Permanent free tier
US$0Enough to learn, practise, and prove the method on your guitar.
- All maintained Fretboard Fluency Lessons
- Open Position Natural Notes Builder and Direct practice
- Open Position Mastery
Fretboard fluency, trained on your guitar.
Stop calculating. Start knowing your guitar.
FretGOAT gives you short, focused exercises that listen while you play—helping notes move from something you work out to something you can use.
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Permanent free tier. No card required. Practise with your real guitar.
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- 01TargetCSee what to play
- 02PlayedCPlay your guitar
- 03FeedbackAcceptedHear the result
Target → play → immediate pitch feedback.
The lookup step gets in the way.
When finding each note takes several seconds, tabs, theory, new shapes and lessons become harder to act on.
The musical idea may make sense while the physical search still breaks the flow.
FretGOAT trains that missing connection until more of the neck feels available when you need it.
A simple loop, repeated with purpose
See the target. Play it on your guitar. Get immediate pitch feedback. Repeat where you hesitate. Your ongoing Mastery record grows from the practice itself.
See the target.
Play it on your guitar.
Get immediate feedback.
Repeat the weak spots.
Practise the bottleneck, not the whole map.
Train the part that is slowing you down.
Fretboard fluency is not one skill. FretGOAT separates three useful layers so you can work on the connection that is currently breaking your flow.
Guided Playing
Follow a visible fretboard target and train your hands to move to the right area without a long physical search.
Fretboard Recall
See a note and string, recall its position, and turn note knowledge into a playable response.
Notation Reading
Read the note on the staff, locate it on the neck, and play it as one connected action.
Progress you build, not a test you pass.
Mastery is an ongoing record of accurate, increasingly fluent practice. It keeps the evidence close to the work instead of interrupting practice with a separate exam.
Begin with Open Position, then extend into Core and Full Neck Mastery as your practice broadens.
Open Position
Core fretboard
Full neck
See the practice, then try it yourself.
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Start free. Go further when it helps.
A real free tier, and one clear upgrade.
Learn the method and build genuine Open Position fluency for free. The Founding Pass opens the broader practice and progression system.
Founding Pass · Public Beta
US$39 onceTake the same focused practice across more of the fretboard, with broader progression and guidance.
- Broader Builder and Direct practice
- Core and Full Neck Mastery
- Recommended Practice
No subscription. No timed trial.
See the Founding Pass — US$39 onceIncludes a voluntary 14-day refund policy, without limiting mandatory consumer rights.
Public beta
FretGOAT is useful now and still improving. The beta label sets honest expectations while the core experience is refined.
Your raw audio stays private
Pitch detection runs in your browser. FretGOAT does not record or upload your raw guitar audio.
Supported setup
Latest desktop Chrome on Windows 11, with a clean single-note electric guitar signal through an audio interface.
Internet required
An internet connection is required. Other browsers, platforms and input setups may work, but are not part of the initial supported environment.
Pitch, not physical position
FretGOAT listens for the pitch you play. It does not determine which physical string or fret produced it.
Ready when you are
Put the next few minutes into your fretboard.
Start with the permanent free tier. If broader practice becomes useful, the Founding Pass is one US$39 payment—not a subscription.