E Major
E Major · note names
Lesson 1 of 5
Tap any E on the fretboard
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Root
Scale tone
Pull a note to bend
Guided course · Beginner · About 10 minutes
Music Theory Basics
Learn four ideas you can immediately see and hear on the guitar. No reading music required.
Scale tones
Click a note to hear it and locate every copy on the neck.
NOTE
Harmonized degrees
Click a degree to hear the chord built from it.
CHORD
Backing tracks
Current key & scale
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Updates your fretboard. Play when you’re ready.
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Music tools
Guided learning and useful music-theory tools.
Progression builder
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Drag any chord card above into this progression.
Interactive chord map
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Click a chord to hear it · use the lower half to change shape · drag it into the progression below.
Click a chord to hear it · use the lower half to change shape · drag it into the progression below.
Chord map paused for this scale collection
Standard diatonic triad / seventh-chord harmonization is shown for 7-note scales. Pentatonic, blues, whole-tone, and diminished collections do not have one single equivalent chord map.
Metronome
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Quarter notes
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