Play a song’s chords on the keys or the screen and it follows you. The keys show its chords in order, the next one lights green, and the song holds until you play it. No score and no rush.
Watch a part slowly, copy it on your guitar, then play along as you raise the speed. On a computer, choose My guitar: the on-screen keys step aside and the song box shows the strum or picking pattern, a chord strip you can click to jump around, and the speed.
Most online guitars only let you click single strings or frets, or play a synthesized tone when you click a chord. On Guitoro you strum: swipe across the strings or use the keys, and every string sounds as you cross it, from recordings of real instruments.
Every guitar and bass note is a recording of a real instrument: a steel-string acoustic, a classic guitar with nylon strings, a solid-body electric on its bridge pickup, and a four-string bass.
Each string sounds as your finger or mouse crosses it. Swipe down or up, fast or slow, and you hear the difference, down to a slow roll across the strings.
Chords use the shapes guitarists play, with open strings, barres and muted strings, so a G sounds like a G on a guitar, not on a keyboard.
Chucks, palm mutes, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and vibrato, while the strings vibrate on screen as they ring.
Strum real chords and play whole songs with your computer keyboard or your fingers, with a backing band behind you. On a train, at the office or on the sofa, a laptop or a phone and headphones are enough.
Songs like Wonderwall, Hallelujah and Let It Be come set up with the right key, capo, tempo and the strum from the record. Lead the chords from the keys, or pick up your own guitar and play along at any speed.
Slow a song’s strum down, watch which way the pick moves on every beat, then strum it yourself over a drum beat until it feels steady.
See where each finger goes, hear how the chord should sound, then copy the shape on a real guitar. Every chord also has its own page in the guitar chord chart.
Paste the chords of a song from a chord site and hear how it goes before you sit down to play it.
Type a chord progression under My songs, loop it with the backing band, and record the idea before it’s gone.
Show a class a chord shape or a strum on a big screen, slowed down, with every string and every pick stroke visible.
Singers, keyboard players and songwriters can hear how guitar chords are voiced and see how a progression lies on the fretboard, without learning to hold a guitar first.
The most complete virtual guitar online: four instruments, every key, real chord shapes, songs, a backing band and recording, all free in one place.
Steel-string acoustic, classic guitar, electric and four-string bass, each built from recorded samples. Pick a recording for the acoustic (Warm, Bright or Mellow) and the classic (Natural or Concert), and presets for the electric, from Clean to Crunch, Classic Rock, Metal, Lead and Ambient.
Pick any of the 24 major and minor keys and the chord keys fill with the chords that fit it: the main chords, sevenths, and sus, add9 or sus2 colors. Edit puts any chord you type, like F#m7 or Dsus2, on a key.
While a chord rings, the neck shows finger numbers, barres, muted strings and the capo. Standard is the shape most players learn first, Easy swaps a barre chord for a smaller shape, and Up plays the same chord higher up the neck.
51 songs and classical pieces come set up to play, from Wonderwall and Hotel California to Canon in D. Slow them to 20%, lead their chords from the keys, or play along on your own guitar.
14 everyday strums from Steady downs and the pop staple D DU U DU to shuffle and 6/8, 4 styles (reggae, funk and country), 26 more rhythms drawn from real songs, and 12 picking patterns like Travis and classical p-i-m-a. Choose one and you hear it straight away.
Drums, bass and strings that follow your chords: 15 drum styles, including rock, funk, reggae, bossa nova and cajon, and 25 bass lines. The Band switch next to Play turns them on. Tempo goes from 10 to 220 BPM, with a metronome.
Paste a song from a chord site or as ChordPro text, pick a strum, and Guitoro plays it with the band. Write “x2” to repeat a line or a part. Lyrics are left out, and your songs stay in your browser.
Play single notes and melodies on the neck from the computer keyboard, with hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and vibrato.
Overdrive, distortion and fuzz on the electric, plus bass, mid and treble, room or hall reverb, and delay on every instrument.
10 tunings, from Standard, Drop D and half step down to DADGAD and Open G, D and E, a capo up to fret 10, and a left-handed guitar.
Record takes of up to 10 minutes with the band, replay them and save them as WAV or a small compressed file. Takes stay in your browser.
A free guitar tuner that listens through your microphone, with pages for drop D, open tunings, the bass and the ukulele.
From silence to a song you lead yourself. The first two steps take a few seconds.
Pick Acoustic, Classic, Electric or Bass at the top of the page. On a phone, tap the guitar picture. You can switch at any time.
Tap a chord pad, or press its letter on the keyboard. The default key is G major, so the middle row, A S D F G, holds G, C, D, Em and Am. Auto strum starts on, so the chord strums itself.
Turn Auto off, then swipe down across the strings for a downstroke and up for an upstroke. On a keyboard, H strums down and J strums up.
Open the Strum menu and pick a strum or picking pattern. You hear it once on your chord. With Auto and Loop on, it keeps playing while you hold a chord key.
Open Songs & recordings and pick a song. Press Play to hear it, or press the chord key that lights green to lead it yourself. The tempo button next to Play slows it down.
Turn on the Band switch next to Play. Its edit button opens Backing band, where you choose the drums, the bass line and the strings.
Open Songs & recordings, choose Recordings, and press Record. Play, then use Stop next to the recording timer. Your takes stay in Recordings.
Your left hand holds the chords and your right hand strums, just like on a guitar. Keys follow their physical position on a US QWERTY keyboard, and every key on screen shows its letter.
In the key of G these four chords sit on the middle row of keys, and together they play hundreds of pop and folk songs. Press each one and watch the neck: the numbers are your fingers, from 1 for the index to 4 for the little finger. An X marks a string you don’t play, and a bar across the strings is a barre.
Play C, then Am. The chord name above the guitar tells you which is major and which is minor, and your ear learns the bright and the sad sound. Do the same with the sevenths on the top row.
Put your fingers where the dots are, strum, and compare your sound with Guitoro’s. A buzzing or dead string usually means a finger is too far from the fret or touching the next string. Many barre chords have an Easy version for while your hand gets stronger.
Open Songs & recordings and pick a song, or paste one under My songs. Press each chord key as it lights green: the song waits for you at every change. Start slow, then raise the speed a little at a time.
Switch the key to hear the same chords higher or lower, or in a minor key. Put a capo on in Settings and the same shapes sound higher, which is how guitarists play in keys like A or B with easy open chords. Drop D and Open G show how a tuning changes the whole sound.
213 G
321 C
132 D
23 Em
Low E string on the left. Numbers are fingers, O is an open string, X is a string you don’t play.
Strum patterns are written with D for a downstroke and U for an upstroke, and x for a muted chuck. The trick is to keep your hand moving down on every number and up on every “and”, even when it misses the strings. In Guitoro you can watch the pick do exactly that.
Counted “1, 2 and, and, 4 and”: the down on beat 3 is left out, but the hand still moves.
Choose a pattern from the Strum menu and you hear it once on your chord. The menu shows each pattern as a grid of downs and ups.
Open a song with the strum you want and slow it to 50% or less. The pick swings down on the numbers and up on the “and"s: solid when it hits the strings, faint when it misses. The strings light up to show which ones each stroke hits.
Turn Auto off, turn on the Band switch or the metronome, and strum along with H and J or by swiping the strings.
Record a take and listen for uneven strokes. When it sounds steady, speed up.
Steady downs, then Down-up eighths, then the pop staple, then 6/8 ballad and Shuffle. After that, open songs like Wonderwall, Hallelujah and Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door and strum their own patterns.