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Set a difficulty level, hide barre chords, cap the number of fingers, and Fretscape only shows you voicings you can actually play. When a chord change still feels awkward, the Progression Builder will often point at a different fingering that shares a finger with the next chord - which is usually the real fix, not more practice.",[35,43,45],{"id":44},"if-youre-an-intermediate-player","If you're an intermediate player",[25,47,48],{},"You probably already know two or three ways to play most chords. Fretscape's job at this point is to widen that vocabulary and smooth out the changes you already know. Enter a song's progression, run it through the optimiser, and you'll see voicings ranked by how well they flow with what comes before and after.",[25,50,51,52,56],{},"The difficulty rating on every fingering tells you ",[53,54,55],"em",{},"why"," a shape is easier - anchor fingers, fret span, barre or no barre - so you can build intuition instead of just memorising shapes.",[35,58,60],{"id":59},"if-youre-an-advanced-player","If you're an advanced player",[25,62,63],{},"You get the full control surface. Inversions, slash chords, alternate tunings, the reverse chord lookup, and 20+ filters covering which strings to use, which fingers to allow, bass note, contiguous vs non-contiguous shapes, and more. Linked variations let you compare different paths through the same progression.",[25,65,66],{},"Fretscape isn't trying to teach you theory you already know. 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