Fretonomy - Learn Fretboard 4+
Master notes, chords and more!
Strong Apps LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Practice notes, chords, scales, intervals, staff reading, the circle of fifths in 25+ different games. Or even generate chord progressions to help with song writing!
Fretonomy is the ultimate educational game to learn the notes and chords on the fretboard of the guitar and other stringed instruments. There are 9 instruments available to practice on:
Guitar
7-String Guitar
8-String Guitar
Bass
5-String Bass
6-String Bass
Mandolin
Ukulele
Banjo
Choose your instrument and pick one of the many games available to you to practice the fretboard until you have mastered every fret and every chord pattern.
Customize your experience by selecting which section of the fretboard you want to practice on. Practice the first frets, a section in the middle, or the entire fretboard.
Many games are available. Choose how you want to train. Learn by simply matching random notes with the fret on the fretboard, or try something different with the Color Matching game!
Learn and master all kinds of chord patterns on the guitar with the Name Chord game. Choose which chords you want to practice on any section of the fretboard, and go at your own pace. You will learn to identify any chord pattern very quickly!
Learn how to quickly read notes on a staff in the Staff game. Choose whatever section of the staff you want to practice on, choose the staff type, and start training!
Or master the fretboard and staff at the same time in the Staff and Fretboard game. Select a fret on the fretboard that matches a note on the staff!
Explore scales on the fretboard of your instrument with the Scale Explorer game. Choose a root note, pick one of the 950+ different scales available, and start memorizing your scale. Change the color of the notes on the fretboard to identify intervals easier.
Create your own songs on the fly and learn how to play them right away using the Chord Progression generator tool. Any popular chord progression can be generated in any scale you want. Play along to the chords of your progression by using the playback feature to practice the shapes.
View your progress as statistics are logged for each instrument, tuning, and fret. A heat-map is used to show your progress. Share your progress with your friends!
More games and features to come!
FEATURES
- 9 different instruments available to master!
- Over 25+ different games and tools to practice with.
- Explore any of the 950+ musical scales with any root note while customizing the scale how you want!
- Train any section of the fretboard. Choose any range of frets that you want.
- Learn and master many kinds of chords on any section of the guitar with any tuning! From simple major and minor triads, to more complicated patterns like diminished sevenths!
- Use the Staff game to learn the position of notes on the musical staff. Learn to read music!
- Follow your progress by viewing your fretboard heat-map. Each fret has its own statistics.
- Common tunings included for every instrument, or add your own.
- Left-handed mode is available as well.
- Symbol chords and nashville number system style.
- Solfege, Number, German, Japanese, Indian, Cyrillic, and Korean note notations are supported.
- Ear training for notes, intervals, and chords.
- Write and save your own song ideas by creating tablature with audio recordings, lyrics, and even chord progression generation.
This version of the application comes with free access to train the first few frets of each instrument. Each instrument can be fully unlocked via in-app-purchases.
https://www.fretonomy.com/terms/
What’s New
Version 21.2.5
- Small bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
My favourite app
This is my favourite app! I’m a singer and have performing and playing guitar for years but I only know cowboy chords. I’ve always wanted to improve and bought countless books but could never get my head around it. This app has changed all that! I’m now learning the notes on the guitar fretboard and it’s designed so well that I’m using it consistently, clocking up the hours and really feel like I’m progressing. I can take it at my own pace which is great. Seeing the stats motivates me to keep going too. I’ll be moving on to learning staff notes next and then naming chords. I really recommend it. Thanks so much to the devs, you rock! 🎸
Almost great! Double answers though...
I’m using the paid guitar version and absolutely love this app but have run into a frustrating issue: doing the ‘name chord’ game having the root revealed makes it way too easy, but having the root hidden makes the game tell me some answers are wrong when they’re not. If including chords where there could be more than one root, such as aug, dim7 or sus2/sus4 the app sometimes offers more than one correct answer but punishes me for choosing the ‘wrong’ one, e.g. it shows me G, C, D, which could be a Gsus4 or a Csus2, but the answers include include both, and only Gsus4 is correct because it decided the root (which I can’t see) was the G. Can you please fix this by making sure the answers only ever show one correct answer? I appreciate the app may have one dedicated root even if you don’t want it shown, so I think the fix would be to make a list of ‘don’t show these together’ and include any matches in that list. Hope that makes sense, it’s a great app otherwise!
P.S. I’m a guitar teacher and a great feature to add would be to specify the notes in ‘name note’ to fit within a scale, so not just all sharps and flats between frets 0 and 4, but just G major, so only F# and naturals for others. If we could include multiple scales it could add them in any order, but probably listing in circle of 5ths would make sense (so naturals, then add F# or Bb, then C# or Eb, etc.)
Developer Response ,
Hey Guitarqadhi, I did not think of this issue and will see what I can do. These are all great ideas. If you think of any others you can always e-mail me at contact@strongapplications.com. Thank you for your support!
Great app but……
This has been a great app and would have got 5 stars however……..I got the app on my phone, paid for the guitar, only to find I can’t use it ad free on my iPad! Disappointed to be asked to pay to use it without adverts on the iPad. Seems like once you’ve paid for it you have to pay again to use on another device. That’s a bit like a craftsman having to pay for the same tool twice just because they move it from one toolbox to another??
Update on previous review - The folks at Fret Trainer got in touch and helped me sort the problem out very quickly. Turned out to be a quick fix. I’ve increased it to 4 stars. Would be 5 if the stats could be backed up to the cloud but other than that this is a really handy app for practice on the go!
Developer Response ,
You do not have to pay for it twice. Please login to the same Apple account on your iPad and tap the "Restore In-App Purchases" button on the main menu.
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Information
- Provider
- Strong Apps LLC
- Size
- 112.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017 Strong Apps LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Premium £2.79
- Guitar £2.99
- Premium £20.99
- All Instruments £39.99
- 4-String Bass £2.99
- Ukulele £2.99
- 5-String Bass £2.99
- Mandolin £2.99
- Banjo £2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.