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Fretboard Tools

Two tools built around one idea — knowing where every note actually lives on the neck, separate from any chord shape you've already memorized.

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Every chord you've learned so far is really just a shape — a pattern you can slide up and down the neck without necessarily knowing what's underneath it. The Fretboard tools are where you learn what's underneath: every note, on every string, until you're not just recognizing a chord by its outline anymore. They live in their own Fretboard card on the Practice Hub, apart from the chord and scale libraries, because this isn't a lookup job — it's a drilling one.

There are two ways in: quiz yourself, or keep a reference handy. There's no shape-connecting tool here, on purpose — a 4-string neck doesn't have the six-string CAGED system's five overlapping open-chord shapes to visualize in the first place, so there's nothing to build a third tool around.

Fretboard trainer

The Fretboard trainer is a note quiz that runs both directions. Sometimes it names a note — say, C♯ — and you tap where it lives across the neck. Sometimes a fret lights up instead and you name what's sitting under it from a grid of note names. Ten questions a round, then a plain count of how many you got, and nothing kept afterward. You can narrow it to a single string — G, C, E, or A — while you're still shaky, then open it back up to all four once the easy answers stop being easy. Naturals only is on to start with; switch it off when sharps and flats stop being one variable too many.

Fretboard trainer, note prompt active, all-strings mode, Sand theme
Fretboard trainer — a note prompt mid-round

Cheat Sheet

The Cheat Sheet is the opposite of the Fretboard trainer: nothing to answer, nothing timed. It's a static map of every note on every string from fret 0 to 12, each one labeled with its name. Meant to be glanced at mid-practice when you're stuck on something, not studied top to bottom.

The full 0–12 stretch doesn't fit on a phone screen in portrait, so the Cheat Sheet rotates to landscape — turn your phone sideways and the whole range appears in one view.

Cheat Sheet, landscape orientation, full 0–12 fret range labeled on all four strings, Sand theme
Every note on the neck, labeled