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The Note Info palette provides additional details about the tones currently selected in the Scale Palette and Guitar Palette. You can refer to this palette whenever you're curious about the chord-relative functions of the tones with which you're working.

Palette Features

Scale Cursor Tone

The tone at the scale cursor. This tone will always be the root note of the chord unless the root is locked.

Primary Chord Function

The primary function of the tone at the scale cursor with respect to the root of the chord. Note that this will always be "R" unless the root is locked, since the scale cursor determines the root of the chord otherwise.

Secondary Chord Function

The secondary (second octave) function of the tone at the scale cursor with respect to the root of the chord.

Sol-Fa Name

The Sol-Fa Name is a simple phoneme that corresponds to the scale tone. Phonetic systems have long been used to encourage music students to sing and mentally integrate the tones of the Major Scale. In this system the Major scale is sung with the syllables "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do," pronounced "Doe, Ray, Mee, Fah, Sole, Lah, Tee, Doe."

The original Sol-Fa system comes from a Benedictine monk called Guido of Arezzo, who took the first notes of each line in a Latin hymn written around 770 A.D. This system was later popularized by John Curwen of England in the mid-19th century, and Zoltán Kodály of Hungary in the 20th Century. If that name sounds familiar, you probably heard it in a movie. Close Encounters of the Third Kind prominently features the system of hand-signs invented by John Curwen and propagated by Zoltán Kodály. Watch for it next time.

Guitar Cursor Tone

This is the tone on the guitar at the Fret Cursor.

Primary Function

Primary Function indicates the function of the Guitar Cursor Tone with respect to the root of the Current Chord.

Secondary Function

Secondary Function indicates how the Fret Cursor Note fits into the Current Chord in the second octave.

Note Intervals

This is the interval between the scale tone and the guitar tone expressed in both directions within a single octave. This interval is expressed as two intervals that are always reciprocal of one other. That means that as one interval ascends the other descends, and the same intervals will always appear together.