Guitar Notes – Fretboard Trainer
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Pick the Note! 
Options
| Tuning: |
| String Range: | From String: 1 | To String: 6 |
* String 1 is the highest in pitch and string 6 is the lowest in pitch.
| Fret Range: | From Fret: 0 | To Fret: 15 |
Guitar Notes Fretboard Trainer Information
This app is designed to teach you the notes of the fretboard. Knowing the notes of the fretboard is important to learning the instrument but is an area that is often neglected by many players. Some players simply learn the notes of the 6th and 5th strings to allow them to find bar chords and scale patterns while other only learn say the notes on the first four frets. This tool will help you master the notes on all strings all the way up the fretboard.
Identify the displayed note and get feedback if you are correct or not. In game mode, try to pick as many correct options as you can in 99 seconds or use practice mode to pick the note without a countdown timer and an option to see the correct answer.
The app supports multiple altered tunings and you can limit the range of strings or frets your being tested on. This is useful to home in on a small portion of the fretboard that is giving you trouble.
I hope this is helpful and feel free to leave any feedback in the comments below.
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Just starting out and found this so useful as cannot afford lessons at the moment.Really want to learn properly, thank-you
This is really a great app ,learning the notes on your fretboard has never been this easy and fun ,thanx for making this app
I’ve looked at so many convoluted methods of remembering note positions. This one beats them all, because you cut straight to the way the brain and hand work together. Well done.
Every thing done in the exercise applies when the actual guitar is picked and the real fretboard is confronted.
Pat Diamond
nice and difficult app.
Thanks very much. this app is spot on for lazy learners, it is fun and you can stop and start any time, great.
This what I have been looking for, great! Thank you
Just starting all over again have not had a guitar in my hands sense the second grade now I’m 60 trying to learn again thank you this is very helpful
What exercise do you recommend to memorizing fret board?
Its literally on your screen.
Great stuff… but just need to add the option for 7 and 8-string guitars as well. Keep it up! This is a great teaching tool.
Is there a version with only natural notes?
Not in this format but the reading music fretboard trainer has the option to not include sharps and flats. That app combines fretboard notes and reading music notes though.
This is absolutely amazing, I have always wanted to know what the notes were I was playing even in a chord structure on the fretboard. I am self taught, playing for 40+ yrs playing with a “perfect pitch ear gift” and have been stuck at this plateau a long time, basically I don’t know what I am playing I just know that when I play the power chord on the 5th fret of the “A” string, it is a “D” power chord, when I play the 7th fret on the “E” string that is my “B” power chord etc. At 11 yrs old I learned the basic 6 or 7 “COWBOY” chords, “G”, “C”, “D” (Skynyrd all day long lol), “E”, “A”, Bm7 and “A”, “E”, “D” (Clapton and B.B. King to play along with the “RECORDS” lol and also learn songs only by playing repeatedly, over and over blah blah blah (we all know). Then I had an older cousin that was very polished all over the fretboard but only played the “blues”, he introduced me to 8/12 bar blues I had no clue at that age that the blues in most cases was being played sometimes prominent and sometimes not so prominent in almost every “Rock and Roll” song I had learned by listing to 5 secs of the song at a time and then move the needle back to start (I believe they call this looping now). The Band (R.I.P. Levon Helm), Zeppelin, The Who, Hendrix, SRV, Allman Bros. R.I.P Greg Allman, he and Dwayne together again in heaven?, as Dicky Betts is swimming at the bottom of a wine bottle somewhere…. There are sooooo many others, last but not least Slow Hand: Eric Clapton.
Thank God!!!, I have spent all the time I have available to me “REPPING” (for you beginners this is the one and only secret to learning any instrument (Dedication and Repetition!) all of this for 40 yrs now (Beat It to Death!),
This is a fantastic tool and I am learning so quickly – thank you!
If you can do one for banjo, ukulele and violin now please. No pressure, in your own time… 🙂
(Pedantic note – ‘home in’ is preferable to ‘hone in’, though the latter is coming to be acceptable through usage.)
Great tool!
Definitely the most interesting and quick way to memorizing the fret board. I wish this was around in the 90’s.
Thanks for this… great help.
Just wondered if you could have the option to have the answer notes in random order? I’m finding that i go into pattern mode, rather than note knowledge.
Thanks again from Deb in Au
To clarify…
For example – say you’re a beginner, and learning “bite sized chunks” (one string at a time, within a manageable range (fret 3 to 7)…. this is when having the option to choose to randomise the notes would come in handy.
Cheers
On that note… 😀
… in your drop down “Options” could you have “Natural Notes Only” (for us beginners)?
You can see the KISS principle at work here (bits and bytes).
Deb
You’re pitch perfect? You can (without a reference note) hear a sound and INSTANTLY say what note it is? You’re not, or you’d know every note on the fretboard because every note you played you’d know its name INSTANTLY without thinking. When I test people for pitch perfect who think they’re pitch perfect, I find less than 1-50 actually are who honestly think they are. I bet if I made a single random note, just one. You wouldn’t get it right 10 times in a row, pitch perfect would. It’s like seeing primary colors to them, they NEVER would make a mistake it’s blatant and thoughtless. Youtube this, there’s a fella that has a son that is and talks in depth about it. You can’t train for pitch perfect, it’s developed in infancy.
I’ve a friend who is dead-on pitch perfect in any situation. He grew up playing and singing classically to a high level, which must be how he developed it. I can’t match it!
Firstly, one can absolutely train to be pitch perfect after infancy.
Secondly, your primary colors analogy does work here and is, frankly, quite arbitrary. Seeing color is truly thoughtless and a function of the body and is not taught. On the contrary, those pitch perfectness is taught (whether is by oneself or someone else) and there is some brain function involved.
Thirdly, who are you even commenting at? and if someone online says that they are pitch perfect, why can’t you just take their word for it?
And fourthly, the channel you are referring to is Rick Beato. Check him out.
Great training aid. What kind of guitar is pictured above?
Hi Dennis,
I think it might be a PRS.
My initial thought except it doesn’t have a stop tail bridge and the fret inlays aren’t birds or dots. I’ve been trying to figure this out but no luck. Curiosity is killing this cat.
This is great but please make it possible to choose a pip at 10 not 9, don’t forget we are not all American. If you are only used to playing on a gutitar with a pip at 9 you will not appreciate how confusing it is when all your guitars have a pip at 10
not only a great training tool but a really fun game. hope it never ends
Hi,
Firstly, thanks GuitarOrbAdmin for creating this cool application!
Next, can you expand this to an electric guitar down the fret(up to 24 frets)? I’d love to challenge myself.
And the top score is not keeping any top score. Can you fix the bug? I’d love to see the competition. I’m at 98/100 @4.2 seconds per note..It’s only gonna get better each day.
This app has been great at challenging me to know my notes! After about a month at this, it has changed my confidence level and skill at the guitar. Have you thought about changing the chime after hitting the correct note to the actual note that has been selected? If you were able to do that you could potentially be learning the notes on the fretboard and training your ear at the same time… This app is great, thanks so much for making it!
I used a trainer similar to this one, only it was the other way around. The note was given, and you had to select the right fret. I was curious if there were also trainers where the fret was shown and you had to select the right note. Found it now luckily! Good app!
One thing though: when selecting the right note, the beep you hear is really awful! I know you can disable the sound, but some audible feedback still is nice. However the tone used here, even when put at low volume, will possibly haunt me in my dreams!
A suggestion might be using the tone that is presented in the task. So for example clicking an A# correctly sounds off an A#. This way your ears also get trained a little bit.
Thanks for the app! Will use it more often!
exactly!had the same thought too!
a random fret and string selection would be great as well for the higher levels 🙂
Great little training site my only recommendation would be to increase the fretboard to two octaves for the note memorization game
Thank you for this and thanks for letting us use it for free! Such a great tool!
Great tool man, good work.
this is an very helpful the only thing it needs is to be able to switch blocks around. my mind goes to certain blocks instead of looking for the right note
Does anyone have an idea as to what a good score is? At what score can you say that you legitimately know the fretboard? I score in the 60-72 range. I think that is decent, but I would welcome input from others.
I identify 75-80 notes in the 99 seconds consistently which gives me a score of 210-295. I feel like I know the fretboard pretty good, but sometimes have to give a note a second of thought. Alot of the notes require no thought whatsoever though.
Perhaps I should already know this, but how does getting 80 notes lead to a score of 295?? I thought the number of notes was the score. I am scoring occasionally in the 120 range now, which seems really fast until I heard your score. Wow!
You get the bonuses for not making mistakes 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80 that adds up to 215 plus your 80 notes so 295. I played the game for quite some time before I hit 80.
I feel like 120 is pretty good for sure, and there’s more than just knowing the fretboard in the game there is also reaction time and hand eye coordination for clicking the notes. I was also wondering how my score compared to be honest, I’m sure there is someone that can do it insanely fast.
score: 59, 0 mistakes.
I didn’t know the fret board.
10-20 minutes a day for a month… and I got 56 notes in 99 seconds.
A day later… 58!
It was stuck at 40 for weeks, and now 40 is easy peasy. I love this thing! I literally work up today thinking about the fret board… I could picture those notes everywhere in my mind clear as day. Awesome!
I’m top score without mistakes is now 82…. I can’t even get close to it again. 65-70 is pretty easy though… But 82 requires serious speed and mouse accuracy.
I just made 89! Only 10 more to get for 1 note per second.
Took me about 6 months to get this good, playing almost every day for 10 minutes.
It’s as about as fast as I can click, and to get 89 you need to also get really good combinations of notes. Sometimes there are runs where the notes are next to each other, or lots of the same note.
The harder rounds are where there are lots of B and C’s… long movements between clicks.
I think 99 could be doable. It’s my ultimate goal. The nice this is though that I’ve totally memorized the fret board at this point. I can visualize many notes all at once. It’s becoming like I can see them all instantly.
Ok, I’m up to 93!!!
Only 6 notes to go for 99 notes total… for 1 note per second!
That’s one extra note per 16.5 seconds. It can be done!
(oddly, I’m way faster at finding notes on this app now that I am on the guitar – the skill does not directly transfer)
Just got 94.
Score of 309.
I’m 5 away from 99 🙂
Today, April 1st, I got 98!
That’s a cruel April fools joke. Cause I’m literally 1 away from 1 note per second.
I DID IT!
101 Notes, 0 Mistakes
My score: 416
1.01 notes per second!!!
This will be my last entry… I can finally rest now.
Congratulations Tim!
Thank you for this very helpful trainer. I’m having a hard time with processing flats as I play along the fretboard. It would be great if this trainer included an option to train including flats only.
Can you add D standard tuning? It’s apparently quickly becoming the metal standard so I think a lot of people would enjoy that. Great tool by the way.
Definitely writing about this in my next blog post. Such an insanely useful resource. Thanks a million!
Thanks Steven!
Your big Jam Play tab button at the bottom of the screen, sorry to say is too big and in the way of the trainer. That’s just my opinion. I play this everyday and that tab is new 🙁
Thanks for fixing the tab 🙂
Very hard but very fun. I like it!
Hey, man am I glad I found this site. It has everything I’m glad there are people out here actually trying to help others learn, unlike those youtube ads, thanks a bunch, and keep rocking!
This is amazing and I’m so glad I found it! I’m really happy that you are able to isolate strings. I think it’s better to get down the first two before moving to 3 and 4, as 3 or 4 will come easier that way, etc. One thing I wish was available is an option for a full 24 fret neck. I know the layout is essentially the same, but different enough that it would be really beneficial to have. Thank you!
Hey man, I’m wondering how you practice guitar, any routine?
I need this. I’m especially weak between frets 6 and 10.
My guitar heroes are Johnny Marr and David Gilmour. Is that an odd combination?
Thank you so much! =)
Very hard but very fun. I like it!
A 7 string version would be awesome. Thanks for putting this together.
At 1.5 yrs learning to play the guitar and despite learning lots of songs I’ve been at a loss as to how to go about memorising the fretboard. I felt like a fraud just copying chords and tabs without even knowing what notes I’m playing. Staring at a fretboard diagram in utter overwhelm didn’t seem to help. This seems like a great way to learn and I’m determined to keep practicing. I started at 20-something and now I can usually get to 30-something. High score of 59. I limit to 12 frets. Sounds pitiful compared to others here but as long as I’m seeing progress I’m happy as it gives me hope. Thank you!
great tool!
Score: 70 0 mistakes
first attempt
I think that this developer has created a very useful tool for free, and I very much appreciate his generosity!
My two cents on a “good” score. I’m 57 years old, and I’ve been playing guitar since I was 18. My reflexes aren’t what they were when I was 25, but I’m still pretty sharp. I know the fretboard very well. I identify notes instantly, click on the correct note, and I get generally about 55 or so notes in 99 seconds. It seems to me that to get any more than that, you either have to have extremely high hand/eye coordination to click the correct notes faster, or you have to get very lucky with lots of repeated notes and notes right next to each other, neither of which tell you anything about how well you know the fretboard. I think if you can identify a note, move the mouse, and click on it in 2-ish seconds, you know the fretboard pretty well.
I also think the number of correct notes and mistakes is more useful than the score itself, because the scoring system seems to reward being fast more than being mistake-free. I’m pretty sure I can get a higher score by getting, for example, 59 total notes with two mistakes (57 correct notes) than by getting 57 correct notes with no mistakes.
Thank you for this great tool!