Tap any voicing card to open the details panel — a wider view of the same voicing with the diagram blown up, every fingering option laid out, and the chord's structure spelt out. It's where you go when the small card isn't enough to decide whether a shape fits what you're playing.

The header

The top of the panel shows the chord name (for example, C Major or C Dominant 9) and four quick-action buttons — heart to save the voicing to favourites, play to hear it, plus to drop it into the progression builder, and the magnifier to open it in Reverse Lookup with the notes pre-placed.

Below the buttons are the same shape tags from the card — Open, Movable, High Position, Compact, Open String Clearance, Incomplete, and a few others — so you can confirm at a glance what kind of voicing this is.

The big diagram

The middle of the panel is a larger version of the chord diagram. Same symbols, same string order, same fret-position number — just bigger and easier to read. The tuning name (usually Standard) sits in the top-left.

Above the diagram, a three-button toggle lets you switch the dots between Fingers, Notes, and Intervals. Changing it here changes it everywhere else in the app — see How do I switch between Fingers, Notes, and Intervals? for the full picture.

Sounding notes, degrees, inversion, frets

Underneath the diagram is a small grid of four facts about the voicing:

• Sounding notes — the actual notes the voicing produces, low to high, including any doubled notes. An open C might read as C E G C E; a compact C9 might read as C E Bb D with the fifth left out.
• Degrees — the same notes shown as their roles in the chord, low to high. For an open C that's 1 3 5 1 3; for a C9 shell voicing you might see 1 3 b7 9.
• Inversion — which chord tone sits in the bass. Root means the root is the lowest note; 1st means the third is in the bass; 2nd means the fifth. See What's an inversion? for why this matters.
• Frets — the fret pattern, low string to high string, in the format chord books use. x 3 2 0 1 0 means: don't play the low E, fret 3 on the A string, fret 2 on the D, open G, fret 1 on the B, open high E.

The fret pattern is handy if you want to write the voicing down or send it to someone — it's the same shorthand most online chord libraries use.

Fingering options

Under the info grid, Fingering Options lists every fingering Fretscape has found for this exact shape. Each option carries:

• Its own difficulty label — Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.
• One or more tags describing what makes it harder or easier — No Stretch, Big Stretch, Full Barre, Mini Barre, Mute Risk, Thumb, Compound Stretch, Fewest Fingers, and others.

The same shape can have a clean Beginner fingering and a stretchier Advanced fingering side by side. Tap any option to see its specific finger numbers in the diagram. Sometimes the harder fingering is the right pick — it might keep a finger anchored across the next chord change, for example — so it's worth scanning all the options rather than always reaching for the easiest one. See What do Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced mean? for how the rating works.

About this fingering

At the bottom of the panel, About This Fingering gives a one-line explanation of every tag on the currently selected fingering — so you don't have to remember what "Compound Stretch" or "Open String Clearance" mean. The descriptions update when you tap a different fingering option, so the legend always matches what you're looking at.

If the voicing leaves an optional chord tone out, you'll also see a short note here saying so — see What's an "optional note"? for what that means.