Guitar theory, even with no guitar at hand
Master scales and modes on the guitar.
Short lessons, exercises generated fresh every time on the fretboard, in theory and by ear, and spaced reviews that bring each one back just before you'd forget it. From the notes on the neck to Dorian, Lydian and the altered scale.
- ✓ On your phone or computer
- ✓ Works offline
- ✓ Same progress on every device
D Dorian, one shape
tap a note to hear it
Learn it, play it, keep it
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Learn
Each module starts with a short lesson: the idea, the shapes on the neck, how it sounds.
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Practise
Exercises are generated fresh every time: find notes on the fretboard, build scales, name intervals, hear modes over a drone.
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Keep it
What you've passed comes back for review just before you'd forget it. A few minutes a day is enough.
From the first note to the last mode
Modules open in order, so every step stands on the one before.
Beginner
5 modules- The musical alphabet
- Fretboard map
- Octave shapes
- Intervals: names and distances
- Intervals on the fretboard
Intermediate
7 modules- The major scale
- Major scale on the fretboard
- Harmonizing the major scale
- The natural minor scale
- Pentatonic scales
- Three notes per string
- Hearing chords
Pro
8 modules- What a mode is
- Modes compared on the same root
- Major-type modes: Ionian, Lydian, Mixolydian
- Minor-type modes: Aeolian, Dorian, Phrygian
- Locrian
- Modes on the fretboard
- Modes in context
- Harmonic and melodic minor
Tools for when the guitar is in your hands
Look things up, hear them, keep time. Every view has its own link, and you can save your favourite set-ups.
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Fretboard explorer
Any scale or mode across the neck, in CAGED, 3-per-string and box shapes, as notes, intervals or degrees. Also in Drop D, DADGAD and open tunings.
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Chord library
17 chord types in every key, several voicings each, with fingers and barres, and the scales that fit over them.
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Triads
Every triad on every string set, in all three inversions, played up the neck.
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Circle of fifths
Turn the wheel to any key: its chords, progressions to play, and where its modes sit.
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Drone
Hold a note and play a mode over it: the fastest way to hear what makes Dorian Dorian.
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Metronome and backing tracks
Practise in time, then improvise over chord loops in any key.
Every device
Sign in on your phone and your computer: the same progress, history and set-ups.
Offline
Practise on the train. Results are saved on the device and sent when you're back online.
An app on your phone
Add Fretudes to your Home Screen and it opens like an app, full screen.
Made for you
Left-handed fretboard, sharps or flats, dark mode, and a daily reminder if you want one.
Plans
Fretudes is free while it's in early access: every level, every tool. A Pro plan for the Intermediate and Pro levels will come later; what you've learned stays yours.
Questions
Do I need a guitar?
No. Everything happens on the screen: the fretboard, the theory, the ear training. The tools are there for when you do pick the guitar up.
I already play. Do I have to start from the beginning?
Modules open in order so nothing is skipped, but the early ones go quickly if you know them: pass the exercises and move on.
Is there an app?
Fretudes runs in the browser on any phone or computer. On your phone, add it to the Home Screen and it opens like an app, and works offline.
What happens to my data?
Only what's needed for your account and practice is kept, never sold, and you can delete your account at any time in Settings. See the privacy policy.
Ten minutes a day, and the neck starts to make sense.
Start with the notes on the fretboard. Finish hearing the difference between Dorian and Aeolian.
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