Free, with nothing behind it
No payment step, no card, no trial, and no locked second half. Nothing on this site takes money, so there is no version of these tools you are being shown the outline of.
Free practice tools
Free guitar practice tools that run in your browser.
Every tool GuitarHub publishes, in one place: what each one is for, who it helps, and which part of the practice loop it belongs to. None of them ask for an account, and nothing you type into them leaves your browser.
The common thread
The same conditions, on every one of them.
These are not a funnel with the good part behind a form. They are small, finished tools, and the conditions below are the same for all of them.
No account
No sign-up, no login, no password, no email address. Not a guest mode either — there is no account system here to be a guest of.
Runs in your browser
Every plan, diagnosis, ladder, score, and summary is computed by code already running on the page. Your answers are not sent somewhere to be processed and handed back.
Stores nothing on a server
Each tool keeps its state in your browser's local storage and nowhere else. Close the tab and the work is still there. Clear your browser data and it is gone, including for us, who never had it.
The last one is a claim you can check rather than trust. There is no analytics script and no third-party tracker on this site, which the page source will tell you faster than we can. Nothing here records audio, accepts an upload, or listens to you play. When a tool tells you to record a baseline, it means on your phone, kept by you.
The tools.
Each one does a different job inside the same loop, which is why there is no single “start here” button. Open the one that matches the sentence you would use to describe the problem.
30-day breakthrough planner
Choose one finish line and turn it into a four-week practice sequence you can run this month.
- What it is for
- You choose one finish line, say where you are as a player, and say how many days a week and how many minutes a session you actually have. It returns four weeks, each with a focus, the actions that serve it, and the recording that ends the week.
- Who it helps
- Players who practice regularly and still reach the end of a month unable to say what changed. Also anyone whose month keeps splitting across five goals at once.
Practice plateau diagnostic
Answer a short set of questions and name the part of your practice that stopped producing change.
- What it is for
- Nine questions about how you practice now, not how you mean to. Each answer scores five named blockers against their own maximum, and the result is the one your answers point at hardest, with a prescription and a first action.
- Who it helps
- Players who are putting in the hours, know something has stopped working, and cannot name which part of the routine it is.
Practice session builder
Turn the minutes you actually have into timed blocks, weighted toward the one thing you are fixing.
- What it is for
- You give it the minutes you actually have and the one thing the session is for. It returns ordered, whole-minute blocks that add up exactly, drops anything too short to be useful, and keeps completed blocks in this browser.
- Who it helps
- Players who already know what needs work but lose the session deciding what to do next, or whose available time rarely matches a canned routine.
Tempo ladder builder
Turn one difficult passage into a tempo ladder with a starting speed, a target, and steps between them.
- What it is for
- You give it the tempo you already play a passage cleanly and the tempo you want. It returns an ordered set of sessions between them, with the step size capped, sessions that hold a tempo instead of adding to it, and a pass condition on every rung.
- Who it helps
- Anyone whose speed work is pushing the metronome up until the passage falls apart, then starting over the next day from a number they cannot remember.
Song readiness score
Check a song against the parts that break under pressure before you call it finished.
- What it is for
- Ten yes-or-no checks about things that have either happened with a song or have not, weighted into a score and a band. It hands back the heaviest check still open, with one instruction you can run in a session.
- Who it helps
- Players deciding whether a song is finished, and anyone about to play one standing up, in front of a person, or into a camera.
Practice evidence log
Log one line per session and read what actually moved, with no streak counter and no direction under three sessions.
- What it is for
- You record the date, one focus, a tempo or clean-pass rate, and one honest note. It compares like with like over 7 and 30 days, and refuses to claim a direction until one focus has at least three sessions.
- Who it helps
- Players who can say how often they practised but cannot show whether the passage, transition, or song they chose is actually moving.
Which one to open first.
Find your sentence on the left. The stage on the right is where that tool sits in the four-stage loop the whole site runs on: baseline, isolate, reconnect, prove.
“I practice most days and cannot say what stopped producing change.”
Before the baseline. It ends with a named blocker.
“I know what I want to fix and the month keeps dissolving.”
The whole loop, laid out one stage per week.
“I know what to work on and need it to fit the time I have today.”
Prescribe and practise. It turns the target into blocks you can run now.
“One passage holds together up to a speed and then does not.”
Isolate. The stage where the fragment gets repaired.
“I think this song is finished and I am not sure I believe it.”
Reconnect and prove. What survives outside practice.
“I finished the session and need to know whether the work is moving.”
Prove and correct. It carries the evidence into the next diagnosis.
What these tools do not do.
The limits are the other half of the privacy claim. Nothing above is free because something else is being taken instead — it is free because these tools are small and do less than a product would.
- No metronome, no tuner, and no audio of any kind. Use the ones you already practice with.
- Nothing is recorded, uploaded, or listened to. Every honest answer these tools depend on is one you supply.
- State does not follow you between devices or browsers, because there is no account to carry it. A plan built on your laptop is not on your phone.
- Clearing your browser data deletes what you entered, and it cannot be restored from here.
- They need JavaScript. The results are computed on the page rather than fetched, so nothing computes without it.
- They prescribe practice and cannot hear you play. A tool can tell you the next tempo. It cannot tell you your left hand is late because your right hand is early.
The thinking behind them.
Every tool here is an argument about practice with a form attached. The guides are the argument written out, including the parts a form cannot make.
The GuitarHub method
The loop the whole site runs on: diagnose, prescribe, practice, prove, correct, repeat.
How to practice guitar effectively
What to do with a practice hour so it changes your playing instead of filling the time.
Why guitar practice plateaus
Why progress stalls once the beginner gains run out, and what to change when it does.
Deliberate practice on guitar
What deliberate practice means at the instrument, and how it differs from playing something again.
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.
An intermediate practice routine
A weekly routine for players past the beginner stage who still cannot finish a song cleanly.
How long to practice each day
Why duration is the wrong variable, and what a 10, 25 or 60 minute session should contain.
A schedule that survives a real week
Building practice around a weekly total and one protected session, instead of a daily streak.
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.
How to memorize a song
Why rereading tab does not build memory, and how to know the form rather than the finger path.
Practising with a metronome
Testing against the click instead of playing along with it, and what that exposes about your time.
The tools decide what to practice. For the material that does it — the metronome work, the chord shapes, the coach — GuitarHub links out to Strumly rather than building a second, worse copy:
Common questions.
- Are the tools actually free?
- Yes, and there is nothing here to upgrade to. No payment is taken anywhere on this site and no card is collected. The tools are not a trial, a sample, or a gated preview of a larger version — what is on the page is the whole tool.
- Do I need an account?
- No. There is no sign-up, no login, and no password anywhere on GuitarHub, because there is no account system. Nothing asks for your email address except the founding-room application, which is a separate thing and is not required to use any tool.
- Where does what I type go?
- Into your own browser's local storage, under a key belonging to that tool, and nowhere else. Nothing you enter is transmitted. There is also no analytics script and no third-party tracker on this site, which you can confirm from the page source rather than take on trust.
- Which tool should I open first?
- If you cannot name what stopped working, start with the practice plateau diagnostic. If you know the goal but need a month, use the 30-day planner; if you know today's target and time, build the session. Log what happened afterwards so the next diagnosis starts from evidence.
- Can I use them without JavaScript?
- No. The plans, diagnoses, ladders, scores, and summaries are computed by code running in your browser rather than fetched from a server. That is the same design decision that keeps your answers off a server, and the cost of it is that nothing computes with JavaScript switched off.
The tools are the practice. The room is the correction.
A form can hand you the next tempo and the next week. It cannot listen to your recording and tell you which of the four things going wrong is causing the other three. The founding room is being assembled for that part: a small crew, a weekly recording, and one correction that changes the next session.
Applying is an application, and it is reviewed. It takes no payment, asks for no card, and creates no commitment on either side.