Beta 1.01

Sequence Lab

Build a path through a box, then run sequences on that path until the fingering is automatic.

Open Sequence Lab All tools Target Tone guide

Start here

Pick a key and a family. Minor pentatonic or Aeolian is a good first room.
Pick a box or 3NPS position. The neck should show one shape, not the whole guitar.
Pick a pattern. Start with Shape run or Scale run.
Read the coach line under the tab. That is the path: home note, first note, last note.
Hit Play. Watch the now-dot and the highlighted tab column.
Space plays or pauses. Loop stays on until you turn it off.

Phone shows open strings plus a 5-fret window around the box. First tap unlocks sound.

What you are training

Not random scale surfing. One fingering, one sequence, repeat until your hand knows the next three notes before they light up.

The neck

Blue circle — root
Gold square — chord tone in this family
Dashed circle — other scale tones
Bright pulse — now
Gold ring — next few notes

In depth

Family and box

Pentatonic families use the five classic boxes. Heptatonic families (major, Dorian, Aeolian, and the rest) use 3-notes-per-string positions. Changing family rebuilds the legal patterns so you do not get a 7th sequence on a 5-note scale.

Path

Full fingering walks the notes available in the box from your start string. Root → Root clips that walk from one root to a chosen end root. End target can be the highest root in the box, the B-string root, or the high-E root. That is how “low root to B-string root” stays musical instead of dumping you off the neck.

Start string, home, below-fill

Start string is which string the path begins on. Home is either the root on that string or the lowest legal note on it. Up only ignores notes below home. Fill below, then up scoops those notes first, then climbs. Use fill-below when a box has useful notes under the root you do not want to skip.

Pattern groups

Across the box — 2–1 thirds, 2–1 string grouping, diagonal pentatonic, shape run, string-pair walk. These rewrite the path, not just the rhythm.
Standard sequences — 3s, 4s, 3rds through 7ths, roll 1-2-3-2, cells like 1-2-3-5. Same path, different order.
Enclosures — neighbor tones around chord tones or every path tone.
Sauce — question/answer, triplet breathe, little arch, spoken short-short-long, color song. Phrasing, not speed.

Direction

Ascending, descending, or up then down. Up-then-down repeats the peak note once so the turnaround does not skip.

Tab

Standard six-line tab. Rhythm row on top: e eighth, h hold, 3 triplet, s sixteenth, = rest. Barlines sit on the beat, not doubled. Copy tab puts plain text on the clipboard for a doc or a text.

Transport

Tempo slider and BPM box stay in sync. Count-in is off, one bar, or two. Metronome clicks on the beat while the sequence runs. Pause kills hanging notes. Stop resets to the top of the lick.

Display

Note names or degrees on the dots. Colorblind mode swaps the blue/gold pair for a safer palette. Same idea as Target Tone.

What this beta is not

No mic grading. No saved cloud licks. Box math can still argue with a diagram in a book — if a 2–1 thirds path skips a note in a key, tell Murphy the key, family, box, and pattern.

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