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WHAT'S NEW: MEET COURSES: A new Courses tab, in place of Games, brings guided lessons to Guitar Buddy. Each course takes one skill and works through it step by step, with short explanations, animated fretboard demos you can hear, and practice that builds on what came before. NOTES ON THE FRETBOARD: The first course teaches you to find any note on any string straight away, without counting frets. You learn one note at a time, at a slow metronome tempo, so you practice remembering the position instead of working it out. You start with the natural notes, move on to sharps and flats, then cover the upper neck and finally the whole neck. The intro and its demos are free to try, and the full course is a one-time in-app purchase. FIND IT & NAME IT: Graded checkpoints test you in both directions. Find It asks you to tap where a note lives; Name It shows you a position and asks which note it is. You'll know for sure whether a note is solid or still needs work. OCTAVE SHAPES & FRET BOXES: An Advanced chapter goes further. Octave Shapes show you how to jump from a note to the same note on another string. Fret Boxes take every note inside a four-fret window and drill them in random order, across the lower and upper neck. PLAY A MELODY: Use what you've learned on real tunes. Read the note names, find them on the neck, and play along in the tune's own rhythm, from "Ode to Joy" and "Twinkle, Twinkle" to folk favorites and classical pieces. Tap Hear It to listen to a tune before you play it. DAILY MIX & TROUBLE SPOTS: A quick Daily Mix keeps all your notes fresh in about three minutes a day. Trouble Spots tracks the notes you miss and the ones you mix up, shows a heatmap of the weak areas on the neck, and builds review drills for exactly those spots. BUILD SPEED: Once you can recall the notes reliably, raise the metronome step by step from 40 to 80 BPM. With Your Own Practice you can also set up a session with exactly the notes, strings, neck area and tempo you want. SEE THE ANSWER IN THE JOURNEY: The Journey level completion screen now shows you the correct answer, so every miss teaches you something. BETTER ON IPAD, IPHONE DUO & MAC: Layouts now adapt to the space you have, whether that's iPad Split View, opening and closing iPhone Duo, or resizing a window on the Mac. Sidebars show your options instead of empty pages, long pages no longer stretch across wide screens, and navigation on the Mac is smoother.
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 in a clean interface built to keep you focused. NEW – COURSES: NOTES ON THE FRETBOARD Learn to find any note on any string straight away, without counting frets, in a step-by-step guided course. • Learn one note at a time at a slow metronome tempo, so you remember positions instead of working them out • Short explanations with animated fretboard demos you can hear • Natural notes, then sharps and flats, the upper neck, and the whole neck • Graded Find It and Name It checkpoints • Advanced chapter: Octave Shapes and Fret Boxes • Play a Melody: play along with familiar tunes in their real rhythm • A three-minute Daily Mix, and Trouble Spots that target the notes you miss • Build Speed from 40 to 80 BPM, or set up your own practice session Try the course intro for free; the full course is an optional one-time in-app purchase. HOME: YOUR PRACTICE AT A GLANCE • Track your practice streak and keep it alive • Get a personalized AI practice summary of what's going well and what to work on next • Get smart recommendations based on weak spots and topics you haven't touched in a while • See a stats breakdown across every training mode • Set practice reminders for the days and times that suit you MELODY JOURNEY – 165 LEVELS A structured ear training path from beginner to expert: 165 levels in 33 topic groups, from simple intervals to chromatic melodies, melodic direction, scale degrees, and chord inversions. Track your progress and unlock new topics as you master the previous ones. FIVE FOCUSED TRAINING MODES • NOTES: Recognize notes across the whole fretboard or specific fret ranges • MELODIES: Identify melodic sequences based on different scales, at various lengths and difficulty levels • CHORDS: Build your chord vocabulary by ear and by shape, with optional inversions • CHORD PROGRESSIONS: Identify each chord in a progression, from two-chord patterns to four-chord sequences • INTERVALS: Recognize intervals played melodically or harmonically, or sing them and check your pitch – all 11 intervals, in any direction EXPLORE: SCALES, CHORDS & INTERVALS An interactive reference, all shown on the fretboard. See every chord shape with correct note names and play it back, browse intervals with famous reference melodies, and explore scale patterns across the full neck. INTERACTIVE FRETBOARD & AUDIO ANALYZER A beautifully designed virtual fretboard shows exactly where notes and chords sit on the neck. The microphone-based analyzer detects what you play in real time, showing the note name and octave so you can check intonation and pitch accuracy. Optimized for iPhone, iPad and Mac, in portrait and landscape, with layouts that adapt to iPad Split View, iPhone Duo and resizable Mac windows. Also includes a Tuner and a Metronome. DESIGNED FOR REAL PROGRESS Guitar Buddy is a focused training tool – not a game with distractions. It helps you: • Memorize every note on the neck • Recognize chords by name and structure • Develop your inner ear for intervals and melodies • Build a consistent habit with streaks, reminders, and personalized recommendations IDEAL FOR • Guitarists who know shapes but want to understand the actual notes • Self-taught players filling in fretboard and harmony gaps • Students preparing for music theory exams • Musicians developing melodic ear and interval recognition Take control of your fretboard knowledge and ear training.