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These practice tools are free. They have no payment step, trial, or locked second half.
Free practice tools
Free guitar practice tools that run in your browser.
The tools 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 what you type into them stays in your browser.
The common thread
The same conditions, on each 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 each of them.
No account
Open any tool and use it without signing in or entering an email address.
Runs in your browser
Plans, diagnoses, ladders, and summaries are computed on the page. The tuner processes microphone sound on your device; it does not upload audio.
Stores no data on a server
Plans and logs stay in this browser's local storage. Tuner readings and metronome playback are temporary and stop when you leave. These standalone tools do not upload practice history.
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. The tuner listens only while you run it, measures pitch on your device, and never records or uploads audio; the planning tools never touch the microphone. When a tool tells you to record a baseline, record it on your phone and keep it yourself.
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.
Guitar tuner and metronome
Check each open string with pitch feedback and reference tones, then practice with a steady four-beat click.
- What it is for
- Check the pitch and octave of one open guitar string at a time, hear synthesized standard tuning references, and use a four-beat metronome at your chosen tempo. The microphone stays off until you start the tuner.
- Who it helps
- Players tuning up before a lesson or practicing chord changes, scales, and short passages with a steady click.
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 practiced 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 have my guitar ready and need to tune up or set a steady tempo.”
During practice. Open the tuner and metronome without starting a lesson.
“I practice most days and cannot say what stopped producing change.”
Baseline. It ends with a named blocker to record against.
“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.”
Isolate. 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. It carries the evidence into the next baseline.
How the tools work.
Each tool does one job, on your device. That is what keeps them free without taking anything from you in exchange, and these are the operating details worth knowing before you start.
- The tuner listens only after you start it and allow microphone access. It detects one note at a time; it does not verify complete chords or award a lesson score.
- The metronome and synthesized reference tones do not need microphone permission. Starting another audio tool stops the current one, and hiding or leaving the page stops playback and listening.
- State does not follow you between devices or browsers. No account carries 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 the tools produce no results without it.
- Planning tools depend on your own answers. The tuner reports pitch; it cannot assess your posture, complete chord fingering, or overall playing technique.
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 four-stage loop the whole site runs on: baseline, isolate, reconnect, prove, with an exit test for each stage.
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.
Practicing with a metronome
Testing against the click instead of playing along with it, and what that exposes about your time.
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.
How to change chords faster
Anchor fingers, guide fingers, shape moves and one-minute changes, with exact fingerings for the common open-chord pairs.
Sore fingertips and hand pain
How calluses form, how to press lighter, the setup fixes that help, and the pain signals that mean stop.
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.
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.
How to practice strumming
A hand that never stops, counted eighths, five patterns in order, and a click on beats 2 and 4.
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.
How to practice improvising
Constraint drills, phrases that answer each other, and landing on chord tones over a 12-bar blues in A.
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.
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.
Use GuitarHub’s lessons, tuner, and metronome alongside your practice plan. These related Strumly guides offer more help with routines and chord transitions:
Common questions.
Are the tools actually free?
Yes. The standalone practice tools are free to use, with no trial, card, or paid upgrade required.
Do I need an account?
No. These tools work without signing in. Learning accounts, where available, are separate and are not required for the tuner, metronome, or planning tools.
Where does what I type go?
Plans and logs stay in this browser's local storage. Tuner readings are temporary; microphone samples are processed on your device and are not uploaded or saved. The standalone tools do not send your practice entries to a server.
Which tool should I open first?
Use the tuner and metronome when your guitar is in hand. 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.
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 the tools produce no results 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.