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Guitar practice planner

Give your next guitar session a plan.

Choose a ready-made routine, build your own sequence, or let Auto Plan assemble a session. Set your focus, arrange your exercises, and start playing.

Build your practice planSee a 20-minute example
Browse ready-made routines
Four guitar exercises arranged into a 20-minute custom plan: Spider — One String, Legato — Hammer-on Pentatonic, Play by Ear — Easy and Phrasing — Two Notes Per Bar, with their minutes
  1. 01Choose
  2. 02Arrange
  3. 03Play

Three paths

Three ways to plan your practice

Ready-made guitar practice routines in Riff Quest

Start with a routine

Browse ready-made sessions and choose a focus before you start.

Explore routines
Four guitar exercises arranged into a 20-minute custom plan

Make it your own

Choose your exercises, give each one a time slot, and put them in the order you want.

Build a custom plan
Auto Plan duration and category difficulty filters

Let Auto Plan assemble it

Choose a session length and filter by practice category and difficulty. Review the result before you play.

Open Auto Plan

Ready-made routines

Pick a starting point and get playing

The routine library is sorted into Featured, Playalongs, My Plans and Community, with a category filter on top. Every card says how long it takes and how many exercises are inside.

Ready-made guitar practice routines in Riff Quest: the Featured tab with the category filter and three beginner cards
  • TechniqueBeginner

    Mega Beginner: First Steps

    7 min4 exercises
  • TechniqueBeginner

    Beginner: Daily Exercises

    7 min4 exercises
  • TechniqueBeginner

    Strumming Foundations

    8 min5 exercises
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First exercise in an ordered guitar practice routine, with the session progress bar showing step 1 of 4

A ready-made routine opens as an ordered practice session. The progress bar at the top counts the exercises, the timer runs each block, and Next moves you on when the block is done.

Custom plan

See a 20-minute session take shape

Here’s one example built in the custom planner. Change the exercises, timing, and order to fit your own session.

20-Minute Focus Session

Mixed · Easy · 20 min · 4 exercises
  1. 01

    Spider — One String

    Fret notes chromatic sequence on a single string to develop basic finger coordination and clean fretting hand accuracy.

    Coordination

    3 min00:00–03:00
  2. 02

    Legato — Hammer-on Pentatonic

    Develop strong legato hammer-on technique and smooth cross-string transition fluidity across three strings.

    Legato

    5 min03:00–08:00
  3. 03

    Play by Ear — Easy

    Recognize intervals and simple melodic movements to bridge ear-to-fretboard connection.

    Ear training

    4 min08:00–12:00
  4. 04

    Phrasing — Two Notes Per Bar

    Create expressive phrases restricted to exactly two notes per measure.

    Phrasing

    8 min12:00–20:00

The minutes were set by hand in the wizard, not taken from the library defaults, and they cover the exercise blocks only. It shows how the planner works, not a programme to follow.

Order step of the custom plan wizard: four exercises with their minutes and categories, ready to drag into order
  • 01

    Choose exercises

    From the library, the community, your own exercises or songs.

  • 02

    Set each duration

    Every block gets its own minutes; the card sums them up.

  • 03

    Arrange the order

    Drag to reorder. Warm-up first, the hardest block last.

Custom plan details showing 20 minutes and four exercises

The last step names the plan and picks its card. The card then shows the total and the exercise count in your My Plans tab.

Auto Plan

Choose the boundaries. Review the plan.

Select a duration, choose your categories and difficulty, then review the generated exercises. Swap an exercise or change the order before starting.

  1. 01

    Settings

    Auto Plan duration and category difficulty filters: 30 minutes selected, Easy ticked for Technique, Theory, Creativity and Hearing

    Pick a length from 15 minutes to 2 hours, then tick a difficulty per category. The counter shows how many exercises match before you generate.

  2. 02

    Generated plan

    Generated guitar practice plan with exercise controls: Plan 30 minutes, Regenerate and Start buttons, and the first exercise Strumming 10 — Upstroke Run

    Every exercise has its own controls: details, swap for another, move up or down, remove. Regenerate rolls the whole plan again.

Example: a 30-minute target with Easy selected across the four practice categories. Generated exercise times may not add up to the exact target duration.

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Frequently asked questions

Filters, sharing a plan with the community and what Auto Plan does when nothing fits are covered in the knowledge base: How routines and Auto Plan work

Can I build a 20-minute guitar practice plan?

Yes. In the custom planner, assign a duration to each exercise so the blocks add up to 20 minutes. The example above uses four exercises.

Can I change an Auto Plan before starting?

Yes. Review the generated exercises, swap or remove an exercise, and adjust the order before you start.

Where can I find a complete daily routine guide?

See our daily guitar practice plan guide for example routines for 15, 30 and 60 minutes and practice advice on what to play each day.

Make your next session easy to start.

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