Fretboard game
Name the Note
A note lights up on the neck. Pick its name, hear it, and keep the streak going. Start on Beginner and move up when the names come without counting frets.
Natural notes, frets 0–5
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What note is this?
Learning the notes on the neck
- Learn the low E and A strings first. Every root of a barre chord and most scale shapes sit on them.
- B to C and E to F are the only natural notes one fret apart. Everywhere else a natural note is two frets from the next.
- Fret 12 starts the neck over: the notes repeat one octave higher, in the same order.
- The high E string has the same names as the low E string, so learning one gives you both.
- A few minutes a day beats one long session. The app keeps your best streak for each level.
Fretwise · Free on iPhone & Android
Learn the neck, then play it.
This page is a small slice of Fretwise. The app adds practice: exercises that play as tab, a new routine every day, and the tools to tune and keep time. On iPhone, iPad and Android, no sign-up.
Free
- 65 scales and 56 chord types in every key, with CAGED shapes
- A tuner with 10 tunings and a metronome from 30 to 260 BPM
- A new Daily 15 routine every day, plus free exercises
- Maqam & makam between the frets, and the Name the Note quiz
One purchase
- 282 exercises that play as tab, and routines with a speed trainer
- Chord & Scale Finder: tap the neck, get the name
- Theory Lab and the Progression Builder with 51 genre loops
- No subscription, ads removed
