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Drills
The Drill tab is free practice. Choose what to be asked, press Start, answer, repeat. Your choices are remembered for next time.
Any mix can be on at once; the drill alternates between the types you enable. The ear types are described in Ear training.
Fret → Note. A fretboard with one marked position (the other strings are dimmed) and the string and fret written underneath. Pick the note from four choices, each shown on the staff and by name. One of the wrong choices is always a near neighbor a semitone or two away, so you cannot get by on rough position alone.
Note → Fret. A note on the staff with its name, and a fretboard with four lettered positions. Pick the one that sounds that note. Two of the wrong positions are usually on the same string as the right one.
Octave shapes. A note marked and named on one string; pick which of four numbered positions on a higher string is the same note an octave up. The shapes are the ones from the learning path; the wrong positions are within a few frets of the right one.
Chord → Name. A chord shape in a five‑fret window with its tab underneath. Pick the name from four; the wrong ones share the root or the quality with the right answer (A, Am, Am7, E…).
Name → Chord. A chord name and four shapes. Pick the shape that plays it. The wrong shapes are other chords from the same family.
Note → Every place. See below.
Hear → String, Hear → Fret, Hear an interval, Hear → Every place. The ear training questions: an open string, a note after its open string, two notes up one string, or a note to find everywhere, played rather than shown.
Some notes live in more than one place: the A at fret 7 on the D string is the same pitch as fret 2 on the G string and fret 12 on the A string. Note → Every place shows a note on the staff and six to eight lettered places; tap every one that sounds exactly that note (they turn blue; tap again to undo), then Check. It only counts if you pick all of them and nothing else.
The traps are the same note name an octave away (same letter, different note) and notes one fret off a right place. After Check every right place turns green (including any you missed), wrong picks turn red, the traps show their note names, and the right places play one after another so you hear they are the same note. Hear → Every place is the same with the note played after its open string.
- Up to fret (notes): the highest fret asked about, 3 up to the last fret on the neck. Chord drills use the same limit for the root fret of movable shapes, up to 12.
- Natural notes only: no sharps or flats, for the first weeks. Applies to the note and octave drills.
- Strings: tap the chips to leave strings out; all on means every string.
- Open chords / Power chords / Barre chords: which chord families to draw from. Bass has power chords only; open and barre shapes are guitar shapes.
- How many: 10, 20, 50, or Endless, which runs until you press Finish and shows a running score in the header instead of a progress bar.
Tap a choice (or, for every‑place questions, pick them all and press Check). You hear the note, the octave shape or the chord strummed. Correct turns green and the next question appears after a moment. Wrong turns red, the correct choice turns green, a one‑line explanation appears ("The low E string at fret 6 is A♯.") and the drill waits for Continue. Three or more in a row lights a 🔥 streak counter. The speaker button beside the explanation plays it again.
At the end you get the percentage, the count, and a "worth another look" list of every explanation from the questions you missed. Again starts a fresh run with the same options.
With Practice weak spots more on (the default), the notes, chords and intervals you miss, answer slowly or have not seen for a while come up more often; see Stats and practice.
Free drills use the instrument, string count and tuning from Settings, so a chord drill in drop D asks about drop D shapes and a bass drill draws bass clef. Names always come from the notes a shape actually sounds; see Chords and tunings.
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