The fretboard notes are the individual pitches available at each fret of each string on a guitar. Pressing a string against a fret shortens its vibrating length and raises its pitch by one semitone per fret. In standard tuning the six open strings sound E, A, D, G, B and E from lowest to highest, and moving up any string steps chromatically through the musical alphabet. Because the octave contains twelve semitones, the layout repeats at the twelfth fret: the note there matches the open string an octave higher, and the pattern of the first twelve frets recurs above it. Learning these positions lets you find any note anywhere, build chords and scales with confidence, and move ideas around the neck. Rote memorization is slow, so many players drill note recognition as a game, naming the note at a random fret and checking it. FretMind's Know Your Fretboard turns this into practice, asking you to identify notes and confirming your answers through microphone pitch detection.