See every note on the fretboard across all six strings in standard tuning. Pick a key and scale to light up exactly where its notes live, or tap any note to find it everywhere on the neck. Great for learning the fretboard, mapping scales and finding chord tones.
● root · ● scale note · tap any note to spotlight it across the whole neck.
Choose a key (the root note) and a scale — the fretboard lights up every place those notes fall, with the root in solid orange. Turn Show note names off to quiz yourself, then tap a fret to reveal its note. Tap any single note and it is spotlighted everywhere it appears, so you can see, for example, all the C's on the neck at once. Everything is standard tuning (E A D G B E, low to high).
Once you can see where a scale's notes sit, soloing stops being shape-memorisation and becomes note choice — you know which frets are safe, which are the root, and where the "money" notes are. It also unlocks chord tones: the same map shows you where the 1, 3 and 5 of a chord live, so you can build voicings anywhere on the neck instead of only at the open position.
Guitar notes just follow the twelve-note chromatic scale — C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B — moving up one semitone per fret. Each open string starts on a fixed note (E A D G B E), so the note at any fret is simply the open note counted up that many semitones, wrapping back to C after B. That is exactly what this tool draws for all six strings, so every position shown is correct for standard tuning.
What tuning is this?
Standard tuning — E A D G B E from the thickest (low) string to the thinnest (high). The high and low strings are both E, two octaves apart.
How do I memorise the fretboard fast?
Start with the natural notes on the low E and A strings, learn the octave shapes (two frets up and two strings over), and use the fret markers at 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12. Pick one key here, hide the labels, and name each lit note before revealing it.
What are the dots on a fretboard for?
The inlay dots at frets 3, 5, 7, 9 (and the double dot at 12, the octave) are visual landmarks — they have no sound of their own, they just help you find positions quickly.
Which scale should I start with?
The minor pentatonic (five notes) is the most-used scale in rock and blues soloing and the easiest to see — that is why it is selected by default. Once it is under your fingers, add the blues note, then explore the full major and minor scales.
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