Thanks for checking out Fretboard Toolboxes, Victor!

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Hi Victor, 

 Thanks for taking the time to get back with me on Facebook Messenger.  I'm completely self-taught, so you might find some things here that you haven't seen before, since I created all of these tools to help me understand music more deeply.  In any case, there's a couple things here that you might find worth checking out.  Full disclosure:  my "Complete 4-String Bass" books are missing the key of Cb, so they "only" have 14 Major, relative minor, and blues keys.  You're the first person in 8 years who thought my books needed more.  :-)

1.  Click here if you'd like to see my "Complete 4-String Bass Interactive E-Book".  You might find the full color page (Standard Notation Jig, on page 8 or 9) interesting- it shows how the notes of the bass relate to the piano, and where the notes from the bass clef are found on the bass.  The rest of the book shows the notes that build the chords, the chord Roman numerals, and the Major, relative minor, and blues scale notes in white boxes for the 14 (of the 15) keys, up to the 17th fret.

2. The Circle of Fifths tool found below is free on my website, and you can download it by clicking the image below.  I ended up drawing lines connecting the chords from each key on a circle of fifths, and some really cool patterns started popping up, like the I, IV, and V chords are right next to each other, as are the ii, iii, and vi chords, and then the diminished vii chord is last, but all of the chords that make up keys are adjacent on the circle.  :-)

3.  I'm sure that's all more than you'll have time to look at, but I appreciate your time even if you don't have time to look at any of it!  If you happen to look at any of this, and have any comments, suggestions, or any positive (or negative) feedback,  I'd be all ears.  Either way thanks again for your time.  

Happy playing, happy teaching, and happy "natureing".  :-)

​Scott Sharp

PS If you have a moment sometime to send me a quick "already checked it out" or "won't have time" message, I'd like to take down this page somewhat soon so web crawlers don't find it and make the Fretboard Toolbox book in #1 available for free.  :-)