OneBeat Guitar Play is a fretboard trainer that listens. Jam the blues over a
12-bar band while licks scroll in as tab, or drill notes and scale shapes — the
app hears every note you play and checks off the exact string and fret.
BLUES
A 12-bar minor blues band plays — real recorded guitar over a drum groove — while
licks scroll toward a hit line as tab, and a fretboard below shows where each lick
sits on the neck with the next note ringed.
• Four keys: Am, Em, Gm and Cm.
• Fifty licks across Easy, Medium and Hard — bends, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs,
double stops and fast runs, with a lick that resolves to the root every few.
• Three tempos, 60, 70 and 80 BPM, to learn a lick slowly before playing it at
speed. Medium and Hard mix in a few licks from the level below.
• Every note is scored as you play it, with early and late feedback, and the app
shows the note it hears, so a miss tells you whether it was the timing or the
fret.
• Repeat mode plays the same lick again until you hit 80% of it.
• A ring around the play button tracks the 12 bars, and your last and best
accuracy and streak are kept for every key, level and tempo.
FIND NOTE
Choose a note and find it everywhere, from the nut to the twelfth fret. The next
position to play is ringed; play the right string and it checks off. Positions
that are genuinely the same pitch on two strings are told apart by which string
you last played.
SCALES
Major and minor in all twelve keys, as one classic movable five-fret box with the
root highlighted. Switch to Pentatonic for all five positions of the minor and
major pentatonic and both blues scales, with the blue note marked inside the box.
TIMED, EVERY SESSION
Set how many repetitions a session takes and the timer runs while you play. Each
tab keeps its own last time and best time for each repetition count, so you have
a number to beat that means something. Tap the dice to jump to a random key and
keep it honest.
PRACTICE HISTORY
Every finished session is logged — which tab, which key or shape, and your time
or, for Blues, your accuracy — with new personal bests flagged. Filter by tab, and
see today, this week and all-time totals at the top.
BUILT FOR PRACTICE
• iPhone and iPad, in portrait or landscape, with the same two-card layout on
every tab: your pickers at the top, the clock, scores and play button at the
bottom.
• Hear your own guitar through the app, with reverb and separate guitar and
backing track volumes.
• An optional count-in before the mic opens, and a fret-12 limit for beginners.
• No account and no ads. Nothing leaves your device — the microphone is used only
to detect pitch while you play, and audio is never recorded or sent anywhere.
ONEBEAT PLAY PRO
Find Note, the scale shapes, all five pentatonic and blues boxes, the timer, your
best times and your history are free and always will be. Blues is free for 10
minutes every day. An optional Pro subscription makes Blues unlimited, unlocks
the appearance settings — themes, accent colours, four fretboard styles and two
inlay styles — and supports an independent, ad-free app.
• Monthly — auto-renews every month
• Yearly — auto-renews every year
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24
hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your
subscription in your Apple Account settings.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.neitzke.ca/app-privacy-policy
OneBeat Play is part of the OneBeat family, alongside OneBeat Tools (metronome,
tuner, circle of fifths, chord reference) and OneBeat Ear (interval, chord and
progression recognition on real guitar recordings).
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