Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

• 4instruments
• 15chords in all key
• 51songs to perform alongside with
• 20%slowest opus speed
• 56strum and picking patterns
• 15drum styles

Play

Play guitar alongside your keyboard or your fingers

No guitar needed. Guitoro is built to be played, not fair clicked, on any you have in forefront of you.

• Computer keyboard

  Your remaining hand holds a chord on the letter keys and your correct hand strums alongside H and J, the way you'd perform a genuine guitar. 15 chords sit under your fingers, affirmative keys for arpeggios, sole strings, chucks and palm mutes.

• Touch screen

  On a phone or tablet, tap a chord pad and rub the strings alongside your finger. Up to five fingers at once, and you can tap the frets on the neck to perform sole notes.

• Mouse

  Drag throughout the strings. A accelerated rub plays louder, a dilatory drag rolls the notes one by one, and a click plucks a sole string.

• Melodies in Solo

  On a computer, toggle to Solo and all keyboard row becomes a cord and all pillar a fret, alongside bends and vibrato on the arrow keys.

Learn by watching

See all cord and all stroke, as gradually as you need

In a video instruction the hand moves accelerated and hides the strings, so you can't inform which ones were really hit. Guitar apps instruct the essential chords and halt there. Guitoro plays the song's genuine part on the guitar in forefront of you, at the speed you choose, and shows exactly what the hands do. Then you perform it, on the virtual guitar or on your own.

• Played akin the record

  Each opus plays its best-known part near to the first recording, blow for stroke. Slow it anyplace from 20% to complete speed and the chords, the strum and the collection dilatory downward together.

• See which strings are hit

  Each cord lights up the instant it sounds, afterward vibrates as it rings. You can see whether a blow hits all six strings, fair the bass strings or lone the top three.

• Watch the strumming hand

  Over a strummed part, the choice swings downward and up akin a genuine strumming hand, formerly per stage of the pattern. Solid swings hit the strings and faint ones young female them, so you see the hand keep moving through the gaps.

• Fingers on the neck

  While a chord rings, the neck shows it: digit numbers from 1 to 4, barres, muted strings and the capo. Copy the form onto your own guitar.

• No guitar? The opus waits for you

  Play a song's chords on the keys or the display and it follows you. The keys display its chords in order, the next one lights green, and the opus holds until you perform it. No mark and no rush.

• Have a guitar? Play along

  Watch a part slowly, copy it on your guitar, afterward perform alongside as you lift the speed. On a computer, choose My guitar: the on-screen keys stage apart and the opus box shows the strum or picking pattern, a chord band you can click to jump around, and the speed.

Realism

Why it appears and feels akin a genuine guitar

Most online guitars lone let you click sole strings or frets, or perform a synthesized spirit whenever you click a chord. On Guitoro you strum: rub throughout the strings or use the keys, and all cord appears as you cross it, from recordings of genuine instruments.

• Recorded, not synthesized

  Every guitar and bass note is a record of a genuine instrument: a steel-string acoustic, a traditional guitar alongside nylon strings, a solid-body electric on its extend pickup, and a four-string bass.

• Strums prosecute your hand

  Each cord appears as your digit or mouse crosses it. Swipe downward or up, accelerated or slow, and you comprehend the difference, downward to a dilatory rotate throughout the strings.

• Real chord shapes

  Chords use the shapes guitarists play, alongside open strings, barres and muted strings, so a G appears akin a G on a guitar, not on a keyboard.

• Guitar techniques

  Chucks, palm mutes, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and vibrato, during the strings vibrate on display as they ring.

Use cases

What group use it for

• Playing without a guitar

  Strum genuine chords and perform entire songs alongside your device keyboard or your fingers, alongside a assistance collection rearward you. On a train, at the agency or on the sofa, a laptop or a phone and headphones are enough.

• Learning genuine songs

  Songs akin Wonderwall, Hallelujah and Let It Be arrive set up alongside the correct key, capo, tempo and the strum from the record. Lead the chords from the keys, or choice up your own guitar and perform alongside at any speed.

• Getting a strum right

  Slow a song's strum down, observe which way the choice moves on all beat, afterward strum it yourself complete a drum attack until it feels steady.

• Learning their archetypal chords

  See anywhere all digit goes, comprehend how the chord should sound, afterward copy the form on a genuine guitar. Every chord additionally has its own leaf in the guitar chord chart.

• Checking a chord chart

  Paste the chords of a opus from a chord location and comprehend how it goes before you sit downward to perform it.

• Writing a song

  Type a chord progression under My songs, iteration it alongside the assistance band, and document the idea before it's gone.

• Teaching

  Show a category a chord form or a strum on a big screen, slowed down, alongside all cord and all choice blow visible.

• Other musicians

  Singers, keyboard players and songwriters can comprehend how guitar chords are voiced and see how a progression lies on the fretboard, without learning to clasp a guitar first.

Features

Everything in the app

The most complete virtual guitar online: four instruments, all key, genuine chord shapes, songs, a assistance collection and recording, all liberated in one place.

• Four genuine instruments

  Steel-string acoustic, traditional guitar, electric and four-string bass, all built from recorded samples. Pick a record for the acoustic (Warm, Bright or Mellow) and the traditional (Natural or Concert), and presets for the electric, from Clean to Crunch, Classic Rock, Metal, Lead and Ambient.

• 15 chords in all key

  Pick any of the 24 important and insignificant keys and the chord keys inhabit alongside the chords that fit it: the chief chords, sevenths, and sus, add9 or sus2 colors. Edit puts any chord you type, akin F#m7 or Dsus2, on a key.

• Chord shapes on the neck

  While a chord rings, the neck shows digit numbers, barres, muted strings and the capo. Standard is the form most players study first, Easy swaps a barre chord for a smaller shape, and Up plays the identical chord higher up the neck.

• Songs at any speed

  51 songs and traditional pieces arrive set up to play, from Wonderwall and Hotel California to Canon in D. Slow them to 20%, guide their chords from the keys, or perform alongside on your own guitar.

• 56 strum and picking patterns

  14 mundane strums from Steady downs and the pop staple D DU U DU to shuffle and 6/8, 4 styles (reggae, funk and country), 26 additional rhythms drawn from genuine songs, and 12 picking patterns akin Travis and traditional p-i-m-a. Choose one and you comprehend it direct away.

• A assistance band

  Drums, bass and strings that prosecute your chords: 15 drum styles, including rock, funk, reggae, bossa nova and cajon, and 25 bass lines. The Band toggle next to Play turns them on. Tempo goes from 10 to 220 BPM, alongside a metronome.

• Your own songs

  Paste a opus from a chord location or as ChordPro text, choice a strum, and Guitoro plays it alongside the band. Write "x2" to reiterate a row or a part. Lyrics are remaining out, and your songs remain in your browser.

• Solo mode

  Play sole notes and melodies on the neck from the device keyboard, alongside hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and vibrato.

• Amp & FX

  Overdrive, distortion and fuzz on the electric, affirmative bass, mid and treble, area or hall reverb, and postpone on all instrument.

• Tunings and capo

  10 tunings, from Standard, Drop D and fractional stage downward to DADGAD and Open G, D and E, a capo up to fret 10, and a left-handed guitar.

• Record and export

  Record takes of up to 10 minutes alongside the band, replay them and preserve them as WAV or a small compressed file. Takes remain in your browser.

• Online tuner

  A liberated guitar tuner that listens through your microphone, alongside pages for autumn D, open tunings, the bass and the ukulele.

Getting started

How to use Guitoro

From silence to a opus you guide yourself. The archetypal two steps obtain a few seconds.

1. Choose an instrument

   Pick Acoustic, Classic, Electric or Bass at the top of the page. On a phone, tap the guitar picture. You can toggle at any time.

2. Pick a chord

   Tap a chord pad, or media its letter on the keyboard. The default key is G major, so the center row, A S D F G, holds G, C, D, Em and Am. Auto strum starts on, so the chord strums itself.

3. Strum it yourself

   Turn Auto off, afterward rub downward throughout the strings for a downstroke and up for an upstroke. On a keyboard, H strums downward and J strums up.

4. Choose a pattern

   Open the Strum list and choice a strum or picking pattern. You comprehend it formerly on your chord. With Auto and Loop on, it keeps playing during you clasp a chord key.

5. Play a song

   Open Songs & recordings and choice a song. Press Play to comprehend it, or media the chord key that lights green to guide it yourself. The tempo clasp next to Play slows it down.

6. Add a band

   Turn on the Band toggle next to Play. Its edit clasp opens Backing band, anywhere you choose the drums, the bass row and the strings.

7. Record a take

   Open Songs & recordings, choose Recordings, and media Record. Play, afterward use Stop next to the record timer. Your takes remain in Recordings.

Keyboard

Play guitar alongside your device keyboard

Your remaining hand holds the chords and your correct hand strums, fair akin on a guitar. Keys prosecute their bodily stance on a US QWERTY keyboard, and all key on display shows its letter.

Learn chords

How to study guitar chords alongside Guitoro

Learn strumming

How to study strumming patterns

Strum patterns are written alongside D for a downstroke and U for an upstroke, and x for a muted chuck. The trick is to keep your hand moving downward on all figure and up on all "and", equal whenever it misses the strings. In Guitoro you can observe the choice do exactly that.

1. Listen first

   Choose a form from the Strum list and you comprehend it formerly on your chord. The list shows all form as a grid of downs and ups.

2. Watch it slowly

   Open a opus alongside the strum you desire and dilatory it to 50% or less. The choice swings downward on the numbers and up on the "and"s: firm whenever it hits the strings, faint whenever it misses. The strings ray up to display which ones all blow hits.

3. Play it yourself

   Turn Auto off, rotate on the Band toggle or the metronome, and strum alongside alongside H and J or by swiping the strings.

4. Record and hear back

   Record a obtain and hear for uneven strokes. When it appears steady, speed up.

5. Build up in order

   Steady downs, afterward Down-up eighths, afterward the pop staple, afterward 6/8 ballad and Shuffle. After that, open songs akin Wonderwall, Hallelujah and Knockin' on Heaven's Door and strum their own patterns.

FAQ

Questions

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