Fret Map

You are shown a target note and a stretch of guitar fretboard. Tap every fret position where that note sounds before time expires, then move on to the next note. The wider the fret range, the more positions you must hunt down.

• Read the called note
• Click each fret on every string where that note appears
• Beat the timer to bank the round and keep your streak
• Choose your fret range to make it easier or harder

• Desktop: click directly on the fretboard to mark positions
• Phone & tablet: tap the frets, the board responds to touch

• Daily: the same fixed challenge for everyone each day
• Practice: a fresh fretboard every run
• Difficulty sets the span: frets 0–5, 0–9 or the full 0–12

• Use the octave shapes: the same note repeats two strings up and two frets along
• Learn the open-string notes first so you can count up quickly
• Start with the narrow range to lock in the lower positions before widening out

Fret Map is for guitarists who want every note on the fretboard under their fingers.

• Skills: guitar fretboard, note names, music literacy for guitar
• Best for: roughly grades 5–12 (ages 10+)
• For parents & teachers: every note on the guitar fretboard.

Tapping every fret position where a target note sounds is the guitar fingerboard's central awkwardness: the same pitch appears in several places.

Requiring all of them, across a widening range, is the original demand.

That redundancy is the instrument's defining feature. A piano has one key per pitch and a guitar has up to six places for the same note, which is what makes fingering a choice — and why a guitarist who knows only one position for each note is permanently constrained.

Fret Map is an original, free browser game for guitarists who want every note under their fingers. It is built in-house and plays instantly in your browser.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.