Online fretboard tools

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

e|-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0------------|
B|-------------------0-----------------------0---------------1-------0----------------------------------------|
G|-----------1-----------------------1---------------2-----------------------2-------0------------------------|
D|---2-----------------------2---------------------------------------------------------------3-------2--------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Fast Slow

E:|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
B:|__C__|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
G:|__G#_|__A__|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
_:|_____|__E__|__F__|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
_:|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
_:|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
  
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Fretboard map

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.

Learn more about tablature

Alternate tunings

How to read tablature notation

Random chord suggester

Suggests scales too.