We write when we have something worth saying — about learning an instrument, about the engineering that goes into a good tuner, about the musicians whose apps we build.
Discover a comprehensive step-by-step guide on how to learn guitar effectively, from choosing the right instrument and mastering basic chords to developing strumming techniques and building your own songs.
Read more →Unlock the secrets of guitar chord fingerstyle with this detailed guide. Learn techniques, tips, and essential chords to enhance your fingerstyle playing and musicality.
Read more →Every guitarist has been there: you tune up carefully, play for ten minutes, and somehow the B string has drifted flat again. It’s not your tuner’s fault (probably), it’s not your guitar’s fault (mostly), and it’s not a mystery. A guide to the real culprits — new strings, room temperature, how hard you play, and the two tuning techniques that actually help.
Read the full essay →A technical deep-dive into the audio DSP behind Guitar Tunio’s tuner. We walk through the autocorrelation method, why FFT alone isn’t enough, and the noise-cancellation pipeline we use to distinguish a plucked string from a buzzing amp or a chatting bandmate.
Read more →Most people don’t quit learning an instrument because it’s too hard — they quit because they feel like they’re not improving. A practical framework for structuring short practice sessions so you can see real progress in weeks, not months. Works for guitar, piano, ukulele, and just about anything else.
Read more →Pianio is our newest release and our most ambitious — not a tuner, not a metronome, but a full learning app. Here’s what the twelve-month build taught us about designing for beginners, about keyboard latency on iOS, and about how hard it is to teach something as physical as piano through a screen.
Read more →Alternate tunings aren’t just tricks for show-offs — they unlock sonorities and fingerings that standard tuning simply can’t produce. A plain-English walkthrough of the five most useful alternate tunings, what kind of music they shine in, and how to try each one without breaking strings.
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