StrumForge: Chord Progressions
Guitar Scales & Riff Practice
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Take your guitar practice to the next level with instant chord progressions, customizable drums, and interactive guided playback for scales, riffs, triads, & arpeggios.
Expand your playing vocabulary with over 750 riffs and exercises in StrumForge Pro, from blues and rock phrases to focused technique drills. Explore scales, triads, and arpeggios with dedicated trainers, using synchronized TAB and animated fretboard diagrams to connect the notes you hear with the shapes you play.
Put those ideas into practice with over 1 million unique, theory-based chord progressions across every key. Choose your guitar sound, customize the rhythm, and build a backing loop for improvisation, songwriting, or exploring something new.
No ads. No account required to get started.
CHORD PROGRESSIONS
• Choose 2, 4, 8, 12, or 16 chords for focused loops or longer sessions
• Set your key, mode, chord types, tempo, and guitar sound
• Lock chords, change voicings, or build your own progression
• Choose roots and chord types separately with an easy-to-browse picker
• Explore open chords, barre chords, triads, and power chords
• Add sevenths, sixths, ninths, suspended chords, and add9 chords
• Get helpful suggestions for compatible chord options and musical styles
• See chord shapes outlined on the fretboard during playback or preview
EXERCISES & RIFFS
• Explore over 750 riffs and technique drills, from beginner to advanced
• Practice picking, legato, slides, bends, blues, country, jazz, and more
• Follow synchronized TAB and an animated fretboard
• Hear ringing notes, sustained chord tones, bends, and prebends
• Adjust tempo and key, loop with a count-in and metronome, and save favorites
• Search by name or reference, and filter by difficulty, technique, and type
• Use All keys for variety and triad or interval colors to highlight chord tones
RHYTHM & DRUMS
• Play along with 23 sampled drum grooves, including Rock, Jazz Swing, Driving Rock, Half Shuffle, and Pocket Funk
• Explore rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 with the full Pro collection
• Customize drum parts from light to busy and add fills
• Choose guitar strumming patterns independently of the drum groove
• Balance guitar and drum volumes, and save rhythm settings with favorites
TRIADS & ARPEGGIOS
• Explore triad inversions and how shapes connect across the fretboard
• Practice with the Triad Trainer and Arpeggio Trainer
• Practice nine arpeggio types across all five CAGED positions
• Follow animated TAB and adjust tempo, direction, and rhythm
SCALES & FRETBOARD
• Improvise with matching mode and pentatonic scale diagrams
• Choose a scale manually with separate root and scale selections
• Explore individual CAGED shapes or the full fretboard
• Show note or interval labels and highlight triads or characteristic intervals
• View suggested chord fingerings and move diagrams along the fretboard
• Use left-handed diagrams in portrait or landscape
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
• Preview a collection of light and dark themes
• Create and save custom color themes with Pro
UNLOCK STRUMFORGE PRO
Unlock unlimited progression generation, longer progressions, musical styles, the full drum collection, trainers, exercises, and advanced scale tools. Pro also includes:
• Save, revisit, and share favorite progressions
• Sync favorites and preferences across devices with an account
• Automatic practice tracking, session stats, and streaks
• Guitar tuner with alternate tunings and reference tones
• Metronome with tap tempo, subdivisions, swing, and saved presets
• Additional 12-string, overdrive, and arpeggiated guitar sounds
• Saved practice preferences
Put music theory into practice and discover ideas for your own songs with StrumForge.
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More keys. Smoother browsing!
• Practice 160 more existing riffs and exercises in additional keys, including 156 now playable in all 12.
• Search, Random, and exercise navigation now respect your selected filters.
• Find your place instantly: the exercise picker centers your current selection with a clearer highlight.
Other recent updates include:
• Over 750 Pro riffs and drills across blues, rock, country, bluegrass, funk, jazz, and more—with synchronized TAB, an animated fretboard, adjustable tempo, looping, and favorites.
• More expressive playback with sustained notes, ringing chord tones, bends, and prebends. Song riffs now open in their source arrangement’s key.
• Redesigned chord and scale pickers with separate root and type selection, plus clearer guidance for progression options.
• Custom themes and an expanded collection of light and dark presets. Open the palette icon or Settings → Appearance.
• Three new Pro drum grooves: Driving Rock, Half Shuffle, and Pocket Funk.
• Seven new chord types, plus diminished, augmented, half-diminished, and diminished seventh arpeggios across all five CAGED positions.
Thanks for practicing with StrumForge!
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Information
- Seller
- Adam Spain
- Size
- 73.5 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 19 more
- English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- StrumForge Pro Weekly $2.99
- Lifetime Pro $49.99
- StrumForge Pro Annual $24.99
- StrumForge Pro Monthly $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Adam Spain
