A set of tools to help you practice guitar — the essential work you have to put in to actually get better.
Captrice aims for sustained progress but a 30 minutes practice session is enough to see the difference in your playing.
Captrice provides tools for highly focused, deliberate practice, the kind that leverages neuroplasticity of the brain to build real guitar mastery.
Every feature is designed to make you work things out for yourself and understand what you're doing. The goal is musical fluency, not just replicating sounds from tablature.
Unlike most apps, Captrice doesn't sell content or lessons, and it isn't tied to any course or method. Bring material from online courses, your teacher, or even videos and reels. Anything can become an exercise.
The app is free to use, is ad-free as well as login-free. If you'd like to support, buy me a coffee or share it with others! 🙂
Captrice is under active development. Stay informed about new features and other updates by subscribing to the newsletter. Not more than one email per month.
Take the guided session to learn how to use the progress tracking metronome to practice a simple exercise.
Don't have your guitar with you right now? Watch a quick demo of the progress tracking metronome in action.
If you're new to the metronome, check out the interactive metronome tutorial that also covers the basics of time signatures as well as how to count and subdivide beats.
Tablature is a crutch, especially if you want to pursue music with any seriousness. It stops you from developing musical fluency while giving a false perception of progress. The tablature functionality in Captrice is mainly meant to be used for exercises, which in most cases are non-musical and the intention is different. I've written in depth about it in a blog post.
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Captrice started out as just the tracking metronome, along with exercise organization. It has since evolved into a practice platform with the metronome being just one of the growing list of practice tools.
I recorded this 3-minute walkthrough a while ago but it still captures the essence of what Captrice is about - practicing with a purpose. There's no other way to level up!
Build your repository of exercises. Organize them into collections
Get access to a library of exercises covering different techniques and routines for all levels
Export/Import functionality to share exercises with your friends, students and audience
All data is stored on your device. So your data is truly your data! Export any time. Delete any time.
To report bugs, give feedback or any thing help, just send an email to vineet@captrice.io.
Sync your data across devices while automatically backing it up
Captrice is a "passion project".
While there are plans to offer premium features at a price,
the "no-signup, local-only" version of this app is free and I intend to keep it that way.
If you'd like to support, buy me a coffee or help spread the word.
It means a lot to me! 🙂
I am Vineet Naik, a software engineer and hobbyist guitar player from Bangalore, India.
I picked up the guitar in 2001 and somehow the hobby has stuck. I played in amateur bands during college. These days I am pretty much a bedroom musician. I've also dabbled with (home) recording music. You can find some of it on my soundcloud.
Music is clearly more than a hobby to me and I am always on the lookout for new ways to practice and level up, which is what this project was born out of.
Thanks for stopping by!