Your five-minute session.
Start with a short, guided session in Ode to Joy. Three steps, at your pace.
- Warm up · about 1 minute
- Work on a passage · about 3 minutes
- Play something you know · about 1 minute
Your favorite song.
In your hands.
Learn the notes. Find the feeling. Play it for real.
Your own little practice room, one phrase at a time.
Ode to Joy
C majorYour first song starts with one note.
Build up from open strings to First light, a complete original song. Take any lesson at your own pace.
Explore the beginner path
- 01
One clear note
Pluck the open high E string
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 02
Find the first fret
Move between open E and F
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 03
Three notes, one string
Connect E, F and G
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 04
A steady pulse
Give repeated notes separate plucks
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 05
Cross one string
Move between B and high E
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 06
A four-note walk
Add C and D on the B string
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 07
Space between notes
Keep counting through a rest
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 08
Long and short
Hear quarter and half notes
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 09
The Em shape, one string at a time
Hear the notes inside E minor
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 10
From Em to G
Prepare a chord change slowly
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 11
First light · the opening
Connect two musical phrases
3 min suggested · Ready when you are - 12
First light
Play a complete original 16-bar song
10 min suggested · Ready when you are
Good songs to get lost in.
Your guitar · Standard tuning · right-handed
Targets keep their sounding pitch. Frets are relative to your capo. Changing setup updates fingerings; notes outside your guitar’s range are flagged.
Your practice journal
0 timing attempts · 0 practice days · 0 personal check-ins
Try a phrase in time and save the attempt to begin your journal.
Download a report when you want to discuss a session with a teacher or report a problem. It includes practice scores, written check-ins, guitar settings and browser information. It contains no recordings.
Keep your practice safe
Download your imported lessons, original audio, prepared audio, progress, guitar setup, saved takes and attached videos. Bring the file to another device to continue there.
Backups stay on your device. Keep the file private if it contains personal recordings. This is a manual backup, not automatic synchronization.