Guitar Chords & Scales Theory is a guitar chord finder, scale finder, progression builder, fretboard trainer, ear trainer, metronome, and guitar music theory app for guitar players.
Identify guitar chords from fretboard notes, find scales that fit chords and progressions, build chord progression loops, learn the fretboard, train your ear, and practice soloing with guitar playback.
Use it to answer:
• What chord am I playing?
• What scale fits this chord?
• What scales can I use over this chord progression?
• How do I learn the notes on the guitar fretboard?
• How do I find chord tones for soloing?
Chord Finder:
Tap notes on the guitar fretboard to identify chord names, inversions, slash chords, extended chords, altered chords, and possible alternate names. Use it to understand chord shapes, check voicings, and learn what chord you are playing.
Scale Finder:
Find compatible scales and modes from selected notes, chords, or full progressions. Explore major, minor, pentatonic, blues, modal, jazz, harmonic minor, melodic minor, exotic, and advanced scale sounds.
Progression Builder:
Create chord progression loops with drums, guitar playback, tempo control, and groove options. Find scales that fit the key, tonal center, and chord movement. Practice pop, rock, blues, jazz, metal, folk, country, funk, worship, modal jams, and more.
Progression Library:
Practice with 140+ ready-made progressions, including 24-bar jam-along tracks for lead guitar, soloing, improvisation, chord-tone targeting, and backing-track style practice.
Fretboard Trainer:
Learn the fretboard by practicing notes, intervals, scale degrees, and chord tones directly on the guitar neck. Use goals, miss review, auto next, position practice, random fretboard ranges, and beginner-friendly difficulty levels.
Ear Trainer:
Train relative pitch with guitar sounds. Practice intervals, chord quality, and scale degrees with easy, medium, and hard lessons.
Circle of Fifths:
Explore major keys, relative minor keys, scale notes, diatonic chords, nearby keys, borrowed color, secondary dominants, and common progressions. Load common progressions into the Progression Builder for practice.
Chord Tone Analyzer:
See target notes over each chord in a progression. Learn which notes are chord tones, which notes are scale tones, and why some notes sound stronger over each chord.
Guitar Theory Tools:
Study chord tones, arpeggios, intervals, modes, scale degrees, compatible scales, chord-scale relationships, diatonic chords, progressions, and fretboard patterns visually.
Free Features:
• Chord Finder and Scale Finder
• Core chord and scale libraries
• Progression Builder with short progressions, tempo control, grooves, and playback
• Selected Progression Library items and jam-along tracks
• Fretboard practice for notes, intervals, and scale degrees
• Ear training practice, Circle of Fifths, and metronome
• 6-string and 7-string fretboards
• Essential tunings, favorites, history, note spelling, and offline access
Pro Upgrade:
Unlock the full guitar theory toolkit with a one-time purchase. No subscription required.
Pro Features:
• 120+ chord types and deeper chord analysis
• 100+ scales, including advanced, exotic, modal, pentatonic, blues, and jazz scales
• Full Progression Builder with longer progressions, more saves, and more practice options
• Full Progression Library with every progression, jam-along track, and practice style
• Chord Targets and Chord Tone View for lead guitar practice
• 3NPS scale paths, full-fretboard arpeggio views, advanced voicings, and deeper theory tools
• Hard trainer levels and expanded chord-tone practice
Great for guitar players, songwriters, lead guitarists, teachers, 6-string and 7-string players, and students learning guitar chords, scales, modes, intervals, fretboard notes, chord tones, arpeggios, progressions, soloing, improvisation, and music theory.