Guitar ↔ Piano Map

Every position on the guitar is a single piano note. Each fret raises the pitch by one semitone (half step) — the distance between two adjacent piano keys. Click any fret to light up its key on the piano, or click a piano key to see every place that note lives on the neck. Sound is on — you'll hear the guitar pluck and the matching piano tone are the exact same pitch.

Tuning

Frets

Show note names On fretboard

Sound Play on click

Orientation High E on top

— Click a fret or a piano key to begin.

Fretboard — low E (6th) at top by default

Piano

Common Beginner Chords — click a chord to strum it and light up its notes on the fretboard & piano

How to read a diagram: the thick bar at the top is the nut (the very top of the neck). Each column is a string, low E on the left to high E on the right. Dots show where to press; the number inside is the suggested finger (1 index · 2 middle · 3 ring · 4 pinky). O above a string means play it open; ✕ means don't play that string. These are standard-tuning shapes, so switch the tuning back to Standard to see them mirrored on the fretboard above.

Selected note / key Same note elsewhere on the neck Fret-marker inlays (3·5·7·9·12…) Open string = nut (fret 0)

How the mapping works. Standard tuning open strings are E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4 (low to high). A note's pitch is found by adding the fret number (in semitones) to the open string. Frequencies use equal temperament with A4 = 440 Hz: f = 440 × 2^((n − 69) / 12), where n is the MIDI note number. Middle C is C4 (MIDI 60). The same pitch appears in several spots — e.g. 5th fret of the low E equals the open A string equals one piano key.