Guitar practice tools

Ultimate Guitar

The largest tab and chord database on the web, built and moderated by the community.

Songsterr

Tab database with synced audio playback: mute or solo individual tracks, slow down the tempo, and follow along as it plays.

Guitar Pro

Tab editor and player. Guitar Pro 8 lets you add an audio track synced to the tab, then slow it down, speed it up, or change its pitch without losing sync.

MuseScore Studio

Free notation and tab editor for writing and editing your own scores from scratch.

TuxGuitar

Open-source tab editor that reads and writes Guitar Pro files, handy for converting a MuseScore or MIDI file into a GP file to import into Riff Quest.

StrumForge

Chord progression generator: fingering diagrams, groove controls, scale diagrams, and practice-ready rhythm patterns in one screen.

Turns a track from YouTube, Spotify or your own upload into a chord chart that scrolls in time with the music.

Soundslice

Interactive tab and notation synced to video, and the tool a lot of teachers use to publish their lessons.

Online guitar tuner in the browser, with tunings for electric, acoustic, bass and ukulele.

Freta

An interactive fretboard diagram for exploring scales, chords, and positions in any tuning.

Fretboard Forever

Learn the notes on your fretboard until they become second nature, no more hesitating.

QFGM (Quinn Fetrow)

A toolkit for learning notes, scales, arpeggios, and improvisation.

musictheory.net

Lessons and drills on notes, intervals, chords and key signatures, plus tools for building and hearing them.

Musicca

Free exercises for notes, scales, chords and intervals, alongside a browser metronome, tuner and keyboard.

Functional Ear Trainer

Ear training built on hearing a note by its function inside a key, rather than as an isolated interval.

Teoria

Ear, rhythm and theory exercises, with tutorials covering harmony and analysis.

Metronomus

A free online metronome: tempo (BPM), time signature, lots of rhythm patterns, mouse, keyboard, and touch control.

Flicktool

A simple online metronome with no clutter: tempo and time signature, straight to the point.

Polyrhythm Metronome

An open-source polyrhythm generator for practice divisions like 13:7, 3:4:5, or any other split.

4four.io

A rhythm and music theory training platform with score tracking; teachers can create exercises for students. Free and mobile-friendly.

Metric Flow App

Tom Quayle's app for rhythm training.

Metronome Online

A plain browser metronome with tap tempo and nothing to set up.

Groove Scribe

Write a drum groove in the browser and play it back, so you have a real beat to practise over instead of a click.

Moises

Removes the guitar from a recording and turns it into a backing track. Also changes tempo, pitch, and more.

Jamzone

A collection of backing tracks recorded by real musicians, with control over each individual stem.

MVSEP

Splits a recording into vocals and instruments, and extracts lyrics from audio. Free, though an account speeds up processing.

iReal Pro

Chord charts that play back as a backing band, with thousands of user-made progressions to improvise over.

BandLab

Free browser DAW for recording yourself, layering takes and practising against your own backing tracks.

Transpose

Transpose, pitch shift, loop sections, and change the speed of a recording.

Transcribe!

One of the best slow-down algorithms for ear transcription, better than plenty of DAWs. Chord analysis, available on Windows/Mac/Linux.

Anytune

Slow down recordings and learn songs by ear.

JustinGuitar

Free structured lesson courses from absolute beginner upwards, with songs, technique modules and practice routines.

String Theory

Free-to-play Steam game in early access: it listens to a real guitar or bass, scores your playing on songs you import, and has loop and speed controls.

Solotrainer

Tom Quayle's app for practicing solos and phrasing.