chord. The Button for 5 is selected.
There is no description – you add this if you like. You have the option to play the chord.

When you create a new chord (you may come across one which is not in the list), in order to save it you click in the list and choose a chord to save it underneath.
If you want, you can reorder the chords by dragging them around.
To make this permanent, press the save the order button.

Add / Edit Scale List

This is very similar to how we add and edit chords – so be sure to read that. There are a few differences. •

All the degrees are under an octave.
If you load a scale, it’s much more likely to have information on this scale.
You can create a “special note” by clicking on Click to set special passing note. Then you select a note. I use this when there may be a special bebop note for example.

If you find a scale that is not included, please add it and send it to me, complete with description.

I‘ll make it available in the update tool. Try not to send me duplicates of pre-existing scales.

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The very last title in this section is a link to open my site in your browser. I have 2 sites.

I hope you enjoy Guitar SightReader Toolbox. It’s a real labour of love for me to create is – which is to mean that it would be great if more people buy it!

Please spread the word – and I’m only an email away if you need help!

Best regards, Sean Clancy