A set of free tools to make sense of fretboards, chords and scales.
Online tablature player
Tools created by a bass playing programmer.
The online tablature player can:
- Read and extract notes from tabs
- Play the notes in the tab
- Display the positions on the neck of any instrument
- Show the movement of the note positions on the fretboard in time
Online tablature player demo
Play your own guitar tabs or see the example below:
- Click a note on the fretboard to hear it.
- Doubleclick to toggle visibility
- Hover to see the occurences in tablature
Part 1
|-----0-------0-------0---|-------0----(0)-0-0-| |-4h5---4S2-0-------0-----|-------0----(0)-0-0-| |---------------1S2-----2-|-2p1---1----(1)-1-1-| |-------------------------|-----2-2----(2)-2-2-| |-------------------------|-------2----(2)-2-2-| |-------------------------|----------------0-0-|
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E:|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| B:|_____|__C#_|_____|__D#_|__E__|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| _:|__G#_|__A__|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| _:|_____|__E__|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| _:|_____|__B__|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| E:|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Try the fretboard map right now, choose your instrument, enter notes and you will get a map of the notes on your instrument.
Using the fretboard map you can see the postion of any combination of notes on the fretboard of your preferred instrument (guitar, bass or ukulele)
Map individuals notes to the fretboard and see all positions of the individual notes on the neck of your instrument.
Parse guitar or bass tablature
See the finger positions of tabs on the neck of your instrument of choice. Toggle notes on or off to create your own chord shapes.
Chord tools
Reverse scale and chord lookup
See the position of the chord shapes on the fretboard.