The guitar-fretboard package can be used to generate some nice-looking
guitar fretboard diagrams. Those diagrams can highlight scales, arpeggios or
more generic intervals on the guitar neck.
It comes with all battery included to allow you to:
- Create scale diagrams in any tonality for any strung instruments (including guitar, bass, ukulele) in both right and left handed configuration.
- Transpose notes or scales.
- Create diagrams in alternate tuning.
- Create generic diagrams with normal, shaded and highlighted notes.
- And more.
See guitar-fretboard.pdf for further help.
This is an early release. APIs and options are suject to change.
\documentclass[convert]{standalone}
\usepackage{guitar-fretboard}
\begin{document}
\begin{fretboard}[frets before = 2, frets after = 2,
transpose = 5,
transpose pitch,
scale = 1,
legend = {\pF Major scale (\pF, \pG, \pA, \pBb, \pC, \pD, \pE)},
fret numbers]
\foreach \i in { C, D, E, F, G, F, A, B} {
\FBnote[split]{\i}
}
\end{fretboard}
\end{document}
You can build the whole package using the make command.
To install the guitar-fretboard package copy its directory to either to:
$TEXHOME/tex/latex/$TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/~/texmf/tex/latex/~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/
This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
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