Chord Connectors show chords and the connections between the chords. Our holy grail is to move freely, anywhere and everywhere. See how your can do this. Build your custom note map. If you can see it, you can play it. That's it.
Understand the guitar fretboard visually
See how chords, scales, and songs fit together in real time
Know the right notes every time, in any key, for many songs
Not sure how Chord Connectors work? This short video walks you through the setup. Shows real song maps being built. Proves that most players are playing something new within 20 minutes of their first session. No theory background required.
Most guitar lessons make sense while you're watching them. You understand the concept and can usually follow along.
But then reality hits.
The instructor's fingers cover the fretboard, making it hard to see which notes are "right" and where they fit within the scale. You may finally figure it out after 30–60 minutes, but without a visual connection, that new lick quickly fades from memory. Then another exciting lesson comes along, and the cycle starts again. Over time, you collect dozens of licks, scales, and ideas—but they never connect into one complete picture.
Chord Connectors solves that problem.
It's a physical tabletop system of wooden scale sticks that lock together to build a custom map of your song. Color-coded chord tones and easy-to-follow dot patterns show every "good" note at a glance.
Now, when you learn a lick, you don't just copy finger movements—you immediately see where it lives on the map, which scale it came from, and why it works. Instead of isolated pieces of information, everything becomes connected.
Once you can see the map, your fingers naturally know where to go.
Learning becomes faster. Repeating ideas becomes easier. Improvising becomes more natural. And instead of guessing, you confidently navigate to the right notes.
Every kit is built to get you playing - not studying.
Start small and add on, or go all in with the full map.
From the Creator
Hi, I'm Wade Nelson.
I Built This Because I Was Stuck Too
Fourteen years ago I was trying to learn scales the way everyone says to - memorize them. It wasn't working. Frustrating, slow, and the moment I'd think I had it, I'd lose it again.
Then someone said, 'Scales are just templates.' That was the moment everything changed. If scales are templates, I could print them on a stick. Move the stick, change the key. No memorization.
I started stacking sticks side by side, and that's when I saw it - a full map of every good note on the fretboard. Chords made sense. Theory clicked. I was having the time of my life.
There was nothing on the market that did what my Chord Connectors could do. So I made them available to you.
Chord Connectors is a physical, tabletop guitar learning system invented by Wade Nelson. It consists of color-coded, moveable wooden scale sticks that lay on your desk and build a visual map of the guitar fretboard. Each stick represents a scale. Arrange them based on the chords in a song and you can see exactly which notes to play in any key - no memorization required.
Instead of memorizing scale patterns, Chord Connectors gives you a physical reference that shows which notes are correct in any key. You read the dots on the scale stick the way you'd read a map your fingers follow what your eyes see. Most players are playing the right notes within 20 minutes of their first session, without needing any prior theory knowledge.
Chord Connectors is designed for any motivated guitar player who wants to make sense of the fretboard. It works for complete beginners who have never thought about scales, intermediate players who understand theory but struggle to apply it, and guitar teachers looking for a hands-on visual aid for their students. If you know the chords in a song, you can use the system.
No. You do not need any music theory background to use Chord Connectors. You need to know the chord names in a song — which you can look up in seconds — and follow a simple four-step setup. Many players find that using the system naturally teaches them music theory over time, because the patterns become visible while they play.
