Free Bass Guitar Tools

Interactive bass guitar fretboard for 4, 5 and 6-string basses — tap any note to hear it at bass pitch

See any bass scale across the whole neck in any key, with the root notes ringed — tap a note to hear it

The chord tones of any chord across the whole bass neck — root and guide tones ringed, tap a note to hear it

Learn the notes on the bass neck — one position lights up and you name the note, from open position to the whole neck

Tap a string to hold its exact reference pitch and tune your bass by ear — 9 tunings with notes, octaves and Hz

Free online bass tuner that listens through your mic — tunes 4, 5 and 6-string bass down to a low B, with a cents needle

Get a walking bass line over a 12-bar blues, ii–V–I and more in any key — as tab, with playback at your tempo

One-finger-per-fret drills for bass — all 24 finger permutations, the spider walk and a chromatic climb, as tab with playback

Every interval on the bass neck, minor 2nd to octave — see both notes, the fingering shapes from any root, and hear it

The frequency in Hz of every note on the bass neck, frets 0–24 in 9 tunings — tap a note to hear it and see its harmonics

Learn to read bass clef — a note appears on the staff, and you name it or find it on the bass neck, from the staff to ledger lines

10 bass groove patterns from Motown to metal, over a chord progression in any key — rhythm tab with a drum part to play along with

Chord shapes that sound good on bass — power chords, root and 10th, spread triads and 7th shells — for 8 chord types in any key

Paste bass tab and convert it to another tuning — standard to Drop D, 4-string to 5-string and more, with every note at the same pitch

Fret positions for any bass scale length, 30″ to 36″ or custom, in inches or mm — including fanned-fret multiscale layouts

Write bass tab on a rhythm grid and hear it played back — type frets or tap the neck, add slides and ghost notes, export as text

Lock a bass line to a drum groove in 20 genres, from 40 to 240 BPM — the rhythm section, minus you.

A steady click from 40 to 240 BPM for tightening your timing on root-note and eighth-note lines.

Raises the tempo for you while you repeat a fill or a fast line, so speed builds without guesswork.

Loop one section of a YouTube video and slow it down to learn a bass line by ear.

Detect a song's key from an audio file before you start working out the bass part.

Shift a song up or down to match a drop-tuned or down-tuned bass, without changing its tempo.

See which roots belong to a key and how keys connect — the map behind walking lines and chord changes.

Learn to hear the intervals bass lines are built from — fifths, octaves, and the major or minor third.

Tap along to any song to get its tempo, then set the metronome or drum track to match.