ChordMate Reference

Diagrams

Each diagram represents four frets and six strings of a guitar, as you would see it if you held the fretboard in your left hand, and strummed with your right. The high E string is on right and the low E is on the left. (You can flip the diagram by clicking on the Guitar button, and selecting left handed guitar).

The number next to the diagram on the left indicates the lowest fret used in the voicing. The left chord should be played on the 5th - 8th frets. You can easily recognize diagrams of chords that use the first four frets of the fretboard because ChordMate draws the top of the guitar as a solid bar, and omits the fret number, as is done in the diagram on the right.

Solid circles indicate where to place your fingers. If a string should be played "open," ChordMate draws a circle above the string, as in the rightmost diagram. Strings that should not be played at all have an X. Finally, the root note of the chord is drawn as a double circle.

Resizing Diagrams

You can change the size of the displayed diagrams using the Diagram Size slider at the bottom right of the main window.