A fretboard trainer, scales on the neck and 16 new fundamentals
Learn the notes on the neck with a quiz that scores each string, see any scale in any key across the fretboard, and 16 new exercises for every guitarist.
The Fundamentals division, the exercises for every guitarist whatever they play, has grown from 6 exercises to 22, and it has two new tools.
The fretboard notes trainer
The fretboard notes trainer quizzes you on the notes on the neck. In Name the note it lights a fret and you pick its name, from the buttons or by typing the letter. In Find the note it names a note and you click every place it sits. You choose the strings, start with the two low ones, and it keeps your score for each string in your browser, so you can see which strings you know. Under it are a chart of every note to the 12th fret and the method for learning them.
Scales on the neck
The scales page draws any of 12 scales in any key across the whole neck: the minor and major pentatonic, the blues scale, major, natural, harmonic and melodic minor, and the modes. Step through its positions one at a time, switch the labels between note names and intervals, and press Play to hear a position up and back. The address keeps your choice, so you can bookmark or share a scale.
16 new exercises
- Warm-ups. Finger permutations, and a chromatic pattern that shifts up the neck as it crosses it.
- The fretboard. The notes on the low E and A strings, octave shapes, and every C and G on the neck.
- Scales. Box 2 of the A minor pentatonic, a run that joins the boxes across the neck, and G major in groups of four.
- Triads and arpeggios. Major triads on the top strings, C major in the five CAGED shapes, and arpeggios through Am, F, C and G.
- Rhythm and time. Quarters to 16ths, notes off the beat, playing with the beat on 2 and 4, and groups of three over four.
Like the others, each one opens in the player counted in at 60% of its goal tempo over light drums, and speeds up as you go.