GuitarHarmony

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Free online music tools for practice

Eight free tools for the everyday work of a musician: keeping time, tuning, finding a chord or a scale, playing a groove and writing ideas down. They run in your browser on a computer, tablet or phone, with nothing to install and no account to create. Use them on their own, or together as a complete practice session.

Time and tuning: metronome, tuner, drum machine

The online metronome runs from 30 to 300 BPM. Set the tempo with the slider or the +1 and +5 buttons, or tap it in. It handles 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8 and 7/8, subdivides into eighths, triplets or sixteenths, accents the first beat, shows the beat visually and names the Italian tempo (Andante, Allegro...). The space bar starts and stops it.

The online tuner listens through your microphone and shows a needle and the distance in cents; the sound is analysed in your browser and never sent anywhere. Reference tones let you tune by ear instead. Presets cover standard tuning, Drop D, DADGAD, Open G, 4-string bass and ukulele (GCEA).

The online drum machine is a 16-step sequencer with six sounds (kick, snare, closed and open hi-hat, clap, tom), adjustable tempo and swing, and eight preset grooves: rock, pop, funk, hip-hop, bossa nova, shuffle, reggae and metal. Clear or randomise the grid, then share your pattern with its link.

Reference: chords and scales in every key

Every chord and scale has its own page, so you can bookmark exactly what you are working on.

Play and write: piano and staff paper

The online piano is a playable keyboard, two octaves on a phone and three on a computer, played with the mouse, a touch screen or your computer keys. A sustain switch holds the notes, note names appear in your language, and a highlighter shows any chord or scale on the keys, with links to its chord or scale page. The sound is synthesised, close to a piano.

The blank sheet music generator prints PDF staff paper, staff + tab, tab only or grand staff, in treble, bass or no clef, A4 or US Letter, with optional title and composer lines. Free and unlimited.

How the tools fit together: a 30-minute practice session

The tools are built to be used one after the other. Here is a session that works for guitar or piano:

  1. Tune (2 minutes). Tuner first: practising on a slightly flat string trains your ear to accept wrong notes.
  2. Scale warm-up (8 minutes). Open a scale page, say A minor pentatonic, and play it with the metronome at 60 BPM in eighth notes. Add 5 BPM each time it is clean.
  3. Chords (10 minutes). Pick the chords of your song on the chord charts. Change between two of them on beat 1 of every bar, then every two beats.
  4. Groove (8 minutes). Load a drum machine preset at the song's tempo and play the chords and the scale over it. Real grooves expose timing problems a click hides.
  5. Write it down (2 minutes). Note the tempo you reached and any idea you found on staff or tab paper.

The chord progression you practised today is tomorrow's improvisation backing.

When you want to go further

These tools stay free and need no account. When you want to work on harmony in depth, the GuitarHarmony workshop opens with a free account. For example, scales and chords on the fretboard shows every common scale and mode across the whole guitar neck, in note names or intervals, and finds the scale that fits your chords. It is the natural next step after the scales dictionary.

How to use it

  1. Pick a tool. Choose from the list: practice tools (metronome, tuner, drum machine), references (chords, scales) or the piano and staff paper.
  2. Use it straight away. No sign-up, no download. The tools open in your browser and work on a computer, tablet or phone.
  3. Combine them. Keep the metronome or drum machine running while you read a chord or scale page in another tab.
  4. Bookmark what you use. Each chord and scale has its own address, and a drum pattern can be shared by link, so your practice material is one click away.

What you can do with it

Daily practice at home

Tuner, metronome, one scale and the chords of the song you are learning: a complete routine with nothing else open.

Music teachers

Send students a link to a chord or scale page, share a drum groove for rhythm work and print staff + tab paper for lessons.

Songwriters and bands

Sketch a beat on the drum machine, try chords on the piano or guitar charts and write the result on blank sheet music before you forget it.

Frequently asked questions

Are these music tools really free?

Yes. All eight tools are free, with no account, no download limit and nothing to install. They are on the public site.

Do the tools work on a phone?

Yes. They run in the browser on computers, tablets and phones. The online piano shows two octaves on a phone and three on a computer.

Does the tuner send my audio anywhere?

No. The microphone sound is analysed inside your browser and never leaves your device. You can also tune by ear with the reference tones.

Is there an app to install?

No. There is no app in the stores and nothing to install: you open the page and play. An internet connection is needed to load the tools.

What is the difference between these tools and the GuitarHarmony workshop?

The free tools are for everyone, without an account. The workshop needs a free account and goes deeper into guitar harmony: full-neck scales, a chord identifier, progressions by style and more.

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Ready to go further than the chart?

The free GuitarHarmony workshop shows every scale on the whole neck, names any chord you play and builds progressions with you. Free account, no card.

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