Guitar Scales & Chords

Learn Scales, Chords & the Fretboard by Doing

With Guitar Scales & Chords you learn the way the great players did — hands on the fretboard, not buried in sheet music. It is a fully functional guitar simulator with interactive exercises that let you see and hear every scale, chord and mode in any position, then practise until it sticks. With over 2 million downloads and an average rating of 4.6 stars, it is one of the most popular and trusted ways to truly understand the guitar fretboard.

Choose any interactive exercise to become a complete guitarist.

Choose a key and all the appropriate notes light up. Then improvise to it.

Pick any chord song and learn to play all the required chords with the appropriate chord shape and fingerings.

For learning scales, chords and the fretboard, there are interactive exercises with different levels of challenges.

Adjust the fretboard size, guitar sound, left-handed mode or to use as a simulator or play along with a real guitar. The app fits exactly how you play.

An Educational App — Not Just a Chord Chart. Not a game following falling stars.

Most guitar apps simply show you a static diagram. Or following falling stars. Guitar Scales & Chords is different: it is an educational app built around interactive exercises that actually teach you the instrument. There is no sheet music to decode and no notation to learn first — you explore the real fretboard, hear every note, and build genuine understanding as you go. By ear. You can use the app as a simulator or use a real guitar and the app will listen to you play.

Three Tools in One

Scales & Modes — select any key and watch the scale or mode appear across the entire neck in any position, so you finally see how the patterns connect.

Chords — pick from a huge library, view the shape instantly, and slide it to any position to discover voicings up and down the fretboard.

Fretboard Notes — a focused, interactive exercise that teaches you the name of every note. Choose exactly which strings, frets and keys to drill so you learn efficiently.

Why Players Love It

Because it is hands-on and ear-led, the app suits complete beginners and improving players alike. Adjust the fretboard size, switch to a left-handed neck, jam over backing tracks, keep time with the metronome, and record your ideas, use with a real guitar or as a simulator. With more than 2 million downloads and a 4.6-star average, it has helped a huge community of guitarists understand the fretboard without ever opening a music book.

Record Player Could Only Play at a Slow Speed

Jimmy Page was the legendary guitarist and founder of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page got his first real guitar around age 12–13. He didn't have any formal guitar teacher. He learned from listening and he credits British skiffle records and American blues 78s for teaching him. He would literally wear out records on his family's old turntable. He'd lift the needle, drop it back, over and over on the same bar. He would listen so intently he'd memorize the phrasing before even trying it on guitar. He described this in interviews: I'd hear a lick, then stop the record, find it on the fretboard. Then play it until it sounded exactly the same."

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"I learned everything by ear. You couldn't buy sheet music for Muddy Waters or Elmore James. You had to listen. And that was the best education." Like many 50s/60s British kids, Page discovered American 78 rpm blues records. But his British record player could switch speeds to handle the those 78 rpm records. He'd play a 78 at 45 or 33 rpm. It would drop the pitch and the tempo. This let him hear fast runs slowed down. He could catch finger positions, bends, and vibrato details. He described it like being able to 'see inside' the solo.