A side-by-side look at the Guitar Practice Routine App — Chord Charts and Music Studio MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Guitar Practice Routine App — Chord Charts for art & culture work as a local process; choose Music Studio for art & culture as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
get_chord_chart_by_name, get_chord_chart_by_id, get_chord_of_the_day.play-sheet-music, play-live-pattern, get-session.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Art & Culture | Art & Culture |
| Quality signal | 53/100 · Good | 63/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | No auth required |
| Pricing | Not declared | Free |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 75 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 2 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 4 | 10 |
| Full listing | View Guitar Practice Routine App — Chord Charts | View Music Studio |
get_chord_chart_by_nameOne chord name (`G`, `Am7`, `D/F#`) → the one chart the website shows for it.get_chord_chart_by_idThe same chart by its numeric id, for re-rendering something already returned.get_chord_of_the_dayToday's Chord of the Day — the same chord GPRA posts to Bluesky and Facebook.send_feedbackLets an agent report a missing chord or capability, a problem, or praise. Added by the analytics SDK; only present when analytics is on.play-sheet-musicDraw and play a score written in ABC notationplay-live-patternOpen a live-coding player for Strudel code, optionally as a live sessionget-sessionRead what happened in a live session, or wait until the person listening presses Passupdate-sessionSwap new code into a live session's player on the next bar or phraseget-music-guideReference for ABC notation: syntax, instruments, styles, genresget-strudel-guideReference for Strudel: sounds, effects, visuals, stage, gallery piecessearch-music-docsSearch the Strudel and abcjs documentationanalyze-harmonyName chords, find the key, build progressionsconvert-abc-to-strudelTurn a scored melody into a Strudel patterncreate-share-linkStore a piece for 30 days and return a link anyone can openPaste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"guitar-practice-routine-app-chord-charts": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"gpra-chord-charts-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"music-studio": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-music-studio"
]
}
}
}