Visual Music Theory

Visual Music Theory

About this app

Stop memorizing. Start visualizing.

Music theory is usually taught as charts to be memorized. Visual Music Theory turns it into something you can see, hear, and rearrange until it makes sense. Instead of reading about how a scale sits on the fretboard, you watch it light up across all twelve frets and six strings at once.

BUILD YOUR OWN DASHBOARDS

Create dashboards that reflect what you care about, whether the chords, scales, and lyrics for a song or a piano widget and circle of fifths widget to help you learn theory.

Eleven interactive widgets to build with:

• Guitar fretboards, with scales and chords mapped across the neck and CAGED shape support
• Piano keyboards showing scales and chord voicings across registers
• Guitar chord diagrams with multiple voicings, fingerings and inversions
• Piano chord diagrams
• Scale wheels that show how a scale is built, degree by degree
• Circle of fifths with diatonic chords and Roman numeral analysis
• Key signatures
• Mode tables for comparing the seven modes side by side
• Guitar tab
• Notes and formatted text
• Embedded video

HEAR IT, NOT JUST SEE IT

Play notes and chords straight from the fretboard or the keyboard, so the shape you are looking at connects to the sound you are hearing. That connection is the part that diagrams alone can never teach.

LEARN BY PLAYING

Practice finding notes on the fretboard with built-in games, and browse a growing library of guitar and piano chords with filters for open chords, triads, and starting string.

SHARE WHAT YOU BUILD

Save your dashboards, share them with students or bandmates, and publish them to the community. Browse what other people have built and use it as a starting point for your own.

FOR EVERY LEVEL

Beginners finally get to see what the theory actually means.

Experienced players get a fast way to map an idea across the neck or the keyboard, work out voicings, and check how a progression sits in a key.

Teachers get shareable lesson dashboards and printable worksheets.

FREE TO START

Create a dashboard, use theory tools, play free games, and browse community dashboards without paying anything.

Paid plans add unlimited dashboards, all the games, sharing and publishing, screenshot exports, and dashboard version history. The Premium plan adds AI: describe a song and get a complete dashboard built for it, or generate chord diagrams on demand.

Works on phones, tablets, and the web, with the same account everywhere.

What’s new

Updated for Android 16.