Practice notes, chords, scales, intervals, staff reading, the circle of fifths in 30+ different games. Or even generate chord progressions to help with song writing!
Fretonomy 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 950+ 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!
- Over 30+ different games and tools to practice with.
- Explore any of the 950+ 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.
- 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.
- Ear training for notes, intervals, and chords.
- Write and save your own song ideas by creating tablature with audio recordings, lyrics, and even chord progression generation.
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.
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This is a fun arcade style app that features so much games, you don’t get punished for picking the incorrect note, interval, chord, etc. rather it just shows your stats(that you can reset anytime) it really shows how much you’ve improved. I can easily get sucked into a round and find myself a thousand answers in! Time flys for me and it’s helped me learn to apply music theory to the guitar! Right now I’m working on the staff and fretboard game which is the closest thing to sight reading music notation. The one thing that I wish was implemented in the app was if there was accompanying videos to supplement it. Some of the games I had to surf the internet to connect the dots so I could actually understand how to play the game. Super awesome app and worth paying for the upgrades! I really hope that there will be more mini games added in the future… especially a few to help with sight reading measures of music and even sight reading chords on the staff! Download this right now if you’re serious about learning your stringed instrument!
Developer Response
Hey Funkie Skunkie, thanks for the detailed feedback! I really appreciate it. I will definitely consider these ideas, and if you have anymore please feel free to email me at contact@strongapplications.com. Glad you're enjoying the app and finding it useful!
Subscription Model
JJ_TennisFan-PingPongPlayer
Why does an app like this require a subscription model?I was just playing around with the app. I wanted to learn scales and chords for the mandolin - and it appeared that this would be the best app to learn these music theory concepts, especially as it contains a variety of fretted string instruments, such as guitar, ukulele and mandolin - along with options for various number of strings of these instruments. It also has a layout where I can visually see the fretboard.So I am exploring the app and going to the scales and chords for mandolin - and I see that in order to unlock the other scales and chords, I have to buy Fretonomy Premium. So I go to the app, assuming that it will just be a one-time in-app purchase - or I could upgrade to the Pro version in the app store.Then, next thing you know, it gives me the option to subscribe for one month or the better value to subscribe for one year (33% off). What? I really cannot support this business model. I should be able to own the app and use it at any time after purchasing, without having to continue paying on a continuous basis. It is bad enough that most music educational places that give lessons require you to pay for the month up front, I cannot tolerate this model coming down to an accessory for learning music. This should be a purchase and be able to use for the life of your music education resource.
Developer Response
Hey JJ-TennisFan, please understand that I am a solo developer, and an enormous amount of work goes into working on and maintaining the app, and I need to charge something in order to support further development of new features for the app. Thank you for your feedback and I hope you can understand.
3rd UPDATE
Juwan808
New Update, new issue! On the guitar and 6-string bass, the 23rd fret is wrong. It throws everything off. It shouldn’t be highlighted at all. It’s supposed to be the 24th fret, not the 23rd. I can’t even use it right now. Please fix.——————————————————————————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!!
Developer Response
Hey Juwan, we will definitely look into fixing this. Thank you for your feedback and hope you are enjoying the rest of the app! UPDATED: We have released an update to fix this in version 5.0.1. Hope it is more to your liking!
Great App! Worth the fees.
IbBaEsTO
If you are becoming an intermediate guitarist who wants to learn more than a couple chords and the Pentatonic scale in one place on the fretboard , this app has everything you need to go to the next level. This app is complete and teaches the basic fundamentals of music theory and how to apply. 5/5. Memorization of the fretboard is key!! If you really want to learn how to play through songs and play more than just the easiest rock songs, you need this knowledge. If you practice every day and implement this app in your learning and practice, you will most definitely get the results. You will be a better Musician as well as being able to apply music theory applications to the guitar itself. I understand most people would rather pay a one time fee, I would too, but for what you’re getting, it’s absolutely fair and if you can’t do the yearly, download the app. you really can’t do much without paying but you can get a feel for the app. If you think it’s for you, 2.99 a month is pretty fair. I don’t know why everyone seems to think that this should just be free for everybody or not worthy as a subscription. Someone put a lot of time in this app; for what you’re getting, it’s pretty reasonable. Tell me a place you can get one 45-minute guitar lesson that’s cheaper than the price of this app.✌️🤘🎸** I have nothing to do with the production of this app and I don’t know the owners or or the developers.**
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Version 28.0.2
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Information
Seller
Strong Apps LLC
Size
149.4 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.