Guitar Practice Routines
Guided Guitar 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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Open Chord Foundations
The eight essential open chords every guitarist starts with. Build clean, buzz-free shapes before worrying about speed.
- First Open Chords — beginner
- The Campfire Four — beginner
- Minor Moods — beginner
- All Eight Open Chords — intermediate
Chord Transitions
Two-chord and common-change drills that train your fretting hand to move between shapes without hesitation.
- Em ↔ Am Switch — beginner
- G ↔ C Change Drill — beginner
- D – A – E Anchor Drill — intermediate
- Rapid Change Gauntlet — intermediate
Barre Chord Bootcamp
F, Bm, B, and friends — the barre shapes that unlock the whole neck. Short, focused reps beat long, painful ones.
- First F Barre — intermediate
- B Minor Basics — intermediate
- F# Minor Workout — intermediate
- The Barre Gauntlet — advanced
Pop & Rock Progressions
The progressions behind a thousand hits: the axis four-chord loop, doo-wop changes, and the 12-bar blues.
- The Axis Four Chords — beginner
- Doo-Wop Changes — intermediate
- 12-Bar Blues in A — intermediate
- Stadium Anthem in E — advanced
Folk & Fingerstyle
Sus-chord color, ringing open voicings, and Travis-style progressions for acoustic and fingerstyle players.
- Sus Chord Shimmer — beginner
- Rising Sun Minor — intermediate
- Modern Acoustic Colors — intermediate
- Travis Picking Journey — advanced
Seventh & Jazz Colors
Maj7, m7, and dominant 7th voicings, plus the ii–V–I movement that powers jazz and soul.
- Dreamy Major Sevenths — intermediate
- Blues Seventh Shuffle — intermediate
- The ii–V–I — intermediate
- Circle of Sevenths — advanced
How the routines work
Every routine is a short, focused chord workout. The player 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.