StrumForge: Chord Progressions

Make StrumForge your daily guitar practice app, with a chord progression generator, riffs, technique drills, and fretboard trainers. Generate over 1 million unique, theory-based chord progressions across every key for improvisation, songwriting, and everyday practice.

Explore over 1,000 riffs and exercises with StrumForge Pro. Follow synchronized TAB and an animated fretboard while practicing picking, legato, bends, blues, and more.

Build your fretboard knowledge with dedicated scale, triad, and arpeggio trainers. Explore CAGED shapes, practice triad inversions, and discover how chords and scales connect across the neck.

Make each practice session your own. Choose your key, mode, tempo, guitar sound, and drum groove, then build a backing loop around your chord progressions.

Practice at your own pace, from learning guitar fundamentals to exploring new techniques, voicings, and musical styles.

No ads. No account required to start practicing.

CHORD PROGRESSIONS
• Generate over 1 million unique theory-based chord progressions
• Create 2, 4, 8, 12, or 16-chord progressions
• Generate progressions based on musical style or mood
• Choose open chords, barre chords, triads, or power chords
• Explore major, minor, diminished, augmented, suspended, sixth, seventh, ninth, 11th, and 13th chords—including add9, 6/9, and maj7#11
• Lock chords, browse roots, families, and exact types, and choose chord colors for Generate
• See chord shapes outlined on the scale diagram during playback
• Explore multiple voicings and suggested fingerings

GUITAR RIFFS & EXERCISES
• Practice over 1,000 riffs and technique drills across skill levels
• Follow synchronized guitar TAB and animated fretboard notes
• Explore blues, rock, country, funk, jazz, pentatonic, legato, and more
• Filter by difficulty and technique, search exercises, and save favorites
• Adjust tempo, transpose supported exercises, or browse with All keys
• Loop phrases with a count-in and metronome
• Highlight chord tones with triad and interval colors

TRIAD TRAINER
• Explore major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads in every key
• Practice root position and inversions across different string sets
• See how shapes connect across the guitar neck
• Play triads as strums or arpeggios with adjustable tempo
• View notes and intervals on chord diagrams and the full fretboard

SCALES, ARPEGGIOS & FRETBOARD
• Explore matching modes, full scales, and pentatonic scales
• Learn individual CAGED scale shapes across the fretboard
• Choose a scale by root and mode, or use automatic selection
• View note names, intervals, and finger-position labels
• Highlight triads and characteristic intervals for improvisation
• Practice movable arpeggios with animated TAB and playback
• Explore major, minor, diminished, augmented, half-diminished, and diminished seventh arpeggios across all five CAGED positions

RHYTHM & PRACTICE TOOLS
• Play along with sampled drums, with 23 sampled grooves available through Pro
• Customize drum parts, fills, and an optional metronome click
• Choose guitar strumming independently of the drum groove
• Adjust tempo and guitar tone
• Use portrait or landscape orientation and left-handed mode

Free users can generate up to five chord progressions per day.

Pro unlocks:
• Unlimited generation and longer chord progressions
• Full Exercises, Triad Trainer, and Arpeggio Trainer access
• Favorites with saved scale and rhythm settings, organization, and sharing
• Sync favorites and preferences across devices with an account
• Practice heatmaps, statistics, and streaks
• Guitar tuner with popular alternate tunings
• Advanced metronome with tap tempo, subdivisions, swing, and presets
• Full drum grooves, kit customization, and independent guitar strumming
• Advanced scale tools and individual scale shapes
• Additional guitar sounds, including 12-string and overdrive
• Light and dark color themes, plus create and save custom themes
• Saved default preferences

Recent changes:
• Choose chords by root, family, and type.
• Pick the exact chord colors Generate can use.
• Explore seven more chord types, including 11ths, 13ths, 6/9, and maj7#11.
• Generate more varied 12- and 16-chord progressions.
• Discover over 1,000 Pro riffs and drills.
• Improved exercise browsing, clearer diagrams, and bug fixes.

Recent updates: custom themes, synchronized TAB, customizable drums, more strumming patterns, and expanded CAGED arpeggios.