Guitar Fretboard Note Chart
Every note on the neck · standard tuning E–A–D–G–B–E · frets 0–12 · tap to hear
How to play
- Tap any note on the board to hear it and see its name, string and fret. The board reads like tab: the top row is the thin high E (1st string), the bottom row is the thick low E (6th string).
- In Find a note mode, pick a note letter — every place it appears lights up, so you can see how the same note repeats across the neck.
- Switch to Show a scale mode, then choose a root and a scale or arpeggio. The pattern lights up everywhere, each note labelled by its interval (1 = root, 3, 5, ♭7…) — and it's movable, so the shape works for any key.
- The dots under the fret numbers are the position markers (frets 3, 5, 7, 9, and a double at 12, the octave).
- Open strings strums E–A–D–G–B–E. Vol sets volume. Keyboard — Tab to any note or control, Enter/Space to activate.
The chart shows every note from fret zero through twelve across all six string on a standard guitar neck. This allows you to listen to the sound of any note on the guitar just by clicking it and also see where they is on the guitar’s fretboard. Use this tool to learn to play scales, find out how to read notes around fingerboard or simply get a visual representation of note positions.
When you look at the interface, it’s just like regular tablature, going from the lowest E string at the bottom of the screen to the highest E string at the top. The buttons on the grid are each individual note. You tap them and they play as well as show their name, fret number, and string location in the readout section below the instrument. It’s fast if you want to quickly double-check a certain pitch, and also good for learning to find notes by ear. The note you select lights up visually, making it easy to follow where you are on the neck.
How to Use the Guitar Chart Tool
To highlight notes, use the Mode selector at the top to toggle between two options. The default setting is Find a note. This lets you choose a particular letter (A, G, etc.) from the row of buttons labeled Notes. Then, all occurrences of that note on the whole fretboard are highlighted in cyan color. So you get an idea where the note appears again and again throughout the neck in various locations. To remove the highlights and begin anew, choose Off from this row.
The board’s response is also changed in another way if you change the Mode to Show a scale. This time the Note buttons vanishes and are replaced with Root and Scale controls. You select a root note from the Row buttons to determine the key and next you select an arpeggio or scale type from the Scale buttons e.g. These include Major, Minor, and Pentatonic scales. Then the board lights up all the notes contained within that scale. Bright notes is ones that are part of the scale, whereas dimmed notes is not part of the scale. Buttons on the board show the interval name e.g. You see 3, 5, etc., so you can see the structure of the pattern too.
The Open strings button (bottom left) lets you strum just the open strings. It sounds out all six string in standard tuning from the lowest to the highest. This gives you something to refer to when sounding out your chords. Use the slider on the right to control the volume. This will affect the total output level of the widget. Leave it quiet if you want things to be subtle, or increase it to hear more clearly what is happening.
The text below the board reads out automatically to reflect whatever note you click on or which scale you’re looking at. It is well suited for keyboard use as well, where you don’t need a mouse at all. You can move around the controls (mode switches, etc) with the tab key and then activate that button with enter or space. Same thing applies if you are hitting notes on the board. Just hit enter/space on the note and it will play it. This makes changing modes quickly or jumping up and down the scale in a sequence pretty easy.
There’s even a full screen option where you just click the Fullscreen button to expand the chart to fill your screen which gives you some more space to make out the patterns. For example, there is a mode called Scale mode which shows you where the notes are on the strings that make up whatever shape you are practising frequently. Selecting a major scale in a known key allows you to see the distribution of those notes over the strings. Change the root note and see the pattern alter. Then try the Find a note mode. It will find every single one of the D notes or B notes on the neck, reinforcing your mental map of the instrument.
In scale mode the interval labels can be very helpful when learning about chord tones and where they relate to the root. What I would of suggest doing is spend a little time looking at various arpeggios and scales in order to gain an understanding of how they relates. It helps link the theory with the actualy appearance of the guitar. Then, by using the auditory feedback, you can train your ear to identify the pitch for every position on the fretboard.
Essentially this is a way to teach yourself the neck intuitively from looking at it and hearing it. Click around and get familiar with where the notes connect, and be confident that you are moving around the guitar.