Find the note

Setting up the fretboard…

Ready

Round

Game

The note

Show the name

Answer by

Strings and frets

Strings

Frets

Notes

Prompts

Learn the notes on the guitar fretboard

Knowing where every note lives makes chords, scales and songs click. Find the note teaches the neck in short rounds, a few strings and frets at a time, and keeps a map of what you know.

Ways to practice

Hear it, find it: a note plays and you find it on the neck.
Name the note: a spot is marked and you name it.
Play it on your guitar: see a note and play it. The microphone checks it.
Hear it, play it: a note plays and you play it back.

Where to start

Begin with the low E and A strings, where most chords have their root. Then the first five frets on every string, then the whole neck up to the 12th fret. Between rounds, the neck shows the spots you know well in green and marks the ones that need work.

More practice: Loop a YouTube guitar lesson · Practice chord changes · Practice scales · Train your ear · Tune your guitar