Guitar Driller

I’ve been playing guitar for about five years now. I was having trouble learning to expand my skills. After buying several books, apps, CD’s and looking at YouTube videos I began to worry I’d never get it. The Fonexis company makes a pretty simple set of apps but they are valuable to anyone seeking to learn drills which can improve dexterity and muscle memory. My only complaint is that there is no way to buy all the content at once (preferably with a discount) from within the app. It’s a bit spendy the way it is now.

Practicall app to practice guitar. Lots of different drills

This app is almost perfect! The layout / interface is brilliant…. everything is so clear and easy to use. All the buttons and info are laid out in such a clear way that you have all the info you need to focus on playing scales at blazing speed, yet can quickly slow down and focus on just a few notes at a time. And there's some clever shortcuts like holding down the play button to toggle “auto play” on off! The sound and graphics are so FUN... it has a feel of a classic video game. All of these things make this a great tool for learning scales on the guitar. Well done. I just reaaally wish there was play the sequence of notes in a different order. All the exercises seem to play each note linearly up and down the pattern like 1,2,3,4. It would be so useful to practice the scales with some different note orders like 1,3,2,4 etc.

I liked this app, but for some reason it won’t open anymore on my phone. I paid for a lot of the packs so it’s a little more than frustrating. If they fix it I will change my review, but as it is it’s unusable. Update: Ok so I got a developer response 6 months later which seemed to make fun of my review which said the app isn’t opening. - the response was something about my review being a joke and April fools is over. - I thought, “ok that’s rude but maybe they fixed it.” So I tried to open the app, and guess what it, it still didn’t open. I get the Fonexsis screen then it just crashes. How many stars should I give this app that doesn’t open on my iPhone 12 with iOS 14? It does open on my iPad though, so that’s a plus. I like the app, I think it’s good, but it won’t open on my phone.

But it lacks one very important detail. When you adjust tempo to YOUR tempo, it jumps back into ripping fast automatically as it jumps to each exercise. It will mess up your flow having to stop constantly to slow it down again and again. Adjusting global tempo doesn’t help either. I’d otherwise give it 5 stars. Great layout and good musical exercises. Pricing is more than fair.

If you play a custom tuning, it’s useless.

The Fonexsis tools are the best guitar practice routines I’ve found, and this driller takes it to the next level. You can quickly set up custom practices using exercises from various modules, each with its own tempo to allow you to keep them all right at the edge of your ability. Expensive but absolutely worth it, these tools make practicing enjoyable which is amazing.

I think your apps are excellent. You’re an incredible educator. What could make your scale apps better is if you added more sequences. Almost all solos are built with scale sequences (i.e. 1,2,3,4/2,3,4,5 ect) ... playing scales... cdefgabc... in a linear fashion is great for beginners and learning scales... Although the real creation of soloing in music lies in the sequencing, motifs and licks that are derived from the scales. Many advanced players use your apps and we can benefit even more from them if you would add more sequences or make an entirely new app with sequences only(pentatonic, blues, modal)... Thank you for your awesome apps❤️

Really? Supply and demand be damned. Lol. Look, I want to learn the shred like the metal gods but even that is asking a lot. But hey, I guess it’s a bargain since I notice another app used for talking to other people is priced at $125. Just wish it was on sale is all

I got all the apps by Fonexsis and i must tell that I don’t need no any other guitar apps anymore. All info organized in such a fulfill and comprehensive manner, so you can find everything you need and even much more. Also love the way how the practice routine can be organized inside the app