Guitoro is a free browser-based virtual guitar that uses recordings of real instruments. It lets you strum with your computer keyboard, your mouse, or a touchscreen, and you can choose a steel-string acoustic, a classic guitar, an electric guitar, or a four-string bass. Using your left hand on the chords and your right hand on the strumming keys, you can play much like you would on a real guitar.
The tool is also designed as a way to learn songs. Each song plays its best-known part close to the original recording, stroke for stroke. You can slow a song down to 20% of its speed and watch each string light up as it is struck, see the pick swing down and up with the strum, and follow the neck to see which finger goes where. When you are ready, you can play along, and the song waits for you at every chord change. Guitoro also includes 15 chords in every key, 51 songs, 56 strum and picking patterns, and 15 drum styles.
Guitoro requires no signup, no download, and no guitar. It offers free chord tools and tuners, and it works on phones and tablets as well as computers. Visitors can also play the song on the keys or screen if they do not own a guitar.
The project was shared on Hacker News, where the creator asked for feedback on how the strumming feels and sounds. The post received 148 points and 51 comments. A one-minute video demo is available on YouTube.
Source: Hacker News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing