Welcome Guitar Lover!

Stop memorizing shapes. Start understanding music.

Hi! My name is Gianca, I live in Italy, I'm a software engineer by day, guitar teacher and player by night.

Back in 2012 I started FaChords Guitar with a simple idea: real guitar fluency comes not from memorizing more shapes, but from understanding the system that generates them. I built this site as a study support for my guitar students, and now it's available, for free, to guitar lovers worldwide.

Today FaChords has reached over 100 million views worldwide and 30,000+ subscribers, with step-by-step tutorials, free ebooks, and interactive learning software , all designed to help you finally see how chords, scales, and progressions connect on the fretboard.

Most guitar education teaches you what to play. FaChords teaches you why it works, and gives you interactive tools to prove it to yourself.

There's a painful moment in every guitarist's journey: you can play songs, you know a few scale boxes, but you can't explain why that chord works there, or find a note you hear in your head, or improvise outside the one pentatonic shape you've been stuck in for years. This is the intermediate plateau, and FaChords exists to end it.

Our mission: turn the fretboard from a maze of memorized patterns into a landscape you can navigate freely, because you understand the terrain.

This is what truly sets FaChords apart: a suite of free, browser-based, guitar-specific interactive tools that work on any device, no app to download, no subscription required. Every concept can be explored visually on an interactive fretboard: click, hear, see the intervals, understand the relationship.

From the Chord Analyzer and Scale Finder to the Fretboard Trainer, Ear Training games, and Drum Machine, these are tools built by someone who understands both the technology and the pedagogy.

Be sure to request your free access to the download area, you'll get scales, chords, and fretboard ebooks at no cost. Everything on this website is free, apart from three comprehensive ebooks (Chords Domination, 52 Chord Progressions, and Scales Over Chords) that help me support server and website costs.

I started my journey in music at 9, playing the slide trombone (my teacher decided it was the perfect instrument for me, because of my long arms).

After some years of studying solfege and big band songs, I realized I wanted an instrument that could make more noise, so the electric guitar was a natural choice.

Since then, I've accumulated tons of reference material and lessons worth sharing. I've developed specific software to help my students learn chords, scales, fretboard geometry, ear training and more, tools I wished existed when I was learning.

Being both a guitar teacher and a software engineer gave me a unique perspective: I could build interactive tools designed by someone who understands both the technology and the pedagogy. That dual expertise is at the heart of everything on FaChords, guitar-native, not adapted from piano; visual and interactive, not passive; built for depth, not shortcuts.

I put together this site for my students, then decided to make it available, for free, to anyone looking to get better at guitar. Why? Because helping guitar lovers around the world understand music, not just play it, feels incredible.

Below is my city: Bergamo, Italy. My house is somewhere under the clouds. Have you ever been to Italy? You'll be welcome! (You don't want to miss the Bergamo Jazz Festival if you ever get up here.)