Guitoro

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Guitoro is a free virtual guitar that runs in your browser. You can play it with your computer keyboard, swipe the strings on a phone or tablet, or drag across them with a mouse. It is for people who want to strum some chords without owning a guitar, and for beginners and returning players who want to learn real songs by watching exactly what the hands do. Where most online guitars play a single synthesized note per click, Guitoro is built to be strummed. Every string sounds as you cross it, and every note is a recording of a real instrument: a steel-string acoustic, a nylon-string classic guitar, an electric and a four-string bass. Its learning side is just as thoughtful. Songs play their best-known part close to the original recording, and you can slow them down to 20% while each string lights up as it is hit, the pick swings with the strum and the neck shows finger numbers, barres and the capo. If you have no guitar, the song waits for you at every chord change; if you do have one, you can play along at your own pace. Highlights: • Four sampled instruments: acoustic, classic, electric and bass • Keyboard play with chords under the left hand and strumming on H and J • Multi-touch strumming and fret tapping on phones and tablets • 15 chords in every key and 56 strum and picking patterns • 51 songs set up with the right key, capo, tempo and strum • Slow-down to 20% speed with highlighted strings and fingerings • Techniques such as chucks, palm mutes, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and vibrato • 15 drum styles to play over Guitoro is free, with nothing to download and no account to create. It runs in modern web browsers on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, iOS and Android.

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