The Steel Guitar Forum

Hi,

I've been a long time gone from this forum (I used to just lurk anyway ) and I recently got back into playing my steel again after a bit of (young family induced) break.

Anyway, after noticing that the old skobrien chord finder webpage no longer seems to exist I thought I'd put up a link to one I developed myself 5 or 6 years back (I wrote it before I found the skobrien site). Its a tad complicated to use but perhaps some people starting out or who are having trouble finding an unusual chord will find it helpful.

Hopefully not all you forumites try it at the same time, otherwise my computer will probably explode .

Here's the link: www.highwater.co.nz

Cheers,
Trevor.

Hi trever , I cant get it to work for some reason , any ideas?

Russell Adkins wrote:Hi trever , I cant get it to work for some reason , any ideas?

Oh, sorry Russell. Is it not working at all? Even if you do something simple like choose a different chord from the dropdown box and click "Draw fretboard"?

What browser do you use (this has not been extensively tested ).

Thanks for giving it a try anyway.

Mine works good in pastel colours.
I use Google Chrome.

I checked the dimished chords first after the recent thread about Dim chords.

Worked fine with IE9, thank you so much for sharing. I'll try not to blow up anything on your system. Deeply appreciated.

Bookmarked that in 2 seconds flat! Great work!

Great contribution
Thanks

Thanks Trevor,

Very Cool...when you're like me using the hunt n peck method of playing steel guitar, this could come in useful...It's been added to my favorites!!!

This is going to work great for the newbies. I made a discovery myself, something I had not thought of.

Thanks a million.

Larry Behm

Incredible work, thank you very much.

This is exactly what I've been looking for!![/img]

Trevor, that's really nice. Will it take 12 string tunings?
Thanks,
bk

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

Bob Kagy wrote:Trevor, that's really nice. Will it take 12 string tunings?

Yeah, up to 12 strings it can do: After you click the "view/edit tuning" link use the "Add string" link below the copedant chart.

Hi Trever , I got it working now , maybe I was setting the wrong way lol thank you this could be a very big help to me , thank you so much for sharing .The mode part is fantastic as well as the chords . Russ

That's very cool.

I don't see 6th chords in the "Select a Chord" list. Just an oversight?

b0b wrote:I don't see 6th chords in the "Select a Chord" list. Just an oversight?

Yeah, I think I got bored adding in the different chords before I got up to adding any 6ths! You can make up any chord you want, though, using the little boxes below the drop down list.

Just registered, put in a 12 string universal tuning, added pedal, knee changes, etc. Added a Minor 6 chord, named the tuning, chord, etc. It all works nicely. I'm going to have to tweak it, but for a start this is really cool.
Thanks Trevor (sent you a small donation)

Thanks very much bk, I am much obliged. Let me know if there's anything I can do to make your tweaking easier.

BTW I updated it to allow for up to 14 strings (how many guitars have more than this?).

Experimenting with it again - printed a sheet containing no pedals major chords and major scale. They result in nice charts that are right up my alley, showing the notes as values; works nicely for locating the scale pockets.

bk

This is very helpful!
Thanks for putting this together.

THANK YOU!!!!

I've been searching for precisely this type of thing. The "Modes" portion is EXACTLY what I've been looking for and what 6-stringers refer to as "pockets"." As a relatively new PSG player and coming from a 6 string background this is invaluable and a HUGE help.

THANKS!!!