The Free Guitar Practice App With a Capo, Not a Subscription

The guitar skill tree has 36 nodes across four tiers, built on real prerequisites. Barre Chords (E Shape), for instance, will not show up as your next lesson until fretboard note names, a two-string mini barre, and the full set of open chords are already learned.

Setup, tuning, and tab

Guitar Anatomy & Tuning, Holding & Pick Grip, and Reading Tab Basics come before you fret a single note. Fretting Hand Placement follows so every string rings clean, fingertip only, before picking technique starts.

First chords, picking, and the capo

Down-Picking and Alternate Picking lead into Open Chords, Em, Am, E, A, then D, G, C. The Capo arrives once you own the full open set: it treats the capo as a key multiplier, one moving bar over shapes you already know. G to C, in time is the timed chord-change drill behind Basic Strumming and most open-chord songs.

Rock rhythm: power chords and drive

Power Chords, Palm Muting, and Driving Rhythm (down-picked eighths and the palm-muted gallop) build the electric rhythm vocabulary. Amp & Gain Basics and Fretboard Note Names sit alongside them, and Fmaj7 and the Small F scaffolds the jump into Barre Chords, E Shape then A Shape.

Lead technique: bends, legato, and the pentatonic boxes

Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs, and Slides build legato. String Bending, Vibrato, and Half-Step, Unison & Held Bends teach the electric guitar's signature expressive moves. Minor Pentatonic Box 1 gives you a first improvising shape, The Blues Note adds the flat five, and Minor Pentatonic Box 2 + Connect and Noise Control Under Gain move you off the first position.

Playing with other people

12-Bar Blues, Lead Phrasing (Q&A), Pentatonic Licks (Box 1), Full-Neck Pentatonic, Bending Accuracy + Expression, and Rhythm Syncopation & Accents are the tier that turns technique into something you can jam over.

Three tools carry weight beyond a single lesson. The capo module treats the capo as a key multiplier, not just a folk-song crutch: the five open CAGED shapes you already know, C, A, G, E, D, sound in every key once you can place the capo and name the key you are sounding in. A fretboard map fills in as you learn positions and note names instead of staying blank until you have memorized the whole neck at once. And every chord in the tree, from Em to a movable E-shape barre, renders as a real chord diagram, not a text shape you have to decode.

Open the app and it already knows what you should do tonight: the one skill you are ready to learn next, the drill that teaches it, and how you will know you are done, instead of a stack of song tabs to sort through yourself.

Technique drills use BPM laddering: you start under tempo, and the app only lets you step up once you have played a clean run at the current speed. The G to C transition drill, for example, has a real target, roughly thirty clean changes a minute, the wall most beginners stall on, before it moves you toward 12-Bar Blues.

Once a skill is learned it does not just sit there. Music Practice reviews it again at 1, 3, 7, and 14 days, so a chord change or a bend you learned three weeks ago comes back before you have had the chance to forget it. Ear training respects the same honesty: it only quizzes intervals, chords, and progressions the tree has actually taught you, never material from a lesson you have not reached yet. And every musical term in a lesson, from palm mute to pentatonic, is tappable for a plain-language explanation, so nothing you read assumes vocabulary you do not have.

Most guitar apps turn practice into a game: streaks to protect, stars for showing up, points for strumming somewhere near the beat. None of that tells you why a technique matters or when you are actually ready to move past it.

Music Practice does the opposite. There is no streak to protect and no score to chase. Progress is a skill tree you can see laid out end to end, which techniques you have learned, at what tempo, and the one thing to learn next. Miss a night and nothing resets. Pick the guitar back up after a month and the review queue tells you exactly which chords and bends need a refresher first.

Music Practice runs entirely in your browser. There is no account to create, nothing to install, and no subscription behind a lesson, a chord diagram, or the capo module. If you want your progress on a second device, an optional signed-in cloud sync is there, but it stays opt-in, never required.

The code is open source under MIT and lives at github.com/astraedus/piano. Built by one developer, Diven, for his own nightly practice, and released because a real electric guitar curriculum should not need a monthly fee to exist.

Open the app and it will place you exactly where you left off, or at Guitar Anatomy & Tuning if this is night one. If you use it, even for five minutes, tell me what confused you or what you wished it did next. The repo is open and issues are welcome: github.com/astraedus/piano.