Want to learn the guitar fretboard? Even for experienced guitarists, mastery of the fretboard is elusive, yet understanding the layout of the guitar fretboard is crucial for really unlocking the potential of the guitar. A comprehensive knowledge of the guitar fretboard will enable you to understand and learn scales more easily, improvise more fluidly, find notes faster, read music more easily and play with greater confidence.

Learning the guitar fretboard is critical for all guitarists to expand their abilities to the full, yet many don't bother as it seems dull and you can "get by" without it.

But now to help guitarists jump the hurdle of learning the fretboard, GuitarCourses.ws is proud to present the GuitarCourses.ws Fretboard Trainer! This free software incorporates lessons and practice drills to teach crucial skills in navigating the fretboard. Using the GuitarCourses.ws Fretboard Trainer, you'll learn:

• Open strings
• Root-note shapes
• Naming the notes and finding notes
• Major scale patterns
• Natural Minor scale patterns

Each lesson is backed-up with a set of practice exercises so you can keep practicing the skills and patterns learned in the lessons until you know them thoroughly. Answers are entered on a virtual fretboard, allowing you to learn and visualise the patterns properly before reinforcing the knowledge with your guitar.

Fretboard Trainer is designed to be used without your guitar, so you can maximise your learning time for example by using it on a laptop while travelling. Imagine how quickly you can develop your guitar fretboard skills by using all this wasted time to practice fretboard patterns, or by being able to quickly run the application up and practice for 10 minutes in a break from work!

Best of all, the Fretboard Trainer software is completely free, so download it today and finally get to grips with the guitar fretboard.