Guides for electric guitar practice

Short, practical pages on the questions we get asked: setup, practising with a band, reading tab, and getting pieces written for your level.

• How to practise electric guitar on an iPad with an iRig

  A plain setup for electric guitar practice on iPad: iRig into the iPad, an amp sim for tone, headphones, and a practice app that hears every note. What to plug in, what to avoid, and how to fix latency and dropouts.

• Practising lead guitar with a backing band that waits for you

  Backing tracks are fixed recordings: they do not slow down, loop a bar you fluffed, or wait while you find the note. A live band in an app can. Play, Practice and Step modes explained, and how to use tempo from 25% up.

• How to read guitar tab: strings, frets, and the symbols for hammer-ons, bends and slides

  Guitar tablature in five minutes: six lines for six strings, numbers for frets, how timing is shown, and what h, p, s, b, ~ and pm mean on the tab.

• Guitar practice songs written by AI for your level, strings and frets

  How to get an original practice piece for exactly the strings, frets and level you are working on: in the app, or by asking Claude or ChatGPT to compose into your library. What the checker enforces and what it costs.