See any scale, arpeggio or chord across all 24 frets, then narrow it down to one position at a time. Works for 6, 7 and 8-string guitar, bass, and any tuning.
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Play bars, then go quiet for . Keep playing through the gap and see if you land back in time.
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Your hand keeps moving down and up the whole time. The boxes only show when it touches the strings.
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The tuner listens through your microphone, works out which string you're playing and goes green when you're within 3 cents. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. The tuner is also in the menu at the top of every page.
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See Mentorship PlansMost guitarists learn scales as boxes and then get stuck in them. The Fretboard Navigator shows you the whole neck at once, so you can see how each shape joins up with the next one. Click Scale, Arpeggio or Chord to choose what's on the fretboard. Only one shows at a time, so the neck never turns into a mess of dots.
Choose a root note and a scale. There's everything from the major scale and minor pentatonic to the blues scale, harmonic and melodic minor, all seven modes, and jazz and exotic scales like the altered scale and Phrygian dominant. The Shape menu isolates one position at a time: five for most scales, including the pentatonics, the major scale and its modes, and six for harmonic and melodic minor. Learn one position properly, then the one next to it, then link them. That's the quickest way I know out of the box.
For the major scale, the modes and harmonic and melodic minor, the Shape menu also has the seven 3-notes-per-string (3NPS) shapes. Each one starts on a different note of the scale and puts exactly three notes on every string, so the picking pattern stays the same all the way across. They're the shapes most players use for fast runs and legato.
Pick any chord and the Navigator shows its chord tones all over the neck, from simple triads to 7ths and extended chords. Press play to hear them one note at a time. Arpeggios are the bridge between knowing your scales and actually sounding like you're playing the changes.
In Chord mode you can step through playable voicings, the five CAGED shapes for major and minor chords, or every chord tone on the neck. Open strings that also fit the chord show up faintly, which is handy for finding bigger, ringing voicings higher up.
Show note names, intervals or plain dots, limit the fret range, or flip the view for left-handed playing. The tuning panel has standard, half and whole step down, Drop D, Drop C, DADGAD, open tunings and more, or you can set every string yourself. Use the I play switch at the top for 7 and 8-string guitar or 4, 5 and 6-string bass.
Looking for one scale in particular? Browse every common scale in all 12 keys, with the notes, formula and chords for each.
Yes. It's completely free with no sign-up, and it runs in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer.
Yes. Use the I play switch at the top of the page to choose guitar or bass and the number of strings. The fretboard, tunings, scales and chords all adjust to suit.
CAGED is a way of mapping the neck using the five open chord shapes, C, A, G, E and D, moved up the fretboard. Each shape links to the next, so together they cover the whole neck for any major or minor chord.
Yes. Save image downloads a clean picture of the fretboard with the scale name and notes. Copy link gives you a link that opens the tool exactly as you left it.