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Connect Guitar Pal to your AI

Ask Claude or ChatGPT for a strumming pattern or a fingerpicking tab, or show it a photo of a tab, and get back a link that plays it in Guitar Pal.

Server URL

https://guitarpal.sloanwan.com/api/mcp

No account and no API key.

Add it to your app

  1. In claude.ai or the Claude app, open Customize → Connectors → + Add → Add custom connector.

  2. Name it Guitar Pal, paste the server URL and choose No sign-in.

    https://guitarpal.sloanwan.com/api/mcp

  3. In a chat, turn Guitar Pal on from + → Connectors in the message box.

Works on every Claude plan; the Free plan allows one custom connector. A connector added on the web shows up in the desktop and mobile apps too.

Which model

  • Claude: any current model writes strumming patterns and tabs well. To read a tab image, use Opus or Sonnet; Haiku gets about half the notes wrong.
  • ChatGPT: avoid Instant, which transcribes poorly or skips the tool. Use a Thinking model at medium effort or above.
  • Even Opus and Sonnet sometimes put a number on the neighbouring string when reading an image, so compare the result with the original.

Try asking

Write a fingerpicking tab

  • Use Guitar Pal to write a slow 6/8 fingerpicking pattern over Am–F–C–G, thumb on the bass.
  • Write a Travis picking exercise in G with Guitar Pal, at 80 bpm.
  • Use Guitar Pal to write a short riff in E minor with a hammer-on and a slide.

Write a strumming pattern

  • Make me a Guitar Pal strumming pattern for C G Am F at 90 bpm.
  • Use Guitar Pal to write a sixteenth-note funk strum with muted chucks over E9, at 100 bpm.
  • Give me an easy Guitar Pal strum for G D Em C with a capo on 2.

Read a tab from a picture

Attach a photo, scan or screenshot of the tab.

  • Bring this tab into Guitar Pal.
  • Read this screenshot into Guitar Pal so I can hear it slowly.
  • Import the first exercise on this page into Guitar Pal.

Change or rearrange it

In the same chat after you got a link, or paste a Guitar Pal link.

  • Make bar 2 of that Guitar Pal tab simpler.
  • Slow that Guitar Pal pattern to 70 bpm and put a capo on 3.
  • Here is a Guitar Pal link. Make the strum busier, with more up-strums:

What you get back

  • A link like guitarpal.sloanwan.com/p/aB3xK9mQ2z that opens in the player: play, loop, change the tempo. No account needed.
  • Import copies it into your library to edit it: in this browser when signed out, to your account when signed in.
  • Each change makes a new link; links stop working after 30 days.
  • When reading an image, the AI lists the notes it was unsure of under the title. Check those against the original, and fix them in the editor after Import.

Tools and running your own server: the MCP reference on GitHub