RosewoodFretboard Trainer
A fretboard trainer for guitar and bass. Sessions of sixty seconds to two minutes, on your own instrument. It learns which notes you keep getting wrong, and drills those.
Chord shapes and scale patterns get you started. But every shape is built from notes, and when you know where the notes are, the neck stops being a set of memorised boxes and becomes one instrument.
Reading a chart, moving a chord up the neck, finding the root of a scale, talking to another musician: all of it goes through the same skill. Naming the note, right there, without counting.
It is a small skill. It is also the one most players skip, because practising it has never been convenient. Rosewood makes it a minute or two a day.
Western music uses twelve notes: seven naturals, A to G, and five sharps or flats in between. Each fret raises a string by one of those steps, and each string starts on a different note, so the same note appears again and again across the neck. Tap any position below to see where else that note lives.
Sessions are a minute or two. You start on frets one to four, first position, where beginners actually play. Three drills carry the work; four quick modes fit around it.
A position lights up. You say which note it is. Right answers advance on their own; misses wait until you have seen the correction.
The app names a note. You find it on the neck: on one string, anywhere, or every occurrence at once.
Study a lit board, then the light goes out and the same board asks you back. Recall, not recognition.
Every answer sounds as it appears, and any note on the reference fretboard sounds when you tap it. On a miss you hear two notes: the one you chose, then the right one, so you hear how far off you were. The sound is the same whether you were right or wrong. It tells you what the note is; it does not congratulate you.
Six-string guitar, seven-string, and bass, all free. Left-handed mode included. The board takes its shape from your instrument.
Standard tuning free; alternate tunings with the one-time purchase. Every note on the board is computed from the tuning, never hard-coded.
Frets 1–4 free, and staying free. One purchase opens 5–12, a custom band, and sharps and flats. One setting, used by every mode.
Phone and tablet, portrait and landscape, Android and iOS. Fully translated into 24 languages.
The map shows your whole fretboard, every position shaded by how well you answer it. It does not flatter you: a fret it has never asked about stays dark. When the first four frets are solid on every string, the app says first position is finished and moves you up the neck. Home tells you what is due today and how many days you have kept going.
Frets 1 to 4 are free and stay free. One purchase, no subscription, opens frets 5 to 12. No account, no ads.