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  2. Chord diagram (music) - Wikipedia

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    Chord diagrams for some common chords in major-thirds tuning. In music, a chord diagram (also called a fretboard diagram or fingering diagram) is a diagram indicating the fingering of a chord on fretted string instruments, showing a schematic view of the fretboard with markings for the frets that should be pressed when playing the chord. [1]

  3. File:Five String Bass Guitar Fretboard.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: A five string bass guitar fretboard diagram, shown in standard B-E-A-D-G tuning. Date: 5 September 2017: Source: Own work: Author: Grickaby: Licensing.

  4. Fingerboard - Wikipedia

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    He also used an electric guitar with a scalloped fretboard in studio and live performances from 1978 to 1979. McLaughlin explained that this feature increased the ease and range of string bends by eliminating friction between the finger and fretboard. The scalloped fretboard also facilitates the rapid, microtonal variation that is important in ...

  5. Multi-scale fingerboard - Wikipedia

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    Fanned-fret guitars have a multi-scale fingerboard because of "offset" frets; that is, frets that extend from the neck of the guitar at an angle. Ralph Novak (Novax Guitars) was the first to apply this idea to the electric guitar (1988). [2] The frets are arrayed on an angle, in contrast to the standard perpendicular arrangement of other guitars.

  6. Scale length (string instruments) - Wikipedia

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    The steel-string acoustic guitar typically has a scale slightly shorter than the classical instrument, the most common scales ranging between short scale (24 inches (610 mm)) and long scale (25.5 inches (650 mm)). Small travel guitars and guitars specifically designed for children can have even shorter scales.

  7. Neck (music) - Wikipedia

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    Double truss rod neck, Rickenbacker guitar Neck-through construction on Ibanez studio guitar Neck joint with a four-screw plate on a Yamaha Pacifica 112 electric guitar. The neck of a guitar includes the guitar's frets, fretboard, tuners, headstock, and truss rod. The wood used to make the fretboard will usually differ from the wood in the rest ...

  8. Chord-scale system - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, in the chord-scale system, a different scale is used for each chord in the progression (for example mixolydian scales on A, E, and D for chords A 7, E 7, and D 7, respectively). [5] Improvisation approaches may be mixed, such as using "the blues approach" for a section of a progression and using the chord-scale system for the rest. [6]

  9. Tiple - Wikipedia

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    The typical fretboard scale is about 530 mm (just under 21 inches), and the neck joins the body at the 12th fret. There are 12 strings, grouped in four tripled courses. Traditional tuning from lowest to highest course is C E A D, although many modern players tune the instrument like the upper four strings of the modern guitar: D G B E.