For guitarists who are serious about progress
Stop playing the same licks.
Start training your ear.
FretShed is the practice room you carry. Fresh solos across rock, blues, jazz, metal, and funk. An Ear Tuner. A Metronome. A Recorder that keeps running. No tabs. No notation. Your ears and your guitar.
Coming SoonFree to try · $14.99/month for unlimited
Every serious guitarist hits the wall.
You keep playing what you know
The licks that got you here won't take you further. Your fingers default to the same patterns because you've never had to hear anything different.
Tabs keep you reading, not listening
Tab-based learning trains your eyes, not your ears. Real musical vocabulary lives in your ear - that's where it needs to start.
Practice without challenge isn't practice
Running through familiar material feels productive. It isn't. Growth happens when your ear encounters something it hasn't heard before.
Pick a genre. Hit generate. Learn it by ear. Repeat.
Choose your genre
Rock, blues, jazz, metal, or funk.
Generate a unique solo
Complete phrases, real musical context, never the same twice.
Isolate the hard parts
Use A-B looping and speed controls to lock onto tricky phrases.
Internalize it by ear
No tabs, no shortcuts, just listening and playing.
Built for how musicians actually learn.
Five genres, infinite variations
Rock, blues, jazz, metal, and funk. Each solo is unique - always material your hands don't already know.
A-B looping
Lock onto a phrase that's giving you trouble and loop it until you own it.
Speed controls with pitch preservation
Slow it down without changing the pitch. Speed it up as you improve.
Ear Tuner
Tune by listening, not by watching a needle. Standard, flat standard, drop D, DADGAD, and more. The visual crutch is gone on purpose.
Metronome
Adjustable tempo and time signature. The basics, done well.
Recorder that doesn't quit
Capture what you played. Switch tabs, lock the screen, take a call. The recording keeps going. Stop it from the Lock Screen when you're done.
No tabs. Ever.
If you can see it, you're reading it, not hearing it. FretShed is ear training by design.
iPhone and iPad
Practice on your phone or tablet. Mac support is coming soon.
80 fresh solos every 30 days
A rolling window, not a hard reset. Each generation ages out 30 days after you made it.
Philosophy
"The goal isn't to learn a solo.
The goal is to build an ear that learns every solo."
FretShed exists because the best way to expand your musical vocabulary is to hear something new, work it out, and make it yours. The way guitarists learned before the internet made it easy to skip that part.
Pricing
Monthly
$14.99
per month
Billed monthly
Yearly
$12.50
per month
Billed $149.99 / year
- 80 fresh solos every 30 days, on a rolling window
- All five genres
- A-B looping and speed control with pitch preservation
- Ear Tuner, Metronome, and Recorder (with background recording)
- iPhone and iPad
- New genres and features as they ship
Start with the free tier - no credit card required.