Online fretboard tools

Online tablature player

Tools created by a bass playing programmer.

• Read and extract notes from tabs
• Play the notes in the tab
• Display the positions on the neck of any instrument
• Show the movement of the note positions on the fretboard in time

Online tablature player demo

Play your own guitar tabs or see the example below:

• Click a note on the fretboard to hear it.
• Doubleclick to toggle visibility
• Hover to see the occurences in tablature

e|--0-----0--0--------0--------0--0--0-|
B|--0-----0--0--------0--------0--0--0-|
G|--1-----2--1--------2--4-----4--2--1-|
D|--2--3--3--2-----5--3--------5--3--2-|
A|--2-----3--2--5-----3-----5--5--3--2-|
E|--0-----0--0--------0--------0--0--0-|

E:|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
B:|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
_:|__G#_|__A__|_____|__B__|_____|_____|
_:|_____|__E__|__F__|_____|__G__|_____|
_:|_____|__B__|__C__|_____|__D__|_____|
E:|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|
  
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Fretboard map

Using the fretboard map you can see the postion of any combination of notes on the fretboard of your preferred instrument (guitar, bass or ukulele)

Try the fretboard map right now, choose your instrument, enter notes and you will get a map of the notes on your instrument.

Show all positions of individual notes on the neck of your instrument.

See the position of the notes on the fretboard for common guitar chords.

Parse guitar or bass tablature

See the finger positions of tabs on the neck of your instrument of choice

You can toggle notes on or off to create your own chord shapes.

Extract notes and chords from text

Reverse scale and chord lookup

Map individuals notes to the fretboard