Fretonomy is the ultimate educational game to learn the notes and chords on the fretboard of the guitar and other stringed instruments. There are 9 instruments available to practice on:
Choose your instrument and pick one of the many games available to you to practice the fretboard until you have mastered every fret and every chord pattern.
Customize your experience by selecting which section of the fretboard you want to practice on. Practice the first frets, a section in the middle, or the entire fretboard.
Many games are available. Choose how you want to train. Learn by simply matching random notes with the fret on the fretboard, or try something different with the Color Matching game!
Learn and master all kinds of chord patterns on the guitar with the Name Chord game. Choose which chords you want to practice on any section of the fretboard, and go at your own pace. You will learn to identify any chord pattern very quickly!
Learn how to quickly read notes on a staff in the Staff game. Choose whatever section of the staff you want to practice on, choose the staff type, and start training!
Or master the fretboard and staff at the same time in the Staff and Fretboard game. Select a fret on the fretboard that matches a note on the staff!
Explore scales on the fretboard of your instrument with the Scale Explorer game. Choose a root note, pick one of the 63 different scales available, and start memorizing your scale. Change the color of the notes on the fretboard to identify intervals easier.
Create your own songs on the fly and learn how to play them right away using the Chord Progression generator tool. Any popular chord progression can be generated in any scale you want. Play along to the chords of your progression by using the playback feature to practice the shapes.
View your progress as statistics are logged for each instrument, tuning, and fret. A heat-map is used to show your progress. Share your progress with your friends!
More games and features to come!
FEATURES
- 9 different instruments available to master!
- 21 different games and tools to practice with.
- Explore any of the 63 musical scales with any root note while customizing the scale how you want!
- Train any section of the fretboard. Choose any range of frets that you want.
- Learn and master many kinds of chords on any section of the guitar with any tuning! From simple major and minor triads, to more complicated patterns like diminished sevenths!
- Use the Staff game to learn the position of notes on the musical staff. Learn to read music!
- Follow your progress by viewing your fretboard heat-map. Each fret has its own statistics.
- Common tunings included for every instrument, or add your own.
- Compete with your friends on Game Center or share your fretboard heat-map with them.
- Left-handed mode is available as well.
- Symbol chords and nashville number system style.
- Solfege, Number, German, Japanese, Indian, Cyrillic, and Korean note notations are supported.
- Ear training for notes, intervals, and chords.
This version of the application comes with free access to train the first few frets of each instrument. Each instrument can be fully unlocked via in-app-purchases.
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In-Apps
Banjo
$3.99
Guitar
$3.99
Premium
$29.99
Ukulele
$3.99
Mandolin
$3.99
4-String Bass
$3.99
5-String Bass
$3.99
All Instruments
$49.99
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4.68 out of 5
172 ratings
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Amazing!
Just 5 minutes a day with this app and all the monotony of the stuff you just have to memorize is gone. Been using it on my commutes to work for a few years and the app just keeps getting better. Excellent games. Excellent content. Many instruments with a variety of tunings and settings. Had an issue and got a response from the developer in the same day. So excellent communication also. Just buy it if you are playing an instrument and want to get the music theory memorization part of your practice done efficiently.
Subscription, no thanks!
This looks like a very well put together app. I tested it out and was willing to purchase. Then realized it was a monthly and yearly subscription. No thanks. A one time fee should be plenty. Greedy developers
Tunings
Please add the ability to use custom tuning. It definitely needs 6 string bass option. You list 1 option for 5 string bass, but there are 2 different tunings that go with a 5 string bass.
If you can’t offer custom tuning, then please add a wider scope of tunings.
Expensive
Nice looking app but $30/yr subscription price is obscene
Happy user!!
I am enjoying this app as it has really helped me learn the notes on my guitar. It follows a very good strategy to learn without getting overwhelmed. I have a feature request though that sounds really appealing and helpful in the learning process in my opinion. I would love to see a functionality where it lets you define a training session where you set a time period for it and then during the defined time, the app randomly switches between strings and stay on one for a set duration and asks you to name notes on that string only and when the time is over it will switch to another string until you’ve worked your way through all the strings. For example, in a 12 minutes session, it will start with 2 minutes on low E, then switches to D after 2 minutes and stays on it for another 2 minutes and so on until you’ve practiced naming notes on all the strings. I hope this suggestion helps making this app even more useful and practical but like I said, I love it just the way it is.
Great app
This has been invaluable in helping me learn the fretboard. It will help you too.
Get it!
One feature request - in the Name Note game, it would be helpful to have an enharmonic option, instead of just sharps OR just flats. I recently started learning non-naturals, and find it awkward to be thinking of Bb as an A#, or F# as a Gb. I think having them both listed would be more relevant, while also helping people make sense of the fretboard more quickly.
Very useful app
I have been trying to learn the fretboard for ages and this is the first thing that has actually helped cement it into my brain. I do 500 notes 3x a day and am having amazing results in just a few days.
Very happy with this app.
It is not working anymore
I have been harsh on my first review probably because I could not use it at all. But the problem was fixed pretty fast and now I am an happy user!
Great app!
Just started using it since 2 days to learn the guitar notes on the fretboard
Its helping me a lot
Thanks guys
Just started using it
So far so good. It would be neat if I could call out the notes using the microphone rather than a keypad
