Detailed feature reference

Triads across the neck guide

TRIADS ACROSS THE NECK · CADENCE

Learn → Practice & review → Explore on guitar. Choose a piece, part, chord-symbol staff, up to
eight bars and one of four adjacent three-string sets. Set tuning and capo before
starting. Library → a piece → Learn also opens this pathway for the selected bars.
The source must have written chord symbols; PDF pages must have been reviewed.

1. FIND
Read and play a three-string shape. Identify root position, first inversion or
second inversion from its lowest sounding note. Hear the shape and reveal its
note names if useful. A wrong choice stays on the same shape. This checks the
screen answer, not whether the physical chord was played.

2. CONNECT
Try the suggested route through your changes. The route minimises total fret
movement on each string, over all the changes. It is one useful suggestion,
not an ergonomic diagnosis. Browse another inversion on the interactive neck.
Choose a neighbouring string set from Choose music / string set to explore again.
The route demonstration gives each chord four beats; it is a slow practice
arrangement, not a performance of the source rhythm.

3. EAR TO FRETBOARD
Hear the root and third, imagine the interval, optionally sing it, then find
those two notes on guitar. Choose Listen to my guitar to enable the microphone.
Use headphones, mute unused strings, pluck separately and let each note ring
for at least half a second. Capture stops after two stable pitches. Check them,
retry or skip. The displayed example octave and A = 440 Hz are used.

This is local single-note pitch matching. Audio is not saved or uploaded.
It does not identify strings, judge fingering/timing or recognise strummed chords.
Physical guitar/microphone testing is still needed; automated tests cover pitch
signals with harmonics/decay, silence, simulated capture and playback exclusion.

4. CREATE
Improvise a two-bar answer, aiming for the third of your second chord. Leave
space and vary the ending. Or choose Write a two-bar answer: Compose opens a
blank guitar score with linked tab, the first two chord symbols and a permanent
reference to the original piece. It starts in 4/4 at 72 bpm as a new arrangement.
Write and play it back with Compose, then return using its pathway banner.
The same answer reopens on later visits; your saved work is not overwritten.

PROGRESS
Every action commits together with its practice record. Failed saves retain the
pending answer for retry. Relaunching preserves your place, string set, tuning
and capo. Source edits require a new pathway; the old work remains available.
Completed sessions get a supported-practice reminder in Learn → Practice & review → Bring it back.
This is not a calibrated mastery model. Reading choices, local microphone pitches
and self-reported chord playing/improvising are separate evidence types.

CURRENT SCOPE
Up to 16 written changes across eight bars. Frets 0–12 relative to the capo, with
at most four frets between fretted notes. Root, third and fifth must each be
unambiguous; suspended, omitted-tone, multiply altered and N.C. sections ask for
another passage. Extensions and slash bass remain in the original; the pathway
explicitly practises the underlying triads. Up to 100 saved guitar pathways.

CONTROL DESIGN
Shared primary and secondary buttons now use Cadence’s colours, compact spacing,
rounded borders and hover/pressed/disabled states. Common menus in the header,
chord lab, editor and new pathway use the shared menu control. Native menu
behaviour, button semantics and existing shortcuts remain in place.

Practice format 13 and score format 6 protect this new data from older writers.
Earlier formats migrate when opened. Keep the previous app and data backups.