Know Every Note on Your Guitar
From your first note to complete fretboard fluency. Structured courses guide you step by step — read it on the staff, find it on the fretboard, hear it, play it. An adaptive engine built in Rust focuses on what you need most.
Available on iOS & Android · Free during beta
How FretsNotes Works
Three principles that make learning stick — so you build real knowledge, not just memorize answers.
Structured Progression
Learn one string at a time, then gradually combine. Mastery gates ensure you're genuinely ready before advancing. No skipping ahead, no gaps in your knowledge.
Multi-Modal Practice
Every note through multiple angles: read it on the staff, find it on the fretboard, hear it by ear, play it on your guitar. 16 distinct exercise modes build deep, transferable understanding.
Adaptive Engine
Mastery-weighted scheduling prioritizes what you struggle with. Adaptive difficulty promotes you when ready, catches you when you fall. Progressive hints guide without giving answers away.
16 Ways to Practice Every Note
Each exercise mode builds a different dimension of musical understanding. Together, they create fluency you can't get from any single approach.
Notes & Staff
- Read the Staff — See a note on the staff, name it
- Place on Staff — Given a note name, place it on the staff
- Identify on Fretboard — See a fret position, name the note
- Find Position — Given a note, find it on the fretboard
Fretboard Mastery
- Find All Positions — Locate every occurrence of a note across all strings
- Enharmonic Match — Connect equivalent sharp/flat spellings
- Listen & Learn — Hear a note with the answer shown (no-stakes intro)
- Play the Note — Play the correct note on your guitar (mic input)
Ear Training
- Hear & Name — Hear a note, identify it by name
- Hear & Find — Hear a note, find it on the fretboard
- Higher or Lower — Compare two pitches
- Melodic Contour — Identify the shape of a melody
Intervals & Reading
- Hear Interval — Identify an interval by ear
- Staff Interval — Read an interval on the staff
- Play Interval — Play an interval on your guitar
- Sight Read — Read and perform a melody in real time
Try It Yourself
These are live versions of exercises from the app. Read notes on the staff, find them on the fretboard, and explore all sixteen exercise modes.
Go ahead — give it a try right here in your browser.
16 Exercise Modes in the Full App
Notes & Fretboard
- Read the Staff See notation, name the note
- Identify on Fretboard See a highlighted fret, name it
- Find Position Given a name, tap the fret
- Find All Positions Find every occurrence across strings
- Listen & Learn Guided mode — hear & see the answer
- Play the Note Play it on your real guitar
- Place on Staff Hear a note, place it on the staff
- Enharmonic Match Match F♯ to G♭ and vice versa
Ear Training & Intervals
- Hear & Name Listen to a note, identify it
- Hear & Find Listen, then find it on the fretboard
- Higher or Lower Hear two notes, which is higher?
- Melodic Contour Trace the shape of a melody
- Identify Interval by Ear Hear an interval, name it
- Identify Interval on Staff See two notes, name the interval
- Play the Interval See an interval, play it on guitar
- Sight-Read Read notation, play in real time
Your Path to Fretboard Mastery
A structured curriculum that takes you from knowing nothing to reading music, training your ear, and playing intervals on sight. The curriculum is live and actively evolving — jump in and start learning.
Welcome to FretsNotes
Guitar fundamentals, how to read staff notation, and getting oriented. Your launchpad for everything that follows.
Foundations
24 courses
Open position, frets 0–5. Learn natural notes one string at a time, then combine. Build the foundation for everything else.
Ear Training I
6 courses
Train your ear to recognize pitches. Start with low strings and build the pitch awareness that separates good musicians from great ones.
Accidentals
10 courses
Sharps and flats in first position. Learn both enharmonic spellings (F♯/G♭) and complete the chromatic vocabulary.
Position II
22 courses
Move up the neck to frets 2–9. Same methodical approach, new territory. Recall exercises reinforce what you already know.
Intervals
8 courses
Learn to recognize distances between notes. Perfect, major, and minor intervals — by ear and on the staff.
Position III
22 courses
Upper fretboard, frets 4–12. Reach the octave markers and build fluency across the full neck.
Chromatic Mastery
10 courses
All 12 pitch classes across all positions. Sharps, flats, and naturals everywhere on the neck. The final integration.
Sight-Reading
8 courses
Read melodies, recognize contours, develop real-time reading skills. The ultimate test of everything you've learned.
Available on iPhone and Android
The same curriculum and engine on both platforms. Your progress syncs across devices.
Practice Your Way
Structured Courses
Follow the curriculum path with gates and checkpoints. Each unit builds on the last, ensuring you don't skip ahead before you're ready.
Free Practice
Choose any exercise type, string range, and fret region. Configure everything and drill exactly what you want to work on.
Zen Mode
Infinite practice with no score, no timer, no pressure. Just you and your guitar for as long as you want.
One App. Every Platform.
A Rust engine shared across iOS, Android, and the upcoming web app via UniFFI. Same exercise logic, same adaptive scheduling, same curriculum — everywhere.
iOS
TestFlight beta
Android
Google Play beta
Web
Coming soon
Join the Beta
FretsNotes is free during the beta period on iOS and Android. Join now and help shape the future of fretboard learning.
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