Guitar practice, theory, tone, and backing tracks

fretref

Your handy versatile guitar companion, built for exploring scales, chords, tunings, harmony, and practice ideas without breaking your flow.

Fretref home screen showing guitar practice tools

Features

Enhance your guitar knowledge and practice routine with Fretref.

  • Intuitive guitar fretboard simulation with box shape visualisations, auto-play, and an exhaustive library of scales and chords.
  • Numerous custom tunings for multiple string counts, including 5, 6, 7, and 8 string setups.
  • Realistic guitar tone generated in realtime, with no sample downloads required.
  • Harmonisation tools with scale-chord compatibility charts for songwriters and composers.
  • A virtual jam buddy for practice with the AutoStrum feature.
  • Create and record backing tracks with chords, variable tempo, rhythms, and drumloops.
  • Right and left-handed orientation for comfortable practice.
  • International notation support across English, German, Spanish, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, and French systems.

Theory that plays back

From scale shapes to backing tracks, keep the whole practice loop in one place.

Major modes, melodic minor modes, symmetrical scales, harmonic scales, pentatonics, extended chords, inversions, slash chords, custom tunings, and premium library unlocks all live inside the same tool.

5-8string setups
Multinotation support
Realtimeguitar tone
Guitar performance artwork

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Start jamming.

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