For teachers and parents

What the app does

The Guitar Club is a free practice app for guitar: made for children in school music classes, their teachers and parents.

• Songs with chords and lyrics as karaoke. The backing waits at every chord change until the child is ready.
• Chord charts for all the important chords – the microphone checks whether a chord sounds clean.
• Tuner, metronome with strumming patterns, chord game and 12-bar blues with a band.
• Stars and a calendar of practice days – stored only on the device.
• Enter your own songs and share them with the class by link or QR code.

School-friendly and private

• No account: no sign-up, no email address, no class management. No pupil data has to be created or passed on for lessons.
• No ads, no tracking: no in-app purchases, no cookies, no analytics services.
• Everything stays on the device: Stars, settings and own songs live only in the browser’s storage. The microphone is analysed only on the device and never recorded.
• Works without a microphone: If you’d rather not allow the microphone, just tap “Done” yourself.
• Open and free: no subscription, the source code is public (open source).

Privacy policy

Runs on almost any device

• In the browser on tablet, phone and computer – nothing to install and no approval needed from the school’s device management.
• Even on older iPads (iOS 12 and later) that can no longer install new apps.
• Offline after the first visit: the tuner, rhythm and every song opened before then work without internet.
• Tip: with “Add to Home Screen” in the browser menu, the app sits on the home screen like any other.

In class

• Tune at the start of the lesson: the tuner recognises the string and helps when someone turns the peg of the next string.
• Every song has its own address. On the handout below, chosen songs appear as QR codes – the children land right on the song.
• Enter your own or public-domain songs under “My Own Song” and share them by QR code. The song is inside the link itself; nothing is uploaded. Add your own song
• Make homework concrete: “Every day, play the song once in ‘Waits for me’ mode and one minute of the chord game with two chords.”
• On a projector or whiteboard everyone sees the same line of the song; with a speaker the whole class hears the backing.

For parents: you don’t need to play yourself

How to help your child, even if you can’t read music:

• Short and regular: 5 to 10 minutes every day beats one hour once a week. A fixed time saves arguments.
• Listen instead of correcting: Ask for a little concert and praise what already works – and that your child kept at it.
• The app does the checking: The backing waits, the microphone listens, there are stars. You don’t need to know whether everything is right.
• Let them choose: Your child picks the next song.
• Sing and clap along: Making music together is the best reward.
• Breaks are okay: If fingers hurt or the energy is gone, a favourite song helps more than any reminder.

Practice plan: 10 minutes a day

Always in the same order – so your child knows what’s next:

1. 1 min Tuning
2. 3 min Switch between two chords
3. 4 min Play along with a song
4. 2 min Rhythm with the metronome

Nothing is stored or checked – the plan is just a suggestion.