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Free tools
Built for my own students and left open for everybody. No signup, nothing to install, and they all work on a phone — apart from the paper, which works on a printer.
Tuning
Tuner
Hears your instrument through the microphone and tells you how far off you are, to the cent. Opens as a 6-string guitar; bass, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, the violin family and a dozen tunings are behind the picker. Chromatic mode names whatever it hears.
Timing
Metronome
Clean, loud, and it keeps time properly on a phone whose screen has gone dark. Accents, subdivisions and tap tempo.
Rhythm
Groove trainer
A step further than a metronome: build a pattern, play against it, and hear where you are early or late. The tool I point students at when the problem is time rather than notes.
Aural
Interval ear trainer
Name what you hear. Built for the interval questions in ABRSM and Trinity aural tests — the part candidates almost always leave until last.
Printables
Manuscript, tab & blank fretboard diagrams
Blank paper to print: staves with a treble, bass or no clef, piano systems, tab for guitar, bass, ukulele and mandolin, and blank fretboard diagrams for chords and scales. A4 PDFs, one page each — print as many as you need.
Why they are here
Every one of these started because a student needed it and the free version on the web was either covered in advertising or quietly harvesting something. They run entirely in your browser: the tuner listens through the microphone and analyses the sound on your own device as it arrives — nothing is recorded, and nothing is sent anywhere. There is no account, no cookie and no tracking script on this site at all.
They were developed by my friend Hardy Hemmingway, who builds websites for a living and wanted there to be excellent free tools with no horrible tracking. So here they are.
You can add any of the tools to a phone's home screen and use it like an app, including with no signal.
If one of them is wrong, or you need something they do not do, tell me — most of them exist because somebody did.