One variable at a time.
Original practice sounds and patterns. Use your guitar to hear the real articulation and sustain.
Pitch stays. The layout changes.
- Set the tuning to whatever your guitar is in right now.
- Pick a root and a highlight, then play the marked notes on the actual guitar.
- Click any fret to hear it and see its distance from the root.
Open strings below run low → high. Adjust each pitch for your current guitar. The fretboard displays high strings at the top, like tab. Octave numbers distinguish register.
Select a fret to hear its pitch and see its relationship to the root.
Solid cells = root; soft cells = selected chord or scale. Unmarked pitches remain playable. This lab uses practical enharmonic labels such as F♯/G♭; spelling a chord correctly is a separate skill.
Build a rhythm you can count.
- Press play and find the pulse with your foot before touching the guitar.
- Tap cells to build a pattern, then play it on one muted note.
- Change one cell at a time. Two changes at once and you will not know which one you heard.
Tap a cell: rest → attack → accent → rest. High clicks mark the big pulse; the lower sound is your pattern. Accents change loudness, not time.
Listen, predict, then name it.
- Predict out loud what you expect to hear, then press play.
- Only then press “Show notes” to check yourself.
- Find the same sound on your guitar — the lab is a reference tone, not the instrument.
Interval check · root stays E
Hear two notes, then choose the distance. Use this to check hearing as well as vocabulary.
Start with a new pair.
Your taste is the example bank.
Heavy rhythm, clean atmosphere and melodic phrasing run through your listening and saved tabs. Those are teaching directions inferred from your choices, not a test of your playing level.
Playing interests
Recent listening · hours
How these choices shape the course
Start with pulse, rests and note lengths for the riff-based music you save. Connect chord tones, voicings and small melodies for your clean and atmospheric interests. Use hip-hop listening as a rhythm reference played on guitar. Bring modes, chromatic notes and unusual grouping in only after a musical question needs them.
The UG snapshot also shows fingerstyle/classical interest, including Tárrega and Carulli, and your saved data includes John Butler Trio. Fingerstyle can serve your clean arrangements without becoming a separate compulsory classical course.
The PDFs are lists of saved tabs, not the tablature itself. Most selected songs below are listening or investigation prompts, not verified harmonic analyses. The Nothing Else Matters opening is checked against your supplied score. Use your own Songsterr/UG account for the exact arrangement.
Data coverage and counting
The newer UG screenshot shows 312 saved tabs, while the JSON has 311 entries; that discrepancy is retained rather than silently “fixed”. The older PDF shows 293. Historical screenshots are not counted again. Raw account, payment and device information is not included in this course.
A few strong listening + playing overlaps
Ranked here by listening minutes in the latest exported 365 days. This is actual accumulated playback time, including partial plays; not completed-track counts. A missing match does not mean you never listen to a saved song.
Keep evidence, not a streak.
Write what you tried, what changed and what still puzzles you. Progress is self-reported: the course cannot listen to your guitar or judge a performance.
Saved in this browser when available. Export a backup before switching browsers or clearing storage. Import replaces this course’s local progress.