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.
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
SAMPLE RATES
what band each one describes, how much it leaves the filter, and what a minute weighs
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