Fretonomy Overview
What is Fretonomy? Fretonomy is an educational game designed to help users learn the notes and chords on the fretboard of various stringed instruments. The app offers nine different instruments to practice on, including guitar, bass, mandolin, ukulele, and banjo. Users can customize their experience by selecting which section of the fretboard they want to practice on and choose from a variety of games to train with. The app also includes a chord progression generator tool, a staff game to learn to read music, and a scale explorer game to explore different musical scales.
Features
- Nine different instruments available to practice on
- 18 different games and tools to practice with
- Explore any of the 63 musical scales with any root note while customizing the scale
- Train any section of the fretboard
- Learn and master many kinds of chords on any section of the guitar with any tuning
- Use the Staff game to learn the position of notes on the musical staff
- View progress by viewing the fretboard heat-map
- Common tunings included for every instrument, or add your own
- Compete with friends on Game Center or share progress with them
- Left-handed mode available
- Symbol chords and Nashville number system style
- Solfege, Number, German, Japanese, Indian, Cyrillic, and Korean note notations are supported
- Free access to train the first few frets of each instrument, with the option to fully unlock each instrument via in-app purchases.
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Product Details and Description of
this app is the ultimate educational game to learn the notes and chords on the fretboard of the guitar and other stringed instruments. There are 9 instruments available to practice on: Guitar 7-String Guitar 8-String Guitar Bass 5-String Bass 6-String Bass Mandolin Ukulele Banjo Choose your instrument and pick one of the many games available to you to practice the fretboard until you have mastered every fret and every chord pattern. Customize your experience by selecting which section of the fretboard you want to practice on. Practice the first frets, a section in the middle, or the entire fretboard. Many games are available. Choose how you want to train. Learn by simply matching random notes with the fret on the fretboard, or try something different with the Color Matching game! Learn and master all kinds of chord patterns on the guitar with the Name Chord game. Choose which chords you want to practice on any section of the fretboard, and go at your own pace. You will learn to identify any chord pattern very quickly! Learn how to quickly read notes on a staff in the Staff game. Choose whatever section of the staff you want to practice on, choose the staff type, and start training! Or master the fretboard and staff at the same time in the Staff and Fretboard game. Select a fret on the fretboard that matches a note on the staff! Explore scales on the fretboard of your instrument with the Scale Explorer game. Choose a root note, pick one of the 63 different scales available, and start memorizing your scale. Change the color of the notes on the fretboard to identify intervals easier. Create your own songs on the fly and learn how to play them right away using the Chord Progression generator tool. Any popular chord progression can be generated in any scale you want. Play along to the chords of your progression by using the playback feature to practice the shapes. View your progress as statistics are logged for each instrument, tuning, and fret. A heat-map is used to show your progress. Share your progress with your friends! More games and features to come! FEATURES - 9 different instruments available to master! - 18 different games and tools to practice with. - Explore any of the 63 musical scales with any root note while customizing the scale how you want! - Train any section of the fretboard. Choose any range of frets that you want. - Learn and master many kinds of chords on any section of the guitar with any tuning! From simple major and minor triads, to more complicated patterns like diminished sevenths! - Use the Staff game to learn the position of notes on the musical staff. Learn to read music! - Follow your progress by viewing your fretboard heat-map. Each fret has its own statistics. - Common tunings included for every instrument, or add your own. - Compete with your friends on Game Center or share your fretboard heat-map with them. - Left-handed mode is available as well. - Symbol chords and nashville number system style. - Solfege, Number, German, Japanese, Indian, Cyrillic, and Korean note notations are supported. This version of the application comes with free access to train the first few frets of each instrument. Each instrument can be fully unlocked via in-app-purchases. https://www.strongapplications.com/terms/
Top Reviews
By Juwan808
UPDATE (ALMOST THERE)
I had to update my last review since my previous concerns were addressed. Thank you for the fixes! The name that note layout is great, just like a piano keyboard. No more searching for notes. I really appreciate the response from the development team. Awesome! Thanks again. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I want to give this app 5 stars but I just can’t. Not until this one issue is resolved. When playing the “Name that note” game, the main notes are set up in order. That is of course expected. But when you tap the flat key or # if that’s your thing, the order of the notes above don’t make any sense. Why are they not set up in the same order as a piano? Ab should be above A, Bb above B etc.? Instead there are redundant notes, 2 B’s 2 E’s…. WTH! Fix this please! I shouldn’t have to search for the notes. How is that helping me study? If it’s set up like a piano, the visual representation will connect across both instruments and the intervals will be correct. Please fix!!
By BuffaloShrimp
Stellar graphics - effective exercises
This is far and away the best graphic representation of a fretboard I have ever seen. The screen is uncluttered. The fretboard and symbols are large and easy to read via the iPad on the music stand. The exercises are equally well designed - each simple and effective. It doesn’t have audio transport functionality - meaning, it won’t roll through scales with you. Fine. Don’t need it. And, perhaps, even glad it doesn’t. I prefer the simplicity. And the interval exercises are making me a fretboard boss! Super for Nashville number system. I do wish the scales were grouped by type (ie Church modes, symmetrical) rather than alphabetically, though. And the addition of a small wheel to change keys via cycle of 4ths stationed near the fretboard would be most welcome. Otherwise, Wow! Thanks for the excellent application.
By scottadams364
Fantastic tool!
This is the first app review I’ve ever written, I just had to show my love. I downloaded this app 4 days ago, have put about 6 hours into it according to the stats, and I’ve got all natural notes up to the 12th fret pretty well memorized within a 1-2 second reaction time. If you break it up into chunks as you go and find little tricks to recall the notes, the app provides the random repetition needed to really commit it to memory. Having modes to both name the note shown, and find the note named, ensures you understand the fretboard both ways. The scale explorer has been helpful to find patterns, and I’m sure it will be way more helpful as I continue with the app. I haven’t found the chord game to be super useful honestly, but still the $2 purchase is paying off in spades. Well done, a must app for any guitar player.
