The Chord Matrix in Relations View allows you to select the chord that you want to find relations for.
For a detailed discussion of the music theory behind relations, see Chord and Scale Relations in the Tutorials.
Each cell in the matrix represents the chord based on the chord type in the row heading and the root note in the column heading. For the example above, the row heading is m (minor chord type) and the column heading is D, making a Dm chord.
The Chord Matrix is colored blue to indicate that it deals with chords. Many screen elements in the ChordWizard workspace are color-coded in this way. You can change any workspace colors with the Display options.
Chords and Scales Relations
In the illustration above, the red dots indicate which chords are related to the scale currently selected in the Scale Matrix. These chords would be suitable to use when composing music written in that scale. If no scale is selected in the Scale Matrix, or if no chords are related to the selected scale, the dots do not appear.
In a similar way, by selecting a chord in the Chord Matrix, you will see blue dots appear in the Scale Matrix. These indicate the scales which could be used for improvising over the chord in a piece of music.
Selecting a chord in the Chord Matrix also causes Overlay Labels to appear on the Fretboard, indicating where the notes of the chord are located. You can compare these with the note positions of its related scales, by selecting these alternately with the chord.
Once a chord has been selected, you can change to Library View to find a chordshape to use for playing it.
Fretboard Relations
In addition to Chords and Scales relations, there are two other relation types that you can work with.
With Chords and Fretboard relations, you can place finger blocks on the Fretboard, and the Chord Matrix will indicate green dots instead of red, to show which chords contains the notes made by these fretboard locations.
In the other direction, Overlay Labels on the Fretboard will indicate the locations of the notes of the selected chord.
In Scales and Fretboard relations, the interaction is between the Scale Matrix and the Fretboard, and the Chord Matrix is not used.
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