22 To adjust your REAL guitar or COMPUTER guitar tuning, click the 'Setup' menu and select 'Tuning...'
23 Take your REAL guitar and click 'Strum' to practise.
24 Show the different forms of
25 by clicking the chord pictures to the right.
26 ALL CHORD NOTES ARE PRESENT..
27 To mute unplayed strings click the note letters at the end of the guitar fretboard below.
28 To design the chord, click at least one note of each colour on the fretboard below.
29 To cancel a note, click it with the other mouse button.
30 Click the notes of your unknown chord on the fretboard below.
31 A chord has not been found yet.
32 To select other ways of playing this chord, click 'Designer chords' or 'Standard chords'.
33 Select strum
34 Practise strum
35 Click the chords at the bottom of the screen to strum or delete.
36 The chord has been deleted. It can be replaced next time you store a chord.
37 Take your REAL guitar and tune it to the COMPUTER guitar.
38 To customize the tuning, click the green tuning pegs on the COMPUTER guitar.
39 It is preferable to tune your REAL guitar first without the capo, and then position the capo.
40 To hear the COMPUTER guitar notes, click the coloured buttons over the strings. To silence a note, click the flashing button.
41 PLEASE WAIT FOR THE GUITAR TO BE LOADED
42 YOU MUST DELETE CHORDS STORED WITH THE CURRENT GUITAR BEFORE CHANGING TO A NEW GUITAR.
43 STORED CHORDS WARNING
44 MIDI SYSTEM ERROR
45 YOU HAVE SELECTED A CHORD WHICH REQUIRES YOUR FINGERS TO SPREAD MORE THAN 4 FRETS. IT MAY BE TOO DIFFICULT TO PLAY!! DO YOU WISH TO STORE IT?
46 FINGER SPAN TOO LARGE
47 You may store up to
48 TOO MANY STORED CHORDS
49 Continue modifying the chord or click '< Restart' to clear the current selection.
50 To insert or delete chords, select them with the mouse and click the 'Insert' or 'Delete buttons.
51 THIS NOTE SELECTION IS NOT LISTED, BUT YOU MAY LIKE ITS SOUND. DO YOU WANT TO STORE IT ANYWAY?
52 STORE AN UNLISTED CHORD
53 on string
54 YOUR NOTE SELECTION DOES NOT INCLUDE ALL THE CHORD NOTES, BUT YOU MAY LIKE ITS SOUND. DO YOU WANT TO STORE IT ANYWAY?
55 STORE AN INCOMPLETE CHORD
56 'STANDARD CHORDS' NEED 'STANDARD' TUNING EADGBE.
57 DO YOU WANT TO USE 'STANDARD CHORDS' AND RETUNE THE COMPUTER GUITAR TO 'STANDARD' TUNING?
58 TUNING ADVICE
59 YOU HAVE STORED CHORDS WITH SPECIAL TUNINGS. 'STANDARD CHORDS' USE THE 'STANDARD' TUNING.
60 IF YOU WISH TO USE 'STANDARD CHORDS', GO TO 'STORED CHORDS' AND DELETE THE CHORDS
61 YOU HAVE NOT STORED ANY CHORDS YET.
62 NO STORED CHORDS
63 YOU ARE USING 'STANDARD CHORDS' WHICH NEED 'STANDARD' TUNING EADGBE.
64 DO YOU WANT TO TUNE THE COMPUTER GUITAR TO NON-STANDARD TUNING? (YOU WILL HAVE TO USE 'DESIGNER CHORDS' OR 'UNKNOWN CHORDS' IF YOU ANSWER YES).
65 YOU HAVE STORED CHORDS WITH ANOTHER TUNING. TO CREATE CHORDS IN A NEW TUNING, DELETE THE STORED CHORDS.
66 NO CAPO SET
67 THE CAPO SET ON FRET
68 YOU HAVE STORED CHORDS WITH
69 . TO CREATE CHORDS WITH A NEW CAPO POSITION, GO TO 'STORED CHORDS' AND DELETE THE STORED CHORDS.
70 Send sounds to the sound card or an external synthesiser
71 Click scroll bar to control the volume
72 Select the internal or external MIDI devices
73 A sound card is needed for INTERNAL SOUND. You can also connect an EXTERNAL MIDI keyboard to the games port.
74 'Chord Buster' uses MIDI channel 13.
75 If you get NO SOUND from the sound card, go to the Windows MIDI setup and adjust the settings.
76 Click the + symbol to get more instruments on the sound card
77 EXTERNAL keyboards connected to your games port may produce different sounds.
78 Click to test the instrument sound
79 Click to cancel selections
80 Click to close this window
81 Click to change guitar orientation
82 Change the size of the computer guitar
83 Select a colour or picture in the background
84 Select Right-handed or Left-handed guitars
85 Activate the selections
86 Make a picture or colour selection
87 Go back to previous stage
88 Select left or right-handed guitar, background picture or colour
89 Tune the strings of your guitar
90 Select a strumming style
91 Click to finish tuning your guitar
92 Click to play or silence the note on string
93 Delete the stored chord
94 Controls for the automatic guitar tuner
95 Tutorial screen providing help and feedback
96 Click to show this stored chord on the fretboard
97 Store the selected chord
98 Find popular standard chords in the chord book
99 Design customised chords
100 Find a chord root and name from a fretboard pattern
101 Play or delete stored chords
102 Strum the selected chord
103 Click scroll bar to control the speed of each pick of the string
104 Click scroll bar to control the rate of the automatic strum
105 Click to select a preset strum
106 Click to listen to the selected strum
107 Clicking there, frets the string down
108 Clicking there, leaves the string open
109 Clicking there includes the string in the chord
110 Clicking there mutes the string
111 You have tuned string
112 to
113 Delete all the stored chords
114 YOU HAVE FOUND THE CHORD
115 S
116 LISTED IN THE YELLOW BOX. To view a chord's notes, click the list....
117 No Capo
118 Fret
119 Capo on fret
120 tuning -
121 S&ound off
122 S&ound on
123 Stop Strum
124 Strum
125 Save
126 SAVED CHORDS
127 Store
128 STANDARD CHORDS
129 DESIGNER CHORDS
130 UNKNOWN CHORDS
131 Right-handed guitar
132 Left-handed guitar
133 Adjust the MIDI musical effects
134 Drop-down list providing pre-set and custom tunings
135 Drop-down list providing chord types
136 Click the arrows to place a capo on the frets
137 Enables the changing of the root of the chord to
138 Current capo position
139 Click to open the chord selector. ('+' symbols show more chords)
140 Click to turn the
141 Click to activate the guitar tuner
142 Click to silence the guitar tuner
143 Click to show this standard chord on the fretboard
200 OK
201 Cancel
202 Test the sound
203 Select MIDI device
204 Set Volume
205 Select instrument(sound card list)
206 Select background
207 Picture
208 Colour
209 Select...
210 Size guitar
211 Right handed guitar
212 Custom
213 Set strum tempo
214 Set strum attack
215 Choose strum
216 This chord can be stored at the bottom of the screen by clicking the 'Store' button.
217 Setup
218 SEQUENCER
219 Tuning on computer guitar
220 Capo on computer guitar
221 Tune your guitar
222 Play note
223 Silence note
224 < Restart
225 Delete all
226 Delete
227 Stored chords
228 Unknown chords
229 Designer chords
230 Standard chords
231 &File
232 &Exit
233 &Root
234 &Chord name
235 &Setup
236 S&ound off
237 &MIDI...
238 St&rum...
239 &Guitar and background...
240 &Tuning...
241 Ch&ord and song builder
242 &Standard chords
243 &Designer chords
244 &Unknown chords
245 S&tored chords
246 &Help
247 &Contents of Chord Buster...
248 &Search for Chord Buster Help on...
249 &How to use Help...
250 &About Chord Buster
251 Right
252 Left
253 S&equencer
254 Sequencer
255 Table to lay out chord sequence
256 To place a chord in the sequence, drag up a stored chord into the table.
257 Strum the stored chord
258 Save the chords on disk
259 Strum the selected chord sequence
260 Delete the selected chord sequence
261 Delete all sequence chords
262 Save chords and the sequence on disk
263 You may drag this to the sequencer
264 List to show found chords
265 Demonstration of the task
266 Play and edit a sequence of stored chords
267 Drag a chord here
268 Root
269 Chord Name
270 Select a Root and Chord Name
271 Give the unknown chord a name
272 (Fret positions)
273 This is an open string tuning.
274 Insert
275 Retrieve chords
276 Save chords
277 &Print
278 Print setup
279 Select picture
280 Select colour
281 YOU HAVE NOT STORED ANY CHORDS YET. THE SEQUENCER NEEDS STORED CHORDS TO DRAG INTO CHORD SEQUENCES
282 NO STORED CHORDS FOR THE SEQUENCER
283 &Open
284 P&rinter Setup...
285 DRAG A CHORD TO THE BLANK CELL, OR DELETE THE CELL
286 Pick Timer
287 Adjust the repeat rate of the note
288 To retrieve this sequence in future, select the menu 'File - Open...
289 The strum has been applied to the selected chord sequence.
290 To insert spaces for chords, click or drag your mouse over the insertion point and click the 'Insert' button.
291 To set up new strums, select the menu 'Setup - Strum...' and choose a new strum. To allocate the strum, select a chord sequence with the mouse and click the purple list.
292 To save the stored chords and sequence on disk, click the menu 'File - Save...
293 &Edit
294 C&opy
295 &Insert
296 Delete &All
297 &Delete
298 &Restart
299 &Store
300 &Save
301 &Play
302 &Strum
303 Other chord shapes
304 SETTING UP CHORD BUSTER...
305 &Stop Strum
306 chords. If you want to store this chord, delete another first.
307 &Copy screen to Clipboard
308 &Paste
309 Paste
310 Copy
311 S&ave As..
312 Paste the selected chord sequence
313 Insert chords into the selection
314 Delete the selected chord sequence
315 Copy the selected chord sequence
316 Untitled sequence
317 Cancel Practice
318 &Lessons for Beginners to Advanced...
319 PRESS F1 KEY FOR HELP NOW!
320 TO GET THE PREPARED GUITAR LESSONS, CLICK THE HELP MENU AND SELECT 'LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS TO ADVANCED...'.
321 Chord Buster Lessons
322 Save Custom
323 Cancel Custom
324 Delay
325 Interval
326 Editing strum
327 Editing new strum based on
328 Practising
329 Cancel the editor without saving the strum
330 Save the edited strum and exit
331 WE HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR INTRODUCTION TO GUITAR CHORD BUSTER!
332 THIS FEATURE IS NOW UNAVAILABLE IN THIS DEMO BUT WE HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING YOUR INTRODUCTION TO GUITAR CHORD BUSTER!
333 Change the fixed interval by dragging right or left
334 Change the strum by dragging the mouse over the dots and lines
335 Change this note's delay by dragging right or left
336 Add new notes to the strum
337 Delete the selected note or fixed interval
338 Cancel editing this strum and create a new strum
339 Type the volume of the note, 0 up to 1
340 YOU HAVE NOT INCLUDED ANY NOTES IN THIS CHORD. STORAGE IS CANCELLED.
341 NO NOTES SELECTED
342 DO YOU WANT TO EDIT THIS STRUM? (ANSWER NO TO ADD A NEW STRUM)
343 EDIT STRUMS
344 YOU ARE USING THIS STRUM IN A SEQUENCE. WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED WITH THE SEQUENCE, YOU MAY EDIT THIS STRUM
345 PERMISSION TO EDIT A STRUM
346 DO YOU WANT TO SAVE THE CURRENT CHORDS?
347 SAVE CHORDS WARNING
348 Add a new fixed interval independent of attack
349 Click the cell where you want to paste the chords
350 New Strum
351 Add Interval
352 Add Pick
353 Volume
354 Delay
355 Drag the red dots and grey intervals to change the strum.
356 Click 'Strum' to hear the pick style.
357 Picked note delays vary with Attack changes.
358 Intervals remain unchanged with Attack changes.
359 A musical bar is an interval of 768 delay units.
360 Set the desired attack before saving the strum.
361 Practise strum - half tempo
362 Customise your own strum
363 Cancel Practice
364 Drag the interval into position
365 Drag the black dot to the strum editor
366 To select a strum, click an item in the green box.
367 Click the + symbols to get more strums.
368 To select strum practice and edit options, click the list below the green box.
369 Take your real guitar and click strum to practise.
370 Slow down the tempo to suit your level.
371 Alter the attack and notice the effect on the picks.