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Practice-focused posts: chords, rhythm, harmony, and ear training.
Random Word and Random Phrase: Two Tools for Songwriting Practice
How the Songwriting section appeared in Six Strings App, with Random Word and Random Phrase generators for freewriting, object writing, imagery, and new lyric ideas.
Random Key Practice: How to Get Comfortable in Every Key
An overview of the Random Key tool in Six Strings App: choose material for your practice session, move beyond familiar keys, and explore scales, chords, and the fretboard.
Chord Function Trainer: How to Hear What a Chord Does in a Key
A personal story about why I built the Chord Function Trainer: to practice harmonic hearing, recognize chord functions, and understand how progressions move inside a key.
Interval Ear Trainer: How to Train Your Ear with a Drone
Practice hearing intervals against a drone in Six Strings App: recognize distances between notes, develop your ear, and connect training with real music.
Microtone Trainer: How I Learned to Hear Guitar Bends and Intonation More Accurately
Why I built a microtone trainer for bends and intonation: two close pitches, instant feedback, and a simple way to transfer ear training to guitar practice.
Scale Identifier: How to Find a Scale from a Set of Notes
The Scale Identifier helps you find possible scales from a set of notes: useful for analyzing melodies, riffs, improvisation ideas, lessons, and fretboard practice.
Rhythm Generator: How to Practice Complex Patterns and Find Riff Ideas
How to use the Six Strings App rhythm generator for riffs, melodies, scales, and exercises: random patterns, different time signatures, quintuplets, sextuplets, and metronome practice.
Song Builder: how cadences grew into a tool for progressions, structure, and groove
The Song Builder in Six Strings App grew from a simple idea: to hear cadences at different tempos, build chord progressions, generate song structures, and test harmony with a drum beat.
Chord Identifier by Fingering: how to find out what you are playing on the fretboard
A personal story behind the Chord Identifier in Six Strings App: how to find a chord name from a fingering, understand its notes, intervals, inversions, and use it when learning guitar parts.
Fretboard Explorer: why I built a tool for understanding the fretboard, not memorizing shapes
A personal story behind the Fretboard Explorer in Six Strings App: why chord shapes are not enough, and how notes, intervals, chords, and scales can help you understand the guitar or bass fretboard.
Guitar strumming pattern library: how to find the right rhythm for a song faster
A guitar strumming pattern library with ready-made rhythmic patterns in different time signatures. Helps you preview options quickly, choose the right strumming pattern, and find ideas for practice and songwriting.
Online metronome for guitar practice: a mini drum machine for daily training
The Six Strings App online metronome helps you practice with more control and musical feel: customizable sound, progressive tempo mode, practice timer, genre-based patterns, flexible subdivisions, and saved custom rhythms.
What CAGED Is and How It Helps You See Chords Across the Fretboard
Learn what the CAGED system is, why it matters for guitarists, and how the Six Strings App tool helps you see chord shapes across the fretboard. Includes the origin story and practical first use cases.
Circle of Fifths: how to quickly understand relationships between keys
How to use the circle of fifths in practice: see relationships between keys, understand major and minor, choose chords, and make sense of harmony faster.
Harmony: how to see key chords, hear cadences, and understand modulations
An online tool for working with harmony: key chords, chord functions, cadences, and modulations with audio playback right in the browser. Useful for practice, arranging, and songwriting.
Rhythm Trainer for Guitarists: How to Develop Inner Pulse Through the Rhythmic Alphabet
What a rhythm trainer is, how it relates to Benny Greb’s rhythmic alphabet, and why it helps guitarists develop inner pulse, timing, and a stronger sense of rhythm.
Chords, Arpeggios, and Scales for Guitar, Bass, and Ukulele: A Tool for Practice and Improvisation
An online tool for finding chord fingerings, arpeggios, and suitable scales for guitar, bass, and ukulele. Useful for practice, improvisation, and song analysis. Six Strings App
Why I Created Six Strings App: From Personal Practice to an Open Project for Musicians
The story behind Six Strings App: how a personal project for rhythm, fretboard, chords, scales, harmony, and ear training grew into an open platform for musicians.