Online Guitar

How the Online Electric Guitar Works

This free online electric guitar gives you a clean electric guitar sound in your browser, with no download, install or sign-up. It uses recorded guitar samples with a fuller, doubled clean tone, so you can try riffs, learn the notes of the fretboard or sketch a guitar part. A progress circle shows while the sounds load, and playing starts when every note is ready.

Play with Keyboard, Mouse or Touch

The guitar is tuned to standard tuning, E A D G B E from the lowest string to the highest, and covers E2 up to E5. Click or tap any fret on any string to play that note, or use your computer keyboard, where the keys run in pitch order starting from the lowest open string. The Keys and Notes buttons show or hide the labels on the frets, and the Play guide explains the layout.

Strings, Strumming and Sustain

Each string plays its own range, and you can click and drag across the strings to strum. When the same note exists on more than one string, a dimmer dot marks the second position so you can see every place it can be played. The Sustain Pedal is on by default so notes ring out, and holding the space bar acts as a pedal.

Transpose, Volume and Sound Settings

The Sound panel groups its round knobs into Notes, Space, Tone and Master. Notes controls playback speed, transpose, sustain length and touch dynamics, Space adds reverb, room size and echo, Tone shapes bass, mid, treble and warmth, and Master sets stereo width, compression and overall volume. Drag a knob up or down to change it, double-click to reset it, or pick a ready preset such as Concert hall, Warm vintage or Cathedral. The Transpose buttons move the electric guitar up or down by semitones to match a singer or another instrument, the volume slider goes up to 200 percent, and your settings are remembered for your next visit.

Record, Play Back and Download

Press Record and play, and your take appears on a timeline where you can play it back, drag to select just one part and clear it to start again. The Demo button plays a built-in tune so you can hear the electric guitar straight away, and it can be recorded too. Open the Download panel to save your recording as an MP3 or WAV file, choose the bitrate, sample rate and mono or stereo, download the whole take or only the selected part, normalize the loudness, let the last notes ring out, remove silence at the start and add a fade in or fade out. All processing happens in your own browser, so your music stays on your device.

Works on Every Screen

The page adjusts to desktop, tablet and mobile screens. Use the buttons at the top right to switch between the light and dark theme or to go full screen, and on a small phone turn the device sideways to see more of the instrument.