Fiddle: What the Numbers Turn Into

The chord reference for this reader. Pick a root, then any of 54 qualities, and get the positions plus the thing a chord chart never prints: which digit stands for this chord once somebody counts off in a key.

A fiddler reads a number as a set of notes to be inside rather than a chord to land on — the one reader on the floor who plays a line across the chart instead of a grip underneath it. One note at a time means the number is never played whole — it is outlined, and which of its tones gets outlined first is a decision made in the bar, not on the page.

Every position below is drawn for GDAE, 4 strings, open positions 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.