Hi all,
I have promised to build my 9 year old nephew a guitar.
I was showing The Nation to some relatives during our family Christmas gathering, and Jake got hooked.
When Jake was 5, he tangled with a piece of lawn equipment and lost his left hand and half his left forearm.
He has decided he doesn't want to learn to strum with the nub..... he wants to play slide and be able to finger pick.
Well, I happened to have a bottleneck with me, and (don't ask why) some aluminum TIG rods in the trunk of the car.
I spent several minutes twisting up a prototype prosthetic slide for him, taught him to count 4 while tapping his foot, and explained Open, 5th, 7th, and 12th frets.
Well, he spent the next 90 minutes knocking out some rattly..... but steady... rhythm.
I've been working on a more controllable and permanent prosthesis.
It occurred to me today that he would be well served by knowing the notes he'll be playing.(duh)
I started drawing out a fingerboard chart and realized, well... realized that is too darn much work. So I started looking for one I could copy and print from online.

And so we finally arrive at the point of this post. Lol.
I found this dandy little online program that will create a printable chart for almost any tuning and number of strings.
It calculates fret by fret notes, chords, scales........ I hope it helps someone.



Jeff