Fret Pro Guitar Notes Trainer Reviews

No matter how well you do at playing the correct notes, the algorithm eventually constrains you to repeat just a few notes on a single string.
After a while FretProGuitarNotesTrainer randomly decides that a different string needs work and switches over, even though it said the string was mastered before.
There is no way to override this.
There is no provision to customize exercises to just drill areas of the fretboard without FretProGuitarNotesTrainer randomly narrowing down the selection of notes.
This is extremely frustrating and makes FretProGuitarNotesTrainer totally unusable for me.

This is the exact app I was looking for, too bad it’s useless to me because of issues with the mic. I’m hesitant to say that it’s an issue with the mic sensitivity because it picks up the sound just fine, but for some reason, it thinks I’m strumming the wrong note whenever I play the 6th string open. My guitar is perfectly in tune and yet, it’s telling me that I’m not playing an E. It’s not only frustrating but it tricks FretProGuitarNotesTrainer into thinking I’m struggling with that note and so it keeps asking for an E on the 6th string which it doesn’t recognize and as a result requests it even more… app going in the garbage. Oh well, I was really hoping this worked.

Despite being in a silent room and tweeting the settings, it sometimes refuses to recognize correct notes. I wish there were some instructions regarding how to make it work better. Despite this complaint, the program does exactly what it promises. It’s an excellent tool to help internalize the fretboard.

FretProGuitarNotesTrainer used to be worked into my daily practice routine. It did everything you needed it to. Every other fretboard learning tool has you identity notes on your phone. FretProGuitarNotesTrainer lets you play it on your guitar, which helps with memorization. However, in recent months something has happened with FretProGuitarNotesTrainer so that it doesn’t work properly. If I don’t play a note within 2 seconds it will register as a wrong note, and it will keep doing this repeatedly, even if you do hit the right note it is in a continuous loop of marking a wrong note. I’ve tried messing with a lot of the settings, adjusting the microphone sensitivity, and using different devices, but nothing works. It makes it very hard and frustrating to use. Before this bug, I would have given it 5 stars. However, it’s almost unusable now. I wouldn’t purchase the full version until it is fixed. I really hope the developer is able to fix it soon, because it used to be my favorite fretboard training app.

Another reviewer back in March I think,stated they were having issues with FretProGuitarNotesTrainer asking over and over for the same notes. Yup, sure does. I’ve played a bit to know where the F and F# and C is on the 1st and 6th strings. These are repeatedly asked for. Sometimes up to 3 times in a row. Id like an option to always ask for completely random notes on each string. Not try and figure out what I need to work on. An option to “find all the C notes “ on the fretboard would be awesome or at minimum, like the other reviewer said, a reset

Like other reviewers have written, this is a great app for training fret board notes. However, it struggles with note recognition. I’ve tried all the mic settings and a couple different acoustic guitars, but too often it won’t pick up the right note. I’ve even tried connecting directly through a headphone amp (Fender micro) on my electric and it still struggles. It’s pretty frustrating and ruins the pacing of practice.

FretProGuitarNotesTrainer is the best app for learning the fretboard as of now but a future competitor can implement certain things that will have it beat. I hope the developer will add these things so it can remain on top.

1. FretProGuitarNotesTrainer requests me to play the note E. There is a million different ways to play an E on the guitar. As of right now, FretProGuitarNotesTrainer doesn’t differentiate between the E’s it wants me to play aside from telling me I played the wrong E even if I still played an E. There should be a symbol next to the E to signify which E I should be playing. This part of FretProGuitarNotesTrainer is very frustrating and makes the learning experience much more tedious than it has to be.

2. There should be a feature to memorize the different chords on the guitar, similar to the system used for learning the fretboard.

FretProGuitarNotesTrainer drills you by telling you what note to play, then listening verify that you play it. It’s exactly how you want to drill yourself to learn the notes of the fretboard. It has all the right options to focus on certain strings and to use sharps and flats. The design is clean, clear and perfectly suited for the task.

There’s only one problem, and it’s a big one. At first it asks you to find a variety of notes. But after a while, it stops asking about certain notes. Perhaps it is trying to focus on the notes you keep getting wrong, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. So you find yourself being drilled on notes you know, and not learning the other notes you don’t know.

It would be great if there was a button to clear the training history, so it would ask about all the notes again. Or add an option so it doesn’t try to focus on missed notes

Fred board pro does exactly what I needed to do. I’ve looked in FretProGuitarNotesTrainer Store on and off for years for some thing to help me finally learn the fretboard. This allows me to do as little or as much as I want to do on as many or as few string sets as I want to. I can speak the tones without interference, but still have to follow. It’s random order. Love it. Worth the money.

I would consider myself a beginner guitar player (I’ve been learning for about a year and a half) and I was able to memorize the notes on the 4th, 5th and 6th string within just a couple weeks using FretProGuitarNotesTrainer for a few minutes everyday during my guitar practice. I like that you can just sit down with your guitar, open up FretProGuitarNotesTrainer and immediately get to work. It makes learning the notes along the fretboard much more manageable by breaking it down into chunks and quizzing you over and over again until it knows you’ve got it down. FretProGuitarNotesTrainer is really easy to use and intuitive.

The latest update is a nice improvement. As I’ve improved my note-finding, speed has become more important. This new version is faster, and since it respects the Accessibility voice settings, I get an even faster drills session.

Original review:
It does its one-thing really well: help you gradually develop muscle-memory across the fretboard. It’s easy to imagine a tennis coach spending 20 minutes with a player on drills shot after shot. But I can’t imagine a guitar coach spending even 10 minutes on play-this-note, play-that-note drills. FretProGuitarNotesTrainer is that coach, running drills and giving feedback. I’ve had lessons on-and-off for 10 years, but never did the work of really knowing the notes on the fretboard. I didn’t think it really mattered. But now, concepts I slightly understood before are falling into place, and I’m able to communicate with my teacher in the same language. Recommended.

FretProGuitarNotesTrainer is great. I’ve been using it constantly. My only change/update is to be able to use FretProGuitarNotesTrainer in landscape mode. Specifically for fret practice mode. Its just tedious scrolling left and right to hit notes when using that feature. Besides that I love FretProGuitarNotesTrainer so much.

I’m loving FretProGuitarNotesTrainer simply because it works. I’ve tried to learn the fretboard before, but failed. Brute force memorization just didn’t work for me. Fret Pro simply and patiently drills the note positions into my head a little at a time. I’m very happy with my progress so far. And with that success, continuing is so much easier.

I know other folks have had issues with FretProGuitarNotesTrainer hearing the notes. I read through many of the reviews and tried to learn from them. I’m using an electric guitar with the volume full up and the tone at about half. I’m plugged into an iRig Pro with the gain cranked pretty high. It’s flashing red when I play. The green input bar in FretProGuitarNotesTrainer peaks just about to the top when I play, so the signal is pretty hot. I set the noise suppressor slider high as well. 80% to 90% of full scale. With these settings I’m getting great note detection. Probably 95% or better.

The note detection isn’t perfect, but I don’t think perfection is a fair expectation. I expect FretProGuitarNotesTrainer to help me learn notes. And it does.

I’m looking forward to new features like mentioned by other users. For me, I’d like to see an option to practice each string either from open to fret 11, as it is now, or from fret 1 to fret 12. I would also love to be able to select individual notes to practice across all 6 strings.

Thanks again for a great learning tool!

Been looking for an app just like this! It is almost perfect! Tried others, but never stuck with them. Didn’t need the lifetime license (once you learn it, you’ve learned it, right?) but did it to give a thanks for creating such an awesome app.

Very useful for learning the fretboard. Would definitely recommend, especially if you’ve already learned scale shapes. Memorizing note names is kind of like eating your vegetables, but FretProGuitarNotesTrainer has done a great job at breaking it up into easily manageable bite size pieces. Effective and kind of addicting 😆

I downloaded the free version of FretProGuitarNotesTrainer and played with it for three minutes. I immediately bought the entire thing. This is an excellent app for drilling note locationsOn the fretboard. I have been looking for an app that does this for quite some time.

An easy and fun way to learn the fretboard. Compared this to three other fretboard apps, but I use this because it can hear the notes I play. Lots of controls to customize the experience. For example, I like learning one string at a time.

I’ve been playing guitar about 18 months but struggled with learning notes’ names. For about a week, I spent an hour a day with FretProGuitarNotesTrainer. It gets tedious. But it’s effective. Now that I know the notes, it’s like a superpower!

As a beginner to intermediate guitar player, this is a great tool… as someone who writes software for a living, this is a really thoughtful and well crafted app with beautiful font choices, great use of animation and real feature richness. I’m really pleased!

I pulled down all of the apps in this category and tried them all out and this was the best of them. I like how it’s a one time purchase for full features, at a reasonable price. I love how it works with audio interfaces as well as the mic to recognize your notes and the recognition is spot on and fast (at least through audio interface which is what I use). The developer is responsive to suggestions and is still actively enhancing FretProGuitarNotesTrainer.

What I’d like to see in future releases is support for custom tunings, support for all frets and/or a custom selection of frets and/or notes, as well as the ability to configure note recognition to accept any octave of the given note so that you could for instance be prompted to play E and it would accept any octave of E allowing you to jump around or play the same not in a higher octave on the same string. Also a more specific configuration would be cool where it could also prompt for a very specific note such as E3 (E in the third octave) where your be memorizing not only the notes but also their octave.