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Virtual Guitar: Play Guitar Online Free | Guitoro

▲ 573 points • 161 comments • by gloja • 3w ago • HN discussion ↗

Pangram verdict · v3.3

We believe that this text is a mix of AI and human-written content.

65 %

AI likelihood · overall

Mixed
27% human-written 73% AI-generated
SEGMENTS · HUMAN 2 of 5
SEGMENTS · AI 0 of 5
WORD COUNT 800
PEAK AI % 65% · §2
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Oct 13
backend: pangram/v3.3
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27 / 73%
human / AI fraction
Verdict
Mixed
Pangram v3.3

Article text · 800 words · 5 segments analyzed

Human AI-generated
§1 Human · 13%

The most realistic virtual guitar online What is Guitoro? Guitoro is the most realistic and the most complete virtual guitar you can play online, free in your browser. Play it with your computer keyboard, your left hand on the chords and your right hand strumming, or swipe the strings with your finger on a phone or tablet. Choose a steel-string acoustic, a classic guitar, an electric guitar or a four-string bass.

§2 Mixed · 65%

It's also a way to learn chords and songs that a chord chart or a video lesson can't show you. Each song plays its best-known part close to the original recording, stroke for stroke. Slow it down to 20% and watch it being played: each string lights up the moment it's hit, the pick swings down and up with the strum, and the neck shows which finger goes where. Then it's your turn. No guitar? Play the song on the keys or the screen, and it waits for you at every chord change. Have a guitar? Pick it up and play along at your own speed, with the strings, the strum and the fingering right in front of you.

§3 Human · 22%

Every guitar and bass note is a recording of a real instrument. There's nothing to download and no account to create. If you played the Google guitar doodle, Guitoro takes the idea further: six real strings, 15 chords in every key, and 51 songs to play along with. 4instruments 15chords in every key 51songs to play along with 20%slowest song speed 56strum and picking patterns 15drum styles Play Play guitar with your keyboard or your fingers No guitar needed.

§4 Mixed · 58%

Guitoro is built to be played, not just clicked, on whatever you have in front of you. Computer keyboardYour left hand holds a chord on the letter keys and your right hand strums with H and J, the way you'd play a real guitar.

§5 Mixed · 41%

15 chords sit under your fingers, plus keys for arpeggios, single strings, chucks and palm mutes. Touch screenOn a phone or tablet, tap a chord pad and swipe the strings with your finger. Up to five fingers at once, and you can tap the frets on the neck to play single notes. MouseDrag across the strings. A fast swipe plays louder, a slow drag rolls the notes one by one, and a click plucks a single string. Melodies in SoloOn a computer, switch to Solo and every keyboard row becomes a string and every column a fret, with bends and vibrato on the arrow keys. Learn by watching See every string and every stroke, as slowly as you need In a video lesson the hand moves fast and hides the strings, so you can't tell which ones were really hit. Guitar apps teach the basic chords and stop there. Guitoro plays the song's real part on the guitar in front of you, at the speed you choose, and shows exactly what the hands do. Then you play it, on the virtual guitar or on your own. Played like the recordEach song plays its best-known part close to the original recording, stroke for stroke. Slow it anywhere from 20% to full speed and the chords, the strum and the band slow down together. See which strings are hitEach string lights up the moment it sounds, then vibrates as it rings. You can see whether a stroke hits all six strings, just the bass strings or only the top three. Watch the strumming handOver a strummed part, the pick swings down and up like a real strumming hand, once per step of the pattern. Solid swings hit the strings and faint ones miss them, so you see the hand keep moving through the gaps. Fingers on the neckWhile a chord rings, the neck shows it: finger numbers from 1 to 4, barres, muted strings and the capo. Copy the shape onto your own guitar. No guitar? The song waits for youPlay a song's chords on the keys or the screen and it follows you. The keys show its chords in order, the next one lights green, and the song holds until you play it. No score and no rush. Have a guitar? Play alongWatch a part slowly, copy it on your guitar, then play along as you raise the speed. On a computer, choose My guitar: the on-screen keys step aside and the song box shows the strum or picking pattern, a chord strip you can click to jump around, and the speed. Realism Why it sounds and feels like a real guitar Most online guitars only let you click single strings or frets, or play a synthesized tone when you click a chord. On Guitoro you strum: swipe across the strings or use the keys, and every string sounds as you cross it, from recordings of real instruments.