Electric Guitar Note Chart
Every note on the electric guitar neck · standard tuning E–A–D–G–B–E · tap to hear
How to play
- Tap any dot to hear that note and see where it is (string & fret).
- Pick a note from the row above the fretboard to light up every place it appears — a great way to learn the fretboard.
- The dots are dim by default so the whole map is visible; the note you choose pops to full colour.
- Vol sets volume. Keyboard: Tab to any control or dot row, Enter/Space to activate.
- Quiz me names a note and asks you to tap any spot it appears — it keeps score so you can drill the fretboard.
- Tip — each note repeats every 12 frets (one octave), and the same note appears on several strings.
Instead, this interactive chart plots all the notes found on an electric guitar neck in standard tuning. It then let you see exactly where each pitch is located on the neck.
Tap or click a dot anywhere on the fretboard with your mouse to listen to that note or toggle into quiz mode to challenge yourself to locate notes around the fretboard. It’s a cool little way to link sound to where something is located visualy.
How to Use the Guitar Chart Tool
There are twelve frets and six string. There are six strings and twelve frets on the fretboard with a dot for every note in between. By default these dots will be dimmed because we want to let you view the whole map of the fretboard at one time, but when you click on the dot it highlights briefly and plays a clean electric guitar tone. This allows you to make sure you are hearing what you think you should of been seeing. This is a simple approach to helping develop an ear for where notes fall on the instrument.
Above the neck is a series of buttons each labelled with the note name from C to B. If you click one of these buttons then it will highlight all instances of this note throughout the whole fretboard. This can be really helpful as it allows you to spot any patterns in the music. You will also notice that the same note occur on multiple strings at the same time. Remember, there are 12 frets between each note, which is one octave. The button clears when clicked again.
Between the title and the fretboard you have the controls area, with volume slider on the right for adjusting the level of the master output. If you practice in a quiet room this is great because you can move the slider to the right to raise the sound and left to lower it.
Whenever you interact with the chart, the readout bar will update with text. This text reinforces your memory of the grid by telling you the fret, the string number, and the note name.
In quiz mode, which is started via a dedicated button, the chart will prompt you to locate a given note along the neck. Clicking the appropriate dot earns a point; if it’s wrong, a red flash appears where you’ve failed to hit the mark. A successful click results in a green flash and the score counter updates in real time to help you memorize the fretboard. Clicking the button again stops the quiz wherever you are in the process.
Clicking the help toggle icon in the header will show/hide the help panel for a quick refresher of how any feature works. This ensures that instructions do not clutter interface when you don’t want them.
For those with smaller screens/split window views, using the fullscreen button to expand the widget and take up all of your screen gives you more room to see the fretboard without obstruction. Clicking out of fullscreen returns you back to normal view.
You can also navigate the interface using your keyboard. The Tab key move between the dots and other controls. Then, hitting Space or Enter triggers whatever is in focus (e.g., starting the quiz, turning on/off a highlight, playing a note). The layout follows accessibility standards, making it easy enough to use hands-free if you’d like.
If it’s a scale you’re trying to memorize, for example, choose C and see where that shows up, then follow the pattern through the strings. This is where the visual representation realy comes in useful as it enables you to relate theoretical concepts to actual parts of the instrument. Then do the same but choose A or maybe G and see how these patterns move up or down the neck respectively.
Another feature is being able to click on any dot at random, listen to the sound, and guess the note before reading from the screen. It converts looking passively into learning activly. This means that it produces a clean electric sound which mimics an electric guitar without distortion, making it easy to identify pitch without effect artefacts and easier to hear what note you are playing. This makes the chart a useful tool for planning phrases in advance and transferring them to your rig.
You can also simply play your guitar while finding and checking notes on the chart. It is a flexible practice companion.
To begin, click on some open strings to become familiar with the sound, then move up to other frets to hear its range. Try running through the neck with the note selector and once you’re feeling confident, take the quiz to see how fast you can go. There’s no rush to run through the grid, the more you play around with the dots, the quicker you’ll be able to recognise where each note is.