Plug in your guitar. Play your own tab files.

Load your own tablature files and pick which guitar part to play, or start with more than 200 short lessons and 23 songs that come with the game. Notes come down the highway, and GuitarSesh listens to the single notes and chords you play, showing which ones you hit, your running accuracy, and whether you were early or late.

No special controller is needed: plug your guitar's 1/4" output into your computer with a guitar-to-USB cable or an audio interface. A built-in tuner and an input check help you get set up before you play. See System Requirements for display and audio details.

What you can play

• Your own library - load your tablature files (.gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gp, .gpx) and choose which guitar part to play. You can hear your own guitar through the built-in amp, with a backing track if you add one (WAV preferred, MP3 also works)

• GuitarSesh Academy - more than 200 short lessons in 40 modules, from first notes and first chords to barre chords, bends and blues

• 23 songs across two albums, composed by the developer's own rule-based music software

As much help as you want

• Dynamic Difficulty - thins the chart out when you struggle and adds notes back as you improve, across 11 levels

• Dynamic Tempo - keeps every note in the chart, raising the speed while your accuracy holds and easing off when it drops

• Tempo (Static) - a slower speed that you set before the song and that does not change while you play

• No Assistance - the song exactly as written

Find the bar you miss, then drill it

• After a song - the Results Hub shows your grade, accuracy, personal best and XP, and each saved play is added to that day's automatic setlist

• Song Report - every play of a song, your misses on the fretboard, accuracy over time and a measure-by-measure heat map

• Measure Master - shows your weakest sections and loops them, at a steady tempo or speeding up step by step, until you reach your target accuracy

Career Mode

Tour the world: 18 countries, 73 cities and 292 venues. At each venue, play a setlist drawn from your library, your imported tab files included. Earn stars and XP, level up, and unlock new cities and countries.

Tune it, set it up, dial in a tone

• Tuner - four views, plus two tuning mini-games

• Setup Doctor - checks your intonation string by string and suggests which saddles to adjust

• Amp & Effects - 5 amp models, 7 speaker cabinets and 8 pedals to shape your tone through your speakers or headphones

• Chord Library - teach the game your chord shapes and check that each one registers

Also included

7 tunings (E Standard, E Flat, Drop D, D Standard, Drop C, Open G, Open E), goals, setlists, a daily streak, a stats report across your whole library, a local leaderboard for the player profiles on your PC, an interface in 29 languages (the newest screens may be in English first), left-handed mode and 29 animated menu backdrops.

A work in progress, built with its players

GuitarSesh is in Early Access and made by one person: me. It is still changing, so expect rough edges, and screens and features that get reworked between updates. A lot of what I work on comes from what players report and ask for. If something does not work for you, tell me.