What is guitarLayers?
guitarLayers is a comprehensive macOS software tailored for guitar learning and exploration. It empowers users to visualize, manage, and manipulate scales, chords, and arpeggios through a fully parametric control interface, grounded in modern guitar theory
Highlights
- Visualization and management of common or custom scales, chords, and arpeggios on the guitar fretboard, with the ability to modify individual notes within these structures
- Automated generation of scale modes, chord inversions, drop voicings, and equivalent chord names, in accordance with established guitar theories
- Systematic approach to shaping chords, scales, and arpeggios on the fretboard, enabling the creation of vertical shapes, custom notes-per-string shapes, CAGED shapes, and string set selections
- Layering functionality to visualize the relationships between overlapping chords, scales, and arpeggios, with the ability to move these shapes collectively to different positions on the fretboard
- Automated harmonization of scales, allowing users to build chords or arpeggios by selecting notes from a scale and propagating them across each scale degree, including the option to harmonize with custom chords or arpeggios and their associated drop voicings and inversions
- Exporting and printing of generated diagrams as images