Charts for a music room
A music room wall is the one place a reference genuinely gets used, because the alternative is putting the instrument down. Everything here is arranged for that: read from two metres, answered in a glance, no interruption.
Theory on one side — the circle of fifths, note values, intervals. The instrument on the other — the fretboard, the keyboard, first chords for guitar and ukulele, the pentatonic box, scale fingering, and the alternate tunings. For a room that records as well as practises, the two mixing sheets: what lives where in the spectrum, and where things sit across the stereo field.
A3 is the sensible default here. A4 only if it hangs within reach of the stool.
BARRE CHORDS
two shapes, twelve chords each
CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
12 keys · key signatures · relative minors
THE ELECTRIC GUITAR PICKUP
one coil or two · six builds · where it sits along the string, and how high above it
FIRST CHORDS
15 chords every beginner starts with · standard tuning E A D G B e
NOTES ON THE FRETBOARD
standard tuning E A D G B e · first twelve frets
THE PENTATONIC
three positions · the root is marked
TONEWOODS
density, hardness, export · what is measured kept apart from what is taste
THE STEREO FIELD
what stays centred · what is spread · why the low end is not panned
NOTE VALUES
from whole to thirty-second · how many fit a 4/4 bar
C MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two
THE KEYBOARD
three octaves · every key and its note on the staff
DADGAD
D — A — D — G — A — D