About this site

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About FretBase

A free, ad-free toolkit for bass players — built by a bass player, for bass players.

// who's behind this

Hey! I'm a bass player who got tired of squinting at badly designed chord charts and decided to do something about it. FretBase started as a set of tools I built for myself — because the fretboard can be confusing, and I figured a few well-made interactive tools would help more than another static diagram.

Turns out other people found them useful too. Go figure.

// why fretbase

Most music theory tools are either buried inside a DAW, locked behind a subscription, or designed for guitar players (no offence, but the bass is a different beast). FretBase is built specifically for bass — free, no ads, no accounts, no nonsense. Just you and the fretboard.

// what's coming

  • Fretboard Explorer
  • Pentatonic Explorer
  • Note Finder
  • Scale Explorer (CAGED positions)
  • Circle of Fifths
  • Chord Construction
  • Interval Trainer
  • Metronome & Rhythm Trainer
  • Ear Training

// find me elsewhere

FretBase is free and will always be free. If it's been useful, a coffee goes a long way towards keeping the tools coming. ā˜•