For the past few days I’ve been bogged down in trying to get asp.net membership bits up and running. Some database problems and configuration problems. Website seems to be holding onto the old values in web.config even though it’s been updated. And another problem was just a stupid backslash - forewardslash mix up. Grrr. Slow progress at the moment. Irritating, because I hoped to get the latest version of the guitar chord finder up and open a beta program. Oh well hopefully in the next few days it will all be sorted out.

On the actual development side, the guitar chord finder has a few updates

• Redesigned the layout slightly.
• Fully adjustable tunings
• Can zoom and pan (not sure how useful this is!)

Hmm, doesn’t seem that much, but there was some under the hood changes also.

The year, 1966. The Jimi Hendrix Experience release Purple Haze. Kids go wild.

The year, 2008. I almost get my chordbox subcontrol working. Kids go wild.

So here’s is the chordbox with the “Jimi Hendrix Chord“, or E7#9 as others know it. Give it a strum and then set your guitar on fire.

This will be used to display some common fingerings. In it’s current incantation is needs a lot more work, mainly because I can’t resize it. I suspect this is something to do with the way it is drawn in blend. Lesson learned don’t use transformations when creating a control, only use them afterwards. Although I’m searching for some sort of Apply Transformations to make this easier.

In unrelated news, 100’s of zombies just shuffled through Melbourne City Centre for unknown reasons!

Hi,

Welcome to the Fret1 Blog. I aim to make Fret1.com a centre for web-based music tools. The first tool is already here!

Feel free to try the new Guitar Chord Finder

Let me know what you think.

p.s. If you don’t have Silverlight install you will need to add it. It’s a free download from Microsoft.