FretTeacherPractice tools by Adam Loves Guitar Designed by Adam Levine
A tuner, a metronome that listens back, and trainers that show you every interval, scale and triad on the neck, plus a chord diagram maker and the Progression Lab, for the hours you practice on your own.
Came from one of our shorts? The progression in the video is waiting in the Progression Lab, ready to play, slow down or move to another key.
From the video to the tool in one tap
Practicing alone
A teacher would hear it in a second. On your own, it can take months to notice, and by then it's habit.
Who designed these tools
Adam studied at Berklee and privately with Joe Pass, directed the Guitar Department at the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, and worked as a studio guitarist for Motown, Capitol and Warner Brothers.
He has taught thousands of students, from first riffs to touring professionals, including players who went on to perform with Michael Jackson, George Benson, Celine Dion and Norah Jones.
The seven tools cover what his lessons start with: tuning, time, ears, shapes and changes.
What you get
Pluck a string and wait. The needle settles on the note and tells you sharp or flat. Or tune by ear against a tone.
Play one clean note, let it ring, and wait for the needle to settle. Turning the peg while the needle is still swinging is how a string ends up sharp.
ForEvery guitarist, every day.
A metronome that swings, plays odd meters, brings a drum kit, and listens back to check whether your time is actually solid.
The gap trainer drops the click out for a few bars and brings it back, so you find out whether you drifted.
ForAnyone whose time is "pretty good" and wants to know for sure.
Every interval, in every key, lit up everywhere it falls on the neck at once. Ear training with your fingers.
When you learn what a perfect fifth sounds like, you also learn what it looks like on a guitar rather than a piano.
ForAnyone learning to hear what they play.
Every scale, in every key, in every position up the neck, played back at your tempo while the neck shows you where you are.
A scale is a place your hand sits and the notes that fall under it. There are twelve positions up the neck, and each one holds five keys a fourth apart.
ForAnyone who knows one pentatonic box and wants the other eleven, and anyone learning the major scale properly, in position.
Triads everywhere on the neck: every key, every inversion, closed and open voicings, and along a single string.
Three notes, and the whole neck opens. Most players learn one shape for each chord and play it for the rest of their lives. Triads in every inversion get you off that shape.
ForRhythm players who want more than the barre chord.
Build any chord voicing or fretboard map, and lay them out into practice sheets you can print, share and hand to a student.
Adam draws his own books with this tool. A chord box takes a few presses; a whole handout takes a few minutes and prints clean.
ForTeachers making handouts, players keeping a book of their own shapes, and anyone who has ever drawn a chord box on a napkin.
Write any chord progression and hear it played back with a strum pattern, swing, and a drummer behind you.
Every card opens into the full menu of ways to play that chord: open grips, barres, closed and open triad voicings.
ForSongwriters, rhythm players, and anyone who has a progression in their head and wants to hear it before they can play it.
Included: the daily workout
Six stations in teaching order: tune, time, shapes, ears, changes. They remember your keys and your tempos, tick themselves off as you play, and keep a streak. One button runs all six.
So everything after it teaches your ear the truth. First thing, before anything else.
The one thing every listener hears before the notes. 5 minutes.
One box until your hand stops looking for it. 4 minutes.
Three notes you can find anywhere beats one shape you can grip. 4 minutes.
Hearing a distance is how you play what you imagine. 3 minutes.
The point of all of it: music, not exercises. 2 minutes.
How it works
Every short shows a progression, a shape or a drill from one of the tools.
The same progression opens in the Progression Lab and plays. Anyone can open a shared link, no account needed.
Change the key, slow it down, try another shape, then go on to the trainers.
Practice tools
$7a month
Questions
No. The tools open in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer.
It hears through your microphone; nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. When the room is too loud, it plays a reference tone for each string so you can tune by ear.
Yes, any time, from your account. Your tools stay open until the end of the month you've paid for.
Yes. Share any progression or drill as a link, and anyone can open it without an account.
If nothing changes
A string tuned a little sharp. Time that drifts the moment the click stops. One shape for every chord, and a neck you only know in one place. With nobody listening, none of it gets caught, and every week of practice sets it a little deeper.
With the tools