Getting Started

riff.quest is a practice tracker that behaves like a game. You practise, you tell the app what you did, and it turns that into points, a level, a streak and a place on the rankings. It replaces the practice notebook you were supposed to keep and never did.

And there is plenty to practise. The library holds over 200 exercises and more than 50 ready-made routines, the Learning Path runs 36 steps across two modules, and the Scale Map covers 9 scale families. On top of that, a Mastery Roadmap is written for you when you ask for one, usually somewhere between 35 and 55 steps long.

The whole app is one loop, repeated:

Your first ten minutes

You don't need to set anything up. Pick up the guitar, start the stopwatch, play whatever you were going to play anyway.

When you stop the timer, you get this form with the time already filled in. Check the split, tick anything true, save.

Practice pays 20 points an hour, so those eight minutes are worth 2 points. Unimpressive, and entirely beside the point: you are now a player with a streak of one, a level, and a row on the rankings.

Pick a starting point

Right after signing up you're asked where you'd like to begin. It only decides which screen you land on first, and nothing is locked, and you can use all four from day one. Pick the one that matches your problem:

Guided Journey

You don't know what to practise. The app picks the next step for you, one at a time

Exercise Library

You know your weak spot and want a drill for it

Practice Journal

You already have a routine and just want it tracked

Song Library

You're here to learn songs, and want your repertoire in one place

Day two is the important one

One session is a data point. Two days in a row is a streak, and the streak multiplies everything you log, practice time and habit points alike.

Ten minutes keeps it alive. Miss a day and it resets to zero, but your points, level and gear are never taken away.

Points and Fame are not the same thing

This trips up almost everyone in week one. Points are your record: they set your level and your rankings, and you can't spend them. Fame is your pocket money: it buys cases and gear in the Arsenal and does nothing to your level. A logged session pays both, and after that they part ways — points come almost entirely from practice, while Fame also arrives from quests, milestones, challenges and other players. Both have their own article: Points, levels & streaks and Fame & where it comes from.

Where the rest of it lives

Home

Today: your daily quests, your streak, and what everyone's been logging

Practice

Every way of practising: routines, the free timer, the manual log, exercises, learning paths

Songs

Your song board, discovery and playlists

Progress

Your history, your category split and every session you've saved

Rankings & Arsenal

Where your points put you, and where your Fame gets spent

Questions people ask