Solo - Fretboard Visualization App Reviews

There are no shortcuts to visualizing the fretboard despite what you may see on YouTube but the deliberate work that this app enables makes the proper way of learning the fretboard very worth it in the long run. Rather than memorizing shapes and thus getting locked into playing via muscle memory, learning where all of the notes are and how the intervals between the notes determine the sound is the best route to mastering improvisation. Spend only an hour with this app and you'll get its usefulne

Love this app. Dinged one star because I can’t add songs to practice changes. The app feels unfinished.

Been running into nothing but problems with this app. Crashes immediately all the time.

I have been studying Tom Quayle for a year and three months now. Anything that comes from him is guaranteed to make you move forward with your playing. The Sólo app is a great tool for fretboard visualization and for acquiring ideas for improvisation. I like to work with the jazz standards and intricate scale sequences. It’s a great tool for me to get ideas and feel more comfortable when going through the changes of the tunes. The combination between mindful, consistent practice and the proper m

Incredible app! My knowledge and improvisational skills have soared! Thank you!

This is a great tool to hone your chops and ears over changes. A great daily practice tool

This is a wonderful app to train the intervalic functions and for beginners learning the notes and relations on the fretboard

For what it costs, I was expecting more. Some things that feel like no brainers to me: showing the note on the treble clef, and showing the fretboard for scales. Something that would be nice given the technology is giving a reference note and then asking to find another note (interval ear training). Also, a way to gamify it (e.g. streaks, quests) would be nice to have a sense of reward. Overall a decent practice tool to start learning the fretboard, but given that it's paid it could be a lot mor

Incredibly valuable tool. Whenever Zi think I need practice I use Solo. It’s great.

I love that this app is connected to my guitar and knows what I’m playing. There’s really nothing else like this app. Makes me think and challenges my ability to see the fretboard and keeps me progressing in my guitar knowledge. Well worth the price.

I use it for everything. Have even made up exercises to use with it. Powerful.

Great job on the app guys. I just need to be able to practice intervals on a virtual guitar neck while walking, riding the bus, etc. It would be amazing if I could touch the screen and hear the note and have it identified as correct or incorrect for the interval that I’m practicing.

I recently started using this app. Viewed training videos. This app isn’t for beginners and maybe not for intermediate level players. I’m a visual learner; however, I’ve been told by my guitar instructor that I have a talent for knowing notes/chords by ear. I was expecting an interactive fretboard when doing scales. I also would like the option of seeing each note played in a scale instead of only seeing numbers (1, 3, 4, 6, 7).

Very intuitive and thought out extremely well.

Need some work ! Please fix it!

The app has a clean interface and does what it says it will. I’m surprised and very happy at how effective it’s proving at helping me with fretboard visualization.

Good app for what it does, but don’t expect a ton of development or bug fixes / innovation from the developers. This was a fairly expensive application that has since been largely abandoned by David and Tom. I’ve had a few email exchanges with David about it and they always seem to have something in the works, but nothing ever comes of it. So, for what this app does today, it works well, but when you purchase an app for $10, I’d expect a little bit more in terms of future updates and innovation

If you have patience on the initial setup and follow the tutorials, you’ll be using this app a lot. I’m glad a made the purchase.

This app if used properly will change the way you see your guitar fretboard forever. This thing has the potential to open your brain to see connections and patterns where before there was random bits and bobs. This could be the best gift you give to your musical journey.

Good app, if you already know the fretboard and notes of the scales. Only giving the intervals, and not an option to see the notes those intervals correspond to is frustrating. Seems a simple thing to add and open the usefulness to more folk. Especially as a paid app.

Solo has been a great tool. Im so tired of aimlessly noodling and wanted to take my playing up a notch. I want to play with purpose and intention. Learning the intervals that make up chords has been my biggest breakthrough on guitar to date. Toms YouTube videos are 100% worth checking out as well. He’s a great teacher. Thanks!

Once I’ve learned to use it the way it is supposed to be used. I will give a much better review I’m sure.

Love this app, and using as my daily training. Really gets my brain moving. To me this is a logical training device once you have learned your fretboard and basic patterns. If you haven’t learned the fretboard, this is actually a great training device for this as well.

Understanding and being able to find intervals in real time is critical to improving musicianship. I think this app will definitely help me with that. There are two features I can think of that would make the app better in my opinion. I’d like to see a built in metronome to optionally enforce steady time and it would be great if there was an optional visual representation of the intervals on a staff to reinforce recognizing intervals by sight. Thanks for a great practice tool

Offers a range of challenges for novice and beyond

Simple and sweet. Watch Tom Quayle’s YouTube videos on how best to approach practice with this app.

I’ve been studying triads, chords, harmony, etc for years but it never fully clicked the way I always wanted. Then I got this app, and within ONE DAY it all started finally clicking. The way this makes you automatically start to visualize the different intervals, scales, triads, etc is a complete game changer. Why did it take me so long to realize how easy it is to memorize the interval locations? Seriously thank you for creating this app, it’s a masterpiece! And ps: the YouTube videos help you

This isn’t a beginner app. I got this a while back and deleted it because it confused me. Now that I’m driving more head-long into theory and ear training, I’m finding this app extremely game changing. It’s made me think of theory in a new way, and it takes the work out of figuring out if I’m playing the right interval They even throw in tutorial videos and graphs of the interval shapes AND it works flawlessly with my iRig 2 interface Well worth paying for

I’m not sure why it’s not possible for people to add their own tunes or chord changes to the app. i know that i have iReal that i could use, but i like the “game” feel of this app as well as the way it forces me to think in intervals & scale degrees & the like

Incredible app! My knowledge and improvisational skills have soared! Thank you!

Great way to familiarize the fretboard at my own pace… and it works perfectly.

The Solo app is the perfect tool for learning not only the fretboard but the form and function of chords notes and scales. This tool will revolutionize how the guitar is taught

Frustrating that Bb and Eb are always confused. The sensitivity makes me crabby. Some notes are super sensitive and others barely recognized.

Got a brand new mac with an m1 chip and the app seems to crash.. I used this app all the time on my old iphone but really wanted to incorporate it into my "normal" practice workflow... If this is fixed, 5 stars, hands down

Great app, works as advertised, and let’s you get a lot out of it. The only limit is the effort you put into it.

It helps if you watch them on YouTube using Solo. I honestly can say this concept of figuring out where the fret fingers are going first will give me the boost I’ve been looking for. It’s already begun, YAyyy

This is a fantastic tool for any intermediate to advanced guitarists to get to that next level of a practical understanding of improvising

I bought an iPad for this app. I was waiting for Android version to drop. It’s ironic that it came out today. Now I’ll have on both my droid phone and iPad. Thanks for this tool!

Amazing!! Such a powerful practice tool.

For me it reduces nebulousness of all possible guitar neck exercises to a sequence of specific, bite-size activities which I can focus on day to day without feeling bored or overwhelmed.

Super great app. The only thing I want added is the ability to choose the chords I want to work on. So my only option isn’t just the songs that come with the app.

A versatile and powerful tool to learn the fretboard and get fluent on your chord tone vocabulary. I use it for warm up every day and as an exercise workout on other occasions. Highly recommend.

I saw that I could use an audio interface with this app (class compliant) Witch I already have. After setting it up into the device no sound reaches the app. After reading the troubleshooting Section and following the instructions it still doesn’t register. I don’t like bothering people around me by playing with the amplifier, no choice but to do that now. The $15 spent on this app could be been spent on something else.

Lots to like about this app but it’s missing (imo) a couple of key features. - to be able to drill the same note/chord/progression a certain number of times before going to another. This would let you drill the same chord/etc in various locations, or fingerings. - to be able to program your own progressions, such as in iReal would be nice - and for $15, it should really have an integrated metronome and be able ask you to keep up with the progression in time. - to be able to hit the notes in any

Lots to like about this app but it’s missing (imo) a couple of key features. - to be able to drill the same note/chord/progression a certain number of times before going to another. This would let you drill the same chord/etc in various locations, or fingerings. - to be able to program your own progressions, such as in iReal would be nice - and for $15, it should really have an integrated metronome and be able ask you to keep up with the progression in time. - to be able to hit the notes in any