Resonator: What the Numbers Turn Into

The chord reference for this reader. Pick a root, then any of 62 qualities, and get the shapes plus the thing a chord chart never prints: which digit stands for this chord once somebody counts off in a key.

A resonator player reads a number as a place to stop the bar — the strings are already a chord, so what the digit changes is not the grip but where along the neck the bar has to be sitting when the bar of music starts. The open strings already spell a chord, so a number is answered with a position rather than a grip, and the whole reading job is arriving at the right one square on the beat.

Every shape below is drawn for GBDGBD, 6 strings, open shapes first and movable ones after them, and each one plays back — because the fastest way to check that a number was read right is to hear it.