Follow the Chords shows the arpeggio hiding inside the scale shape, moves it as the harmony changes, and listens to check you actually landed it.
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Chord tones in green, scale notes in lilac. Intervals labelled, not letters.
Not at the beginning. At the point where the scales are learned, the shapes are memorised, and the solos still sound like someone running exercises over a song.
The chord moves to the four and you are still in the same box, playing notes that were right two bars ago.
A band app plays the changes at you. It never shows where those changes live on the neck, or what to aim for.
Fretboard trainers take the time away so you can think. The whole difficulty is doing it while the bar keeps going.
The bar above the neck is the progression. As each chord arrives, the notes worth landing on light up and the rest fall back. You stop guessing which notes belong to which chord, because you can see it happening.
You start with the scale under your fingers and finish soloing over changes with nothing on screen to help you.
One note at a time, up the box and back. One chord, nothing to chase yet.
Just the notes inside each chord, so your ear learns where they live before anything starts moving.
Run the scale in fours, landing on a chord tone every bar. The lit notes move when the harmony moves.
The guide line fades. The fretboard clears. The band keeps going and you keep playing — still landing the changes, now from memory.
Every drill is graded, ordered and gated by tempo. Each one says what comes before it and what unlocks after. No more opening the app and wondering what to practise, which is how most practice time actually gets wasted.
Guide tones alone. Root ban. Never twice the same. Stay on the shared note. Each drill removes one option so a single skill has nowhere to hide — which is how the hard parts actually get learned.
Most practice tools take your word for it. Follow the Chords listens and marks every change: hit, missed or late. Your practice record is built from what you played, not what you meant to play.
Every drill in every key, so you learn a system rather than a shape.
Work one shape or join them across the whole neck.
Triads, sevenths, ninths, elevenths, thirteenths. Full scales or pentatonic.
Guide tones, thirds only, enclosures, reverse arpeggios, land on the one.
Standard changes ready to go, plus an editor for writing your own.
Drums, bass and keys. Swing or straight, fills, accents, six guitar tones.
Write, save and reuse your own lines. They stay in your account.
Every session, every tempo gate passed, every weak spot worth returning to.
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Everything on one screen. Panels stay shut until you want them.
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Start free trialShare any exercise as a link with the key, tempo, shape and progression already loaded. Your student opens it and starts. You see what they actually played between lessons, not what they say they practised.
Intermediate. You should already know your major scale shapes and be able to play along with a track. If you are still learning open chords, this will be frustrating — come back later and it will be waiting.
Through your device microphone or an audio interface. Nothing is recorded or uploaded. The pitch detection runs in your browser and only the result of each change is saved to your practice record.
It plays changes like a backing app, but that is where the similarity stops. A backing app never shows you the neck, never tells you what to aim for and never hears you. Follow the Chords does all three.
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