Posts Tagged ‘guitar’

I’ve been wanting to learn my scales for a long time and I found 2 free applications and 1 website that do a good job of helping you learn them.

• Fretboard Warrior - Plays the sound of a note and shows it on the guitar and you pick which note it is. Requires no install as its a Flash Projector file.
• Advanced Fretpro - Its like Fretboard Warrior, exept it doesn’t play any sound. However you can tell it what strings and frets to omit, so you can practice on the areas you don’t have mastered yet. It also has a built in chord patterns and scales.
• Guitar Chords - Tons of web based tools to find chord names, chord progressions, scales and more. Some of the tools are done in flash, which makes it easier to use, since you don’t have to submit a form.

If you are familiar with GuitarPort, GNUitar is almost the equivalent. No expensive input device is needed though, this one is free, open source and works on Windows and Linux. Simply plug your guitar into your soundcard (line-in works best), you may need to buy an adapter to make it fit. You can add several effects and adjust each one as you please. The effects are: distortion, sustain, reverb, echo, delay, chorus, flanger, equalizer, noise reduction, wah-wah, phasor, tremolo and vibrato.

The delay time in Windows is like half a second or so. Their website says the delay in Linux is much shorter. I haven’t tried it on Linux myself though. Some times the sounds sound too computerish but that could be just my soundcard and settings I use. Overall its a nice program and fun to play with.