Hey everyone,
I am looking for the best beginner lead exercises you have had that you felt were great for both skill development and musicality. I have the more foundational exercises like Spider Walks, Scale Patterns, Single String Pedal Toning, but am looking for phrases, licks or complete exercises to add to my library.
I appreciate any help you could provide.
I'm the founder of FretPulse (fretpulse.io). I built it because nothing out there did what I needed. I wasted so much time hunting for tabs and exercises and ultimately ended up just firing up my YouTube playlist and covering songs that I already knew how to play.
What it actually does:
Smart routine engine that generates your daily practice based on your skill level and focus areas, with novelty weighting so you're not grinding the same six exercises into the ground
Speed Trainer that auto-increments tempo per phrase or measure — stop reaching for the BPM knob mid-exercise
Practice analytics — total time practiced plus a breakdown of how your minutes split across each technique and focus area, viewable over 30/90/180/365 days. Stop guessing whether you're balanced — see it.
20+ technique categories — alternate picking, sweeping, legato, tapping, CAGED, pentatonic pathways, hybrid picking, syncopation — all with three difficulty tiers
Build your own custom routines, or clone curated ones from the Discover tab
It was designed to fit into anyone's current routine because I still use other guitar resources like YouTube, Ultimate Guitar, Patreon (Bernth) and JustinGuitar. This tool provides the easiest path to always practicing the fundamentals you should be practicing to help you in all of the other areas of your playing.
Where it lives:
iOS — live as of 5/13
Web app — live
Android — in Google Play review, coming soon
The exercise library is going to keep growing. But before I pile on more features, I want real players using it — so I can learn what actually adds value vs. what's just noise. Tell me what's missing, what would make it indispensable, what's broken. Genuinely want the feedback."
The product
A guitar practice app. iOS launched 5/13, web app live, Android in Google Play review.
Solves a problem every guitarist has: you sit down with the guitar, you have 30 minutes, and you have no idea what to practice. So you noodle. Six months later you're the same player you were six months ago.
FretPulse fixes that by generating personalized practice routines from a library of 20+ technique categories (alternate picking, sweeping, legato, CAGED, pentatonic pathways, etc., across three difficulty tiers). Headline features:
Use case: drop it into your teacher's plan or run your whole practice from it. Cloud sync across devices.
The market
~50M guitar players worldwide; the US alone has roughly 16M. The "I want to get better but don't know how" segment is huge — every YouTube comment section under a "how to practice guitar" video is proof.
Competition:
No one is squarely doing "structured practice routines + analytics" as the main product. That's the gap.
Product analysis vs. competition
What FretPulse does that competitors don't:
What competitors do better:
Stage / funding
Solo founder, bootstrapped. Just launched iOS. Not currently raising — focused on getting a real userbase first so I can learn what's worth building next vs. what's noise. Premium subscription via Stripe (web) and IAP (iOS). Free tier has core features; premium unlocks full library, cloud sync, and analytics depth.
Customer conversion strategy
ASO is the long game. Reviews are the conversion lever. I'm focused on making the first 500 users obsessed, not the first 50,000 users curious.
Why me
Guitar player for years who hit the exact plateau the app solves: putting in time, getting nowhere, no system. Software background, so I built it myself instead of hiring out.
Not a famous YouTuber, not VC-backed, no rich dad. Just a guy who got tired of his own bad practice habits and decided to fix them with code.
What I want from you
Roast away. Specifically curious about:
Don't be gentle.