Charango Practice Routines
Guided Charango chord-practice sessions with a built-in timer: each routine steps through a chord sequence at a steady pace so your hands learn the changes, not just the shapes.
Pick a routine, press Start, and switch chords when the timer says so. Finish sessions to build a daily streak, earn badges, and track which routines you've completed — everything is free and runs in your browser.
Want several tools running on one tempo? The practice desk locks the drum machine, metronome, strumming trainer and change counter to a single clock. Want a session tailored to you? Build your own routine from timed chord, scale, strumming, technique, and song blocks. Or commit to a month: the 30-day practice challenges track a daily streak toward a permanent badge, and your stats page turns every logged session into a year-long heatmap. For the theory side, Dojo Decks drills fretboard notes, chord spellings, key signatures, and intervals as spaced-repetition flashcards — a few minutes a day, counted toward your streak.
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Bright First Chords
The charango sits an octave up, all sparkle and ring. Start with the bright triads of Andean song and get the rasgueado strum snapping across all five courses.
- First Bright Triads — beginner
- Sparkle in G — beginner
- Rasgueado Drive — intermediate
- Tremolo Sweep — intermediate
Huayno & Andean Progressions
The minor-tinged changes of huayno and the swung major lift of cueca — the progressions that carry Andean music from the altiplano to the festival.
- Huayno in A Minor — beginner
- Huayno in E Minor — intermediate
- Cueca Swing — intermediate
- Sikuri Festival Cycle — advanced
How the routines work
Every routine is a short, focused chord workout. Open any routine to see the player: it shows the current chord as a fretboard diagram, counts down the seconds until the next change, and tells you what's coming up so your eyes stay ahead of your hands. Routines run for a set number of rounds — most sessions take between two and ten minutes.
Start with the beginner open-chord routines, then work toward barre chords and faster changes. Slow, clean changes beat fast, buzzy ones: if a routine feels rushed, repeat an easier one until the shapes land without looking. Pair your session with the metronome or the one-minute chord changes drill, and look up any shape in the chord library.
Progress is saved in this browser automatically. Cross-device sync with sign-in is coming soon — see the account page for your history, streaks, and badges.