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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.

Find This Note

Find This Note is a note-naming quiz. The app names a note — say, C♯ — and you tap where it lives across the neck. You can filter it down to a single string while you're still shaky, then open it back up to all four once the easy answers stop being easy. There's also a naturals-only mode for when sharps and flats are one variable too many, and a full mode with everything once you're ready for it.

Find This Note quiz, note prompt active, all-strings mode, Sand theme
Find This Note — quiz mode active

Cheat Sheet

The Cheat Sheet is the opposite of Find This Note: 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