Guitar chord tools: help center
Find chords that work together, make a song easier to play, and take a prepared set to rehearsal. These illustrated guides explain every Barre None feature with practical steps and examples you can try on your guitar.
Start with something you want to play
Use Key to explore chords, Songs to work on a chord sheet, Practice to rehearse, and Perform to prepare a set. Open More for the full tool list. Setup holds your instrument tuning, capo, handedness, and diagram preferences.
- Match Setup to your guitar before interpreting a fingering or capo recommendation.
- Try a sample song, or build a C–Am–F–G progression.
- Press Play, start at a comfortable tempo, and practice the changes.
Tool pages have a “How to use” panel. Question-mark buttons explain a nearby musical term or control, and link to a full guide when you need more detail.
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Each guide includes setup steps, a screenshot, a worked example, and answers to common problems.
30 guides found
- Chords & songwriting
Find guitar chords by key, voicings, and CAGED shapes
Build a key-specific chord palette, compare guitar voicings, and turn ideas into a playable progression.
- Practice & learning
Map guitar scales and chord tones on the fretboard
See the neck at once, switch scale families, and isolate chord tones without losing the key context.
- Chords & songwriting
Guitar capo calculator: choose comfortable chord shapes
Compare capo positions for a sounding key using the same practical chord-shape scoring as the chord explorer.
- Chords & songwriting
Identify guitar chords, shapes, and keys
Enter frets to name a chord, list chords to estimate a key, or enter a symbol to find playable shapes.
- Chords & songwriting
Use the Circle of Fifths for related guitar keys
Move through major keys and relative minors while keeping a practical chord-and-guitar context.
- Chords & songwriting
Build guitar chord progressions from presets or scratch
Start with a genre-neutral progression preset or build, reorder, hear, save, and export your own chord sequence.
- Setup & account
Set guitar tuning, capo, and diagram preferences
Use the Setup sheet to make every diagram match your instrument, capo, playing hand, and reading preferences.
- Practice & learning
Play guitar chords, progressions, and practice clicks
Use the app’s play controls to hear exact voicings, chord changes, metronome clicks, and practice tempo.
- Practice & learning
Tune every string with the capo-aware guitar tuner
Use the local microphone tuner for standard, alternate, seven-string, and capo-relative guitar tuning.
- Practice & learning
Set a guitar practice pulse with the metronome
Create a steady click from 40–240 BPM, tap in a tempo, and choose a 2-, 3-, 4-, or 6-beat bar.
- Practice & learning
Train interval, chord-quality, and cadence recognition
Hear a musical prompt, choose the answer, and build a running ear-training score in three focused modes.
- Practice & learning
Learn guitar fretboard notes with a capo-aware note trainer
Practice naming notes and finding positions on the current neck, with optional local microphone answers.
- Practice & learning
Build dependable strumming with the rhythm trainer
Practice guitar rhythm patterns against a count-in, metronome, and visual beat grid at a controlled BPM.
- Practice & learning
Find a song key that fits your vocal range
Compare guitar-friendly song keys using your comfortable vocal range and the melody’s low and high notes, with capo advice for each result.
- Practice & learning
Practice: today’s plan, progression, or guided session
Choose Today’s plan, My progression, or Guided session to rehearse chords, follow a short checklist, and build useful practice momentum.
- Practice & learning
Read your guitar practice streak and history
Review a local 12-week heatmap, streaks, totals, and recent completed practice sessions in one personal log.
- Practice & learning
Follow a structured guitar practice program
Browse authored lessons and packs, open linked activities, complete work offline, and print or export downloaded material.
- Practice & learning
Create printable guitar chord and theory worksheets
Create chord, Roman-numeral, key-signature, and note-location sheets that print consistently and can be shared by exact link.
- Songs & performance
Build a guitar songbook and transpose chord sheets
Paste a chord sheet, find its key and capo, transpose it, and keep a local library of playable songs.
- Songs & performance
Build a guitar setlist and use Stage Mode
Arrange saved songs for a performance, pin show-night overrides, and rehearse from a large-type stage view.
- Songs & performance
Plan a guitar gig or rehearsal event
Attach a set to a dated gig or rehearsal, invite collaborators, and prepare an offline frozen show.
- Songs & performance
Share reviewed guitar charts with a band workspace
Share reviewed songs, sets, and charts with a band while keeping the published version stable.
- Songs & performance
Import guitar songs and rehearsal files safely
Preview songs, sets, CSV rows, and shared files before adding them to this browser.
- Songs & performance
Create a timed Living Chart for guitar rehearsal
Turn portable ChordPro into a timed rehearsal chart with loops, generated chords, and authorized reference audio.
- Practice & learning
Create guitar lesson assignments in Teacher Studio
Create nickname-based lesson assignments and review one result a student chooses to send.
- Practice & learning
Complete and submit a guitar lesson assignment
Open a teacher-issued assignment, practice a pinned copy, and submit one reviewed result with fresh consent.
- Setup & account
Sync your guitar library across devices
Keep local-first data on the device while optionally signing in for a Pro cloud copy and conflict recovery.
- Setup & account
Resolve guitar library sync conflicts
Compare two saved versions, keep one, keep both, or restore a deletion without breaking set references.
- Setup & account
Use Barre None offline and back up your guitar library
Keep guitar tools ready offline, export your songs and set lists, and restore a saved library when moving browsers or devices.
- Setup & account
Send Barre None feedback and read replies
Send a bug, idea, or question to the Barre None team and review the latest status or reply.
Quick answers
Install and use offline
Open Barre None online first and use Install or Add to Home Screen if your browser offers it. Core tools become available after the app finishes caching. Open the specific guide, song, or pack you need and test it offline before relying on it; installing the app does not download every guide or recording.
Read the full guideAudio and microphone permissions
Press a play control to start sound. If it is disabled, turn Sound off back on in the header. Check your device volume and output. The tuner and microphone exercises listen only after you start them; they analyze audio on your device. If access is blocked, allow the microphone in browser site settings and reload.
Read the full guideSaved data, backups and moving devices
Saved work starts in this browser. In Account → Your data, export a backup before clearing site data or moving devices. Restoring a backup replaces the supported saved library after confirmation. Optional sync and the preview-first Import workflow are separate tools with different effects.
Account → Your dataRead the full guidePrinting and export
Use the print or export control in your progression, song, worksheet, or set list. Print views remove app controls. To make a PDF, choose Save as PDF in the browser’s print dialog when available. Check the preview for clipped lyrics or diagrams before printing.
Read the full guideBand workspaces
A Pro owner publishes a deliberate copy of a rehearsal set. Invited viewers can read the shared copy without access to the owner’s private library. Pin the current revision while online for rehearsal and recheck it when the band publishes an update.
Read the full guideTeacher Studio and assignments
Teachers use aliases to publish assignments. Students review their results before choosing Submit to teacher; local practice is not automatically sent. The teacher and student guides explain the two sides of the handoff.
Read the full guidePerformance control and pedals
Build your running order in Set lists, then use Prepare show & Perform. Review offline readiness, tonight’s keys, and capo changes before going on stage. Test keyboard-style pedals and device controls in advance, and keep a paper or standby copy.
Read the full guideStage remote preview
Stage remote is a gated preview, not a generally available production feature. The local Stage Mode and keyboard-style pedal controls are the supported starting points. The set-list guide explains preparation and recovery without requiring a remote connection.
Read the full guidePractice programs and offline packs
Start with the complete free sample. Follow each lesson’s activity links, then record completion and notes. Eligible Pro packs have explicit downloads; finish and verify a pack while online before practicing without a connection.
Read the full guideImport and private rehearsal assets
Preview supported files, review duplicates and conflicts, download the rollback backup, and confirm permission before committing. PDF and image attachments remain references; importing them does not automatically transcribe their chords. Private cloud uploads require a separate explicit action.
Read the full guideLiving charts and synchronized rehearsal
Play the original free sample to try a timed chart. Pro authoring lets you attach authorized audio, confirm section starts, refine line markers, and save loops. Playback starts only when you press Play; uncertain markers are identified for review.
Read the full guideGigs and rehearsal events
Plan an event, collect availability, and freeze the reviewed set revision. Prepare show downloads that exact event and set. Changes to your working set do not silently change a published event, so prepare again when you accept a new revision.
Read the full guidePro activation and recovery
Open Account to see the access and billing options available on this build. Free tools and samples remain available without Pro. If you already have access but a feature is locked, check the signed-in account and connection; export your local backup before clearing any browser data.
Account → Account, billing & devicesRead the full guide