1. Words in Blue indicate a term will be explained if you mouse over it.
2. I got rid of the sliders because I found them annoying. I replaced them with old-school tables of content that jump you down the page.Black guitars that turn gold when you mouse over them can be clicked to slide them open or closed, revealing or hiding content.
3. The [Esc] Key Exits diagrams opened in lightboxed or modal windows as does clicking the darkened area, or clicking on the X button.

Font Problems?

The support for musical symbols in fonts is utterly disgraceful. There is a standard Unicode number for them (266A-266F), but usually they are not present or have a funny Latin FL figure instead. Of all the readable fonts (aka not an 8-bit dos bitmap font) the only ones with the sharp, flat, and natural signs I've found are: Segoe UI Symbol (default for Windows 7), Arial Unicode MS (comes with various foreign language support installs, Adobe installs it with Korean Language support), Microsoft Sans Serif (A surprisingly nice font, however the Windows XP version only has the sharp despite the Windows 7 version having all the symbols; making it worse than useless), and Lucida Sans Unicode.

Lucida Sans Unicode is considered "browser safe", however, its really, really ugly and not that easy on the eyes. This is the fallback font if you have none of the other ones. The site will display correct symbols on Windows XP with IE8 and no extra fonts installed. I haven't had a Mac in a few years, so if you are having font problems with a Mac, e-mail me.

Browser Support

Since there's lots of different Operating Systems out there, both mobile and desktop, I designed the site on the two cross-platform browsers, namely Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Since I'm running Windows, I also checked that it would work with I.E. 8 and above. The site looks much, much better on Firefox or Chrome. I'm a guitar player not a computer guy, so if you are having problems with another browser, try again with Firefox or Chrome.

Guitar Chart vs Diagram, etc.

1. The Guitar Scale Patterns or Guitar Arpeggio Patterns are what we physically play on the guitar neck, and are called Guitar Chord Forms when we play chords. " Box " is simply a slang term for a Guitar Scale Pattern (typically used for CAGED system patterns because they look like boxes when diagrammed).

2. A Guitar Fretboard Diagram is a picture of the frets and strings which can be blank or have the patterns mapped out on, also called a Guitar Frame (usually with guitar chords).

3. A Guitar Neck Diagram is simply a Guitar Fretboard Diagram that shows the whole Guitar neck (or at least from the the open strings to the 12th fret or double dots).

4. A Guitar Chart is one or more diagrams printed out, drawn by hand, or made into a graphics file for computer display or transmission.

5. A Guitar Position Diagram or Guitar Position Chart also indicates the location that the pattern(s) are to be played at relative to a given note. (Note: A Guitar Neck Diagram is by definition always also a position diagram, because we automatically know the location of the patterns by virtue of seeing the whole neck).

6. Guitar Tablature or TAB is a semi-visual representation of the guitar neck, with the fret numbers to play written on a 6 line staff representing the six strings. I do not consider the Guitar neck diagrams on this site TAB, although many would. There is a limited amount of Guitar Tab on this site (mainly in the Exercises & Practice Patterns Section), as I feel it is far less educationally useful than the Guitar Neck Diagrams.

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[Esc] Key Exits Lightboxes as does Clicking the Darkened Area, or the X Button.