BLOG CATEGORY: How-To Guides

17 Apr, 2025
How to Use JamTrack Zone

JamTrack Zone has huge and growing collection of free guitar backing tracks but it's way more than just that. If you've ever felt overwhelmed when trying to practice soloing or improvising JamTrack Zone has tools to make your practice more manageable and effective.

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17 Apr, 2025
Using Chord Vault

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned guitarist, Chord Vault offers a practical and convenient way to explore guitar chords at your own pace. With Chord Vault, you can quickly view left-hand fingerings, chord intervals, and note names directly on a guitar fretboard diagram.

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16 Apr, 2025
The Interval Madness Game - A Fast & Fun Way to Learn Intervals

Interval Madness is a game that will help you learn to quickly learn intervals all up and down the guitar fretboard. Hearing the sound of each interval will also help you to recognize the sound of each interval.

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03 Apr, 2025
Riff Lab Play Options

Just below the Tab/Staff area you can load a number of different infinite loop backing tracks in different styles and keys to play along with.

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03 Apr, 2025
Setting the Notation Key

If you’re starting from scratch, it’s a good idea to start by setting the notation key and then loading a matching fretboard display.

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02 Apr, 2025
Convert a Major or Minor Scale to Pentatonic

How to convert any major or minor scale into a pentatonic scale in Scale Mate and the music theory behind why the pentatonic scale works so well.

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02 Apr, 2025
Starting Pick Stroke and Picking Technique Options

The “Starting Pick Stroke” setting tells Riff Lab whether to start with a down or up stroke and the “Pick Technique” setting lets you choose between Alternate Picking and Sweep Hybrid Picking.

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02 Apr, 2025
Tempo Settings in Riff Lab

When you’re trying to work up a new riff, especially one that’s a little challenging, it’s good to be able to set a slower tempo and play along in time and then slowly adjust the tempo as you’re able to play it a little faster. Open Settings by clicking the Settings Gear at the top right of Riff Lab then be sure to select “Notation”. Scroll down to the “Tempo” Setting.

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02 Apr, 2025
Rhythm Remix Feature and Auto Rhythm Settings

Once you’ve built a note sequence, Riff Lab can instantly add different rhythms. To do that go to the top right of the notation area where you see “Rhythm Remix Versions”. To add a new version, click the plus button on the left. Riff Lab instantly shuffles the rhythms for you.

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29 Mar, 2025
Left and Right Handed Fretboard Orientation

If you’re left-handed, you can switch the view to what YOU normally see when looking down at YOUR guitar.

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28 Mar, 2025
Note Colors Explained

There's a neuroscience-based reason for all the note colors. This video shows how tro control the color settings and why setting different colors for the various intervals is a good idea.

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28 Mar, 2025
Guitar Sound in Settings

Whether you’re creating a new riff or have loaded a saved riff like this, you can change the guitar sound if you want to using Guitar Sound in the Fretboard section of the Settings Menu.

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28 Mar, 2025
Fretboard Notation Interactions

The Notation Interactions section in the Fretboard section of the Settings Menu lets you control how the fretboard and the notation sections interact.

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27 Mar, 2025
Riff Lab's AI Features - Auto Pattern Builder

How to let Riff Lab's auto generate feature create a starting pattern and then watch as Riff Lab's Auto Pattern Builder completes a full riff from the original notes.

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27 Mar, 2025
Riff Lab's AI Features - Auto Generate

How to let Riff Lab create a riff for you in either Scale Mate, Arpeggio Flow or Key Weaver

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27 Mar, 2025
Riff Lab Quick Start

How to get the most out of Riff Lab.

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27 Mar, 2025
Fretboard Note Display Features

How the two Fretboard Note Display dropdown menus work in Scale Mate, Arpeggio Flow and Key Weaver

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14 Mar, 2025
Fretboard Display Options Common to All

Fretboard display options that are common to Scale Mate, Key Weaver, Arpeggio Flow and JamTrack Zone.

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14 Mar, 2025
Load and Play Prebuilt Riffs in Riff Lab

Learn how to find a list of prebuilt riffs, search by keyword and sample each one to find one you'd like to learn. Then load it into Riff Lab and listen to it while watching the fretboard and notation window animate.

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12 Mar, 2025
Loading Any Scale Into Scale Mate

This video shows how to load any scale in any key into the 22-fret, fretboard diagram in Scale Mate.

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