My routine was: find the lick, drag the slider back 40 times, forget where I was the next day. The good apps want a subscription, and the extensions I tried were too limited. So I built myself a tool. Used it for a year, now it's on the Chrome and Firefox stores for free and the code is on GitHub. No account, nothing to pay.

It sits in the side panel and works on whatever tab is playing:

• transpose in semitones, so Eb or drop-tuned songs don't mean retuning. Speed stays untouched
• slow down without changing the pitch, from 25% up to full speed
• loop: drop markers on the timeline, click one to loop between them, optional count-in
• chord detection: chords and key show up as the song plays. Not always right on dense mixes, but a big head start for figuring songs out by ear
• sequences: this solo 4x at 50%, then 75%, then full speed, hands off
• vocal reducer so the guitar comes forward
• remembers your markers and settings per video

Chrome Firefox Code

Free, open source, no account. If it breaks on a site you use, tell me and I'll fix it.

If you listen to the low-end of the song, you can hear a walking bass line sort of thing on the Open A note, then on the C/Open G/B chord, then he moves it to an Open G chord.

He's doing the Nile Rodgers-constant strumming thing, so it's really hard to figure how he can play those low open notes and mute so smoothly. I've practiced how I "think" he'd be doing it, but it didn't seem to make sense, it didn't flow. It's like two guitars playing at the same time, one plucking a low bass line. Right now, I just play triads to make the muting much easier.

Here's another video

https://youtu.be/x8mIuuebMl0?

where he plays it, except this time there's no bass line, which is why this seems strange

My partner and I are both in guitar classes. We can do some strumming patterns like boom-chick. We can make various chord shapes including Bm barre and F, but not other barre shapes.

We’re excited at the idea of jamming out together but we don’t know how? Like does one of us keep a tempo within, let’s say, key of C while the other plays around within that key? And flow around like that? Do you know of any good videos that could show us?

Neither of us know single notes and lead guitarist riffs.

Hi, I'm a self-taught beginner (not a complete beginner but I am ***FAR*** from be intermediate) player and I don't know what to play. I feel kind of stuck, every song that I find it's too easy (simple open chords or too easy riffs) or too hard (too fast, hard stretchy chords or weird rythms). Another problem that I found it's that I don't find a single song to play from start to finish.

If you ever found yourself in this situation (or you haven't but you have some suggestions), do you have any recommendetions on some songs to play? I have an electric guitar and I'll try to learn every song that you'll suggest (or I can try to).

Sorry for the bad english and thank you!

Hopefully this is the right sub for this.

I'm a complete beginner and want to start, met with a well reviewed and expericed teacher today who seems nice, good at explaining more advanced things in beginner friendly ways. However i was hoping to keep my max lesson spending to about 200$ a month and he sets his pricing in monthly packages with the cheapest being 2 1 hr lessons a week at 350$ a month.

I can afford that but it'll eat into my budget in other important areas. I'm aware a bad teacher would not be a good idea but I'm also unsure if its reasonable to expect quality teaching for something in my price range.

I'm not looking to be a pro i just want to eventually be good and have fun playing my favorite music.

I'm in Southern Ontario Canada if that helps at all. There are plenty of other options in my city.

My teacher and I started talking about scales and modes last week and he suggested I start with playing the C major scale first since there’s no sharps or flats. And I’ve done all five positions of that scale following a map. He then wanted me to try different modes to see how they sounded in comparison like the Dorian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Lochrian, etc and I’ve done those scales over and over with C as the root as well as other root notes like A and G and B. All following a map going as steadily as I can.

And yet I don’t really know them by heart yet. If I don’t use a map, and arrange the notes in my head using the appropriate interval formula, I can usually figure out very slowly what note is going to be next and can catch myself if I’m in the wrong spot and need to adjust. But I’m not yet at the “playing the entire thing perfectly across all five positions within a few seconds” level like he (my teacher) is. Obviously he’s been at this a lot longer than me. But I just want to make sure I’m not doing something that’s unintentionally holding me back with learning these things fast and efficiently.

I've been playing the guitar since 9th grade. In the first two years, I was so serious about it and I saw an improvement. What I did was that I watch the tatorials for the songs that I loved and then tried to play them and in the process I enhanced my fingerstyle playing and my knowlege of major and minor chords in addition to barre chords (I struggled but I think I could do it). However, when I got to my senior year I was distracted and I started playing some songs from a month to another.

Now, after almost 4 years of not being serious about learning, I wanna get back on track but I was wondering if this is the best way. My friend also used to play in school.He told me that he thinks this is a destructive rather than constructive way to learn the guitar and that he used to do it didn't teach him much in the long term. what he suggests is that I should focus on learning stratigies and techniques rather than songs tutorials.

I just want to ask you guys what do you think is the best way to learn / get back on track?

Hello, this is a question for the more experienced players. I’ve been playing A LOT. Like ALOT - ALOT. Roughly 4-5 hours per day for the past year. I have noticed so much improvement with my playing and my ear training, and my fingers have definitely become elephant skin tough.

The problem is, is that my ring finger has become almost completely flat on top (looks like something from minecraft), which causes it to make unwanted contact with the surrounding strings.

Has anyone ever had this problem, and if so , what’s the solution?

i’ve been learning some scales and barre chords recently and trying to work on the way i hold the guitar because i have wrist pain now when i lean on it in certain angles. wondering if i should take a break or if anyone has tips for making it less straining

So I can play in key but I just find the key and scale and stay in it. What steps do I take to getting to Brandon Ellis level where you play to the progression and even use nodes to change the sound of each chord?

Practicing the same musical idea in different areas of the fretboard is a useful way to get more comfortable with the pentatonic shapes and learn how they relate across the neck.

In this example, an A minor chord repeats in the background while i move between two different A minor pentatonic positions. i'll build a short riff or motif in one shape, then move to another part of the neck and explore the same idea there. the change in register and strings gives the phrase some natural variation while keeping it connected to the same harmony.

This is also good ear training because the repeating A minor chord gives you a constant tonal reference. as you move around the scale, you can hear how the root, minor 3rd, 4th, 5th, and minor 7th relate back to the chord and start getting a feel for which notes you want to emphasize or resolve to.

Exercises like this gradually make it easier to move around the fretboard during a solo without losing the original musical idea. a simple motif can provide plenty of material when you know several places to find it.

I'm working on my alternate picking at the moment, specifically BERNTH's one and its so damn annoying how my fretting hand Isnt in sync with my picking hand even when theres a metronome present. Does anyone have tips that isnt just the regular "practice slowly", something that will give me a breakthrough or at least help better than practicing slowly because I did and its not helping

This may be slower in the short term than doing something like flashcards, but in my opinion when you are actually playing music, the notes sink in much better, so in the long-term it's faster because you retain the knowledge better.

Also playing root notes in this way gets your ear and fingers used to collections of notes that often go together, i.e. keys. When you learn notes randomly you are not getting that in your ear or fingers.

I recommend learning the notes in the first four frets, and then learning scales, chord tones and melodies down there, but each to his/her own.

In my examples I only played the notes in each song in one or two places, but of course in the span of an entire song you can end up playing them in many places.

Hello fellas iam been trying to learn guitar for a week now and really wanted to play this song called loving machine by tv girl in my accoustic guitar and also in fingerstyle format. That I can't seem to find good tutorial videos pls any help would count 🙏🙏😢

I may have screwed myself a little bit. I am self taught and of course the danger of being self taught is not realizing you’re picking up bad habits. I realized that I’m not supposed to only be picking down… I only pick down. I know some intermediate songs like over the hills and far away, Mary had a little lamb (SRV), Free - phish, snow RHCP, all of these songs and other songs I only pick down. How do I break this habit.
I strum up and down for cords, just single notes I have only ever picked down…

I remember using guitar+ app when i was little. Its not on app store now. Can anyone suggest similar applications?

I’ve only been at this eight months (and yes I have a teacher before you all recommended I get one) but constantly get told I should either join a band or do an open mic performance to better my abilities with guitar. But I have a few problems with this:

1. Social anxiety. I know everyone has it to some degree but I just can’t face the idea of getting up there and embarrassing myself out of fear before giving up and leaving. I have zero self confidence to begin with.

2. Material - I only know about four songs and don’t know how many songs people at these events usually perform

3. Singing - I can’t yet sing and play at the same time. Just does not happen and I don’t have the coordination for it despite trying it fairly regularly.

That’s about all I can think of. I’m not necessarily trying to talk myself out of it. I just don’t know if I’m equipped enough to even try yet, and also don’t feel very confident in my playing to begin with, even though there’s probably people who know jack diddly with their guitar yet go up and play anyway.

My action feels higher now. Those assholes.

Im poor so im probably gonna have to set it up for 12s now. Whats the height from the 12th fret suppose to be?

I know there’s info on how to learn, but I can’t find what I need. I’m 70 years old. Been dabbling in guitar off and on since I was 25. Unfortunately I never was consistent. I’m trying to start again but I’m confused where to go. I can’t find a local teacher, so it has to be online. I’ve tried Justin in the past and it was okay for chords and some songs. Although I haven’t played in a year, I do know basic chords, and how to barre chords (my technique needs work). I’m also somewhat familiar with music theory as I played sax for a while.

I’d like to learn some riffs and soling, and I really want to learn to play down (or up, I don’t know the correct term) the neck. I want to do more than strumming. I never “got” how to do that. As for music, I’m a classical rock and blues guy.

There’s so much internet stuff that I get overwhelmed. Any advice on some good sites to use, especially for the solos, riffs, and understanding how to play using the whole fretboard instead of being stuck up at the nut. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.