Tour Sections
Introduction
As a Rhythm Player, you are mainly interested in playing chords on your instrument, which you do with chordshapes.
One of your main needs is to find chordshapes for playing different the different chords in a piece of music. The names of the chords you need to play usually appear above the staff lines in sheet music.
ChordWizard is supplied with standard libraries of chordshapes for the most common instruments and tunings. It is also easy to automatically create new libraries for other instruments.
A library is used like a traditional chord book, but its much easier and more flexible. By setting a filter, you can quickly find chordshapes for playing a particular chord. There are also several other filter criteria you can use for finding chordshapes in other ways.
The supplied libraries are comprehensive, particularly at Advanced level. However, if you don't find a chordshape you are happy with in the library, ChordWizard will help you design new chordshapes with overlay labels or by searching the fretboard for other possibilities. These new chordshapes can then be added to the library for future use.
You can also use ChordWizard to identify chordshapes you have discovered yourself, but don't have chord names for. This is called matching and works like a traditional chord book in reverse.
This guided tour looks at all of these functions and how they are used.
