Reviews for Guitar Fretboard Note Trainer

Great app but can I make a suggestion? Create an additional mode where I can search for the positions of a chosen note - I choose to look for E rather than being told which notes to look for so that I can train a notes positions by repetition. Thanks for a great app though!

Nice one Justin, and way better than me recording notes onto a shuffled playlist to practise recognition. Agree with previous comment to be able limit notes to what you have learned so far. Perhaps Chord recognition is somewhere on the long to do list...keep it up.

It was ok, I like that it uses guitar sounds but Complete Ear Trainer is a better app. The problem is this app spikes the difficulty much faster than CET. Also this app doesnt include as much theory, but neither app includes reference songs to help remember the intervals.

nothing fancy. there could be some improvements to the games and quizzes, but overall not bad. other similar apps I've had in the past let you choose multiple instruments which is a nice feature. but this one is useful for guitar. I do like the more detailed guitar neck background.

Great to have a Fretboard note trainer that has a lefty setting and that is so intuitive to use. I've seen a noticeable improvement in my knowledge on day 2, after a total of 30 minutes practice! Outstanding value for money!

Great app. Already helping me. I would like two extra features... 1. A button to show notes overlayed on the fretboard just to study. 2. A way to constrain the games to specific frets or strings so i can focus in on 'problem-parts' of the fretboard.

I'm actually amazed. I've been playing guitar for 30 years... never really learned the notes on the fret board except for the root notes of bar chords (basically the top two strings -ish) this app has me whizzing through them in three sittings ... roughly an hour and a half. Decent

This is a great app for learning the notes on the fretboard. A few minutes a day works wonders. I think the statistics could use a revision, maybe show some sort of progression rather than total numbers but the main function of the app is solid.

Nice app! Much nicer and faster than other similar apps i tried. Especially like the ability to practice/learn without a timer running (BIG PLUS!!). This is an excellent app for learning. Excellent graphics too, you can see that in the pictures, looks like a real guitar fret board right down to the string thickness. Highly recommend this to anyone wanting to learn the fret board. Now you don't need your guitar to practice, you can practice anyplace you can take your device.

Love it. Great variety of quizzes. Very effective. One suggestion though, it would be nice to be able to select which strings you want to practice on. Would be easier in the beginning to select only one or two strings. Also I could exclude strings I already know.

I enjoy using the app. One issue I think could easily be fixed to improve the experience of the user would be if the correct and incorrect count in the top right reset everytime you start. Also, I think the statistics page would be more useful if it was broken down by session so you could see your progress over time with each mode.

Just what I was looking for. There are plenty of free fretboard apps to train my eyes into seeing the patterns, but the memory quizzes that make me use my brain to find and name the fretboard notes instead of my eyes makes this one worth purchasing. It connects all of the dots in such a way that the knowledge will both stick with me and flow from me. Thanks a heap!

This app is perfect for helping you to learn the notes on the guitar fretboard. Not sure it would have been helpful at the very start of my guitar journey but the stage I'm at now I am finding this so useful. If you're only just starting off with guitar, maybe wait until you've learned a few chords and are starting to learn basic music theory and ear training. Learn the note circle and the names of the open strings and then you're ready for this.

Against poor competition this is one of the better training apps, but it needs a significant refresh. I previously used an app called Fretboard Hero which seems to have now disappeared. This was much superior because it had some elements of gamification - e.g. unpicking parts of the fretboard, new guitars etc. Learning notes is quite dull so this really helped! It also had statistics that allowed you to see progress meaningfully. I just can't tell whether I'm improving day to day with this app.

Would be better if I could have the fretboard upside down, it looks really strange to me. It's just not how I visualize the fretboard, I see it as though I'm looking through it so the low E is at the top, not the high e. Or how I see it when I watch other people play. Other than that it's a great app, super useful for practicing without your guitar.

This app has been a tremendous in helping me learn the fretboard. However, I think it would be helpful if the app software developers/designers could tweak the settings so that I can focus on a segment of the fretboard. For instance if I could concentrate on the 7th to 17th frets so that I can master that section of the fretboard. I would pay more for such an app. Also try exploring the intervallic relationship between notes on the fretboard. Keep up the good work.

Visually excellent and great layout, could do with some work to iron out some issues. If you get the whole fretboard correct on note finder it registers as one note rather than the number of notes found. Get one wrong and each note is counted. Could do with some pattern tips to help learn the fretboard. There are free apps which work as well but don't look as good. I don't begrudge paying for this as Justin is a legend and his free content has taught me huge amounts anyway. Could be better.

Great way to learn the notes on the fretboard. One gripe, the sound isn't automatically turned on. You have to rummage in the settings to turn it on. Also, one suggestion: could the red circle turn green if we get the note right, then wait a beat before selecting a new note? At the moment it moves to a new note too quickly, so we hear the previous note ring out when the new note has already been selected. Bit confuzzling as far as ear training goes.

Essential for when you don't have a guitar on hand! I've been doing a find the note exercise on my guitar every day and is helping immensely with my fretboard knowledge. The only downside is it was hard to do without a guitar. Now I can practice waiting for the bus, standing in a queue, or on my break at work...whenever! Awesome stuff. One change I'd make for find a note game stats. Getting ALL the notes right only counts as a score of 1, but EACH wrong note is -1. Gives skewed stats.

Good start, but room for improvement. I wish there was a way to select which strings and which frets you want to learn, so you can learn in stages and focus on the areas where you struggle, and make the app more useful for bass players. Competing apps have this functionality. Also, the scoring for the Find the Note game seems off. Finding all 8 Es only counts as one correct answer, but every mistake made counts as a wrong answer. I'm happy to support JustinGuitar, though. :)