About Fretquest
Fretquest is a fretboard library: it covers how to press, how to pick, how to read the tab, and how to move the hand without losing the beat. Nothing else.
What is published here
Every lesson is one of four kinds. Scale lessons map a scale inside a fret window and name each note by its scale degree. Position studies walk a line across more than one hand position so that shifting is practised as music rather than as an exercise. Tab lessons are short written passages with the fingering spelled out. Technique lessons break down one movement — a pull-off, a slide, a mute, a picking pattern — and give a way to practise it against a metronome.
The site deliberately does not publish chord diagrams, accompaniment arrangements, or theory explanations of intervals and chord construction. The subject is the fretboard and the hands on it.
How the diagrams are made
Every fretboard map and every tab staff on this site is generated from the musical parameters of the lesson it belongs to: the tuning, the fret window, the scale, and the notes of each bar. Nothing is drawn by hand, which means a diagram cannot drift out of step with the text — if the text says fret 9 on the second string, the diagram has a dot at fret 9 on the second string because both come from the same number.
The maps are single-colour print sheets: one accent colour, hairline rules, no photographs, no illustration, nothing to distract from which finger goes where.
How the library is paced
Lessons are added on a fixed schedule rather than all at once. Entries carry a publication date and only appear here once that date has passed, so the index shown today is the index that has actually been published — nothing is listed early to make the library look bigger.
Bands I to V cover frets 1 to 15. Difficulty is graded 1 to 5 and shown on every entry, so a reader can start at the first week and work outward.
Who writes this
Every lesson, diagram and glossary entry on Fretquest is written and signed by The Fret Desk — the editorial desk that maintains this library. The desk is an organisation rather than a named individual, and it is the same desk that reads and answers the corrections sent to the address below.
Nothing on the site is syndicated or republished from elsewhere. The lessons, the generated diagrams and the definitions are produced for this library in English and in Chinese, and every entry carries the date it was published.
Contact
Corrections, fingering disagreements and requests for a specific scale or technique are all welcome at [email protected]. A correction that names the bar and the string is far more useful than one that says something sounds wrong.