Charts for beginners
A beginner's problem is rarely a shortage of explanation. It is that what was explained last week has to be recalled this week, in the middle of doing something else, and it is not there yet. A sheet on the wall covers exactly that gap — and then quietly stops being needed, which is the point.
Most of what is here is for instruments: the first chords on guitar and ukulele, the notes along the fretboard, the layout of the piano keyboard, note values, intervals, the pentatonic box, and the alternate tunings worth meeting early. The rest is for people starting to write code — the flexbox properties, and where a change sits in Git.
Hang them where the practising happens. A reference that makes you put the instrument down has already failed.
F MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two · one flat · B flat
G MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two · one sharp · F sharp
THE KEYBOARD
three octaves · every key and its note on the staff
SNARE DRUM RUDIMENTS
the forty international rudiments of the PAS · four families · the Standard 26 marked
DADGAD
D — A — D — G — A — D
DROP D
one string down · everything else unchanged
HALF STEP DOWN
every string down a semitone · same shapes
OPEN C
the deepest of the open tunings
OPEN D
the open strings are already D major
OPEN G
the open strings are already G major
UKULELE CHORDS
the first twelve chords · standard tuning G C E A
RESISTOR COLOUR CODE
the bands, the tolerances and the preferred series of two standards