Looking for a scale program

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 20 Nov 2005 8:21 pm

I have Joe Wright's E9/B6 ultimate scale book, but didn't realize until after I purchased it that the copedant he uses is very different than my own.

Does anyone know of a program that will let me set my copedant and then be able to generate scale patterns from that so that I can basically get Joes charts in a form I can use?

Ben Slaughter · Post by **Ben Slaughter** » 20 Nov 2005 9:25 pm

Try this, a clever fellow forumite did this.
http://home.comcast.net/~k.abolins/guitarmap.html

Curt Langston · Post by **Curt Langston** » 21 Nov 2005 8:13 am

Bill, check out Dapper Dans program. You can find it under the steel guitar links, at the top of the page. It is quite good.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 21 Nov 2005 11:29 am

Thanks Curt,

Dapper Dan's software seems to be limited to 10 string tunings. I have a 12 String Universal. Ben's suggestion looks like it might work.

Bill Baseman · Post by **Bill Baseman** » 21 Nov 2005 4:40 pm

I tried to use the scale program that was listed but for some reason it would not open. I also tried to find the the program that was referred to in the links and also could not find that. As you can see I am about as good on the computer as I am the PSG. Can anyone point me in the right direction to help me open the scale programs listed? Thanks, Bill

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 21 Nov 2005 7:29 pm

Guitar Map works like a charm. This program alone is going to shave months off my learning curve.

Bob Snelgrove · Post by **Bob Snelgrove** » 22 Nov 2005 7:11 am

Can you add pedals or knees to this program?

bob

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 22 Nov 2005 8:23 am

Yes, you can add strings, pedals and knees. You can also easily add any scale you want. It has a great feature where you specify a chord and it can come up with all the possible combinations of pedals, frets, and knees that will play that chord (some of which would be impossible to play obviously). Truely a great program and priced right!

Jeremy Moyers · Post by **Jeremy Moyers** » 22 Nov 2005 8:34 am

I am a mac guy, what program do you use to open the guitarmap program?

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 22 Nov 2005 9:15 am

It is a self extracting file. Not sure it is Mac compatible.

Edward Efira · Post by **Edward Efira** » 22 Nov 2005 10:09 am

unfortunately It's a .exe program => only runs on windoze
Ed

Ben Slaughter · Post by **Ben Slaughter** » 22 Nov 2005 1:22 pm

Guitar Map is a program. You have to download the zip file then run it. It will install itself just like any other program.

Big thanks again to Mr. Abolins for providing this tool to us out of the kindness of his heart.