Finished, or just comfortable?
Score one song against the ten conditions that decide whether it holds up away from your practice chair. No account, nothing uploaded, and it stays in your browser.
The problem this measures
The song did not fall apart because you forgot it. It fell apart because of the room.
Most songs reach a point where you would say they are done. You can play it, it sounds like the record, and you stop working on it. Then you play it for one person and it comes apart in a bar that has never given you trouble.
The notes were not the problem. The problem was a condition you never practiced in: cold hands, a listener, full tempo set by something other than you, or a mistake in bar four with nothing rehearsed for what comes next. This tool asks about those conditions one at a time, weights them by how much damage each one does, and hands back the single thing worth fixing before you play it for anybody. If your whole practice has stalled rather than one song, start with why guitar practice plateaus instead.
Score one song against ten checks that break under pressure.
Answer each check honestly. Two of the ten carry more weight than any other check, because two of them end a performance rather than dent it. Your songs stay in this browser.
Name a song above to start. Pick one you would call finished. The checks are most useful on a song you already believe you can play.
How this works
What the number is, and what it is not.
- Name the songType in one song you would call finished. It is stored under that name in this browser, so you can come back and score it again after you have done something about the result.
- Answer the ten checksEach check is a yes or no about something that has either happened or has not. None of them ask how well you play. If you are unsure whether you can start it cold, the honest answer is no.
- Read the score and the bandThe score is the weighted total of the checks you ticked, shown from 0 to 100. The band names what that total means: practice-room only, good-day only, nearly there, or stage-ready.
- Do the one action it hands backThe tool returns the heaviest check still open, with an instruction you can run in a single practice session. One thing this week, rather than a list of ten.
- Score it again afterwardsChange an answer only once the thing has actually happened. The score is worth something only for as long as the checks stay honest.
Why two checks weigh more than the others
Starting cold and playing through a mistake carry three points each. The rest carry two or one, for nineteen points in total. That split is a judgment rather than a finding: those two failures end a performance, and the other eight only make it worse. A song can pass eight checks and still stop dead in the first bar.
The practical effect is that ticking the two heavy checks scores higher than ticking three light ones. The score does not reward collecting the easy boxes, which is the same reason the GuitarHub method puts a recording at the end of every week.
Why it hands back one action instead of a list
Ten open checks is a to-do list, and a to-do list is how a song stays unfinished. The tool sorts what is left by weight and returns the top one with an instruction you can run in a single session. When two are tied it takes the earlier one, because the order they are listed in is roughly the order a song needs them. If you want that same idea across a whole month rather than one song, the 30-day challenge and the breakthrough planner run it week by week.
What the score cannot tell you
It cannot hear you. It counts what you told it, and it only knows about the ten things on the list. It has nothing to say about tone, feel, dynamics, or whether the song suits you at all. A score of 100 means the ten failure modes here have been tested, not that the performance is good.
Read a low score as a map of what has not been tested yet, rather than a verdict on your playing. For turning that map into a weekly routine, Strumly has a guide to designing a practice routine and a staged learning path.
Where to go next
The GuitarHub method
The loop the whole site runs on: diagnose, prescribe, practice, prove, correct, repeat.
30-day breakthrough planner
Choose one finish line and turn it into a four-week practice sequence you can run this month.
Why guitar practice plateaus
Why progress stalls once the beginner gains run out, and what to change when it does.
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.
One song, tested properly, beats five nearly done.
Score the song, do the one action, and score it again. If you want a human layer around that work, the founding room is being assembled as a small crew with a weekly studio. Applying starts a fit conversation and takes no payment.