Cadence: Guitar Theory

Antoine PIZON

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About this app

Learn guitar theory through interactive lessons, challenges, and ear training that actually stick.
Cadence helps you understand the fretboard, hear the music, and play with more creativity and confidence through visuals, sound, and smart repetition.

- Interactive Lessons
Structured 5 to 10 screen lessons combine visual fretboard diagrams and audio playback to make complex theory intuitive. Learn chords, scales, intervals, and progressions step by step without dry textbooks.

- Intuitive Recaps
Each lesson ends with a single-page flashcard recap that condenses all key concepts for quick, visual review. Perfect for short practice sessions or refreshing theory on the go.

- Playful Challenges
Turn theory into a game. Practice with theory, visual, and audio challenges that increase in difficulty as you improve. Earn trophies, build streaks, and train your brain and fingers to think musically.

- Ear Training
Sharpen your musical intuition through sound-backed lessons and dedicated audio challenges that teach you to recognize intervals, chords, scales, and progressions by ear.

- Progress Tracking
Stay motivated with daily activity reports, streaks, and global completion tracking. See your growth clearly and stay focused on your goals.

- Complete Guitar Library
Explore a vast collection of more than 2000 chords, scales, arpeggios, and progressions. Includes CAGED, 3NPS, and octave patterns with optional voicing suggestions to help you master the fretboard.

Ratings and reviews

I just started learning guitar and this app is incredible. It's very well thought out and I love that you can hear the notes if you "strum" the image. This is one of the first guitar apps I've downloaded where you can still use it without immediately getting blocked by a paywall. So far I've just noticed that if you want to do the challenges more than 5 times a day then you have to get the premium subscription and $3 a month is extremely reasonable. Plus no annoying ads! Well done!

Great app for learning music theory clear, practical, and easy to apply on the instrument. I bought the lifetime subscription and I’m very happy with it, thanks for the great work. Feature idea: a fretboard note-finding challenge. For example, choose a string and an adjustable interval (e.g. every 3 seconds) where a new note appears to find and play. Modes could include one string, full fretboard, or specific positions.

I've been playing guitar for a long time, but have always struggled to apply theory to the guitar. I've known a lot of the concepts in a vacuum, but Cadence finally helped it click for me. The information is beautifully presented, and even if you're someone who knows all the information it has to offer, it still acts as a wonderful reference. Cannot recommend it enough!

What’s new

• Fixed an issue where diagram buttons were unresponsive in some lessons.