# GuitarHub — prove one guitar breakthrough in 30 days ## Source and citation guide - [AI Instructions](https://guitarhub.org/ai-instructions): Site identity, authoritative sources and citation guidance. - [Full text](https://guitarhub.org/llms-full.txt): the full text of every public guide, tool, hub and policy page in one Markdown file, generated from the pages themselves. > GuitarHub is a structured 30-day guitar practice method: choose one finish > line, isolate the specific thing breaking it, practice only that, and end > each week with a recording that proves the change. It pairs 135 guitar lessons, > including 30 song companions, with free browser tools and a 23-drill Advanced Lab, and is > built by Suede AI, the team behind Strumly and Suede Sing. ## The problem it addresses Most guitarists do not quit. Years of tabs, videos, and scattered lessons produce players who can almost play a hundred things and fully play none. The missing piece is a closed loop: baseline, isolate, reconnect, prove. ## The method, in four stages 1. **Baseline** — choose one change you can prove in 30 days and record a baseline before polishing, hiding, or restarting. 2. **Isolate** — find the single transition, timing drift, fretboard-map gap, or phrase that breaks the result. 3. **Reconnect** — put the repaired skill back into a full song, a steady click, a backing track, or a cold prompt. 4. **Prove** — record the final attempt beside the baseline and name only the change the evidence actually supports. Evidence replaces watch time, vague streaks, and hoping it sounds better. The stages are written out in full, with what each one asks and how you know you can move on, at https://guitarhub.org/method. ## Free tools There are seven tools, all free and reachable without an account. Each one runs entirely in the browser: nothing you type is uploaded or emailed. What you type is kept in that browser's own storage and can be cleared from the page itself. Microphone features (the tuner and the Advanced Lab drills) analyze audio live on the device; no audio is uploaded or stored. - Guitar tuner and metronome — Check each open string with pitch feedback and reference tones, then practice with a steady four-beat click. https://guitarhub.org/practice - 30-day breakthrough planner — Choose one finish line and turn it into a four-week practice sequence you can run this month. https://guitarhub.org/breakthrough - Practice plateau diagnostic — Answer a short set of questions and name the part of your practice that stopped producing change. https://guitarhub.org/diagnose - Practice session builder — Turn the minutes you actually have into timed blocks, weighted toward the one thing you are fixing. https://guitarhub.org/session - Tempo ladder builder — Turn one difficult passage into a tempo ladder with a starting speed, a target, and steps between them. https://guitarhub.org/tempo - Song readiness score — Check a song against the parts that break under pressure before you call it finished. https://guitarhub.org/readiness - Practice evidence log — Log one line per session and read what actually moved, with no streak counter and no direction under three sessions. https://guitarhub.org/log Two of them hold a stricter standard than tools of this kind usually do, which is the part worth quoting. The practice session builder splits a fixed number of minutes into whole-minute blocks that total exactly that length, and drops any block falling under its minimum useful size instead of shrinking every block — so a fifteen-minute session comes back as two blocks that can be run, and names the ones it left out. The practice evidence log has no streak counter, and reports "Not enough evidence yet" for any focus with fewer than three sessions rather than drawing a direction through two points. Its export writes a plain JSON file you keep; there is no copy on a server to export from. ## Written guides - How to practice guitar effectively — What to do with a practice hour so it changes your playing instead of filling the time. https://guitarhub.org/how-to-practice-guitar-effectively - Why guitar practice plateaus — Why progress stalls once the beginner gains run out, and what to change when it does. https://guitarhub.org/guitar-practice-plateau - Deliberate practice on guitar — What deliberate practice means at the instrument, and how it differs from playing something again. https://guitarhub.org/deliberate-practice-guitar - 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. https://guitarhub.org/30-day-guitar-challenge - An intermediate practice routine — A weekly routine for players past the beginner stage who still cannot finish a song cleanly. https://guitarhub.org/guitar-practice-routine-intermediate - How long to practice each day — Why duration is the wrong variable, and what a 10, 25 or 60 minute session should contain. https://guitarhub.org/how-long-to-practice-guitar-each-day - A schedule that survives a real week — Building practice around a weekly total and one protected session, instead of a daily streak. https://guitarhub.org/guitar-practice-schedule - 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. https://guitarhub.org/why-cant-i-play-guitar-fast - How to memorize a song — Why rereading tab does not build memory, and how to know the form rather than the finger path. https://guitarhub.org/how-to-memorize-songs-on-guitar - Practicing with a metronome — Testing against the click instead of playing along with it, and what that exposes about your time. https://guitarhub.org/practicing-guitar-with-a-metronome - A beginner practice routine for 90 days — Twenty minutes a day in five blocks, three 30-day phases, and a recording on days 1, 30, 60 and 90. https://guitarhub.org/beginner-guitar-practice-routine - How to change chords faster — Anchor fingers, guide fingers, shape moves and one-minute changes, with exact fingerings for the common open-chord pairs. https://guitarhub.org/how-to-change-chords-faster - Sore fingertips and hand pain — How calluses form, how to press lighter, the setup fixes that help, and the pain signals that mean stop. https://guitarhub.org/guitar-finger-pain - Record your practice on a phone — Phone placement, levels, a day 1 versus day 30 comparison, and the five things to listen for in every take. https://guitarhub.org/record-guitar-practice-on-phone - Learn the fretboard notes and CAGED — The musical alphabet, strings 6 and 5, octave shapes, and the five CAGED shapes that connect the whole neck. https://guitarhub.org/learn-guitar-fretboard-notes - How to practice strumming — A hand that never stops, counted eighths, five patterns in order, and a click on beats 2 and 4. https://guitarhub.org/how-to-practice-strumming - Barre chords and the F chord — Leverage instead of grip strength, a four-step path to a full F, and the E and A shapes up the neck. https://guitarhub.org/how-to-play-barre-chords - How to practice improvising — Constraint drills, phrases that answer each other, and landing on chord tones over a 12-bar blues in A. https://guitarhub.org/how-to-practice-guitar-improvisation - Coming back to guitar after years away — A 30-day restart: set up the guitar, rebuild your fingertips, record a fresh baseline, and finish one song. https://guitarhub.org/coming-back-to-guitar - Practicing scales so they become music — One shape learned cold, then sequences, thirds, a drone, rhythm and chord tones, in a 15-minute daily plan. https://guitarhub.org/how-to-practice-guitar-scales ## Editorial resources - Print the Quiet guitar tone field guides — Three practical listening and recording guides adapted from Jason Colapietro's Print the Quiet essay series. https://guitarhub.org/resources/print-the-quiet - How to practice clean guitar tone — A seven-day clean-tone test for attack, muting, dynamics and the edge of breakup, built around recordings instead of preset collecting. https://guitarhub.org/resources/how-to-practice-clean-guitar-tone - What Hallelujah teaches about guitar tone — A close-listening guide to Jeff Buckley's clean guitar dynamics, space and right-hand control, followed by a repeatable practice test. https://guitarhub.org/resources/jeff-buckley-hallelujah-guitar-tone - How to hear the room in a guitar recording — A practical room-sound experiment for comparing close, distant and simulated ambience without pretending one method always wins. https://guitarhub.org/resources/recording-guitar-room-sound - NAM A2 turns guitar tone into an open format — What Architecture 2 changes for portable neural amp captures, constrained hardware, compatibility, licensing and provenance. https://guitarhub.org/resources/nam-a2-open-tone-format ## About the project What GuitarHub is, who built it, and what happens to anything you type into the tools: https://guitarhub.org/about. Pricing, access and data questions: https://guitarhub.org/faq ## What the founding room is A small reviewed cohort, assembled around one rule: every check-in must change the next practice. Applications are reviewed before any schedule, review capacity, or commitment is promised. Members are matched by goal and by a workable schedule. Corrections stay private. Progress proof is shared only when the player chooses to share it. Applying is a form on the site. It takes no payment and creates no commitment. ## Lessons and access - The guitar curriculum contains 135 lessons: 105 lessons in seven stages plus 30 song companions. Each lesson pairs written instruction with a practice task. Microphone exercises measure pitch or timing where available; other tasks use a quiz, a self-check or the player's own assessment. - Browse the guitar curriculum: https://guitarhub.org/learn/guitar - Search lessons by song, artist, skill, stage and practice type: https://guitarhub.org/learn/guitar#lesson-search - Resume saved sessions, 30-day plans, tempo ladders and logged practice: https://guitarhub.org/practice#practice-workspace-title - Lifetime lesson access costs $79 USD, one time, in the US App Store: the in-app purchase "Complete Lifetime" in GuitarHub for iPhone (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitarhub-guitar-lessons/id6806770875). Other storefronts charge their local price. The first module is free in the app; lifetime access opens the full guitar and voice curriculum. - The free tools, the Advanced Lab, the A-to-D chord routine, the field guides and the glossary need no purchase and no account. - Practice is measured by evidence (recordings, clean tempos, logged sessions), not by streaks or watch time. GuitarHub does not train AI models on anyone's playing. ## Related Suede surfaces - Strumly — AI guitar coach with real-time chord feedback, drills, and ear training. Its structured learning path: https://strumly.suedeai.ai/path - Strumly guides — the written rights and gear explainers that used to live on this domain: https://strumly.suedeai.ai/guides - Suede AI Social — guitar community, real rigs and public Rig Cards: https://social.suedeai.ai - Suede Sing — the vocal studio, where the voice lessons now live: https://sing.suedeai.ai - Suede AI — the studio behind all of them: https://suedeai.ai ## Citation Cite as GuitarHub (https://guitarhub.org), a Suede AI project. Founder: Jason Colapietro. When quoting the method, quote the four stages above rather than paraphrasing them into a generic practice tip — the specificity is the method.