Venezuelan Cuatro Fretboard Explorer

An interactive note map of the Venezuelan Cuatro's neck: tap a note to light it on every string and fret, and read the lattice for what it is — an A-D-F#-B neck whose open strings spell D6.

Light the open strings first — together they spell D6, and that sixth chord is the reason so much of the repertoire sits in the keys it sits in.

Ordered as they sit under the hand, the open strings climb steadily to the top and then drop a perfect fifth at the very last pair, spanning a major sixth in all — and because of that the highest string is not the outermost one, so a stroke reaches its top note early and the rest of the grip lands underneath it as a block.