Tabula Fretboard vs Guitar Codex

Tabula turns the fretboard into an instrument you can think with. Pick a scale, a tuning, and a technique - Tabula generates a riff, lick, or scale run that is guaranteed in key, every note, every time. Not guessed. The engine enforces it. - 13 scales: major, the modes, harmonic and melodic minor, pentatonics, blues, phrygian dominant - 14 tunings: standard, drop, and open, across 6-, 7-, and 8-string - 16 techniques: ascending and descending runs, sweep, legato, tapping, arpeggios, string-skipping, sequences, economy picking, and more - Up to 7 neck positions for restating the exercise up the neck - An interactive fretboard with note, fret, and scale-degree labels - A backing band: hear the chords that fit your riff on 12 voices (piano, strings, organ, and more), tap any chord to hear it, and play riff plus backing together - Practice Packs: guided lesson sequences that play right on the fretboard - starting with Gypsy Jazz. Loop any lesson, slow it down, play along with its backing, and jam the phrase in its own key - A practice Library: keep the riffs you like with a tap and sequence them into your own warm-up sets Free, from the first launch: the whole practice tool - every scale, technique, and neck position, standard and drop tunings (including Drop G#), the backing band, up to three saved warm-ups, and the free module of every Practice Pack. Tabula Pro (one purchase, forever) adds alt and open tunings (DADGAD, open G/D/E), Metric Modulation, unlimited saved warm-ups, and the full Practice Packs. Perfect for: - Metal, djent, and prog players writing in drop and 7/8-string tunings - Students and self-teachers learning how scales, modes, and arpeggios sit on the neck - Songwriters and producers beating writer's block with ideas that are always in key - Lead players building soloing vocabulary and practicing at any tempo No accounts. No guesswork. Just the right notes, anywhere on the neck.

Guitar Codex is the app you reach for every time you pick up a guitar. Find a chord, run a scale, tune up, or sit down for a proper lesson. It works for total beginners and for players twenty years in. THE TOOLS Chord Finder: tap the frets on a blank fretboard and watch the chord names appear. Play a shape you can’t name and find out what it is, or build a chord note by note and see how it’s made. Note Map: every note on the neck, lit up by octave. Pick a note and see every place it lives, then open a tip and watch the octave pattern drawn right on the fretboard. Chromatic tuner with a smooth needle and presets for Standard, Drop D, Open G, DADGAD, and more. Reference pitch is adjustable from 432 to 445 Hz. Metronome with tap tempo, time signatures, and a visual beat indicator. An interactive circle of fifths: tap any key and see its seven chords, its key signature, and its relative key. THE LIBRARIES Every chord, scale, arpeggio, and triad renders on the same big, high-contrast fretboard diagram, with each note color-coded by its job in the shape: root, 3rd, 5th, and so on. You learn why a shape works, not just where your fingers go. Chords: every common type and voicing, with CAGED positions up the whole neck Scales: five boxes per scale, a full-neck view, and advice on when to use each one Triads: three string sets, three inversions each, all on one page Arpeggios: chord tones mapped across the neck for every quality THE COURSE 140 lessons in 12 modules take you from holding the guitar for the first time through chords, scales, theory, the CAGED system, progressions, modes, songwriting, technique, genre studies, and fretboard and ear mastery. Lessons teach with diagrams and real songs, and they’re written to be read with the guitar in your hands. All of Module 1 is free. Guitar Codex has no subscription and never will. The free version includes the Chord Finder, the Note Map, the full tuner, the metronome, and a real taste of everything else. Two optional one-time purchases unlock the rest: Pro, the complete reference toolkit, and Complete, which adds all 140 lessons plus every lesson added in the future. Buy it once and it is yours for good.