Play Guitar Like an Experiment
How do I get better at guitar, not just busier?
Five steps from an in-tune instrument to a daily practice that measures itself, ending with why the notes you play sound the way they do.
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Tuner Music & Guitar · interactive
Start in tune. The tuner listens through your microphone (the audio stays on your device) or plays a reference tone so you can tune by ear and hear the beats stop.
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The guitar Path Music & Guitar · interactive
The Path orders the neck: one string, then two, then the whole fretboard, and you move on only when the current phase is boring.
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The Daily Ritual Music & Guitar · interactive
The Daily Ritual turns the Path into thirty focused minutes a day, in timed blocks with a chime at each change, because skills consolidate between sessions.
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Deliberate Practice: Choose Targets You Can Observe Engineering & Career
Make each session count: set a target you can observe, find the first error that matters, repair only that, and come back to it later.
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Pure vs tempered ratios The Science of Sound · interactive
Then hear why it sounds the way it does: your frets are equal-tempered, so every interval except the octave differs a little from the pure ratio, and the table lets you compare them by ear.