Fretboard-Position-Finder

Position Generator on Guitar-Fretboard for Scales, Arpeggios, Chords in all 12 Keys

Fretboard-Position-Finder helps guitarists from nearly all levels to show chord-, scale and arpeggio-notes on the guitar fretboard.

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It is based on the Framework Django. After writing the scale notes into the database, this app is able to create all possible variations with Python and renders them into a JSON file. JavaScript makes the data visible on the HTML fretboard.

Python
JavaScript
JSON

Fretboard-Position-Finder in Action

Guitar.Positions.Demo.2024.mov

Idea

Design, Frontend and Backup-Code is made by Lukas Schönsgibl (aka hybridpicker)

Website

https://guitar-positions.org

Instructions

Need some little additions in settings.py:

For finding templates add this line into TEMPLATES:

os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')

Then insert this block into settings.py:

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
]

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), 'fretboard/static_cdn')

FIXTURE_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'fixtures'),
]

Fretboard-Position-Finder loads all fingerings, that are stored as fixtures with the migrate-command: