The needle stops, the lamp goes green, and you know the string is right.
A2 110.00
D3 146.83
G3 196.00
B3 246.94
E4 329.63
Open shape. Second finger on the sixth string, third on the first.
Tapped four times a moment ago: 91, 93, 92, 92.
changes a minute,
your best this week
You plucked the string. Now close three things.
An invented free tuner, drawn from the habits of the category. Nothing here is anyone’s actual screen.
This is the first minute with a free tuner, for somebody who was handed a guitar last week and does not yet know what flat means.
from opening a free tuner to a reading a beginner could act on, averaged over nine of them on a mid-range phone.
Flat or sharp, and which way to turn.
The window is six cents wide, three either side of nothing. Inside it, the lamp turns green and stays green.
Play any string and Fret names it. Low E is 82.41 Hz; at six cents flat it is sounding 82.12.
Every tuning, with the reason anyone plays in it.
Twenty-eight of them, guitar first, then bass, ukulele and mandolin. No list of four-letter codes without a sentence next to it.
What nearly every song you know is written for.
Sixth string down a whole tone. Power chords with one finger.
Everything a semitone lower. Kinder on the voice, fatter on the strings.
Re-entrant: the G is the high string, not the low one.
Same letters as the guitar, one octave below.
Sixth string down a whole tone. Power chords with one finger.
Strum nothing and you already have G major. Slide blues lives here.
Open and unresolved. Folk, fingerstyle and long ringing drones.
The whole open guitar is a D chord. Where the slide lives.
Open shape. Second finger on the sixth string, third on the first.
Shapes drawn the way a teacher draws them.
First finger flat across all six strings at the first fret. The bar is drawn as a bar, not as six identical dots.
340 shapes, filtered by what your fingers can reach today: open, barre, power, seventh.
Tapped four times a moment ago: 91, 93, 92, 92.
changes a minute,
your best this week
Keep the beat, then count the changes.
Tap four times and Fret takes the tempo. The drill times one minute of a single chord change and keeps the score.
Saturday’s 48 is the week’s best. Today sits at 46.
One face. Note, direction, distance, verdict.
And when it lands: green ring, green lamp, zero cents.
Low E, six cents flat. Sounding 82.12 Hz against a target of 82.41 — the amber lamp and the word “flat” say the same thing twice, on purpose.
Fret · A Goat Scale conceptThe first time it stays in tune, you keep playing.
Most people who give up on the guitar give up in the first fortnight, on an instrument that never sounded right.
A Goat Scale concept
Six strings. Six numbers. All green.
to take all six from wherever they were to inside three cents, with auto detection on.
Designed by Goat Scale
Every surface is either black tolex or a cream control face. Green means one thing only: the string is right.