Hi Robert,
Sometimes, I’ll noodle around and find something that I really like, but then it’s not written down so I forget it before it’s entrained into my fingers (well, cerebellum).
What tool are you using when you pull together all your finger drumming music diagrams (e.g. example below)? Clearly, doing this from scratch wouldn’t be too hard using something Illustrator (and these days getting an AI to do it would be trivial too). But if something’s already out there, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel.
I wanna make little music diagrams for myself. 
Thank you,
-David
Hey I actually used illustrator with special hotkeys to morph the grey squares into those other shapes. It always was the thing I enjoyed the least as part of building out the lessons but it was doable. The trick is to have empty templates ready, hotkeys etc. and then it is not too much work.
I no longer have adobe stuff and use Affinity for everything. I would have to see how I’d do it now to be honest if I would need to make more diagrams.
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Thanks for the quick response, Robert. Illustrator is no shortcut, that’s for sure. I’ll keep looking around… Of course it’d be overkill, but what’d be great is something that read midi notes and placed things on a grid.
-D
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Hey Rob, I actually was having the same question. I guess you don’t know of any other tool that can help you do diagrams similarly, right?
Hi All,
I’ve been thinking about the same, so with with some AI help, I created a small tool to create such diagrams (I just “stole” the looks 
): Drum Pattern Editor
Quite basic and needs some polishing, but let me know if there is interest and I can spend some more time with it.
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Omg that is amazing! Man, AI has really changed things… building the QFG website would have been so much faster these days
