The Hardest Notes to Find on the Guitar Fretboard

Gitori’s Find the Notes game has drawn more than 10,000 players over three years, generating 275,169 data points on guitar note identification. The collected data produced a fretboard heatmap showing which notes players struggle to locate, with red marking the hardest and green the easiest. The dataset offers an unusually large empirical view of how musicians learn fretboard geography, a skill typically taught without quantitative feedback. The findings matter for music educators and edtech developers who can target instruction at the note positions players most often miss. What to watch next is whether Gitori publishes the underlying data or expands the game to track improvement over time.