http://www.fret1.com/blog Guitar software Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:49:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Chord Progression Maker has now been released. Don't know what to chords to play? Want to write a new song? Playing the same old guitar chords? This tool can help you inspire you! Simply select a key and a chord progression and then strum away on your guitar. This can be used as a ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/progession-maker-released/ Some big changes to the Chord Finder tool have been made. Firstly the amount of chords available has grown significantly. Now fifth (power chord), sixth, seventh, diminished, augmented, and suspended chords are all supported. Secondly the choice of scales has been increased. Harmonic Minor as well as both Major and Minor pentatonics have been ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/chord-finder-update/ The Chord Finder has been refreshed. You can now select as below Key C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B Type Chord Scale Mode Parameter when Chord or Scale is selected: Major Minor when Modes is selected: Ionian Dorian Phrygian Lydian Mixolydian Aeolian Locrian And of course you can choose the color ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/chord-finder/ If you want to databind some class to the CombBoxBox in Silverlight you can run into a problem if you want to have some items disabled. When you add an ItemsSource all items are wrapped inside a ComboBoxItem. To access the IsEnabled property of the ComboBoxItem can be problematic. In WPF you ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/silverlight-data-binding-enableddisabled-items-on-combobox/ Steve of PokerCopilot fame has an interesting blog post about his traffic from Google. Basically most of the traffic is from low volume unique phrases. While obviously more visitors are better, it seems like most people concentrate on the front page assuming that's where visitors will enter. Should we be looking to ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/long-tail-analytics/ Fret1 is back for 2009. Guitar Chord Finder is live, and works! I had some problems with the upgrade from Silverlight Beta 2 to the full version. Browsing through the code muttering "who wrote this crap?", I decided to bite the bullet and do a rewrite. Now more "Silverlighty" using databindings, data ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/relaunch-2009/ UPDATE: Chord Progression Maker is now live. Here is a preview screenshot of the Fret1 Progression Maker Here you can choose a Key from the Circle of Fifths, then select a progression. The chords required are then shown in the next listbox and if you select the chord itself you can ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/progression-maker-preview/ Yes, that's right. The Guitar Chord Finder is now in beta. If you sign up as a beta tester before July 1st, you'll get 3 month subscription to Fret1.com free! Not only that, but you can influence future development and shape Fret1.com to be a great resource for musicians everywhere. Here is some ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/guitar-chord-finder-beta/ 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 - ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/aggh/ 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 ... http://www.fret1.com/blog/the-hendrix-chord/