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Fretboard Learning – Education Game Review
Fretboard Learning is a Education/Music game from Mustapha AOUAS, first launched in 28th February 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 416+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Fretboard Learning Stand Out
Are you new to the guitar? Or maybe you're a seasoned player who's looking for a little help getting your ear back in shape. Either way, Fretboard Learning is your best bet for learning the notes on your guitar.
Fretboard Learning offers the best educational games to learn the notes on your guitar. You can practice your musical ear, learn more than 500 chords all over the fretboard, learn all scales in all the different boxes, and customize your experience by selecting your favorite tuning or creating a new one of your own! Left-handed mode is also available.
The app includes:
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Differents game modes
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More than 500 chords all over the fretboard
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All scales in all the differents boxes
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Custom tunings or create your own
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Left handed mode
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Different notes notation
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Circle of fifths: an interactive and fun tool to explore music harmony
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Metronome
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Statistics of your results
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Detailed heat map of the fretboard
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Fretboard Learning is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th January 2023
Recent improvements include:
- Better onboarding experience
- Highly requested features (like showing the good notes on a when a bad answer is chosen)
- Various bug fixes
- Better performance
Download & Availability
Fretboard Learning is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Fretboard Learning on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This app has the same user interface feeling as an iPhone three (yes the one with the black round back) game. We mean that in a good way. We love how simple you had effective. This app makes learning the guitar, wow keeping it fun and stress-free. You can take it as seriously as you want and we love that you can keep track of your score as improvement is not easily seen in the day but rather over periods of time which we think is where a lot of beginner musicians tend to lose Hope in that blindness.
This is a wonderful and fun guitar learning tool. Couldnt be happier. Tried many and this is the go to one. No subscription.
One problem that Im having is when Im trying to set it to an all fourths tuning E A D G C F The low E string Always gets stuck on D No matter how many times we try.
Many of the reviews are from 2 years ago and the issues they are complaining about must have been fixed because we dont see them. The app is great as far as Im concerned. When we are home, we play our guitar. But when Im out somewhere and wish we were playing our guitar, this is a great way to test our knowledge of the fretboard. We can imagine a day after we memorize the fretboard that we wouldnt use it much, but for anyone who hasnt memorized the fretboard yet this should help you achieve that goal.
Great app, wish practice mode had a an unlimited option. Also was not provided a possible correct answer on one of the attempts. We took a screenshot of it. The note was the the 11th fret on the B string but we were not provided an A# or Bb option.
Its hard to argue with the free version of this app. You can tell a guitarist is behind this. In the several days that Ive had the app, Ive replaced our mindless scrolling with an app that has immediate application to our playing. The time hack on the games makes us have that necessary learning tension that noodling or just practicing without a time clock cant replicate. If you ever need a beta tester, Im in.
This is a great little app. If you added actual note sounds to each game instead if the generic ding, we would have bought it a long time ago. Still this is a most for fretboard memorization. Kudos.
Great app. Very intuitive user friendly and useful. Only missing one thing – the ability to isolate a string and identify notes along that single string rather than just a section of the fretboard.
App is great. Grabbed the pro version so we could do more and probably after just a few days Im at grand master and nothing left to unlock. Im looking for more out of this app. Maybe a mapping of the board for the caged system or something, we dont know. TLDR, bought it, bored of it already.
The identify by sound wasnt making sound, we exited and entered back and sound came, but it doesnt sound like a guitar, its a really disturbing beep sound.
No chords available for alternate tuning at all. Im feeling ripped off because we paid for premium and got nothing for it.
Maybe add a share button in the scales and chords.
Ill definitely use this app weekly. Very simple and useful .
we wish more scale diagrams displayed the patterns like this – much easier to follow in our opinion – plus you can still see the linear connections between them.
The enharmonics are off in some of the scales but beside from that it good.
Hey this is cool. Well laid out information.
This is the best app to practice the fretboard plain and simple. Ive tried others that always lacked in the layout or in their content and we can say this one is the best right now. If you could add backing tracks it would be really useful. Other than that it is neat.
Im new at this. We count down from the open frets right now to find our notes. By restricting us to just a section, makes it hard for a beginner. Also, the link to Twitter and the website doesnt work. Otherwise, could be a great app.
You play guitar looking at the fretboard horizontally. Making the app vertical doesnt make sense. When you try to hold it horizontally the screen gets cut off.
App does not give instant feedback in games(doesn't show correct answer) Does not allow you to choose what notes to use and what area on the fret board to use in the games Does not allow you to set your own pace in progression The about section is a joke. The twitter and linked-in buttons don't work. The tutorial is not a tutorial what so ever.
We were into the free game until it very quickly told us we ran out of our free play. Then it asked us to unlock our monthly subscription. If they charged us 10 dollars to unlock it once we probably would have paid it but the monthly subscriptions are getting ridiculous.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 37.69 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Mustapha AOUAS
Last updated: 11th January 2023 | Genre: Education, Music | Developer: Mustapha AOUAS