Record your guitar, press Listen & Suggest, and Fretnook works out the tempo, key and chords of your take. Then it builds a band to match: drums, bass, keys and a horn section, in the style you choose. Preview it with your track and bounce each part to its own track.
Record your guitar on the Recorder tab, with a click or without one. A few bars of steady strumming gives the best result.
Open the Band tab. Fretnook listens to the track and fills in its tempo, key and a chord chart. Check the chords and fix any that sound wrong, since it is a good first guess and not a certainty.
Choose Rock, Pop, Blues Shuffle, Slow Blues, Funk, Country, Reggae or Ballad. Switch Drums, Bass, Keys and Horns on or off, and use the Energy and Busy-ness sliders to play it softer, harder, sparser or fuller.
Preview plays the band with your track, and New Variation makes a different take. When you like it, Bounce to Tracks puts each part on its own track, lined up with your recording and ready for the mixer.
Finds the tempo, the key and the chord changes in your recording, and spots when a progression repeats.
Rock, Pop, Blues Shuffle, Slow Blues, Funk, Country, Reggae and Ballad, each with its own groove, bass line and fills.
Drums are synthesized live. Bass, piano, electric piano, brass section, trumpet, trombone and saxes are real instrument samples.
Type your own chords, such as Am | F | C | G, or choose a preset like the 12-bar blues in any key.
Bounce drums, bass, keys and horns to separate tracks so you can mix, pan and effect each one.
The instrument sounds download the first time you use them, then the installed app works without a connection.
Playing alone makes it hard to judge your timing and your feel. A bass line and a drum groove that follow your chords tell you straight away whether you are rushing, and they make a simple progression sound like a song.
Wear headphones when you play along and record, so the microphone hears your guitar and not the band coming out of the speakers.
Fretnook is free and runs in your browser. Your microphone audio and recordings stay on your device.