Guitar practice guides, grouped by the problem they solve.
Every guide on this site, sorted into the situation it was written for, with a note on what each group is for and which page in it to read first.
Updated · 11 guides in 4 groups
Which one do you need right now?
Find the line that describes this month and open the page next to it. Everything below this section is the same library arranged by theme, for when you want to read rather than fix something specific.
- You have not read anything here yetThe GuitarHub method
- You practise most days and nothing is changingWhy guitar practice plateaus
- You cannot tell which part is the problemPractice plateau diagnostic
- You have an hour and no idea what to do with itHow to practice guitar effectively
- Your practice week collapses by WednesdayA schedule that survives a real week
- It holds together slowly, then falls apart at speedWhy you cannot play it fast yet
- You know the passage and want it drilledTempo ladder builder
- You want a month with an actual finish lineThe 30-day guitar challenge
What the method is
These set the terms the rest of the library uses. The method page is the spine of the site: one goal at a time, four stages, and an exit test for each stage so you can tell when it is finished instead of guessing. The rest of this group turns that into what you do with a single practice hour. Read them in the order below — every other group assumes them.
When practice stops producing change
For the case where the sessions are happening and the playing is not moving. These are about finding the cause before prescribing a fix, because the most common way to lose a month is honest work on the part that was never the problem. If you finish them and still cannot name the cause, the practice plateau diagnostic ends with a named blocker, which is the input the method needs anyway.
Building the week and the month
Once you know what to fix, the question becomes where it goes in a week that already has a job and a bad Wednesday in it. This group covers the shape of a session, the shape of a week that survives contact with a real one, and how to run a month that ends with a recording you can compare rather than a streak you kept.
- Read 1 of 4
An intermediate practice routine
A weekly routine for players past the beginner stage who still cannot finish a song cleanly.
Open the guide - Read 2 of 4
A schedule that survives a real week
Building practice around a weekly total and one protected session, instead of a daily streak.
Open the guide - Read 3 of 4
How long to practice each day
Why duration is the wrong variable, and what a 10, 25 or 60 minute session should contain.
Open the guide - Read 4 of 4
The 30-day guitar challenge
How to run a 30-day challenge that ends with a recording you can compare, not a streak you kept.
Open the guide
Technique ceilings and repertoire
Narrower problems, worked at the instrument: a tempo that will not climb, a click you are playing alongside instead of against, and a song that only exists while the tab is open. Each of these assumes you have already named the passage costing you the song, so they sit after the diagnosis rather than in place of it.
- Read 1 of 3
Why you cannot play it fast yet
The real causes of a speed ceiling, and why slow practice only helps when the slow motion matches.
Open the guide - Read 2 of 3
Practising with a metronome
Testing against the click instead of playing along with it, and what that exposes about your time.
Open the guide - Read 3 of 3
How to memorize a song
Why rereading tab does not build memory, and how to know the form rather than the finger path.
Open the guide
How to use the library
The library is a reference, not a syllabus. Nothing here counts how many pages you have read, and reading more of them is not the thing that moves your playing.
One at a time
A guide earns its reading when it answers a question you already have. Working through four in a week is the lesson-collecting habit the method is built against: the pile grows faster than you can play it down.
Leave with a sentence
The useful output of any page here is a named target with a location in it — the chorus-to-bridge change drops a beat. If you finish a guide and cannot write that sentence, it was the wrong guide for this month, not a failure of attention.
Then go and run it
None of this does anything by itself. The tools below are where a sentence becomes a plan for the week, and every guide hands off to one of them rather than ending on advice.
The six tools the guides hand off to
Each one runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is emailed, none of them ask for an account, and what you type stays on the device you typed it on.
30-day breakthrough planner
Choose one finish line and turn it into a four-week practice sequence you can run this month.
Open itPractice plateau diagnostic
Answer a short set of questions and name the part of your practice that stopped producing change.
Open itPractice session builder
Turn the minutes you actually have into timed blocks, weighted toward the one thing you are fixing.
Open itTempo ladder builder
Turn one difficult passage into a tempo ladder with a starting speed, a target, and steps between them.
Open itSong readiness score
Check a song against the parts that break under pressure before you call it finished.
Open itPractice evidence log
Log one line per session and read what actually moved, with no streak counter and no direction under three sessions.
Open it
GuitarHub orchestrates the practice; Strumly powers the tools and keeps its own library on technique, gear and repertoire. When a guide here stops at the edge of its subject, it points there — the Strumly guides are the next layer down.
Pick one guide, then build the month.
The planner turns one finish line into a four-week sequence and names the evidence each week has to produce. It needs no account. Applying to the founding room starts a fit conversation, is reviewed, and takes no payment.