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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 · 21 guides in 7 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.

Free field guides

The guides on this shelf are also PDFs you can keep on your phone or print for the music stand. Tap a cover to download it. No account, no email.

Start here

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.

Diagnosis

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.

The routine

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.

Ceilings

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.

First year

Beginner foundations, and the way back in

The first months of guitar, step by step: a daily routine for the first 90 days, the fingertip stage everyone goes through, faster chord changes, a strumming hand that keeps time, and the F chord. Returning players start with the restart guide, which runs the same foundations in a 30-day loop.

The neck

Fretboard, scales and improvising

From knowing where the notes are to making music with them: the fretboard and the CAGED map, scales practiced as music, then improvising over chords. Each guide links into the Advanced Lab drills that check your notes through the microphone.

Evidence

Hearing your own playing

Every loop on this site starts and ends with a recording. This is how to make one on the phone you already own, and how to compare two takes so a month of practice shows up as something you can hear.

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.

The seven 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.

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.

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