About GuitarHub.
The guitar lessons site from Suede AI: meet the founder, explore the lessons and practice method, and learn how your practice data stays private.
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GuitarHub is where Suede AI teaches guitar. The guitar path starts at the first foundations, how to hold the instrument, tune it, and get one clean note, and works up through chords, reading, rhythm and the whole neck. The guided lessons open with lifetime access, $79 one time in GuitarHub: Guitar Lessons for iPhone, and your place on the web is kept in this browser. The voice lessons moved to Suede Sing, where all of them are free. Pricing, access and data questions are answered in the GuitarHub FAQ.
Lessons on their own tell you what to do next. They do not tell you whether the last one worked, so the site pairs the curriculum with a practice method and a set of tools built to answer that question. Choose one change you can prove in thirty days. Record where you are before you start fixing it. Find the single thing that breaks the result and repair that one thing. Put the repair back under real pressure. Then record the same performance again, put the two takes side by side, and let them settle whether anything moved. The full argument, with the exit test for each stage, is on the method page.
Who built this
GuitarHub is made by Suede AI, a studio founded by Jason Colapietro. Suede AI also builds Strumly, the AI guitar coach with its practice tools, its book and guides, and a music data API that AI agents pay for per call, and Suede AI Social, where the guitar conversation happens. GuitarHub is the lessons site. It owns the curriculum, the practice method, and the job the other two leave open: deciding what to practice next, and proving it worked.
The position behind the site is his. A player with a shelf of finished courses and no finished songs has not failed at practice. They were handed material and no way to check their own work, which is a different problem with a different fix. The fix is unglamorous: fewer goals, a recording at each end of the month, and a straight comparison of the two.
The lesson paths and the practice tools serve different needs. A new player can follow the opening instruction and let the site keep the order. A returning player can skip the lessons and use the planner or the practice log alongside material they already follow.
What GuitarHub is
Guitar lessons, in order. 105 guided lessons across seven stages, plus 30 popular-song practice companions. The opening lessons guide setup, tuning, and single-note practice; the wider curriculum covers chords, reading, rhythm and the whole neck, with a step for each and a place kept between visits. Listening demonstrations, self-reported practice, visual reading results, and microphone scores are labeled separately, so you always know which kind of check you are looking at.
Voice lessons, built the same way, from the room you sing in and a steady tone, through registers and the break, to agility and a sound of your own, live on Suede Sing, next to the rooms that measure them.
A method. One loop, run against one goal at a time, in four stages: baseline, isolate, reconnect, prove. The site presents it as four weeks, one stage per week, but the week is a default rather than a rule. Each stage has a test that tells you it is finished.
The Advanced Lab, 23 free scored drills for experienced players across technique, theory, rhythm, ear training, fretboard, improvisation, repertoire and tone. Open the Advanced Lab.
Seven free tools, each running in your browser:
- The guitar tuner and metronome checks each open string with pitch feedback and reference tones, then keeps a steady four-beat click at your tempo.
- The 30-day breakthrough planner turns one finish line into a four-week sequence you can start today.
- The practice plateau diagnostic ends by naming the part of your practice that stopped producing change, rather than by giving you a score.
- The practice session builder turns the minutes you have into timed blocks, weighted toward the one thing you are fixing.
- The tempo ladder builder turns one difficult passage into a starting speed, a target, and the steps between them.
- The song readiness score checks a song against the parts that break under pressure, before you decide it is finished.
- The practice evidence log takes one line per session and reports what moved, with no streak counter and no direction drawn through fewer than three sessions.
Written guides, covering the method itself, how to practice effectively, why progress plateaus once the beginner gains run out, what deliberate practice means at the instrument, how to run a 30-day challenge that ends in evidence, an intermediate weekly routine, how long to practice each day, a schedule that survives a real week, why speed has a ceiling, how to memorize a song, and how to work with a metronome. They are linked from the site footer.
An application to a founding room, described below.
Make each practice count
Start with the opening module of a path and the free browser tools. Use the practice loop to choose one goal, capture a baseline on your phone, and bring a recording and a specific question to your next lesson. Apply for the founding room for a personal response about your playing goals.
How this fits with Strumly and Suede AI Social
GuitarHub teaches and runs your practice. Strumly coaches. Suede AI Social carries the wider conversation. All three are Suede AI products.
In practice that means a lesson or a plan here decides what you work on this week, and GuitarHub's own tuner, metronome and Advanced Lab drills cover the daily work. Strumly adds the AI coach that listens to you play, along with chord references, scale maps and ear training. The Strumly guides go deep on gear, tone, signal chain and the rights to your music. Strumly also sells its music data to AI agents one call at a time. That is Strumly's business, and it runs on the same chord, key and song knowledge the lessons here are built on.
The GuitarHub community meets on Suede AI Social, where players post rigs and talk to each other.
Apply for the founding room
Applications for the founding room are open and reviewed personally. Tell us what you want to improve and what your practice week looks like.
The intent is a small room, 8 to 12 players, assembled around one rule: a check-in has to change the next practice. Members would be matched by goal and by a schedule that works in a real week, corrections would stay private, and progress proof would be shared only when a player chooses to share it. The founding-room design puts focused practice and personal feedback at the center.
Applying sends four things: your name, your email address, a line about your playing experience, and one sentence naming the change you want to prove in thirty days. It arrives as an email at info@suedeai.ai and it is read personally. It takes no payment, asks for no card, and creates no commitment on either side. You will receive a personal response about your goal and the next step.
You see the schedule, review capacity, and price before you are asked to commit to anything. The application form is on the home page.
What happens to what you type
The lessons and the tools keep their state in your own browser, in local storage. Close the tab and the work is still there next time; clear your browser data and it is gone. The planning tools send nothing to a server. If you sign in on the account page and explicitly turn on practice sync, new lesson-attempt results are saved to your account; earlier records stay on your device.
There is no analytics script and no third-party tracker on this site, which you can confirm from the page source. The tuner, lesson exercises and Advanced Lab drills listen through your microphone only after you start them and analyze the sound on your device; raw audio is never uploaded. When the method tells you to record a baseline, record it on your phone and keep it yourself.
The application form sends the four fields you fill in through Resend to info@suedeai.ai. The website host also processes ordinary connection information to deliver and protect the site. The Privacy Policy explains microphone use, local records, purchases, hosting, and messages in more detail.
Corrections and contact
One address for everything, including press: info@suedeai.ai.
Corrections to the lessons or the method go to the same address and get a personal reply. The method is an argument about how playing gets learned, and it is built to be tested against your own recordings: run it for a month and compare the two takes.