Music Freebies
A hand-picked stash of free tools and resources to power up your practice — tuners, metronomes, rhythm tracks, printable sheets, fretboard trainers, restringing guides and more. Grab what you need and enjoy.
Something sparked in a lesson that you want to explore on your own? These are the free resources I point students to — make the best of each and enjoy the ride.
Tune up, keep time,
stay sharp.
Get tuned
Pick your instrument and tune up before every practice session.
Play in time
A versatile, practical digital metronome to lock your playing to the beat.
Your buddy the drummer
A metronome with a human voice — like your drummer counting “1, 2, 3, 4” at rehearsal.
Rhythm — beginner to intermediate
An array of simple beats, starting slow so beginners can practise playing in time.
Rhythm — intermediate to advanced
More beats, more fills, more up-tempo grooves for advancing musicians.
Learn your fretboard
An adjustable, downloadable tool to learn the notes and shapes on your neck — handy when a guitar isn’t to hand. Change it, save it, download it.
Blank paper for
your ideas.
Blank music sheets
Free printable sheet music and TAB for guitar, bass, uke, piano and more.
More staff paper
Even more free printable sheets and TAB in many formats — for getting creative with how you present music to your bandmates.
Get graded
Free syllabuses and info packs for the RGT bass, electric and acoustic guitar exams.
Keep your axe
in fighting shape.
Restring an electric
How to restring a Fender-style electric steel-string guitar.
Restring an acoustic
How to restring your acoustic folk steel-string guitar.
Restring a classical
Restringing a nylon-string classical guitar — two videos, best watched together.
Restring a bass
How to restring your bass guitar, step by step.
Guitar maintenance & more
A deep resource on everything guitar — from setting intonation and killing fret buzz to building one from scratch. Look under the Maintenance & Cleanup tutorials.
Cool Gool on YouTube
Student performances, tutor ideas and “how to learn better” vlogs. Subscribe to catch every new upload.
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Want to go further?
Free tools are a great start — a lesson is how it all clicks. Let’s get you playing.