Describe an exercise and get tablature. Standard tuning (EADGBE).
A free guitar practice tool that writes the exercise for you
Guitar Practice Helper turns a plain-English request into guitar tablature and engraved standard
notation, with fingerings worked out for you. Describe the drill you want to practice and it is
written out in every key you asked for — no PDFs to hunt down, no exercise books, nothing to install.
It runs entirely in your browser, works offline, and is free and open source.
Things people type into the box:
- “major 7 arpeggios in 3rds along the cycle of 4ths”
- “A minor pentatonic 3 notes per string”
- “dorian mode in 5th position, all 12 keys”
- “ii-V-I in Bb with guide tones”
- “blues in A”
Scale and arpeggio exercise generator
Every common scale and arpeggio: major and minor, all seven modes, major and minor pentatonic,
blues, harmonic and melodic minor, whole tone, diminished, altered, bebop scales, and triads
through 7th chords. Run them straight, in 3rds, in 4ths, in 6ths, or in groups of three and four,
ascending, descending, or both. Cycle them through the circle of 4ths or 5ths, chromatically, or in
whole steps — including the classic drill where you stay in one neck position through all twelve keys.
Choose automatic position playing or three-notes-per-string fingering.
CAGED system and fretboard visualization
See the five CAGED shapes as separate fretboard diagrams or as one full-neck map with labeled shape
brackets and interval-coloured dots, so the connections between shapes are visible instead of memorized.
Chord voicings and chord theory
Drop 2 voicings on three string sets, drop 3, and shell voicings across nine chord qualities, shown as
playable grips through every inversion — click any grip to hear it. The chord stacking tool superimposes
any triad over any base chord and names the result (D over Cmaj7 becomes Cmaj13♯11), rates the
consonance, and can spin the composite arpeggio into a practice exercise.
Chord progressions and jam tracks
Enter roman numerals, chord symbols, or “blues in A” and get voice-led arpeggio lines where each chord
starts from the tone nearest the last note — or restrict it to guide tones, the 3rds and 7ths. Loop any
progression as a backing band with drums, walking bass, and comping pads to practice over. Borrow chords
from parallel modes to hear modal mixture, secondary dominants, and moves like the backdoor ♭VII7.
Ear training, metronome, and tuner
Interval, chord, and scale recognition at three difficulty levels with random roots, streaks, and scoring.
The metronome sits at the bottom of every screen with tap tempo, accent patterns for odd meters like 5/4,
7/8, 9/8, and 11/8, and a speed trainer that nudges the tempo up every few bars toward a target. There is a
chromatic tuner too.
Practice log and progress tracking
Log a session and the app tracks your personal-best tempo per exercise, your practice-day streak, a 14-day
activity chart, and ear-training accuracy. Your data stays in your browser by default; signing in is
optional and only exists to sync across devices. Any exercise can be bookmarked or shared as a link,
because every setting is encoded in the URL.
Install it on your phone
It is a progressive web app: open guitarpractice.app on your
phone and add it to your home screen to get a fullscreen practice app that works without a connection —
useful when you are practicing somewhere with no signal. The
source is on GitHub
under the MIT license.