Practice Lab

Guitar reference

Guitar scales, chords, voicings and progressions in every key

Every page here is drawn by Practice Lab from its own theory engine, in standard E tuning: the same fretboard, positions, voicing search and exercise writer the app uses. Pick a structure, then its key.

Guitar scales and modes

19 kinds · 200 pages

Each page shows one scale in one key: its notes and degrees, the whole neck by name and by degree, the hand positions, and the chords built on it. All scales on one page.

Drop voicings for guitar

12 kinds · 144 pages

Each page shows one seventh chord voiced one way in one key: every inversion on every string set the voicing search finds, each with its grip. All drop voicings on one page.

Drop 2&4 dominant 7

Guitar arpeggios

14 kinds · 168 pages

Each page shows one arpeggio in one key: its notes and degrees, the whole neck by name and by degree, and the hand positions. All arpeggios on one page.

Diminished arpeggio
Augmented arpeggio
Dominant 7 arpeggio
Half-diminished arpeggio
Diminished 7 arpeggio
Minor major 7 arpeggio
Dominant 9 arpeggio

Jazz voicings for guitar

4 kinds · 21 pages

Each page shows one voicing: its notes and degrees, every movable shape Practice Lab's voicing search finds, and where each shape starts in every key. All voicings on one page.

Voice-led progressions for guitar

3 kinds · 36 pages

Each page comps one progression in one key in drop 2, drop 3, shell and rootless voicings: each chord's grip with the notes that moved marked, the top line and the tritone substitute. All progressions on one page.

ii–V–I (major)
ii–V–I (minor)
I–vi–ii–V (1625)

Tunes: voice leading through the changes

7 pages

Each page comps one tune's changes through the whole form, in the key Practice Lab plays it in: the chord cards in order with the notes that moved marked and the key changes on them, and the top line. All tunes on one page.

Chord substitutions for guitar

6 pages

Each page shows one substitution as the app plays it: what it replaces and why it works, the progression as written and substituted in voice-led drop 2 voicings, and the chords in every key. All substitutions on one page.

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