Fret Pro Guitar Notes Trainer

The app is great. I’ve been using it constantly. My only change/update is to be able to use the app in landscape mode. Specifically for fret practice mode. Its just tedious scrolling left and right to hit notes when using that feature. Besides that I love this app so much.

I’m loving this app simply because it works. I’ve tried to learn the fretboard before, but failed. Brute force memorization just didn’t work for me. Fret Pro simply and patiently drills the note positions into my head a little at a time. I’m very happy with my progress so far. And with that success, continuing is so much easier. I know other folks have had issues with the app hearing the notes. I read through many of the reviews and tried to learn from them. I’m using an electric guitar with the volume full up and the tone at about half. I’m plugged into an iRig Pro with the gain cranked pretty high. It’s flashing red when I play. The green input bar in the app peaks just about to the top when I play, so the signal is pretty hot. I set the noise suppressor slider high as well. 80% to 90% of full scale. With these settings I’m getting great note detection. Probably 95% or better. The note detection isn’t perfect, but I don’t think perfection is a fair expectation. I expect the app to help me learn notes. And it does. I’m looking forward to new features like mentioned by other users. For me, I’d like to see an option to practice each string either from open to fret 11, as it is now, or from fret 1 to fret 12. I would also love to be able to select individual notes to practice across all 6 strings. Thanks again for a great learning tool!

Been looking for an app just like this! It is almost perfect! Tried others, but never stuck with them. Didn’t need the lifetime license (once you learn it, you’ve learned it, right?) but did it to give a thanks for creating such an awesome app.

Asked for a change from the app maker and he was right on it with an update. Really the best working tool to actually memorize the fretboard quickly. Been playing since age 7 and never did it. Now inside of a week, I am well on my way to crushing every single note on the entire board …on my 8 strings. Thank you, Ryan!!

I’m playing the correct note. My guitar is tuned correctly. The app doesn’t care. Wasted my time.

If you get premium (which is very, very affordable!), you get a very useful app that tracks your progress, tests you, and challenges you. Fantastic app, simple but great.

Like other reviewers have written, this is a great app for training fret board notes. However, it struggles with note recognition. I’ve tried all the mic settings and a couple different acoustic guitars, but too often it won’t pick up the right note. I’ve even tried connecting directly through a headphone amp (Fender micro) on my electric and it still struggles. It’s pretty frustrating and ruins the pacing of practice.

This app is the best app for learning the fretboard as of now but a future competitor can implement certain things that will have it beat. I hope the developer will add these things so it can remain on top. 1. The app requests me to play the note E. There is a million different ways to play an E on the guitar. As of right now, the app doesn’t differentiate between the E’s it wants me to play aside from telling me I played the wrong E even if I still played an E. There should be a symbol next to the E to signify which E I should be playing. This part of the app is very frustrating and makes the learning experience much more tedious than it has to be. 2. There should be a feature to memorize the different chords on the guitar, similar to the system used for learning the fretboard.

simple and effective

Very useful for learning the fretboard. Would definitely recommend, especially if you’ve already learned scale shapes. Memorizing note names is kind of like eating your vegetables, but this app has done a great job at breaking it up into easily manageable bite size pieces. Effective and kind of addicting 😆