What is Fretboard Boxes?
Fretboard Boxes is an interactive educational tool designed to help guitarists visualize the fretboard, internalize scale patterns, and understand chord relationships. The app emphasizes clear, practical visualizations such as pentatonic box patterns, blue notes, and circle-of-fifths relationships to make theory immediately usable on the instrument.
Why use it?
The tool lets you change tunings, highlight scale positions, and show blue notes to explore phrasing and improvisation. It also displays related chords so you can see how scales and harmony interact in real time. The interface is aimed at both beginners learning basic patterns and experienced players exploring musical ideas.
How to get the most out of it
- Start with a single key and practice the five pentatonic boxes across the neck.
- Enable blue notes to experiment with blues phrasing and bending ideas.
- Use the chord grid to build simple progressions and practice scale choices for each chord.
- Try different tunings to hear how the same fingerings translate into new sonic contexts.
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