Frequently asked questions

Guitarshelf is a site that generates short, concrete guitar practice sheets: chord changes, strumming patterns, scales, arpeggios and improvisation. Pick a level, a style, or draw a random sheet — no account, nothing to install.

Yes, in spirit: Guitarshelf is run as a non-commercial project, no paid account, no content locked behind a subscription. An optional Google AdSense integration, off by default, can be enabled by the site's editor — if so, ads and related cookies may appear.

No, by design. Guitarshelf stays a site of text sheets and diagrams you follow at your own pace: no built-in metronome, no drum machine, no video player. A suggested tempo (BPM) is simply shown as text on some sheets, as a reference.

The level runs from 1 (complete beginner) to 6 (advanced hobbyist). It reflects the technical difficulty of the exercise (number and speed of chord changes, rhythmic complexity...), independent of the musical style.

The songbook lets you put together a practice session by grouping several sheets: manually, via a pre-filled themed songbook, or by random pick. You can then print it, download it as a PDF, export it as an image or text, or share it via a link.

Yes, a "Transpose to" selector is available on every sheet that has a chord progression. Chord names are recalculated automatically; the diagram is only shown if the resulting chord exists in the site's chord library.

On a sheet, click the diagram of the chord you're interested in: you'll get the list of every sheet that uses it. The chord library and the explorable fretboard also let you start from a chord or a fretboard position to find related content.

Yes, a "Left-handed mode" button at the top of the page flips the chord and scale diagrams horizontally for a left-handed fretboard.

French, English, Spanish, Italian and German. Some newer sheets aren't translated into every language yet: the French content is shown instead, with an explicit notice.

No. Guitarshelf has no user accounts. Your browsing history, songbook and preferences (left-handed mode, etc.) are stored only in your browser (localStorage), never on our servers.

Not automatically, since nothing is stored server-side. You can, however, export all your local data (history, songbook, preferences) as a backup file, or share a specific songbook via a link.

By default, no: no tracking cookies, no advertising tools. An anonymous, aggregated view counter exists per sheet purely to help prioritize which content to improve, with no individual data or identifier. An optional Google Analytics integration, disabled by default, can be enabled by the site operator; if so, audience-measurement cookies are then set.

No: no account is needed, neither for you nor for your student. The whole homework content is encoded directly in the link you share.

No, there's no expiration: the link stays valid as long as whatever it references still exists on the site (a catalog sheet, very rarely renamed). Keep it if you want to reuse it.

You can't edit a link that's already been sent (nothing is stored on the server), but you can reload it into the composer to tweak it and generate a new link to resend.

To some extent: the student can check off completed exercises in their homework, then generate their own reply link to send you. Nothing is sent automatically — it's always their choice to send it back.

Yes. Every homework shows a print button, and the printed version adds a tracking sheet (a table of lessons to check off) that isn't shown on screen.