INTERACTIVE / YOUR GUITAR JOURNEY
Tell me the feeling.
I'll map the fretboard.
Answer four quick questions. You'll get a key and mode that match your mood, chords with shapes for your level, a strumming and a picking pattern for your genre, where to play the scale on the neck, arpeggios for every chord, and a lead line to start from, plus alternatives for each.
01 / YOUR SOUND
02 / CHORDS
Your progression
Each chord is one bar. Shapes are picked for your level; click a chord to open it in the chord library for more shapes.
Alternatives in the same key
03 / STRUMMING
Count out loud. Your hand keeps moving down on the numbers and up on the "&", even when it misses the strings.
04 / PICKING & FINGERSTYLE
Hold the chord shape and pick single strings. p = thumb (bass strings), i m a = index, middle, ring. With a pick, use down-strokes on the numbers and up-strokes on the "&".
05 / SCALE & WHERE TO PLAY
One scale covers the whole progression. Start in the recommended position (★), then connect the others and use the whole neck.
Root In this position Same scale elsewhere on the neck
Every position at a glance
Alternative scales for this sound
06 / ARPEGGIOS
The chord tones inside your scale
An arpeggio is a chord played one note at a time. Over each chord, its own notes are the safest places to land, and they sit inside the scale position you just learned.
Chord root 3rd / 5th / 7th in this position Target notes Other scale notes
07 / LEAD LINE
A melody built from your choices
Generated from your scale position: a chord tone on beat 1 of every bar, stepping through the scale in between. Play it, then change the rhythm or the target notes to make it yours.
08 / YOUR ROADMAP
The complete journey, step by step
Tick each step off as you go. Your progress is remembered in this browser.