Early Access on Steam · Windows & macOS
Plug in a real guitar. Notes fall down the screen; play them and GuitarSesh hears every one. Import any tablature file you own, slow the hard bars down, and watch your accuracy climb play by play.
See it
Screens from the current build. This is what you see with a guitar plugged in.
Take the tour
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Everything opens from here — a quick session, Career Mode, a setlist or the tuner. Your profile, level and XP sit at the top.
Drop tablature files into a folder and GuitarSesh files them by tuning, then artist, then album. No catalogue to buy from.
Each song shows the tuning, the arrangements it contains and how you have played it before. Search filters the whole library as you type.
Notes fall toward the fretboard and C++ pitch detection judges every one you pick. Tempo adapts bar by bar to how you played last time.
The play is graded the moment you finish: accuracy, streak, timing and the measures that cost you the most. Every play is kept forever.
Take the songs you know on the road. Venues unlock city by city, XP levels you up, and countries fill in as you conquer them.
How it works
01 · IMPORT
Any .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gp or .gpx. Auto-organised by tuning, artist and album. No catalogue, no subscription.
02 · PLAY
C++ pitch detection tracks every note as you pick it. Slow the tempo, loop the hard bars, and let the game adapt to you.
03 · TRACK
Every play is logged forever. Accuracy over time, weakest measures, grades, streaks and XP.
Why GuitarSesh
Import any tablature file you own. One-time purchase, no song store, no monthly fee.
Struggling with bar 47? Practise it alone at any tempo until it sticks, then rejoin the song.
Travel a world map of venues, from dive bars to stadiums. Earn XP, level up, conquer cities.
Build a session, play it top to bottom, and see the whole set graded when you’re done.
A tuner that hears your guitar, plus a setup check that measures intonation fret by fret.
Full interface translation including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and Arabic.
Real data
I built this to get better at guitar, and I have used it for every practice session since May 2023. These numbers are pulled live from my own database, nothing cherry-picked.
First play → best play, every song part I’ve learned in it
66% 93%
Average across 173 song parts with three or more plays. That gap is the game doing its job: the first play is sight-reading, the best play is the song learned.
Lead and AltLead parts; Rhythm excluded until its detection leaves alpha.
Practice Heatmap
278 unique shapes tracked across E Standard, E Flat, Drop C
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Perfect, Early, and Late are all counted as hits. Miss means no correct note was detected.
Music
Every album below was composed by SongCreator, the songwriting engine behind the game, and recorded live in GuitarSesh — one take at a time.
Every song played live, on YouTubeLatest on SoundCloud
Questions
No. You only need the tablature files (the tab files), not the software that creates them. GuitarSesh reads .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gp, and .gpx files directly.
Any 1/4" to USB cable or audio interface works. GuitarSesh uses C++ audio processing for responsive note detection.
No. One-time purchase. You own it forever, and you can import unlimited songs from your own tablature collection.
GuitarSesh works with any tablature file — not a fixed song library. Every note is tracked so you see real improvement over time.
GuitarSesh is available on Steam for Windows and macOS.
Not in the Rocksmith sense. GuitarSesh always shows 100% of notes but adapts tempo measure-by-measure based on your previous performances. Same goal, different approach.
Not yet. The display code exists but is disabled, and frequency mappings need to be defined for bass tunings. Community volunteers are helping calibrate during Early Access. Come work with me on it!
Not natively. GuitarSesh uses tablature files. External batch converters exist that can convert .psarc to tablature format. Native support is something I'm exploring.
Many guitar tab websites offer tablature downloads. You can also create your own in any tablature editor.
Not yet. The frequency system is user-configurable so it's absolutely possible — I just need someone with the instrument to work with me on defining them during Early Access.
Currently top-to-bottom only. A horizontal layout would be a major rendering change. I'm monitoring demand during Early Access.
Not yet. On the list. The tempo and timing infrastructure is already there.
Not currently. Long-term vision, not near-term. Single-player experience first.
Import your tabs, plug in, and watch yourself improve.
View on SteamOne-time purchase. Your songs. Your progress. Forever.
