Free guitar tools, built to actually teach.
A growing collection of simple, useful tools for guitar players, plus audio plugins for home studio musicians and REAPER users. No accounts, no paywalls, no ads — just the things that make practice and production easier.
Learn the fretboard by playing.
Six fast, timed games that drill the skills every guitarist needs — notes, intervals, chords, scales, and theory. Answer quickly, build streaks, and climb the belts from white to black. No sign-up needed to play.
Enter the ArcadeLefty mode on every fretboard tool.
Most online guitar tools assume you play right-handed. Every Guitar Lick Lab fretboard tool includes a one-tap mirror mode — nut on the right, frets ascending to the left — so left-handed players see the neck the way they actually see it. No more mental flipping.
Live on every fretboard-based tool — seven tools as of v4.0Practice, theory, fretboard, and soloing.
Use these tools to build speed, understand chords and scales, map ideas on the fretboard, and connect theory to real guitar playing.
Guitar Lick Lab Practice Tool
Build speed with structured guitar exercises, practice licks, famous licks, drills, lead guitar patterns, a built-in metronome, and progress tracking. The main Guitar Lick Lab app.
Practice Arcade
Six timed learning games — Note Recognition, Note Finder, Name That Chord, Interval Vision, Know Your Scales, and Know Your Relative Modes. Earn belts from white to black as you sharpen your fretboard, chord, and theory skills. No sign-up to play.
Enter the arcadeWhat Chord Is This?
Tap one note per string to build any chord shape — open, barre, partial, even dyads — then hit Submit. 11 tunings including DADGAD plus a Custom option to type in any tuning. Hear it back with Strum or Arpeggiate. Chord name with inversions and alternate interpretations.
Open toolScale Over Chord Finder
Instantly find the best scales to solo over any chord, with chord tones, explanations, and a fretboard map. New: toggle individual strings on/off for string-group lessons, plus fixed position filters and green-root Marky Mode.
Open toolChord Progression Scale Finder
Enter a progression and find the likely key, best scale choices, pentatonic options, chord tone targets, and fretboard positions.
Open toolWorld Music Scales
32 scales from 7 world traditions — Middle Eastern, Indian, East Asian, African, Spanish, Eastern European, and Southeast Asian. Pick a root note, see the fretboard diagram, hear each scale played as a 3-notes-per-string ascending pattern. Includes Lefty Mode, Marky Mode (color-coded scale degrees), and a free downloadable companion poster.
Open toolInterval Ear Trainer
Hit play to hear two notes — name the interval. Six difficulty presets from beginner (Perfect 4ths, 5ths, M3s, octaves) through advanced (all 13 intervals). Ascending, descending, and harmonic modes. New: Fixed Root mode locks the same tonic across a session so you can train relative-pitch intervals against a single root. Streak tracking and shareable preset URLs.
Open toolCapo Key Converter
Place a capo on any fret and instantly see what key your familiar chord shapes actually sound in — plus the reverse: given a target key, see every capo position that turns your shapes into the right key, sorted by playability. Includes chord diagrams for all eight CAGED open shapes.
Open toolBrowser-Based Guitar Tuner
Tune any string straight from the browser using your mic — clean visual feedback, standard plus 14 alternate tunings (drop D, half-step down, DADGAD, open G, open D and more) including dedicated 7-string and 8-string presets. No app install, no detours from your practice.
Open toolPentatonic Box Finder
Visualize all 5 box positions of any minor or major pentatonic scale on the fretboard. Flip on Show Triads to see the chord shapes hidden inside each box — both the i (minor) and ♭III (relative major) triads, every inversion, every playable shape on adjacent strings.
Open toolFretboard Note Finder
Pick a note to see every location on the neck — or switch to Identify Fret mode and tap any fret to reveal the note. Tap multiple frets to detect chord shapes and jump straight into the Arpeggio or Scale tools.
Open toolArpeggio Finder
Enter a chord and see the arpeggio notes, chord tones, formulas, and fretboard positions for triads, 7ths, jazz chords, sus chords, and more.
Open toolChords in Key Finder
Choose a key and instantly see diatonic chords, roman numerals, 7th chords, common jazz extensions, and useful progressions.
Open toolTap Tempo & BPM Finder
Tap along with any song — or press Space — and the tool calculates BPM from a rolling average of your last 8 taps. Visual metronome locks to the detected tempo, optional sharp audio click for DAW work, plus a reference card of common BPM ranges by genre.
Tab Flipper
Put the low strings on top of your guitar tab while keeping the fret numbers upright. Works with pasted text and digital PDFs.
Flip your tabPractice Sheet Maker
Create printable tab paper, chord boxes, fretboard grids, and lesson sheets. Customize your layout, then print or download a PDF.
Make a practice sheetSong Practice Looper
Load a song, loop a tricky phrase, and practice at 10–150% speed while keeping the original pitch. Your audio stays on your device.
Loop a songDrone & Backing Track Player
Full practice rig: sustained drones (264 chord options, 5 synth voicings), 14 chord progression presets transposable to any key, 13 hand-built drum patterns across six time signatures (3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 12/8 — including Take Five, Slow Blues, and Prog), custom time signature selector (any numerator 2-15 over /4, /8, or /16), and 6 click variants. Built for soloing practice, shred licks, ear training, odd-meter exercises, and YouTube lessons.
For the home studio musician.
A free web-based audio tool plus free JSFX plugins for REAPER — for audio editing, sound design, mixing, and REAPER workflows.
EnviroFilter Audio Tool
Make any audio sound like it is coming from a different environment — music playing from another room, next door, or a distant space.
Open in browserMuter Gate
A hard-switch muting plugin for REAPER that kills noise below your threshold with dead silence. Visual waveform feedback makes setup fast and precise.
Download (.zip)Marky's Vox Leveler
A vocal level rider for REAPER that helps make getting that perfect vocal mix easier. Put it before your compressor for a smoother, more natural vocal mix.
Download (.zip)Marky's Multiband Saturation
Add subtle warmth or full-on destruction across multiple frequency bands. Algorithms, crossover control, spectrum feedback, presets, and mid/side processing.
Download (.zip)Marky's Stereo Note Bouncer
Automatically pans each detected note across the stereo field based on your parameters. Take a plucked guitar part and have each note switch sides as you play — instant movement in mono tracks without manual automation.
Download (.zip)Marky's Age & Delay Harmonizer
Up to 2 chromatic or diatonic harmony voices, each with its own stereo position, delay time, and vintage aging — from studio-clean to old-timey record player. Thicken leads, double vocals, or add retro atmosphere.
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