School of Music
Augmented intelligence
Free, high-quality music-learning tools for anyone, anywhere. Built by one person and funded entirely by donations.
Open the guitar appsSchool of Guitar
Guitar apps that run right in your browser — no account, nothing to install. Every app on this card is free to use, and will stay free. Paid features are coming later, and they will be clearly marked.
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Learn
Lessons from your first chord to advanced styles. Choose your own path, or answer a few questions and get a plan. There is a blues track too.
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Chords
Every chord and every way to play it — fifty chord types in all twelve keys and seven tunings, progressions you can hear, and a 3D hand you can turn to see the grip.
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Scales
Twelve scales in every key — the pentatonics, the blues scale, all seven modes, harmonic and melodic minor — with a 3D hand that plays each position finger by finger.
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Practice
Load a piece of tab and notation, one or two guitar parts, play along, and watch your notes light up on a live fretboard.
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Tuner
A chromatic tuner with reference tones, capo, custom tunings and a left-handed mode.
Floyd's School of Blues
A bold, original effort to capture the true essence of the blues, and give it away.
A month in the Mississippi Delta, April 2027: recording the people who still play the blues the real way, and filming every mile of it.
Goal: $150,000
See the fundraiserThe Blues Encyclopedia
The first part of Floyd's School of Blues, free to read today: the people who made the blues, the myths, the songs, and where it all went next.
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The legends
From Charley Patton and Son House to Muddy Waters, Memphis Minnie, Big Mama Thornton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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The Crossroads
A deal with the devil at midnight. Find out where the most famous legend in the blues really came from.
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The Lineage Map
A 3D map of how the blues runs through Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Nirvana. Turn it, zoom in, and tap any name.
Initiatives
Long-term projects that make music more free, tracked here in the open.
See the initiativesSupport the project
School of Music is a one-person show: every page and app here is built by one person and an AI. No investors, no outside money — it runs entirely on donations.
The apps here today are, and will stay, free to use. Paid features and services will come later, alongside them.
SwaCo LLC is a for-profit company. Donations are voluntary, go toward hosting and development, and are not tax-deductible.
m3c: Open Source Music
A recording is a binary. Nobody ever shipped the source.
Read the argument