Name the marked note.
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Most popular Name the note A fret is marked. Pick its note name. 20 prompts.Practice with your real guitar in Fretonomy
Why time every answer
A score tells you how many notes you got right. It does not tell you which right answers came instantly and which took four seconds of counting up from the nut, and the slow ones are what let you down when you play. This fretboard quiz records the time of every answer, from the moment the question appears to the moment you respond, and keeps it for the end of the round.
When the last question is answered, every note you were asked is drawn on the neck in a colour: green for fast, yellow for medium, orange for slow and red for a wrong answer. Hover over a note, or press and hold it, to see its exact time. Underneath, your slowest answers are listed, so you know exactly what to practise next.
Reading the heatmap
Look for clusters rather than single dots. One slow note is often a lapse of attention. A band of orange along one string, or a block of yellow above the seventh fret, shows a part of the neck you have not learned yet. Many players find they are quick on the low E and A strings, where chord roots live, and slower on the G and B strings.
Red needs a different fix from orange. A wrong answer means the note is not known at all, so look it up and play it a few times. A slow but correct answer means the note is known but not yet automatic, and only repetition fixes that.
Name the note or find the fret
The setup page lets you run the spotter in either style. In name-the-note style a fret is marked and you pick its name, which maps your reading speed position by position. In find-the-fret style a note name appears and you tap where it is played, which shows how quickly you can locate each note when you need it.
Getting a useful heatmap
Match the practice area to what you want to check. To test one string thoroughly, choose a single string and twenty questions, which asks every fret on it at least once. To test the whole neck, choose forty or sixty questions so each region gets enough answers to colour.
Answer at your normal pace. Rushing turns slow notes into wrong ones and hides the very hesitation the map is meant to show, while stopping to think turns every note orange. Play the way you would in the middle of a song.
Frequently asked questions
How are fast, medium and slow decided?
An answer under 1.5 seconds counts as fast, 1.5 to 3 seconds as medium, and over 3 seconds as slow. Wrong answers are shown in red whatever their time.
How many questions should I answer?
Twenty gives a quick check. Forty or sixty cover more of the neck, so the heatmap has fewer gaps and says more about each string.
Does the Next button change my answer times?
No. Each answer is timed from the moment the question appears to the moment you answer, so time spent before pressing Next is not counted.
Does the heatmap cover every fret?
It shows the positions you were asked about. Questions are dealt so that each position in your practice area comes up once before any comes up again, so a longer round covers more of the neck.