Learn the fretboard through 15 short games. Find notes, connect patterns and follow sequences at your pace. Hear the notes, build confidence, and take what you learn to your guitar.
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In portrait, the low string is on the left and the high string on the right. Open strings are E–A–D–G–B–E; frets run down to fret 12.
Play your way. The fretboard follows your screen’s orientation automatically. Prefer a fixed layout? Choose Vertical or Horizontal in Custom Shop.
Read the prompt, then tap a position or choose a note name. The feedback helps connect the name to its place on the neck.
A mistake is a chance to look again. Accuracy first. Speed comes with familiarity.
B–C and E–F are one fret apart. The other neighboring natural notes are two frets apart, including G–A.
If you know the natural notes on the neck, you’re only a half-step away from an accidental (♯ or ♭).
Meet The Wrong Note. Pick a wrong note or take a wrong step and, in most games, he’ll pop up to let you know.
No worries — take another look and try again. He’s here to help you learn, one note at a time.
Find a note, spell a word, ride the Crazy Train or race the Wrong Note. Each Single gives you another way to practice.
Start with one game you enjoy. Can’t get enough of a game? Tap the tape icon to add it to your Mix Tape.
The Wrong Note is here to help, too. Tap Play With Me beside Play the Game and let him show you how it’s done.
Play, pause or step through at your own pace. Demos leave your scores untouched.
Master of 12-Frets shows confidence at each position, from New through Practicing and Progressing to Mastering.
Top Shreds tracks your game results. Improve across the games to level up through 10 ranks, from Bedroom Guitarist to Guitar God — with a new badge for every rank.
Start with your sound, fretboard and inlays. Then climb the career ranks to unlock new looks and special gear—your stage presence grows with your skills.
Mix your favorite finishes, choose Clean or Dirty, and light up your look with Stage Lights. Make it unmistakably yours.
Pick one Single, or open Playlist Manager. Choose Just the Hits, Deep Cuts, or The Box Set—or build your own playlist.
A break between lessons or a quiet moment at home is enough to start. Complete a round and come back tomorrow.
Find it: play a note you just practiced on your guitar. Connect it: find it elsewhere, or play the natural notes around it.
Make music: use those notes in a riff, melody or song. The screen is practice for the strings.
Choose the neck and sound that make you want to play. You can change them any time in Custom Shop.
Then pick a Single, watch its demo, and find your first note.
Your progress, achievements, gear and more.
Got a backstage pass? Come on in for Access All Areas.
Enter your pass code to open up more ways to play.
God Mode unlocks all games, looks and inlays for testing. Your earned rank and scores stay the same. Turning it off locks unearned rewards again and returns any locked gear you’re using to the default.
Customize the app and manage your progress. Sound and fretboard changes are saved automatically. Use Save Name to update your stage name.
Choose your sound and fretboard, then head back to explore the games.
Choose the stage name you’ve always wanted. Up to 12 characters.
Power controls note sounds, countdown cues, finishing flourishes and haptics on supported devices. Choose a clean or dirty note tone and whether to hear right notes or every note you tap.
Each look includes app colors, fretboard wood, finish and inlays. Unlock new looks as you climb the career ranks, then make them truly yours below.
Your theme sets the wood, finish and inlays. Change any of them to create your perfect look, and preview your guitar as you go.
The fretboard follows your screen’s orientation.
Hide the faint fretboard rings for a cleaner view while you play. Open-string targets, hints, and highlighted notes stay visible. New to the fretboard? We recommend leaving note targets on while you learn.
How to play: learn the neck, try a note, then put it into play.
In most games, a wrong answer brings him out in a red flash. No worries — look at the note, learn from it, and try again.
Try a right and a wrong answer in the demos below. In Creep, finding him is the goal; in Beat It!, he races you to the target. Misses in these two games flash red without another character appearing.
In portrait, the low string is on the left, the high string on the right. Frets run down the screen.
The fretboard follows your screen’s orientation automatically. Prefer a fixed layout? Choose Vertical or Horizontal in Custom Shop.
In the horizontal layout, open strings are on the left, fret 12 is on the right, high E is at the top and low E is at the bottom. Horizontal gameplay is used when your screen is wider than it is tall.
Across the top: strings 6 → 1
Open strings are E–A–D–G–B–E.
Row 0: open strings
No finger on a fret.
Numbers down the side: frets
The thick line is the nut. Below it, each row is one fret.
The highlighted A
String 6, fret 5. Follow the string down from open E. This close-up shows frets 0–5; the game neck continues to fret 12.
Find A on string 6. Read the prompt, choose a position, then check the feedback.
Try a wrong position first, then find A. This practice has no timer, penalties or saved score.
Start at the open E on the left and work down the string.
Natural notes are A–B–C–D–E–F–G. B–C and E–F are one fret apart. Every other neighboring pair is two frets apart.
If you know the natural notes on the neck, you’re only a half-step away from an accidental (♯ or ♭).
The sequence wraps from G to A, or A to G going backwards.
Try it: how far is B to C?
Try both answers to see the feedback.
Practice with Roundabout →These demonstrations use real note positions. Step through them at your own pace.
Complete the four-note shape to remove four wall blocks.
In the game, the wall rises automatically. Miss: +1 block. Hint: +2.
Play Another Brick in the Wall →Choose the next note to move toward the target. Each choice moves the Wrong Note too — can you stay ahead?
In this guided demo, each choice moves both racers. In the real game, the Wrong Note moves automatically every five seconds.
Play Beat It! →Not sure what to do? Tap Play With Me beside Play the Game in any available game. Watch the Wrong Note make his choices, pause, or follow one step at a time. Your scores stay untouched.
Can’t get enough of a game? Tap the tape icon to add it to your Mix Tape.
Follow open E up to its octave at fret 12, then A on string 5 down to the open string. Tap below to watch each move on the fretboard.
Build your career by mastering note positions and improving across the games, including Ace of Spades. Follow your next practice goal in Top Shreds and work toward Guitar God at 100 career points.
Master of 12-Frets: confidence at each position
Illustration only — these are not your results. Confidence reflects recent answers at each note position.
Open Master of 12-Frets →Top Shreds measure whole rounds. Lower times and fewer golf strokes are better. In Another Brick in the Wall, more completed shapes is better. Score colors use each game’s own targets; they are separate from note confidence.
View Top Shreds →Keep a backup of your progress. Your results are stored locally in this browser. Use Backup & Restore in the Custom Shop to save a portable backup file that you can keep in Files, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or move to another browser or device.
Open Backup & Restore →Make the fretboard feel like yours. In the Custom Shop, choose a light Maple or dark Rosewood neck, then pick your favorite inlays: Classic Dots, Lightning, or Classic Trapezoids.
Example: Maple neck with Lightning inlays. These choices only change the look — your games, scores, and progress stay exactly the same.
Customize your fretboard →There’s always time for a little practice. A quiet moment at home, a train journey, a break between lessons — turn it into a few notes you know better.
Open the app in your browser on the device you have with you. No guitar needed to practice recognizing notes — just a moment to focus.
Explore a playlist below. Each builds anchors, tests recall, and applies your knowledge. Longer playlists add depth and variety.
Choose your games and order before starting. Each longer playlist includes the shorter one. Choose how much practice fits today—not a difficulty level.
One completed round is a start. Come back tomorrow, build your streak, and watch more of the neck become familiar. Aim for accuracy first; let speed follow.
Use a hint when you need one, then work out why the answer fits. Mix familiar games with a new challenge when you feel ready.
The app helps you recognize the notes. Playing them on your guitar makes that knowledge useful.
Pick a note you just practiced. Find it on your guitar and say its name.
Find the same note somewhere else, or play the natural notes around it.
Use those notes in a riff, a melody or a song you’re learning.
Keep your guitar nearby when you can. When you can’t, practice here — then try those notes on the strings next time you pick it up.
Find musical ideas in Featured Lessons →Choose a single. Ace of Spades unlocks after you record a score in all 15 original games.
All Time rating · Top Shreds
The Wrong Note is your guide here. His correct choices turn green. Demonstrations do not change your scores, streak or confidence.
Can’t get enough of this game? Back on the game page, tap the tape icon to add it to your Mix Tape.
The aim
Clear all 35 note cards from the seven piles. Each note card represents a real string and fret on the guitar. The other 13 note cards form the stock.
Make your next move
Start with any exposed note card—the uncovered one at the bottom of a pile. After that, play the previous or next natural note in the repeating sequence C–D–E–F–G–A–B–C. For example, E accepts D or F; C accepts B or D. The note name decides whether a move is allowed, regardless of its string or octave. Clearing a note card exposes the one behind it.
Stock and waste
The waste shows your current note. Tap Draw stock to replace it with a fresh note card when you are stuck, or when you want to change your route. Each draw costs one move. You can use the stock only once; it does not refill.
Pick your level
L1 · Tap exposed note cards.
L2 · Tap exposed positions on the fretboard, with note names shown.
L3 · Find those positions without the note names.
On the fretboard, solid colored circles are exposed notes, colored outlines are next in their pile, black circles are deeper notes, and gray circles belong to the stock. Only exposed positions can be played.
Win the round
Clear all seven piles to win; unused stock does not matter. If you have no legal moves and the stock is empty, the round ends with notes left. Use Play With Me to step through a winning route from the start of that deal.
Beat par
Every played note or stock draw counts as a move. An incorrect choice adds one miss penalty and leaves the note in place. Perfect is the fewest moves needed to clear that deal. Par adds 3 at L1, 6 at L2, or 9 at L3.
Your score = moves + misses − par. Lower is better; a negative score beats par. Cleared rounds rank above unfinished rounds. Among unfinished rounds, fewer notes left is better.
Choose your games. Try a suggested playlist, then customize it if you want. Drag the ⠿ handles or use the arrows to change their order.
Build your rank by mastering the fretboard and improving across the games. Reach Guitar God by mastering every natural-note position, all 15 original games, and Ace of Spades at Level 3.
Hello! We’re Robert S Garland, Esquire and Kieron Theodore Connelly*, and together we are Wyld St… oh wait, this isn’t a movie.
But actually, just like Bill and Ted, we grew up together (most would say “not enough”) in a small town in many ways nothing like San Dimas, California (although coincidentally Rob does now live just down the road in LA). And just like Bill and Ted, we learned to play guitar together when we were young, inspired by a love for the kind of music they also loved. Which is why this app is full of musical references to 70s and 80s rock bands. How many did you spot? We counted “69, dude”**.
We wrote this app together because we realized we both needed it, albeit for very different reasons. Kieron needed it because he had somehow managed to get through about 40 years of playing the guitar without ever learning the notes on the neck. Rob needed it because he’s actually gotten so good at knowing the notes on the neck, and all the other things that you could possibly know about guitars, that he became a famous guitar player, author and music teacher, and found that many of his students, even those that had been playing as long as Kieron, still didn’t know the notes either (…or at least that’s what he’s told Kieron to make him feel better).
So, if like Kieron, Bill and Ted (but not Rob), you too have a love for playing the guitar but know you need to get a lot better at knowing those notes, then you need this app too. Or we could just get Eddie Van Halen to join the band?
We put together a playlist of music based on all the references we’ve managed to squeeze into this app (and a few we wanted to squeeze in but just haven’t figured out the right pun yet). You can listen to it via the player below or on Spotify. We would have made you a mix tape, but this isn’t a John Hughes movie either.
If you have any feedback (e.g. “Most Excellent!”, “Bodacious”, “Bogus”, or “What about that gnarly old Goat Dude”), or even just a better pun for a game, you can click the ‘Send your feedback’ button below and we’ll do our best to ignore accommodate it.
Until then,
Party On, Dudes!
Load the Spotify player, then press Play when you’re ready to listen.