# David Mead : Guitar Gym — user reviews > 46 indexed App Store user reviews of David Mead by Leafcutter Studios Ltd, rated 4.64/5 from 14 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/david-mead-guitar-gym/id566521979/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/david-mead-guitar-gym/id566521979.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 9 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (12 of 46) ### 5/5 — Excellent Training Aid *2016-10-15* I am a relative beginner and find this app brilliant! It is easy to use and develops your skills in a simple and progressive way. It allows you to choose your own pace both in the level of exercise and the tempo at which you learn and practice. I would recommnd this aid and David Mead's books to any aspiring guitarist! ### 5/5 — This rules *2016-10-05, version 2.12* This is the best app ever ### 5/5 — Really useful *2016-10-05, version 2.12* One of the few guitar apps I regularly use. Helps discipline my practicing and keeps me on track. Nothing fancy, just a useful tool. ### 5/5 — Great App *2016-07-28* Great app. Helps build finger strength and dexterity. ### 5/5 — Great app *2016-05-14, version 2.12* I've been using this app for about a month, I definitely notice a difference ### 5/5 — Excellent app for improving technique *2016-04-24, version 2.12* I have used this app for nearly two years - I use the exercises as a warm up at the beginning of most of my practice sessions. They have helped me improve my speed, dexterity of both hands, rhythm, and my ear for various notes and scales. ### 5/5 — Really like it! *2016-04-08, version 2.12* Great idea and initiative! ### 5/5 — Love it *2016-03-30, version 2.12* Perfect app for helping somebody with very clumsy fingers like myself. Have made a ton of improvement over the six months I've been using it ### 5/5 — Great App *2016-03-09* This app is just great!! Over the last year I have worked with it and it has improved my guitar playing greatly. Some of the different exercises are a little trying at first, but the app allows for a wide range of speed settings so everyone can work at their own pace. I hope that Mr. Mead produces more apps similar to "Guitar Gym". This app has become a part of my daily practice routine and warm up. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2015-10-10, version 1.1* Really like this app a lot. ### 5/5 — Comprehensive warm-up and practice routine *2015-07-29, version 1.1* Practicing guitar can be daunting (and boring) without some sense of direction. This app provides a comprehensive practice routine touching on the most essential guitar skills. The 5-section practice progression (warm-up, coordination, ear training, stamina, and rhythm) is an excellent approach to daily practice. This app not only builds the motor skills and dexterity necessary for solid guitar playing, but it also builds your ear for common progressions and improves your familiarity with the neck of the guitar. With all of this said, I do have one bit of criticism. On many of the exercises, the recommended picking pattern is only provides for the first couple of notes. I would be very pleased if the developer would include the entire picking pattern for each exercise (this would be particularly helpful for the exercises containing arpeggios). This would be a quick and easy fix, and it would ensure that users get the most of each exercise without wondering if they're picking is correct. Despite this minor flaw, I am highly satisfied with this app, as it allows me to sit down with my guitar and practice with a sense of direction. This app is an e great way to warm up your fingers and become more fluid in your playing. ### 5/5 — Focused, complete and challenging. *2014-07-17* This is a very thorough app. It deals with all areas of your playing in a way that is difficult to do on your own. It drags you out of your comfort zone and into the real world of mastering your instrument. If you follow the exercises systematically increasing the speed only once you've mastered that exercise, the app will improve your clarity, speed, dexterity, stamina and musical understanding. If you go a step further and apply what you've learnt to other keys, learning the same exercises across the fretboard and with other chord shapes, you will improve another level. If you go even further still and purposefully apply what you've learnt to songs you already know, your musicianship will improve in leaps and bounds. This app is truly phenomenal, however make sure you continue the work after the 10mins. I often like to revisit exercises that I've 'mastered'. It's worth every penny, if you're serious about improving. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — Good but would be nice if.... *2016-03-22* One of the most difficult challenges is to master the physicality of guitar playing, and this helps a lot with that, and just warming up before playing. Things I would appreciate would be rating levels so I know how I've progressed. Would also be more fun and musical if drums and bass or second guitar were on the tracks. ### 3/5 — Just a little more *2019-06-26* The App works as advertised but there are elements that could use just a tiny bit more instruction to be useful (for me). The partial use of upstroke and downstroke symbols and other notations are not explained. I get the sense I am not doing the exercises correctly, thus do not wish to continue. Perhaps these are common notations. I requested the info through the in App contact but so far no reply. ### 3/5 — Spelled Practice Wrong *2014-04-12, version 1.1* Not high hopes when the first introduction is to go and "practise" Will update when I've used the app more ### 4/5 — A cornerstone to my improvement *2022-12-10, version 2.40* I’ve found that when I want to learn a new lick or song my hands are already ready for it, dexterity-wise, which makes picking up new songs go much faster. I’ve been using it regularly for about four years. Unexpectedly, it greatly improved my tab reading. I usually use this as warm up to practice. I’ll do five various, two-minute exercises, it’s something I don’t have think much about and can just jump in and knock out a workout and then do whatever’s next. ### 4/5 — Great Practice App BUT... *2020-02-29, version 2.25* Please please please for the love of user interface design add a + or - button to the tempo adjuster. It’s so frustrating trying to get the blasted slider to be at a specific tempo. Also, add a spot where I can take notes for each exercise and fix the whack rhythm displayed for the C303 exercise. Other than these I live this app. Thanks for making it. **Developer response:** We've just released an update (v2.32) with added buttons and a fix for C303. It should also support landscape orientation properly on all the latest devices. Let us know if you have any more ideas or feedback for the app and keep practicing! ### 4/5 — Good app but lots of room for improvement *2018-10-14* Love the structure and simplicity of this app, and when it only takes ten minutes to do some useful guitar practice I really have no excuse to not do it every day! All of my quibbles with the app are on the technical side - it doesn’t display well in landscape mode on iPhone for instance, and it can sometimes be fiddly to connect to Bluetooth devices. It would also be nice if it made more use of modern iPhone features like notifications, 3D Touch etc., for a smoother experience. Finally I’d really like to see new exercises released periodically. So overall, love the idea behind the app but would like to see more done to keep it up to date. ### 4/5 — Great addition to daily practice routine. *2018-01-02, version 2.25* This app is a great addition to your daily guitar practice routine no matter what level of guitarist you are. I like the way each exercise is broken down to explain the theory involved. ### 4/5 — Excellent!! But.... *2017-09-28, version 2.25* Could use some fine tuning but excellent idea and works well. ### 4/5 — Good. But... *2015-07-26* Good practice aid but lacksa tempo count-in! Needs a "one, two, a-one, two, three" type count-in This would set the tempo and enable guitarists to start at the beginning. It is impossible to start with the first note - impossible unless you switch it on with your big toe! ### 4/5 — Useful app, but not perfect *2014-02-01* A very useful app, but it loses half a star for starting the timer straight away. How are you supposed to move your hand from the screen to the guitar in no time at all? The other half star is lost for saying you can design your own routine, but not giving a way to mark which exercises you plan to do. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great workout for flying fingers *2022-08-25* The exercises are variously technical and you are basically doing “reps” to increase muscle strength, dexterity and memory. This is just what I need to enable me to play more interesting, creative stuff. It may seem dull and repetitive but once you get into a routine of a few minutes a day your playing abilities will advance rapidly, possibly even exponentially. ### 5/5 — Goat status *2022-07-10* I use this before I do any other practice . So simple yet executed so well in the app. You can really focus and hone down on your skill ### 5/5 — A great app to help practice *2022-05-04, version 2.40* This is a great free app to help give you things to actually practice rather than boring scales over and over. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Best little practice tool I have on my phone. *2021-12-17, version 2.40* I love this app, it helps round out basic practice skills with explanations and a wide variety of different drills. I use it as prescribed and I have more discipline for daily practice. Structured plans help me a lot and adding a metronome to the skill drills has greatly improved my overall speed. I have have also seen noticeable improvement in both learning new songs or improvising. Get it now!!! ### 5/5 — Very useful to any guitarist's skill level *2020-12-28* Having studied degree in music and worked as a music teacher and head of music department for over a decade - I had taken a long break in playing. This app really helped to improve my skills and stamina whilst reminding me about good technique- a little buggy by perfectly functional! Some of the scale shapes seem a little unusual but you can substitute them yourself- some lovely arrpeggios up the neck in the newer versions too- definitely worth it! ### 5/5 — Very handy app *2020-11-09* This app is brilliant for brushing up your technique whilst syncing with the inbuilt Metronome click ... keeps you honest about your rhythm whilst brushing up your technique. I have the pocket book of this but this app is way better and way more useful to me - I use it for my daily warmups and can’t recommend this app enough- it’s well worth a download. Top marks ⭐️ ### 5/5 — Very useful *2018-06-25* I love the fact you can speed up or slow down the examples.A great app for improving your guitar technique. ### 5/5 — This works *2017-12-31, version 2.25* This is the best guitar app I have seen so far. ### 5/5 — If you play guitar get this *2017-02-20* I've David Meads Guitar Gym for years now but it's been updated and it's now better than ever. 16 minutes a day can really improve your picking skills and fretboard knowledge, it coves ear training, alternate picking, arpeggios, modes and lots more. It's probably going to b the most useful tool in your armoury and for the price it's a steal just get it you won't be disappointed. ### 5/5 — Guitar Gym *2017-02-08, version 2.12* Good app, worth the time and effort. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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