Practice
Ways to Practise
A map of every practice mode in the app: what each one is for, and which to pick depending on how much time and direction you have today.
Open Practice and you get a wall of options. They all end in the same place, a logged session that feeds your points, streak and skills, but they differ in how much thinking you have to do first.
Pick by how much direction you want
Free Timer. Start the stopwatch, play, and it hands you a pre-filled log at the end
Manual Log. Type in what you did, up to 7 days after the fact
Practice Routines. Ready-made and community routines you just follow
Auto Plan. Say how long you've got and it builds the session for you
Learning Path and Mastery Roadmaps, long-term step-by-step curricula
Skills and Exercises. Pick the exact drill for the exact weakness
Songs and Guitar Pro Files. Practise repertoire and count that time too
What each mode actually is
- Practice Routines
- Ordered lists of exercises you follow one by one: the app's ready-made plans, playalongs, your own plans, and plans shared by other players
- Free Timer
- A stopwatch per skill category. Run it while you play, stop it when you're done
- Manual Log
- The same log form without the stopwatch, for sessions that happened away from the screen
- Auto Plan
- A session generated to fit the time you have
- Guitar Pro Files
- Practise from tabs you import, with playback
- Songs
- Track time against a specific song you're learning, and that time also counts towards learning it
- Skills
- 23 tracked guitar skills, each with exercises that feed it
- Exercises
- The full exercise library to browse, plus everything shared by the community
- Learning Path
- Guided modules that unlock step by step
- Mastery Roadmaps
- A personal curriculum generated for your level
- Scale Map
- A fretboard tree of scale shapes, cleared box by box at a target tempo
The four categories
Wherever you practise, your time is filed under Technique, Theory, Hearing or Creative work. They're worth exactly the same in points; the split exists so you can see what you're neglecting. Guided modes tag it for you, and the Free Timer and manual log leave it to you.
The full breakdown of what belongs where, and which skills each one feeds, is in The Four Categories.
Questions people ask
Does the mode change how many points I get?
No. 30 minutes is 30 minutes wherever it came from. Only healthy habits and the streak change what a session is worth
Can I mix modes in one day?
Yes, and most people do: a routine plus twenty minutes on a song is two sessions and both count
Which mode keeps my streak alive?
Any of them. The streak only asks that a session got logged that day