Lazy Lopez vs Riddiments

A quieter way to sit with your guitar. Learn a song, catch a riff, and play along at your own pace. Lazy Lopez: Guitar is a practice companion that stays out of your way. No streaks to keep, no goals to hit, no account to make. A little room to play. LEARN SONGS 1,203 songs are built in, chords ready, with nothing to download. Open any chord as a large diagram and hear it ring. Transpose a semitone at a time, simplify the awkward shapes, and get capo hints that turn barre chords into easier ones. Paste in a tab and a cursor follows the notes as they play back, with auto-scroll to keep your place. Tell the library which chords you know and it shows what you can play tonight. Line songs up in setlists for jam night, and record yourself working one out. PLAY WITH A BAND Set a key and a feel, and drums, bass and keys lock in behind you. Loop it, change it, record over the top. 41 chord progressions come sorted into genre and mood packs, or build your own from the chords that live in your key, each labeled with its Roman numeral as you stack it. Any chord can hold for two or four bars, and a groove picker re-feels the whole band. TUNE UP Twenty-two tunings are built in, from standard, drop D and DADGAD to open tunings, baritone, Bass VI, and seven- and eight-string, plus a library for the ones you build yourself. The tuner works out which string you're playing, and a sweetened mode for standard tuning is there if you want it just so. LEARN THE FRETBOARD 70 scales, from pentatonics and blues to the modes of harmonic and melodic minor, drawn across the neck, and you can build your own by tapping the notes you want. A CAGED explorer lays out the five shapes for any key. A note trainer and a cheat sheet help you find your way around, with an ear trainer and a chord-change trainer for the things that only come with repetition. PRACTICE, YOUR WAY Three ready-made sessions come with the app, or build your own and run it with a calm timer. A metronome from 40 to 240 BPM, strumming and fingerpicking trainers that count you in and speed up gradually, and eleven backing loops, from a 12-bar blues to a jazz ii-V-I. THE WOODSHED Bring in an audio file, loop the bar that keeps beating you, and slow it to half speed without the pitch dropping. Shift the key to match your tuning. CAPTURE IDEAS Hum it, play it, or write it down before it's gone. The chords and key are worked out on your device, and the idea is filed where you'll find it again. IPHONE, IPAD, MAC AND WATCH One app for iPhone and iPad, plus a native Mac app. On iPhone there's also an Apple Watch app with a metronome, tuner and chord diagrams, a home-screen widget for the tuner, metronome and jam, and Live Activities that keep your tempo and timer on the Lock Screen. YOURS, ON YOUR DEVICE Your songs, takes and ideas live on your device. No account, no cloud sync, nothing to sign up for. Back up your practice log, routines, progressions, and saved setups to a file you keep and read it back on a new phone; the log exports as a spreadsheet too. Optional analytics are off unless you turn them on, and they never include your songs, audio or notes. Every feature is free, and the optional tip jar unlocks nothing. NEW NAME, SAME APP Lazy Lopez: Guitar was Guitar Buddha. It is the same app from the same maker, By Lazy Lopez Productions, now part of Lazy Lopez Music. Pick up an instrument. Make some music.

Riddiments is a rhythm instrument for your pocket — a practice tool with the precision of a metronome and the expressiveness of a drum machine. Most metronomes give you one click. Riddiments gives you up to four independent rhythmic voices, each with its own time signature, sound, and feel — all locked to a single tempo. Different time signatures don't drift apart; they interlock into polyrhythm. It's the difference between counting along and actually hearing how the parts fit together. SEE THE BEAT, NOT JUST HEAR IT Four visualizations, one tap to switch between them: • Circular — a beat wheel with a playhead sweeping the ring. The signature view. • Waterfall — notes rise toward a NOW line, so you can read what's coming. • Timeline — every voice as gems on one lattice. Tap to edit, even while playing. • Notation — real single-line percussion notation with sticking letters, accents, flams, and drags. STICKINGS YOU CAN TRUST The built-in library covers the PAS International Drum Rudiments plus hybrid rudiments, rolls, grooves, and ostinato exercises — every sticking verified against published sources. Flams and drags play as true grace notes, on the correct hand. BUILD REAL TECHNIQUE • Practice mode: timed sessions, count-in, gap click, and automatic tempo progression to push your speed up gradually. • Tempo Lock, lead-hand flipping, and Alternate Lead each bar. • 18 built-in percussion voices — snare, kick, hi-hats, toms, claves, and more. • Per-lane swing, volume, and mute. Every control is live — changes land instantly, without stopping. MADE TO LIVE ON A STAND Every control works while you play. Tempo, transport, session time, and mute state stay readable from drumstick distance. Light and dark appearance. Save your own patterns, and your last session is always waiting when you reopen the app. Designed in the spirit of good tools: useful, honest, and quiet until you need it. Universal — one app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.