Fret Pro Guitar Notes Trainer

Overall I love this app because it is exactly how I’ve been trying to practice the fretboard but it takes away two important time lags in that it tells me where new notes are and helps me randomly play one. I am however currently stuck and I am not sure why… the app says I am playing all the notes correctly and gives no indicators that it is picking up extra noise but at the end of each practice most of my progress bars actually go down? If there is a timing element or if the app thinks I’m playing the wrong note then I feel like that should be given as feedback at the end. It tells you during the lesson if you play the wrong note though so is there a hidden aspect I don’t know about or is the algorithm struggling for some reason? Edit: I’m reducing my rating. I love this app as a concept but it’s been a couple days and it’s just not useable. None of the progress bars go up, I can’t get past the A string despite playing the notes all correctly, extremely well, and at a quick consistent tempo. I’ve read similar reviews with the EXACT same issues that don’t haven’t seemed to be addressed so until it’s fixed I have to abandoned the app because it no longer serves as a learning tool.

The app makes too many mistakes. I have tried multiple guitars, two ipads and adjusted the background filter settings and different input location settings for the microphone, but nonetheless about every 5th to 10th input it will either: a. flash red like I misplayed the note immediately before I even get a chance to play the note; b. not recognize that I am playing the correct note, even though my guitar is in tune and the app itself shows I am playing the correct note when I go into the settings; c. get stuck where it won’t move off a note and won’t turn green or red, but just flash gray like I am not playing at a high enough volume. I can clear this by telling it to show the fretboard and playing the note there and then going through the steps to hide the fretboard but that is very tedious. Also, on one of my ipads, if I exit back to the main screen and then come back later to play, it can’t pick up any guitar sounds unless I swipe the app closed and reopen it. I would switch to five stars if these problems could be fixed. UPDATING: At the developer’s suggestion I upped the bass knob on my amp and turned down the treble and mid range and that mostly fixed things. I think the app will now help me upgrade my reasonable fret board knowledge to my goal of locating the notes without any conscious thought or effort.

I pulled down all of the apps in this category and tried them all out and this was the best of them. I like how it’s a one time purchase for full features, at a reasonable price. I love how it works with audio interfaces as well as the mic to recognize your notes and the recognition is spot on and fast (at least through audio interface which is what I use). The developer is responsive to suggestions and is still actively enhancing this app. What I’d like to see in future releases is support for custom tunings, support for all frets and/or a custom selection of frets and/or notes, as well as the ability to configure note recognition to accept any octave of the given note so that you could for instance be prompted to play E and it would accept any octave of E allowing you to jump around or play the same not in a higher octave on the same string. Also a more specific configuration would be cool where it could also prompt for a very specific note such as E3 (E in the third octave) where your be memorizing not only the notes but also their octave.