fretty 2.0

Fretty is a guitar fretboard generator

fretty

Fretty is a guitar fretboard generator.

Installation

pip install fretty

Usage

how to run fretty:

fretty example/C-major-scale-box1.ft -o C-major-scale-box1.svg

This will produce the file C-major-scale-box1.svg

Basic Format

III
- - o - o #
- - o o - o
- o # - o -
o - o - o -
# - o - o -
o - o - o -

The first line is the position of the starting fret. Every line which follows is the representation on string.

• 'o' is a node
• '#' is a note as square shape
• '-' is an empty place

• numbers are displayed as notes

II
-5--
---3
--71
3--5
71--
-5--

• '|' is for a barre note
• 'X' is a muted string

III
|---
|o--
|-o-
|-o-
|---
X---

• '+' is a open string

I
--o-
---o
--o-
+---
X---
X---

Extended Format

You can enclose any text with branches.

• '(' - ')' for circle notes
• '[' - ']' for square notes

III
  -    -    (vi)    -   (vii)  [I]
  -    -    (iii)  (IV)   -    (V)
  -  (vii)  [I]     -    (ii)   -
(IV)   -    (V)     -    (vi)   -
[I]    -    (ii)    -    (iii)  -
(V)    -    (vi)    -    (vii)  -

If you close the note by using the barre synbol, instead of the closing branch, the note will be part of a barre symbol.

V
(5|   -   -   -
|    (3)  -   -
(7|   -   -   -
|     -  (5)  -
(1|   -   -   -
X     -   -   -

Additional Information

This project was inspired by svguitar.