Create and print guitar chord diagrams with finger positions, barre chords, and custom tuning.
A guitar chord diagram maps the neck onto a small grid: vertical lines are the six strings, horizontal lines are frets, and dots show where fingers press. Describe a chord as a string-by-string fret pattern such as x32010, and the tool draws it with finger numbers, open and muted markers, and a barre bar when one finger spans several strings. Custom tuning settings relabel the strings so shapes can be reused in drop D or open tunings. The common surprise: the low E string is drawn on the left, so the diagram mirrors the neck as you look down at your guitar, not as an audience sees it.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
C major, standard tuning: x32010
Expected output
A neck grid with an x above the low E string (muted), open markers above the G and high E strings, and filled dots at fret 3 on the A string, fret 2 on the D string, and fret 1 on the B string, each dot carrying a finger number. The sounded notes run C, E, G, C, E: a C major triad with the root and third doubled.
Read from the lowest string, x32010 sounds C (3rd fret on the A string), E (2nd fret on the D string), G (open G), C (1st fret on the B string), and E (open high E). Those are exactly the notes of C major, so the diagram is the standard open C shape.
The drawing is a vertical neck: six string lines, low E on the left through high E on the right, with horizontal fret lines below the nut. A fret pattern like x32010 assigns one symbol per string: x mutes it, 0 leaves it open, and a digit presses that fret. Pressed frets get a filled dot with a finger number; open and muted strings get o and x markers above the nut.
Finger numbers 1 through 4 mean index, middle, ring, and pinky. When one finger covers two or more adjacent strings at the same fret, the tool draws a barre: a single bar across those strings labeled with that finger's number. The barre is one fingering choice among several, so the same chord can produce different-looking diagrams under a different voicing.
It marks a muted string: you avoid it or damp it so it does not ring. In x32010 the low E is muted while both E strings stay open. Letting a marked x string ring is one of the most common reading mistakes, especially in barre shapes, where the muted string sits right beside the barre.
Yes: custom tuning is one of the tool's stated features. You set each string's note and the diagram relabels the strings, so the same fret pattern shows the same dots but different notes. Remember the shape's name changes with the tuning: a C major pattern in drop D is no longer C major, so confirm the result by ear before printing.
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