Interactive tools

The toolbox

A metronome, tuner, fretboard note map, capo calculator, and live chord/scale finders — everything you need to practice and explore, built right into the page. No apps, no sign-ups.

Tool 01

Metronome

Timing is the skill listeners notice most. Set a tempo, pick a time signature, and practice locking in. The first beat of each bar is accented.

80 bpm
Common tempos: ballad ≈ 70, pop ≈ 120, punk ≈ 180. Practice new material 20–30% slower than the target.
Tool 02

Tuner (reference tones)

Tap a string to hear its correct pitch, then match your guitar to it by ear. Standard tuning, low to high. For precise tuning a clip-on tuner is still ideal, but this gets you there.

Play the reference, then adjust your tuning peg until your string stops "beating" against the tone and the two sound as one.
Tool 03

Fretboard note map

Learning where every note lives is what frees you from memorized shapes. Show all notes, or pick one note to see everywhere it appears — the same pitch repeats all over the neck.

Every note repeats every 12 frets — fret 12 on any string is the same note as the open string, one octave up.
Tool 04

Capo transpose calculator

Play easy open-chord shapes but sound in a different key. Pick the shape you're fingering and where the capo sits, and see what actually rings out.

Reverse use: if a song is in a key with hard chords, find a capo position that lets you play open shapes instead. The calculator works both ways — experiment.
Tool 05

Scale finder

Choose a root note and a scale type. The diagram highlights every note of that scale across a section of the neck, with roots in red.

Tool 06

Chord builder

Choose a root and a chord quality. The tool spells the chord — the exact notes you need sounding — and names the intervals that make it that quality.

NoteInterval from rootSemitones
Tool 07

Notes in a key

See all seven notes of any major key and the chords that naturally belong to it — the palette a song in that key draws from.

DegreeChordQualityRoman numeral