Practice the fretboard. Learn the chords.
A small collection of free, interactive tools for guitar players — built for the iPad, but they work on any device.
Use them in your lesson, in your practice room, or wherever you want to get better at the instrument.
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The everyday tools: learn the neck, tune up, keep time and play your first songs.
Fretboard trainer
Test your knowledge of where every note lives on the fretboard. Quiz mode picks a random note and asks you to find every position — perfect for daily practice.
Launch trainer →1-4-5 chord change trainer
Build speed on your chord changes. Pick a key (C, G, D, A, or E), start at 65 BPM, and follow the bouncing ball through the 1-4-5 progression. Step the tempo up as the changes get clean, then pick a song from the list for that key.
Launch trainer →Song sheet chord detector
Paste a YouTube link and press play. The page listens along and writes out the chords bar by bar, with the key, tempo, an easy capo position and the shapes to play. Tap any chord to fix it.
Build a song sheet →Metronome
A precision practice metronome with three sounds (click, drum kit, wood block). Adjustable tempo, beats per measure, and subdivisions (eighths, triplets, sixteenths) for slow-practice drills.
Launch metronome →Tuner
A real-time guitar tuner that listens through your microphone. Auto-detects which string you're playing, or pick a target string. Adjustable reference pitch.
Launch tuner →Level up
Ready for more? Build chords from triads, see the CAGED shapes and start soloing up the neck.
Triad visualizer
Enter any chords (G, Am, C, D…) and instantly see their triad shapes mapped across the fretboard. Color-coded by chord, with interval labels for learning chord construction.
Launch visualizer →Chord shapes explorer
Pick any chord and see all five CAGED shapes mapped across the fretboard. Switch between a full-neck view and side-by-side detail. Includes a triad overlay to show how chords are built.
Launch explorer →Soloing tips over major and minor chords
Two ways to solo over any major or minor chord: the 3-2 pattern (groups of 3 and 2 notes from the 4th string) and pentatonic Shapes #1 and #4 with diagonal extensions. Pick a chord to see where to play and hear it. They get you out of the pentatonic box and moving up and down the neck.
Launch pattern →Printable worksheets
Print them or fill them in on an iPad with a stylus.
Fretboard worksheet
A printable PDF version of the fretboard with blank circles to fill in by hand. Includes a blank worksheet and an answer key — great for stylus practice on an iPad or paper printing.
Download PDF →Triad worksheet
A printable PDF reference for closed-voicing triad shapes across nine common chords (C, G, D, A, E, F, Am, Em, Dm). One page per chord, plus a blank practice page to fill in by hand.
Download PDF →Which tool should I start with?
Song of the week
Song of the week
One song I'm learning each week, and you can learn it along with me. Every song comes with the chords, key and capo, the strumming pattern, a 7-day practice plan, lesson links, and the tool on this page that helps most. A new song goes up every week, and earlier songs stay in the archive.
See this week's song →This week · October 5, 2026
Strong Enough
Sheryl Crow
- D
- G
- Bm
- A
- Em
- D/F#
- C
This week I'm digging into "Strong Enough" from Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club, a roots-rock acoustic tune that leans right into that country and Americana territory I've been wanting to explore. The chords are friendly, so my real focus is locking into the 6/4 feel, tracking down voicings like G5 and Bm♭6 that match the record, and copying that verse pattern with a pick instead of fingers. Once that's settled, the D-G-Bm-A loop makes a great backdrop for noodling with D major pentatonic.