Teach guitar the way players see it.

Engage visual learners with animated fretboards that move like the real thing — color-coded fingers, sliding notes, bends, and realistic string motion make every concept come alive.

With built-in Metronome and Strummer effects, 🎸 FretBoard 3 for Final Cut Pro helps you create lessons and videos that are engaging, entertaining, and effective — perfect for teachers, students, and performers alike.

✅ Update 3.3 adds a 30-240 BPM Metronome that strobes to the beat.

✅ and a Crop slider to reduce the length of the fretboard from bridge to nut.

Experience a New Dimension of Musical Expression

What FretBoard 3 Offers:

 ✅ Drag and Drop LiveView interface.  Visual representation of  the real fretboard in the top or bottom half of the Final Cut Pro X Viewer makes transcription easy!

  ✅ The HAND.  Each coloured dot represents a finger letting your students know which fingers go where. 

  ✅ Auto-labelled dots.  Drag a dot to any position on the fretboard and watch as it displays the note that's associated with it. You pick whether it's a sharp or a flat. 

 ✅ Player and Viewer perspectives  of the fretboard.. 

 ✅ String Sets.  Including 5 string bass, violin and (double string) mandolin. 

 ✅ 15, 20 and 24 fret fretboards.  Or choose up to 27 frets with natural spacing to create your own custom fretboard. 

 ✅ Incredibly realistic string mechanics.  Animate with perfection; sliding notes, bending strings or vibrato.

 ✅ Strummer effects  for animating simple to complex strumming patterns with ease!

 ✅ Metronome (30-240 BPM)  classic pendulum swing or strobe to the beat.

Bring your lessons, solos, and performances to life.

With 🎸 FretBoard 3, you’ll create visuals that are engaging, entertaining, and effective — perfect for teachers, students, and creators who learn best by seeing music in motion.

🎯 Get FretBoard 3 today on FxFactory and elevate how you teach, perform, and visualize music.

FretBoard 3's intuitive LiveView interface allows you to animate 4, 5, or 6 string instruments, bringing your musical ideas to life with precision and clarity. Dive into the intricacies of scales, explore chord progressions, and effortlessly illustrate musical concepts that resonate with your audience.

With 9 animation shapes, FretBoard 3 lets you seamlessly animate musical sequences. From no-fade clarity to gentle fades and crossfades, tailor your animations to match your musical rhythm and expression.

Choose between Player and Viewer modes to optimize your creative workflow. Build your musical phrases in Player perspective and switch to Viewer mode for a seamless overlay on real instrument fretboards, enhancing the visual impact of your music videos.

Fine-tune every element of your animation, from strings and frets to symbols and inlays. Adjust colors, opacity, and sizes to match your unique style and musical vision, ensuring a visual representation that resonates with your audience.

FretBoard 3 seamlessly integrates with Final Cut Pro, allowing you to craft professional-grade music videos with ease. By keyframing the Open String, Bender, Vibrato and Strips parameters you can recreate virtually anything a musicians hand would do on a fretboard! Unlock a world of creativity as you combine the power of FretBoard 3 with your video editing skills, taking your content to the next level.

FretBoard 3 updates Strummer effects