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Entry title: Guitar Chords and other stuff.
Date added:  Sunday, April 8 2007, 12:05PM
Written by:  Agilo (agilo3@gmail.com)
Entry ID:    239
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A few days ago I had a couple of hours to kill at my internship so instead of
doing nothing I decided to pass time by building up a fretboard of a guitar in
a text file for fun and profit.

As I was doing it, I wondered if I could make it in HTML so I could have a
better visual on it (i.e. using CSS).
As I built up a basic HTML layout I stopped and thought about a couple of
aspects (amount of frets/strings) and pondered about making it in JavaScript
instead (so I could change these aspects dynamically).
I then started writing it all up and after some time I got it the way I wanted
to; basic fretboard that's easily adjustable.

After I had the ground layers built up, I then thought of adding chords to it
if it would be easy to implement, so I started experimenting and worked it out
and managed to get it working very smooth and easily.

The only thing I had left to do then was fill up the page with some guitar
chords.

I initially wrote just the basic chords (classic C, D, E, F, G, A and B) but
as I was doing that, I thought about something I've been thinking about for a
while now: I could write some shell scripts to "rip" and use the chord
database of a site I use often as reference; jguitar.com.
I've thought about it often because I've always wanted a "random chord"
feature from some site but never ran across it (granted; I never really
looked).

So I started contemplating and working out the site's structure and found a
way to get their entire chord database (I won't say how exactly but I do want
to thank them for making it so damn easy for me).

After putting in the chords into the script I started writing the long-wanted
"random chord" feature (which was a bit of messing around) and finished that
not-too-long after that.

The end result can be found here:
files/projects/guitar.php


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