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Guitar Scales & Chords Power app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 5984 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: Thomas Gunter
5.99 USD
Current version: 2.4.5, last update: 5 months ago
First release : 22 May 2013
App size: 42.52 Mb

To improve your guitar playing, learn scales, chords, and the relationship between them. Stay in tune with the tuner and enhance your rhythm by practicing with the metronome.

Practice scale loops to master positions and develop muscle memory. Engage in scale exercises that will improve your finger dexterity and ability to improvise. Begin slowly and gradually increase your speed as you improve.

Play scales and chords by swiping across the strings. The direction of the swipe determines whether the playback is ascending or descending. Tap on a note to play it.

Scale positions correspond to the CAGED system, which consists of five patterns that cover the fretboard for each scale. The chord shape for each position is displayed to assist you in learning it in any key.

The tuner offers a chromatic mode or the option to select from various tunings.

The tuner and instruments use an adj. reference frequency, set to 410 Hz - 470 Hz (default A = 440 Hz).

The Circle of Fifths displays common chords for a key, aiding in composing music, learning key signatures, and transposing songs to different keys.

Metronome provides click and drum voices, beat subdivisions, and tap to set the BPM (10 - 400). Time signatures: 2/2, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 3/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, and 12/8.

Create PDF diagrams (color and black-and-white) of scale positions or all notes on a full fretboard, as well as diagrams of all chord notes on a full fretboard. These 8.5” x 11” PDFs are easy to print, save, and share.


FEATURES:

• Chromatic tuner
• Scale position and exercise loops with adj. playback speed
• Chord and scale information, including their compatibility
• Chord/scale notes display letter, interval, and fingering
• Chord/scale playback - choose from 5 instruments and set them independently
• Count-in option before scale playback
• Play scales and chords together to hear them in combination
• 48 alternate tunings
• Guitar display (vertical/horizontal and right/left-handed)
• iPhone - zoom in/out to see the complete fretboard
• iPad - 3 fretboards: full, scales, and chords
• One-time purchase usable on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch


SCALES:

Pentatonic etc:
Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, Blues (Minor Blues), Major Blues

Major modes:
Ionian (Major), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (Relative Minor) and Locrian

Harmonic Minor modes:
Harmonic Minor, Phrygian Dominant (Spanish Gypsy)

Melodic Minor modes:
Melodic Minor Ascending (Jazz Minor), Dorian b2 (Javanese), Lydian Augmented, Lydian Dominant (Overtone), Mixolydian b6 (Hindu), Locrian #2 (Half-Diminished), Super Locrian (Altered)

Symmetrical:
Chromatic, Half/Whole Diminished (Octatonic), Whole/Half Diminished, Whole Tone

Miscellaneous:
Bebop Dominant


CHORDS:

Major:
Major, Major 7th (maj7), Major 9th (maj9), Major 13th (maj13), Major 6th (6), Major add9 (add9), and Major 6add9 (6/9)

Minor:
Minor (m), Minor 7th (m7), Minor 9th (m9), Minor 11th (m11), Minor 13th (m13), Minor 6th (m6), Minor Major 7th (m(maj7)), and Minor 7th b5th (m7b5) (Half-Diminished)

Dominant:
Dominant 7th (7), Dominant 9th (9), Dominant 11th (11), Dominant 13th (13), and Dominant 7th sus4th (7sus4)

Altered Dominant:
Dominant 7th b5th (7b5), Dominant 7th #5th (7#5), Dominant 7th b9th (7b9), and Dominant 7th #9th (7#9)

Other:
Augmented (aug), Diminished (dim), Diminished 7th (dim7), Perfect 5th (5) (Power Chord), Suspended 2nd (sus2), and Suspended 4th (sus4)


TUNINGS:

Standard, Std. Half Step Down, Std. Full Step Down, Drop D, Drop C#/Db, Drop C, Drop B, Drop A#/Bb, Drop A, Drop G#/Ab, Drop G, Drop F#/Gb, Drop F, Drop E, Double Drop D, Double Drop C#/Db, Double Drop C, Open A, Open A Alt., Open A Slide, Open C, Open D, Open E, Open F, Open G, Cross-note A, Cross-note A Alt., Cross-note C, Cross-note D, Cross-note E, Cross-note G, Asus4, Csus2, Dsus2, Dsus4 (Dad-Gad), Esus2, Esus4, Gsus2, Gsus4, E Modal, Bruce Palmer Modal, All Fourths, Baritone, C6, Dad-Gad (Dsus4), Dad-Dad, Dobro, Lute, New Standard

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This is the most helpful app, by far, at any cost. Very good, helpful, glad I bought it !!
This is the best app for finding chords/scales and relations. Many expensive books will cover what this can show you in just a few clicks! The upgrade is well worth it, in fact, I wouldve gladly spent more! To the guy who complained about the guitar sound- get a life! You want to give 3 stars for making it half right? This app is the best
I am happy with the basic but still intuitive and comprehensive nature of this app. Good learning and practice tool.
Excellent app, one of the best I have found. Dont hesitate to get this.
Incredibly helpful and easy to use! Essential for anyone interested in learning guitar.
I scoured the Internet looking for charts, but I didnt find any that were exactly what I wanted. This app exceeds my expectations, and I dont have to print out dozens of charts.

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Perfect til last update.Was simple easy to use now - Im looking for another app.Eggheads just cant keep well enough alone
Highly recommend this app to both beginner and seasoned guitar enthusiasts .
This is, as far as I can see, a fantastic reference for guitar scales and chords. If you have an iPad or iPhone, it may very well replace books! I am very impressed!
This app is a great help in learning scales, chords and which ones work together. It is very easy to use, sounds great and has a lot of scales and chords. Showing the CAGED system chord shapes for the scale position is very helpful in learning the scale positions covering the whole fretboard. Awesome!!!
Love the new PDFs of Scale positions. This app is unique to its competitors. I would highly recommend this app to anyone interested in playing guitar.
No more paper chord and scale books or killing trees to print them. This app is easy to use, quick to reference, and visually easy to follow. And the creator is within contact if you have a question. Well worth the small cost. Apps like this make me glad I have an iPad.

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