Plugin to creat fretboard diagrams/ piano chord diagrams from sheet music?

• Sep 11, 2024 - 00:02

Hey all,

I'm a middle school teacher and I absolutely love musescore. Thanks to all the people who created and develop this program.

I'm wondering if there is a way to turn sheet music into fretboard diagrams. I have this score here for Joe Avery's Blues and it would really help me out be able to quickly turn this sheet music into a chord diagram.

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Any tips?

Thanks
Jordan

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Comments

TheHutch

• Sep 16, 2024 - 21:46

Easier to just identify them yourself and create the fretboard diagrams/use the existing diagrams. Or perhaps, even easier: since you're a teacher, set this as an assignment for your students. :-)

Lots of webpages can identify chords (and fretboard diagrams) based on the notes in them. For example, https://www.scales-chords.com/chordid.php or https://www.oolimo.com/en/guitar-chords/analyze gave me the following. (These two were simply the first two that came up on duckduckgo.com search.)

measures 7-10, 13-14, 17-22

Bb, in 1st inversion

Bb/D
E A D G B e
X=========X
| | --1-- | III
| | | | | |
| 2 | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |

11-12

Eb, in 1st inversion

Eb/G

E A D G B e

| | | --1-- III
| | | | 2 |
| | 3 | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |

E A D G B e
X=========X
| | --1-- | VIII
| | | | | |
| 2 | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |

15-16

F dominant 7 (F7)

E A D G B e

-----1-----
| | | 2 | |
| 3 | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |

E A D G B e

-----1-----
| | | 2 | |
| 3 | | | |
| | | | 4 |
| | | | | |

They will display better in a fixed width font, which I don't know how to make here in the forum.

yonah_ag

• Sep 16, 2024 - 23:03

I would manually create each unique fretboard diagram within Musescore (it's quite quick), then just copy/paste as required. If the Plugin API supports adding fretboard diagrams then it should be possible to automate.