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First Steps
Open Settings and choose Guitar or Bass, the number of strings (guitar 6 or 7, bass 4 to 6) and, if you play in something other than standard, your tuning. The fretboard under the tuning picker shows the open strings so you can check it matches your instrument. Also pick whether you prefer sharps (C♯) or flats (D♭), and turn on Left‑handed if you want the nut on the right.
The learning path always starts in standard tuning whatever you pick here; the tuning applies to free drills. See Settings.
Every launch opens on a random cryptid playing a fretted instrument; tap to skip it.
The Learn tab has two paths, switched at the top: Fretboard (the notes and chords on the neck) and Ear (ear training). Start with Fretboard. The card at the top, under the Fretman icon, names the next lesson; press Continue there, or tap the first lesson: The low E string → Naturals, frets 0–5.
A lesson has three parts:
- Teach cards show the notes on the fretboard with their names and a few lines of explanation. Swipe through them, then press Start questions. (You can Skip straight to the questions if you already know the material.)
- Questions: eight to twenty questions. A correct answer turns green and moves on by itself; a wrong one turns red, shows the right answer in green with a one‑line explanation, and waits for Continue. Either way you hear the note or chord, played on a real guitar or bass (a speaker button replays it after a wrong answer).
- Result: your score, the questions you missed, and buttons for the next lesson, another go, or a look back at the notes.
Practice lessons pass at 70%, tests at 80%. Passing unlocks the next lesson. After the first two strings the path stops to teach the octave shapes, which is how you will find the notes on every other string. See The learning path.
Switch Learn to Ear and start with The open strings: an open string plays and you pick which it was. See Ear training.
The Drill tab is free practice with whatever you like: pick the question types, the fret range, natural notes only or everything, which strings, which chord families, and how many questions (10, 20, 50 or endless). Press Start. Your choices are remembered. See Drills.
The Stats tab shows your day streak, your best run and a heatmap of the fretboard, green where you are solid and red where you miss. The notes you miss come up more often by themselves. See Stats and practice.
- The fretboard is drawn the way tab is written: nut on the left, lowest string at the bottom, fret numbers underneath. Open strings are shown beside the nut. Dots at frets 3, 5, 7, 9 and the double dot at 12 are the inlays.
- The staff shows the note in treble clef for guitar and bass clef for bass, written an octave above where it sounds, as sheet music for both instruments is.
- Chord shapes are shown as a window of five frets. If the shape uses open strings you see the nut; otherwise the lowest fret number is printed underneath. An × beside the nut marks a string that is not played, and the root note is the orange dot.
Fretman