Fretboard Note Trainer

Learn the notes on the guitar neck one string at a time. Name the highlighted note, or find the note you're asked for. Start with the low E and A strings — that's where the root notes of most chord shapes live.

Mode
Strings
Frets
Include
20 questions. Notes you miss come up more often.
012345678910111213141516171819EADGBE

Shortcuts for learning the fretboard

The notes go A B C D E F G, with one fret between each pair — except B–C and E–F, which sit right next to each other. At the 12th fret (the double dot) everything starts over, one octave higher.

Learn the low E and A strings first. The high e string has the same notes as the low E. And an octave shape helps you find the rest: from the E and A strings, two strings up and two frets higher is the same note an octave above. From the D and G strings it's three frets higher, because of how the B string is tuned.

Next step: see scales on the fretboard or practise licks.