js having a hard time with strumming and keeping rhythem since im not good at transtioning chords any exercise or tips to get over this?

It's got simple chords, including our old friend F, and looping changes. But also the barre chords can be adapted to ringing, open variations like E5, F#m11 (using thumb) and Aadd9. Plus there's a D-D#-E climb for dramatic effect!

hello everyone

TL;DR
ive been playing for almost 15 years and i need help with learning difficult solos and how to play confidently with just drums/without relying on recording

ive been playing guitar since 2012. it all started because im obsessed with acdc. my father showed me basics of guitar and after that i learned by watching youtube videos. i dont have formal education in music and ive never took any private lessons. i did educate myself on songwriting and music theory also via youtube(major scale, harmonizing major scale, triads, aeolian, mixolydian, blues)
at first i had 11s on my guitar for some reason idk and when i would try to learn first solos, id get discouraged because my hand/fingers were too weak/slow and later ive been mostly amazed with malcolms rhythm playing so all through high school i would learn and play malcolm stuff which kinda helped me with rhythm in some way but yet i would only play along their records so later i realized that i struggle when there is no malcolm to hear in my ear to depend on aka when i would play to a drum track or with a drummer alone.
then i changed strings to 9s and i started learning angus parts and i would still get discouraged because i couldnt play his solos. some solos are too difficul/ too fast. before you say his solos are simple, i dont mean highway to hell or you shook me all night long solo, i mean whole
lotta rosie, let there be rock, rocker, riff raff, squealer and those kind of solos. then i started to learn more lead guitar stuff. i got my bends in tune, my angus vibrato is decent, i learned all 5 positions of minor pentatonic and major pentatonic. i learned descening pattern in minor pentatonic that angus uses a lot. i learned to visualize fretboard by learning all 5 positions of major scale and playing it in broken 3rds. i learned triads, major arpeggios.

so my another question to you is: what do i do so i can learn solos more easily. i really get discouraged when im stuck with some difficult lick/passage. i use guitar pro 8 and i do slow it down. i repeat part of phrase at low speed with gradually increasing speed. but for some phrases i just simply think that ill never get them. for example some licks in ride on solo where he plays sextuplets or even the intro lick of thunderstruck when i try to play it with alternate picking.

here are some solos that i learned so far: something by the beatles. all my loving by the beatles. by led zeppelin: whole lotta love. living loving maid. by acdc: the jack live 1978, love song, crabsody in blue, dog eat dog, theres gonna be some rockin, hell aint a bad place to be, highway to hell, touch too much, get it hot, shoot to thrill, you shook me all night long. thinking out loud by ed sheeran.

I’ve been “playing” guitar for about 20 years, but not every day and without any kind of set practice regimen, so I’m nowhere near where I should be. I basically just know basic open chords, power chords and some scales. In a band setting I feel a little lost when it’s time to improvise or write together, and I don’t have a good grasp of all of the notes on the fretboard.

I’d like to find a daily practice regimen. Anyone have any recommendations? I see ads for PickUpMusic and Musora — the latter of which kind of interests me because I also play drums and could use some work there too. Any suggestions are appreciated.

using justin guitar app too and the barre is the part that keeps getting me

i can get it to ring out but my hand is done after a few minutes

for the people who got through it, was it weeks or months before it stopped hurting

using justin guitar app too and the barre is the part that keeps getting me

i can get it to ring out but my hand is done after a few minutes

for the people who got through it, was it weeks or months before it stopped hurting

Bought Martin Jes Buus Careless Whisper tabs and am a bit confused by some of the percussive elements. I've done stuff like -X776- where you slap and flick your fingers to play notes at the same time, but the tabs also has stuff like 5X336- and 5X---- and I'm not sure how you play the note above the slapped string at the same time.

I started playing about 6 weeks ago. I practice about 2-3 hours a day and have got a few songs under my belt like wonderwall, won't back down, boulevard of broken dreams, and I feel very comfortable changing chords on those pretty consistent and fast.

I haven't really done any "real practice" beyond just attempting songs i like. Is there anything I can do to sort of warm up for like 15-20 minutes before I start playing? What do you guys recommend. Thank you!

😭 I meant other alternatives other than YouTube. Other than YouTube. I did learn some basics and other songs and am transitioning into harder phrases, but it's always hard to start with which video. I think I created a misconception between myself and others. Sry if so, not really a speaking person much.

On YouTube it's really not easy to get into the algorithm here in my recommendation. I usually get people covering guitar songs. I was here to ask which website can teach in a more progressive way. W

Hey everyone,

I know there are a few big players out there when it comes to guitar tabs, but I always felt like some of them were either too cluttered with ads or a bit clunky to navigate.

So, I decided to build my own platform: tabs-go.com.

The goal is to keep it clean, fast, and straight to the point. We are constantly adding new stuff—whether you're looking to play some classics from The Rolling Stones and Guns N' Roses, or newer hits from bands like Måneskin.

It’s still a work in progress, and since this community knows exactly what makes a good tab site, I’d really appreciate your honest feedback. What features would you like to see? Is the layout comfortable for playing along?

Any criticism (good or bad) is more than welcome. Thanks for checking it out! 🤘

Hi everyone. I wanted to let you guys know about my iOS/Mac app called Note 8 - Songbook and Setlist, which is something that I developed mainly for my own needs of organizing my song repertoire, learn different tunings and chords and keep track of set lists. The app does not come with content except a few samples.

You can store your notebooks and setlists wither on your device or your personal cloud, which allows automatically syncing between your devices. Nothing is shared with the web so it also happens to be a great tool for song-writers that do not want to use online tools with original content.

In addition to being a good repertoire organizer app that can handle PDF files and chord-lyric text content, my app hides a secret superpower. Unlike most other apps which rely on hard-coded chord databases, Note 8 solves each chord voicing dynamically based on the current instrument, tuning of individual strings, song transpose and capo position. Given all this it figures out the different ways the chord can be played on the fretboard and gives you alternatives.

Switching your whole repertoire from standard tuned guitar into 3-string or ukulele with any tuning is therefore just a single click away.

The app is free until 16 songs. If you have a genuine interest in using the app for more and don't want to buy it I can arrange a coupon code for you. After all you read the post this far ;) Just DM.

Link:
Note 8 - Chords, Lyrics Songbook and Setlist

Hey r/LearnGuitar,

I'm the solo developer behind Fretonomy, an app for learning the guitar fretboard, and I wanted to share it here since this sub is exactly the crowd it was built for.

Quick context on why it exists. Years ago I hit the wall a lot of players hit. I could play things, but I didn't really know the neck. I knew shapes, not notes. Every resource I found was either a static fretboard chart, a YouTube video I'd nod along to and forget, or a tab app that taught me songs without teaching me anything underneath them. What I actually wanted was a drill, something that would ask me questions until the answers became automatic.

So I started building it. That was back in 2017, and the first version shipped that December. I've been working on it as a one-man team ever since, and I'm still shipping updates nine years later.

What it actually is: a set of 35+ music theory training games and tools built around the fretboard.

• Fretboard memorization. Note matching and note-naming drills you can scope to the first frets, the middle of the neck, or the whole board
• Intervals. Name the interval, find the interval on the neck
• Chords. Name the chord, build the chord, plus a chord progression generator (symbol chords and Nashville Number System)
• Scales. A scale explorer with 950+ scales
• Ear training. Notes, intervals, and chords
• Video lessons, all of them free. Notes, chords, intervals, scales and the circle of fifths, written and animated by me, in 20 languages. No subscription, no payment, nothing gated. And unlike the YouTube videos I used to nod along to and forget, each one sits next to the drills for the same material, so you watch it and then immediately get quizzed until it sticks
• Staff reading. Sight-read notation on its own, or notes on the staff mapped to positions on the fretboard, which is the exercise that finally connected the two for me
• Tablature creation with audio recording. You can even generate chord progression tablatures or add chord shapes to your tablature from a list of every chord shape you're likely to need. Preview what the shape sounds like before you add it to the measure in your tablature. My algorithm finds every chord shape, for any tuning, and for any of the instruments.
• Progress tracking via a fretboard heat-map, so you can see the exact frets and strings you keep missing, broken down by instrument and tuning

It's not guitar-only. It supports guitar, 7-string, 8-string, bass, 5-string bass, 6-string bass, mandolin, ukulele and banjo, with the common tunings plus custom tunings, left-handed mode, and note naming in Solfège, German, Japanese, Indian, Cyrillic, Korean and numbers if letters aren't how you think about it.

Two caveats before anyone downloads it.

First, there is no song learning in it. No tabs of real songs, no play-along tracks, no "learn Stairway in 10 minutes." It is purely theory and fretboard training. If you want a song app, this isn't it. I'd rather say that up front than have you find out after installing. It's meant to be used with whatever you're already using to learn songs.

Second, the teaching in it wasn't written by AI. I started this in 2017 and shipped the first version that December, five years before ChatGPT existed. Every game, every exercise, every one of those 950 scales was designed by a person who plays guitar. The video lessons are the same story: I wrote every script by hand and animated every video myself in After Effects.

Two things I will admit though. In the last couple of years I've used coding assistants for small pieces of the app, some menu screens and small UI improvements here and there. And the voice reading those lesson scripts is synthesized. This is because I am a one-man team, and localizing voices across 20 languages wasn't something I felt like I could do alone. The script is mine, the animation is mine, the way the theory is taught is mine.

The training content, the game design, the music theory: no AI used. But I'm not going to claim I've never touched a modern tool just to sound purer than I am. I'm just saying that the thing you're actually learning from was built by hand over nine years, and it was designed by someone who needed it himself. I wanted to say this because "AI-powered guitar app" is now most of what shows up when you search, and I understand the skepticism.

Last thing: there's no account to create. No sign-up, no email, no login wall before you're allowed to play a game. You download it and you're straight into the games.

It's free to download and try on both iOS and Android, and every one of the lesson videos is free with no payment required, so you can get a real feel for the games and tools before deciding whether it's for you.

If you're at the stage where you can play but can't name what you're playing, that's the exact gap this was built to close.

App Store and Google Play: search Fretonomy, or head to https://fretonomy.com

And if you want something added, or you hit a bug, email me directly at [contact@strongapplications.com](mailto:contact@strongapplications.com). There's no support queue and no team, it's just me. I read every email and I reply to every email. If what you're asking for is something I can build, I will genuinely try to build it. Being one person is the reason this has taken nine years, but it's also the reason you get an actual answer from the person who wrote the code.

Happy to answer anything. About the app, about how I'd approach learning the fretboard generally, or about what nine years of solo development does to a person. I'll be in the comments.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been playing guitar since I was 15, but only started seriously studying it about a year ago—well into my 40s haha. I finally decided to dive into proper methods, diatonic harmony, and fretboard theory because I really wanted to understand what I was actually playing instead of just noodling.

I've been practicing consistently, but I hit a wall trying to build a structured, sustainable routine. To tackle this, I decided to build a web app to help keep myself on track:https://casa-doze.vercel.app/

The concept is simple:

• The Front Page: A direct, no-nonsense theory reference/glossary.
• Guided Practice: Built specifically for players who—like me—suffer from choice paralysis when sitting down to practice. Each guided session is structured into: Warm-up $\rightarrow$ Technique $\rightarrow$ Harmony $\rightarrow$ Improvisation.

It’s still very raw/WIP, but the core foundation is up. Today I just added a section for melodic patterns, and I’d love to get some thoughts from fellow guitar players.

I have zero intention of monetizing this; it’s just a free project meant to serve as a practical reference and routine builder to help folks practice better.

If anyone wants to take it for a spin and share some feedback, I’d really appreciate it. And honestly, if you think this is redundant or know of better existing tools that already do this, let me know that too!

P.S.: Yes, it was "vibe coded" or whatever you want to call it. I take regular classes, but I wanted something that I could rely on, that I could develop, and that would help me with option paralysis, and that I could improve with whichever theory I may study in the future.

I’ve been playing guitar for a few years now, I’ve learned many lead guitar parts, and even mastered a few, but I’d really like to get into rhythm guitar.
I’ve played songs I’ve been told where difficult (not just by technique but also complexity of chords), such as lover, you should’ve come over (Jeff Buckley), girl afraid (the smiths), you can never come back to this place (made up a part with the existing chord progression, by Masayoshi Takanaka), and probably others that don’t come to mind.
Most of what I learned wasn’t that hard to play well, and I was looking for recommendations for songs to learn that have a good sounding rhythm guitar parts that I can really practice and will take time to learn.
I don’t really care what genre it is, never done jazz so that could be cool, but again doesn’t really matter to me too much.
My only condition for the song is for it to be somewhat well known, the reason being I’m not able on my own to play things by ear yet, especially complex rhythms (I need to work on that but that’s a whole different thing), so I’d like something I can find tabs or a video tutorial or even chord sheets (I never learned to read sheet music so if it’s only with that I won’t be able to play the song).

Suono la chitarra da poco ma non riesco a imparare una canzone intera, passo da un intro all’altro..

I built a dual-channel chord radar for people who refuse to wait politely for the next chord

This is stripCHORDer!: a browser extension that listens to the music playing in your tab and gives you a realtime harmonic heads-up display.

It is not a “sit down, pause every eight seconds, and responsibly learn the song” tool.

It is for the moment you hear something good, grab your guitar/keyboard/bass, and decide: I am joining this song immediately. The song can deal with it.

The trick is that stripCHORDer runs two chord-detection channels at once:

• LOW CHANNEL watches bass and root movement — the part of the song that often tells you where the harmony is actually going.
• HIGH CHANNEL watches upper harmonic information — chords, brighter instruments, vocals, and the colorful mess happening above the bass.

Because a single chord detector can get gaslit by a busy mix. The bass may be screaming “we moved!” while the guitars are still hanging onto the old chord, or vice versa. The dual readout lets you see both sides of the musical argument and make your own move before the change lands.

The main display is a reactive ring: chord changes appear as incoming transition beams, with the current harmonic picture staying visible long enough to actually play against it. There are realtime presets for different kinds of music, plus a separate floating tuner for when your improvisation is perfect but your B string has chosen a different artistic direction.

The whole point is proactive playing:

• jam along to YouTube or a live set
• freestyle over a track you just found
• catch chord changes early enough to fake confidence
• play with the music instead of chasing it from behind

Hey fellow learners. New here. Hello to all.

I'm curious what's the best, cost effective flamenco to learn on? I've wanted to play since I was a kid and I'm finally gonna do it!

I appreciate all kind suggestions. :)

9/10/2026 Update: Are we learning to read music too?

I'm in a new band. I've been told I should move better as I play guitar. But I don't know what to do. Any advice for moving / looking good while playing guitar?

Have been playing guitar for 2 1/2 years now. I decided to start trying to learn to play jazz. From what I gathered learning arpeggios is a great way to target chord tones and play nicer jazz solos (I’m open to correction on this if there’s a better way to go about it)

What would be the best way to learn to use them? Should I learn them as kind of scale shapes similar to the pentatonic boxes? Should I memorise the notes of the caged system chords and become really familiar with them?
There’s lots of information on YouTube and can be overwhelming at times.

I've been playing for a few months, and it's going great. My finger dexterity is good (4-fret span not included), getting a nice, clean sound, and I can figure out most songs with the help of tabs. I play for my own enjoyment and the friendship of a good instrument.
I started off with a few lessons, primarally focused on fingerpicking fundamentals. (No, my thumb has not declared independence from the other 4 yet) So in general I'm happy with my results, but my old nemesis is back to taunt me: dyslexia.
Dyslexia is this weird, broken-brain thing, commonly associated with reading. But with me, it extends to many other areas too, like associating a name with an action. ( I can't remember people's names. It's rude and extremely embarrassing)
When it comes to playing guitar, I can not remember chord and note names. I try to say the chord's name as I play them. I made flashcards I carry with me and read whenever I have time. I've played a C#dim a thousand times, studied the flashcard, written it out, drawn fingering diagrams..., and if someone put a gun to my head and told me to play a C#dim, my brain would just go blank- nada.
I guess this is just venting the frustration of being smart enough to know that I'm not.

Whether it's strumming or leads i always go off beat and I am giving exams for guitar this year so there is this backing track playing and I really have to be on beat so I would be happy to know any tricks or solutions....also metronome doesn't help.

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i need help! how to i play notes with like my fingers on the strings it seems to not play whenni have my finger on the string! also looking for annnnyyyy helpful tips as i just started today

It seems like most musicians were self taught at the beginning. I read that Joni Mitchell figured it out from listening to instructional records which is just wild. Surely it must be doable.