See How Music Really Works

Fretboard Toolbox shows how chords, scales, and keys fit together so you can understand and create music on any instrument.

Music Starts Making Sense When You Think in Keys

One of the best-kept secrets in music is that songs are organized into keys,

and each key has specific scales, chords, and chord notes that are guaranteed to fit together.

Once you can see those relationships, music becomes

so much easier to understand, predict, and improvise!

Understanding music doesn’t happen all at once.

It happens step-by-step, as you start to see how beautifully all of the pieces connect!

To start connecting pieces, follow the “Toolbox Path”. Learn lots more about the Path on the Start Here page.

Step 1. Learn the Major scale and the notes that belong to that key.

Step 2. See how the chords are built from those notes.

Step 3. Learn the notes that make each chord, and find them on your instrument.

Step 4. Hear how those chords work together in real music.

Step 5. Discover the world of natural minor keys.

Step 6. Explore what happens when minor key sounds meet Major key progressions.

The Major scale holds the key to unlock the doors.

That’s what Fretboard Toolboxes help you see —

in any key and on any instrument.

Check out some places Toolboxes are used all over the world!