Captrice - A deliberate practice app for guitar players
Extracto
Practice using a smart metronome that captures metrics and turns them into actionable insights; paired with an effective practice method focusing on speed, endurance, accuracy, and adaptability.
Contenido
for guitar players who want to level up
Practice using a smart metronome that captures metrics and turns them into actionable insights; paired with an effective practice method focusing on speed, endurance, accuracy, and adaptability.
- No knowledge of music theory required
- A library of exercises to import from, or create your own
- Free to use. No ads. No signup
- Works in any browser on PC & smartphone. No app download needed
- Data is stored on your device. Export/Delete anytime.
- Works in "Offline mode" (if the browser supports it)
Though Captrice aims for sustained progress, a 30 minutes practice session is enough to see the difference in your playing.
What makes captrice effective?
Features
Metronome
An ergonomic metronome, easily operated using keyboard shortcuts while playing guitar
Exercise builder
Build your repository of exercises. Organize them into collections
Tablature/Notation
Embed guitar tablature and music notation in exercises for quick reference
Library
Get access to a library of exercises covering speed-building drills, finger independence exercises, warmup routines and more.
Insights
Track your progress and get actionable insights through beautiful, intuitive visualizations
Sharing
Export/Import functionality to share exercises with your friends, students and audience
Use cases
Practice daily
Create/Import exercises based on scales, arpeggios, triads etc. Add some warm up exercises into the mix. Aim to practice them daily. Let the practice streaks chart fuel your motivation.
Build speed
Want to nail a fast guitar solo/riff?
Turn challenges phrases into exercises. Progressively increase
speed while keeping track of how long you can consistenly
maintain speed and accuracy.
Target weak spots
Work on specific guitar techniques such as two hand tapping, legato, sweep picking etc. Find an exercise from the library or create your own based on a tutorial video that works for you.
Beginner or expert, Captrice helps you improve by facilitating a
game-changing practice framework
focusing on speed, endurance, accuracy, and adaptability.
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No signup required
Captrice is a local-first app that stores all data in your browser.
That means your data is truly your data!
Export any time. Delete any time.
Pricing It's free!
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! 🙂
Why I built captrice?
If you have 30 minutes of free time, would you pick up your guitar or phone? The path of least resistence always wins!
Even if you picked the guitar, you'd probably noodle away instead of practicing something that advances your skills.
The challenge isn't finding what to practice—today, exercises are everywhere—it's choosing practice over the endless distractions we have at our fingertips.
I built this app to solve my own struggle - curated exercises eliminate indecision about what to pratice, the metronome keeps me focused, and data visualizations helps with motivation.
It works for me and it might work for you too.
Are you a guitar teacher?
Do you think this app could benefit your students, specially if their practice data is made available to you in the form of intuitive and insightful visualizations?
If you think something like this should exist please complete this short survey.
Are you a guitar content creator?
Do you create tutorial videos, shorts/reels on Youtube/Instagram?
If you're interested in publishing your tutorials and lessons in the Library, please get in touch via email
Help & Feedback
Need help or got feedback? Drop me a line at show email.
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Captrice doesn't need you to signup, so it's the only way I can
reach out. You will get notified about feature releases and new exercise
bundles in the library.
No spam, I promise!
Who is behind this?
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 a few amateur bands during college. Since then, I have pretty much been a bedroom musician.
Nevertheless, 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!