Guitar-Buddy

Fretboard & Ear Training

Free · In‑App Purchases

Guitar Buddy Master the Fretboard by Ear – Notes, Chords, Melodies & Real‑Time Pitch Detection Unlock the guitar fretboard and train your musical ear with Guitar Buddy – a focused practice companion for guitarists who want to really know what they're playing, not just where to put their fingers. Whether you're a beginner learning the notes on the neck or an experienced player sharpening your chord recognition, melodic ear, and intonation, Guitar Buddy guides you through structured, interactive training sessions. KEY FEATURES MELODY JOURNEY – PROGRESSIVE 165-LEVEL ADVENTURE: Embark on a structured ear training path that takes you from beginner to expert. • 165 carefully designed levels organized into 33 topic groups • Progressive difficulty that builds upon previous skills • Train with everything from simple intervals to complex chromatic melodies • Track your progress with detailed statistics and completion percentages • Unlock new topics as you master previous ones Perfect for guitarists who want a clear roadmap to fretboard mastery, one level at a time. FIVE FOCUSED TRAINING MODES NOTES TRAINING: Learn every note on the fretboard and finally make sense of the neck layout. Practice note recognition across the entire fretboard, with focus on specific fret ranges. MELODIES TRAINING: Train your ear to identify melodic sequences based on different scales. Choose from various difficulty levels and melody lengths. CHORDS TRAINING: Develop your chord vocabulary by ear and by shape. Train with a wide variety of chord types, enable inversions, and challenge yourself with "guess first" style sessions. CHORD PROGRESSIONS TRAINING: Listen to a chord progression and identify each chord in sequence. Three difficulty levels take you from common two-chord patterns to complex four-chord sequences. INTERVAL SINGING: Train your inner ear by singing intervals before you play them. Listen to a root note, sing the target interval, then verify your pitch against a chord. Three difficulty levels covering all 11 intervals. Choose ascending, descending, or mixed direction. EXPLORE: SCALES, CHORDS & INTERVALS Browse an interactive reference covering scales, chords, and intervals – all visualized on the fretboard. • See every chord shape with correct note names and play it back directly • Browse all intervals with visual highlights and famous reference melodies you can play • Explore scale patterns across the full neck INTERACTIVE FRETBOARD VIEW A beautifully designed virtual fretboard shows you exactly where notes and chords appear on the neck. Optimized for portrait and landscape on iPhone, iPad and Mac. BUILT-IN AUDIO ANALYZER • Enable the microphone-based analyzer to detect what you play in real time • See the detected note name and octave as you play on your own instrument • Use it to check intonation, pitch accuracy, and ear-to-fretboard connection FLEXIBLE PRACTICE SETTINGS • Choose your training focus: Journey, Notes, Melodies, Chords, Chord Progressions, or Interval Singing • Limit practice to specific fret ranges • Select chord types to include, with optional inversion challenges • Choose interval playback as melodic or harmonic, and set direction • Adjust difficulty levels across all training modes DESIGNED FOR REAL PROGRESS Guitar Buddy is a focused training tool – not a game with distractions. It helps you: • Internalize note locations across the entire fretboard • Recognize chords by name and structure • Develop your inner ear for intervals and melodies • Build long-term fretboard fluency IDEAL FOR • Guitarists who know shapes but want to understand the actual notes • Students preparing for music theory exams • Self-taught players filling in fretboard and harmony gaps • Musicians developing melodic ear and interval recognition Take control of your fretboard knowledge and ear training. Download Guitar Buddy and start turning guesswork into confidence – one note, one chord, and one melody at a time.

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JOURNEY GROWS TO 165 LEVELS: The Melody Journey has been expanded from 100 to 165 levels across 33 topic groups. The revised curriculum introduces major/minor contrast and pentatonic scales earlier, giving you a more musical progression from the very first levels. MELODIC DIRECTION: A new challenge type in the Journey: listen to a short phrase and identify whether the melody is ascending, descending, or repeating. Builds the foundational listening skill behind all melodic ear training. HARMONIC INTERVALS: Train your ear on intervals played simultaneously — both notes at once — in addition to the sequential (melodic) intervals you already know. Choose between melodic and harmonic playback when starting an interval session. CHORD PROGRESSIONS TRAINING: A brand-new standalone training mode. Listen to a chord progression and identify the chords in sequence. Three difficulty levels help you go from common two-chord patterns to complex four-chord sequences. CHORD INVERSIONS: Both the Journey and standalone chord training now include inversion challenges. Toggle "Include Inversions" in chord settings to hear chords in root position or any inversion, with the answer revealing exactly which inversion was played. SCALE DEGREES: New Journey levels teach you to identify scale degree numbers (1, 2, 3 … 7) by ear — a key skill for understanding melody and harmony in any key. INTERVAL DIRECTION CONTROL: Choose ascending, descending, or mixed intervals when practising interval recognition or interval singing.

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    Seller
    • Thomas Sempf
    Size
    • 80 MB
    Category
    • Music
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
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    Copyright
    • © Thomas Sempf