Solo - Fretboard Visualization

Love this app. Dinged one star because I can’t add songs to practice changes. The app feels unfinished.

I saw that I could use an audio interface with this app (class compliant) Witch I already have. After setting it up into the device no sound reaches the app. After reading the troubleshooting Section and following the instructions it still doesn’t register. I don’t like bothering people around me by playing with the amplifier, no choice but to do that now. The $15 spent on this app could be been spent on something else.

There are no shortcuts to visualizing the fretboard despite what you may see on YouTube but the deliberate work that this app enables makes the proper way of learning the fretboard very worth it in the long run. Rather than memorizing shapes and thus getting locked into playing via muscle memory, learning where all of the notes are and how the intervals between the notes determine the sound is the best route to mastering improvisation. Spend only an hour with this app and you'll get its usefulness immediately.

Totally confusing app. Can’t correctly identify a note it’s asking for half the time. After a little bit I’d start playing wrong notes on purpose and it would register them as correct. Tim is a genius on guitar but this app is rushed and I haven’t seen an update for this thing since I bought it. Save your money, wish I would’ve.

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Love this app. But as someone who bought it just to learn the note names on the fretboard I can’t believe there isn’t an option to choose just the natural notes or perhaps a key. It seems like a small thing but having to practice with all the note names: natural, sharp, flat and enharmonic is too many when starting out. Something as simple as a “natural notes only” option would be huge.

Our vision, as guitarists, is typically related around large scale shapes that run up and down the neck and large arpeggios that run up and down the fretboard. This can help take us to a certain point, where we tend to plateau. Sølo offers a different way of seeing the fretboard. It offers a zoomed in view of the fretboard that is built on a deeper knowledge of the fretboard that focuses on note recognition, i.e. knowing the exact note of every fret in every position, and then all the corresponding chord tones, arpeggios and scalar shapes around any given note. I have been using it for a few days now and it forces me to slow down and it forces me to see the fretboard in a more active way that uses up more mental resources which seems harder. Sølo forces us to use or develop different muscles, and it is a mental workout. For me, it’s even more of a mental workout because I usually keep my guitar tuned down to Eb standard, so I have to play everything one fret sharper than it would otherwise appear on my fretboard. I am thinking about returning my guitar to E standard as that makes sense but I wanted to get started right away. Now I am getting used to the app, and I definitely don’t recommend using non standard tunings because it is unnecessary complications for the learning process. This app works well for bass players and different stringed instruments as you can adjust the settings of the app to match your instrument. Overall, it is an excellent app and a unique tool for developing a deeper understanding and knowledge about your fretboard.

An awesome app for chord changes and beginners to practice learning the notes across the fretboard. I would also would like possibly adding the ability in the app to train your ear. The app plays a pitch and then you find the note or chord on the fretboard.

This is more than worth the money! I wish this thing was around years ago! Put in the work… And it works!

Wow, where I would have gone if I started from here. I followed everything I just never had a place to start. I feel inspired to hit the woodshed again. For physical limitations I had to go from acoustic guitar to electric, then to ukulele and now baritone ukulele. The loss of the 6th and 5th string really forced me to learn the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd strings that I only kind of knew. I can see where Solo where really assist me. ANY CHANCE FOR A BARITONE UKULELE PROFILE (d g b e)? :)