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Fretboards:
The Cipher for Guitar, please go here
The Cipher for Lefty Guitar, please go here
The Cipher for Bass guitar, please go here
The Cipher for Ukulele, please go here
The Cipher for 5 course Vihuela, please go here (in development)
The Cipher for Mandolin and Tenor Banjo please go here
The Cipher for Violin, Viola, and Cello
The Cipher for Upright Bass
The Cipher for Viola De Gamba, the fretted Viols and Lute
The Cipher for Chapman Stick® and other tapping fretboards
Viola da Gamba
Applying the Cipher to Isomorphic Keyboards
Keyboards (Isomorphic Chromatic keyboards):
The Cipher for Chromatic Button Accordion
The Cipher for Whole Tone Janko Keyboard
Harp
The Cipher for Chromatic Isomorphic Symmetrical Cross-Strung Whole-Tone Harp
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The Cipher for fifths tuned four string instruments: Mandolin, Violin, Tenor Banjo, and more
The Cipher System uses a Five Degree (Perfect-Fourth) Calculation Line for plotting musical materials on the necks of stringed instruments tuned to fourths. That works for guitar, vihuela, lute, early oud, bass (fretted or un-fretted), 5-string banjo and ukulele.
The Cipher for four stringed instruments tuned in fifths accommodates these instruments and more:
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For string instruments tuned to fifths (any in table above):
If you already play guitar and always wanted to learn mandolin (lets say) once you familiarize yourself with the Cipher System on guitar come back here and see how fast you can pick up the mandolin! You’ll have a thorough working knowledge of how fifths-tuned instruments work in an instant. You’d be able to make up your own chord voicings with absolute confidence (no guesswork) immediately because you’d know exactly what was going on within the instrument itself and you’d have the formula and knowledge of how to use them. So the mystery of how all common stringed instruments work is now lifted for you as well. So the sky’s the limit.
- Commonsense string numbering order applies to four-string instruments as well those with six (meaning guitar), see Figure 1.
- A Pattern of Unisons and Octaves specific to the fifths tuning pattern is also needed. See the large 4 page section.
- The notes of the Violin-Mandolin fretboard spelled with letters is also required. G D A E tuning is applicable to: violin, fiddle, mandolin, Irish tenor banjo, and more.
Dixieland Tenor Banjo 5ths tuning C G D A.
- Blank 4 string fretboard grids paper in PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader). Can be used as: mandolin grids, bass grids, tenor banjo grids, ukulele grids, and more.
- Mandolin and Tenor Banjo Cipher demonstrations
Common musical materials
By string-sets
All intervals on the mandolin fretboard
- Mandolin scales, triads, and chord progressions
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