Learning Path

The learning path

The Learn tab's Fretboard path is a sequence of units, each a few lessons long, that follows the order in which most players learn the neck. (The other path, Ear, is described in Ear training.) Lessons unlock one after another; the counter in the header shows how far along you are.

Guitar

Unit	Lessons	What you learn
The low E string, then the A string	Naturals frets 0–5 · Naturals frets 5–12 · Sharps and flats · String test	Every note on that string up to the octave. Naturals first, because they are the landmarks; then the notes in between, which each have two names.
Octave shapes	Two strings up, 2 frets higher · Two strings up, 3 frets higher · The long reaches · Test	How to find any note on a higher string from one you already know. See below.
The D, G, B and high E strings	The same four lessons per string	With the octave shapes in hand, each new string is the notes you know moved by a shape.
The whole fretboard	Naturals, all strings · All notes, all strings · Fretboard test	The same questions with every string mixed together. The test is twenty questions at 80%.
Every place a note lives	Natural notes · Every note · Test	A note on the staff; select every place on the neck that sounds exactly it, then Check. The same name an octave away does not count. See every‑place questions.
Open chords	Major (C A G E D) · Minor (Am Em Dm) · Sevenths (E7 A7 D7 G7 B7 C7) · More open chords (minor sevenths, sus2, sus4) · Test	Recognize the shape and name it, and the reverse.
Power chords	Root on the low E string · Root on the A string · Test	Root, fifth and octave; slide the shape and the root names the chord.
Barre chords	E shape (major, minor) · A shape (major, minor) · Seventh shapes · Test	The open E and A shapes moved up the neck with a barre for a nut, frets 1–12.
Drop D	Notes on the D string · Drop D power chords · Test	The lowest string retuned down a whole step, and the one‑finger power chords that makes possible.

A 7‑string guitar gets a unit for the low B string first and ends in drop A instead of drop D.

Octave shapes

Once you know the low E and A strings you can find every other note on the neck by shape rather than by counting:

• Two strings up, two frets higher: a note on the low E string is an octave higher on the D string two frets up (E at fret 3 is G; D at fret 5 is G). The same from the A string to the G string.
• Two strings up, three frets higher: across the B string the shape stretches by one fret, because the B string is tuned a third rather than a fourth above the G. D string to B string, and G string to high E.
• The long reaches: three strings up and three frets back from the low E to the G string, two frets back from the A string to the B string and from the D string to the high E; and the two E strings share every fret number two octaves apart.

Each lesson draws the shape on the fretboard with three example notes, then asks "find A on the G string" with the A marked on the low E string and four numbered positions on the G string. The test mixes every shape.

Bass

Bass follows the same path without the open and barre chord units: the E and A strings, the octave shapes that exist on four strings (two up and two frets higher, and E to G three frets back), the D and G strings, the whole fretboard, every place a note lives, power chords (root and fifth on the two lowest strings), then drop D. A 5‑ or 6‑string bass starts with the low B string; the 5‑string skips the drop unit because there is no common drop tuning for it.

Lessons

• Teach cards come first in practice lessons: the string with its notes labeled, or each chord shape with its name and tab. Tests have no cards.
• A practice lesson asks 8 to 12 questions and passes at 70%; a test asks 12 to 20 and passes at 80%. Each question is one of the drill types, alternating between "here is a position, name the note" and "here is a note, find it" (or the chord equivalents).
• Wrong answers show the right one and an explanation, and the result screen lists everything you missed, so a failed test tells you what to look at before Try again.
• Your best score for each lesson is shown on the path.

Unlocking

A lesson opens when the one before it on the same path is complete; the fretboard and ear paths unlock independently. If you would rather skip around, turn on Unlock every lesson in Settings; progress is still recorded. Reset progress in Settings takes both paths back to the start (settings and stats are kept).

Within a lesson, weak‑spot practice asks the notes you miss more often.

Progress is kept per instrument type and string count, so switching from guitar to bass shows a separate path, and switching back finds your guitar progress where you left it.