What is this about?

The Guitar Composers Toolbox aims to be a site where composers can find interactive guitar tools that will help them throughout the composition process.

During this process, as a composer, you can get stuck at some point trying to decide which is the best chord or scale for your progression or arrangement. Or perhaps you don't know which chord variation will fit better or be harmonically consistent with the other chords.

In this case, our Chord Finder lets you filter by frets, showing only the chords that fall between two given frets. This is very helpful when you want to harmonize melodies and moving the melody line is not an option. When you're creating a fingerstyle arrangement, you need to know at every moment which chords are in close proximity to your last choice in order to guarantee harmonic cohesion.

The Ukulele Chord Finder works like the Guitar Chord Finder, letting you filter between two given frets in order to find the most appropriate chord.

Other tools are also available, such as the Scale Harmonizer, which lets you explore all the diatonic chords for any scale, as well as an interactive app for learning fast ascending and descending flamenco scales for any of the common styles (palos) within the genre.

The articles section features articles about guitar and ukulele techniques for composition that cover the most common scenarios and difficulties a composer may encounter.