● Johnny Suede · The catalog
Everything I Make
The full shelf from the desk that wrote THE SIGNAL CHAIN — the books, the essays, the apps, and the company underneath them
One catalog for the whole body of work — Jason Colapietro, who plays as Johnny Suede. It starts where this site starts: guitar and tone, a book about six strings and the life around them. From there it widens to three more books on AI and who owns what a creator makes, the apps I build for musicians, and Suede Labs AI, the company that puts ownership back in the artist's hands. Pick a shelf and start reading.
Read — guitar & tone
This is the writing the whole site is built around — guitar, tone, and the parts of a record that never make it onto a lead sheet.
A guitarist's history of amps, effects, and electric tone, braided with memoir, theory, a songbook, and 111 song lessons. Chapter one free.
Read the book →The earlier self-taught guitar instruction thread that now lives inside the larger guitar.solutions catalog.
Open the catalog →Nine free essays on tone and dynamics — Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, the loudness war, the compressor, the sound of the room itself.
Read the essays →Every effects pedal worth naming, ranked 1 to 100, head to head. No honorable mentions, no genre excuses. The list the press won't print.
See the ranking →An archive of 400+ guitar rigs and signal chains across decades of recordings — the exact gear and routing behind the tones that defined the records.
Explore the archive →
More books — AI, ownership & the creative future
Same hand, different string. These titles trade the fretboard for the bigger question: who owns creative work once the machines can make it too.
Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer↗
The case that origin and ownership are the only marks AI can't fake — and the layer Suede Labs builds to prove them.
Read on Amazon →How to build systems that hold up when nobody trusts anybody — proof baked in, not bolted on. The blueprint under the registry.
Read on Amazon →Speeches and hard truths on flipping the AI onslaught into an asset you own — autonomous agents, real claims, generational wealth.
Read on Amazon →
Play & practice — the apps
Tools built by a guitarist who got tired of practice apps that nag. A free chord-and-scale reference, a coach that answers in plain English, three studios that take your craft seriously, and a companion that pushes back.
A free guitar reference site with no paywall and no account required: chord library, scale trainer, chromatic tuner, and metronome. A Suede Labs project.
Open the tools →Ask your guitar coach anything, any hour, and get a straight answer — tuner, metronome, chord and scale tools, song help, and an ear trainer built in
Try it free →A real guitar studio on your iPhone: tuner, timing drills, chord tools, a rig workbench, setup diagnostics, room health, and session capture
Get it on iOS →Auto-generated daily practice routines with real-time scrolling notation and BPM tracking. Free with optional Premium at $9.99/mo — built for guitarists who want structure that moves.
Get it on iOS →Map your range, watch your register shifts, and build voice routines that hold up. Local-first — your practice stays on your phone
Get it on iOS →Think out loud with a dry-wit bandmate who works ideas with you and tells you when they're bad. Not a yes-man
Open in browser →A workspace for AI-assisted musical ideas that keeps the rights yours: provenance notes, ownership context, and signed creative records
Get it on iOS →
More from Suede — studio, video & community
Beyond the practice apps: the studio where a track gets made and shipped, the video tools that put it in front of people, the map you explore music on, and the community that argues tone with you.
The studio where the track gets made and shipped — an AI producer builds it, you keep the stems, and a real person releases it to 55+ platforms. Own 100% of your masters.
Open the studio →Faceless and avatar videos on autopilot — your keys, your channel, pennies per render. A posting channel that runs without showing your face.
Open Producer →A creator-content marketplace: brands post a brief, creators compete on their own channels, and you pay only for the posts that perform — creators get paid fast through Stripe.
Open Promo →A guitar community built on real rigs — talk tone, share pedalboards and tone recipes, and post in the forum with players whose gear is actually on the page.
Join the community →A navigable galaxy of music: stars cluster by genre and brighten by relevance. Click any one to explore the map.
Explore the map →The open guitar editorial hub — reads, rig guides, and gear breakdowns. Front door to the Suede Social community for players who want more than a forum.
Read and explore →The interactive map of every Suede Labs platform, protocol, app, and surface — the whole company at a glance.
Open the hub →
The platform — Suede Labs AI
Suede Labs AI is the substrate under everything else: tooling that lets a musician prove they made a thing, define who can use it, and get paid when it gets used.
The company under it all. Proof of creation, programmable rights, and royalty settlement — so artists hold the title to their work as AI eats the room.
See the platform →Register a work, prove you made it first, and set the terms anyone licenses it on — ownership and provenance, on the public record.
Open the registry →Build a visual agent flow and publish it as a paid x402 endpoint. Your automation earns every time another app calls it — the publishing layer for paid agent services.
Open the studio →A 20-skill pack for AI coding agents: design and copy lanes, SEO/AEO/AI EO audits, Suedify site workflow, rights-passport tools, campaign and launch utilities, code grading, and the Johnny Suede writing and design modes. Install into Claude Code in one command.
Get the skills on GitHub →
Everything else — the full map
Beyond the books and apps above, here's the rest of the Suede ecosystem — every public surface, grouped. Some of the app's deeper tools need a free Suede account.