Fretboard Heatmaps

[NothingButInitials]

http://http://fretboardheatmaps.com/

Slayer is my favorite on this...

 

[Scott Peterson]

That's pretty cool!

 

[Sidivan]

Awesome!

 

[Tone Seeker]

Interesting. . . .

Terry.

 

[sevenstring]

Thats really cool.

 

[gpz]

Super cool! :mrgreen
Thanks

 

[Cooper Carter]

Interested in how they calculated these. My guess would be some algorithm that counts notes in GuitarPro tabs or similar. I'd like to see the filter skewed a bit more to show notes played less so there were more differentiation between artists who have never played, for example, a high Eb on the G string, and those who have played it at least a couple times.

 

[gpz]

Interested in how they calculated these. My guess would be some algorithm that counts notes in GuitarPro tabs or similar. I'd like to see the filter skewed a bit more to show notes played less so there were more differentiation between artists who have never played, for example, a high Eb on the G string, and those who have played it at least a couple times.

The author's twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeCannatti
About 30000 tabs analysed (no mention of the tabs format). Tunings were not taken into account, just frets positions.

 

[Sidivan]

Interested in how they calculated these. My guess would be some algorithm that counts notes in GuitarPro tabs or similar. I'd like to see the filter skewed a bit more to show notes played less so there were more differentiation between artists who have never played, for example, a high Eb on the G string, and those who have played it at least a couple times.

Agreed. The Slayer one is almost all grey, which could indicate that they use every fret equally... seems strange. Maybe a wider range with smaller increments of coloration to account for the lower volumes.

 

[RDeraz]

Agreed. The Slayer one is almost all grey, which could indicate that they use every fret equally... seems strange. Maybe a wider range with smaller increments of coloration to account for the lower volumes.

i think that indicates that they ride the low E too much.it's more or less a graph of note averages,which ones get played the most.as with slayer,there is always an open low E somewhere.(at least on there older material.)

 

[Dutch]

Freddie king seems to play Am exclusively.

 

[Cobrango]

Lol, Albert king sure loves that pentatonic.

I like the way Satriani and Vai is all over the fretboard. Makes it more valid to me. And what up with John Mayer? got a couple of favourite notes there for sure. lol

great post!

 

[The Shredding Hand]

Pretty cool. Dream Theater's can't be right though. The open G on Zakk's is interesting as well.

 

[animal]

lol I'm guessing meshuggah would be just red on 2 frets and one string ....so inspiring
how to write 7 albums using 2 frets on a guitar

 

[Cobrango]

best 2 frets I've ever heard! <3

 

[Sixstring]

Very cool indeed! It's interesting to see where some of the great guitar players spend most of their time on the fret board.

 

[Highcastle_of_Tone]

Of course, I always preferred the old school means of analysis

 

[animal]

best 2 frets I've ever heard! <3

you are lucky because they serve the same dinner everytime lol
the menu has one item on it

 

[Cobrango]

you are lucky because they serve the same dinner everytime lol
the menu has one item on it

And it's not meat <3

 

[Cooper Carter]

I'd just like to see a little more of a stark variation between, for example, John Mayer and Dream Theater. With a different calibration, JP's or Vai's fretboard would light up all over the place a bit more, since they've each surely played every note on the fretboard many, many times over.