Whether you are a beginner or expert musician, you will find this program useful as a fun tool for learning and understanding chord anatomy in any of the 12 major keys. Having quick mental ability of knowing chord names and their corresponding notes can help you take your musical talent to the next level. If you play an instrument that uses chords you can improve your skills by playing Chord Learner. This program can help any musician at any level. Since this program is designed for a mobile device, it has the added benefit of being able to go with you wherever you go.
Features:
-Fun Flash card style game for learning chords!
-Learn 52 chord types based on triad, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th
-Learn and practice chords from any combination of the 12 major keys
-Learn and practice naming a chord?s notes, given a chord name
-Learn and practice naming a chord, given its notes
-Configurable hint button that can show the key that the chord is in, chord type, chord root?s major scale, and chord formula for helping any level of musician
-Configurable key selection
-Configurable chord type selection (52 chord types to choose from!)
-Configurable game time and round time
Rylee Chord Learner
Billion Chord
The most powerful guitar chord dictionary in the world! With More than 1 Billion Chords available for you, with thousands charted chord variations. You can even get impossible chord combination structures, or the most difficult chords in the world. Better yet, you can transform any chord position to an easier chord to better suit your ability.
Finally: you can type in any chord, click the button and learn hundreds of chord positions instantly! You won't find a chord dictionary like Billion Chords anywhere else on the internet.
Billion Chords Features List:
• Ability to find any chord possible
• Ability to construct any chord by choosing the abbreviations on a list
• Ability to listen the chords sound
• Ability to change the sound by choosing an instrument
• List of all synonyms of each chord
• Drawing of the chord along the virtual fret diagram
• You can choose a common tuning
• You can change to your personal tuning
• Find chords and omit barre chords
• Display only easy chords
• Choose the max distance between your fingers
• Choose the maximum fret # to display the chord charts
• Ability to display to left-handed chords
• Change the bass note for any chord
• More than 1 Billion combinations available
• Omit 5 and omit 3 in any chord
Power Tab
Power Tab Editor is a tablature authoring tool for the Windows operating system. It is intended to be used to create guitar sheet music, more commonly known to musicians as guitar tablature and bass tablature. (aka guitar tab/bass tab). The program provides the most commonly used symbols in tablature, including chord names, chord diagrams, rhythm slashes, bends, slides, hammer-ons/pull-offs, harmonics and palm muting. A useful piece of software for people who want to learn how to play guitar, and for experienced guitarists who want to transcribe their own music and/or guitar lessons. The software can be used by both acoustic and electric guitar players alike.
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Guitar Freak Workstation with SightReader 3.0
An advanced Metronome
One that not only functions as a normal metronome, but can split timing subdivisions into 8th, triplets, 16th notes, quintuplets (5), and every subdivision you can think of.
More useful features than other metronomes out there!
It also contains an bass note function that will enable the player to take a new lick, chord, scale or anything else around all 12 keys.
Also, there is a transparency option to view other windows behind it.
The only sight-reading software out there!
Do a search on sight-reading software for guitar or bass - and you'll only find some flash-card software or one other, more interesting software called "SightReader for guitar", "SightReader Master"or SightReader for Bass.
Well, I'm glad to say that I have nothing to do with the flash-cards, but these other downloads are programs that I created!
The difficulty is not finding the notes - or playing the rhythms - but doing them both at the same time!
Right now, I've culminated all that programming experience into my wish-list for guitar/bass software.
This site is where the only guitar/bass sight-reading software is available.And this new feature is embedded in Guitar Freak Workstation.
I wanted sight-reading software that should:
- Be able to choose single notes or chords (that I have selected)
- choose options to suit my current level of ability - whether I've ever read music or not - maybe show the names of the notes or chords if needed
- I control the tempo
- I choose how often certain notes (whole, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16ths, triplets of all of those, groups of 5 etc...) would appear
- I choose how often rests would happen - if at all.
- I choose (popular request) what scale the notes would come from
- I choose exactly where on the fretboard I want the chords and/or single notes come from - I want to see the fretboard during the process so I know where to find the notes.
- I want to control whether ties happen and how often.
- I choose 4/4, 3/4 or 6/8 time.
- I want a help file that teaches me important tips on reading music, charts and the like.
- I want to learn to read up to four bars ahead - across and down the page.
- Large enough so that I can see it clearly and resemble what I'll see in written music.
- (Advanced) I want to have accompanying chords and bass notes to appear at the top of the music so I can practice playing chords with the single note at the top (use this often if you want work on cruise ships - $$$)
- I want to hear the notes as I play along to see if I match up with them.
- For my instrument - guitar or bass (4, 5 or 6 string)
- It's got to look like music!!!
Learning theory just by using!
I wanted software that I can add chords and scales to if I find that they're not already included. It would be great if there was a description I could add as well.
Well, with this software, I have included all the modes, chords and scales - (about 60+ scales as included). I used the same functions to add the scales and chords as you have in Guitar Freak Workstation.
Many of the scales have in-depth descriptions and interesting theory facts for you to read.
On any fret-board, if you hold your mouse over a note, the "spelling" of that note will pop up in a little yellow box!
You can read exactly how spelling works by referring to the help file - which also has lessons in it.You'll learn university level music just by playing around with the software!
And for you real guitar freaks - don't worry, I have all of Alan holdsworth's 10 favorite scale patterns in there!
Realtive and Perfect Pitch tools
When I started playing guitar, it was all by ear - I had been sentenced to the piano for 3 or so years, and all I had for guitar lessons was piano music, some Dire Straits and Yngwie Malmsteen tapes - and guitar player Magazine.
I didn't know anything about ear-training. We didn't even have music as a subject in my school!
However, I realized it was going to be good for me to develop my ear - I wanted to transcribe my David Lee Roth tapes and learn those Yngwie licks.
This would have gone a lot easier if my ear was developed and I had learnt to recognize intervals and bass movement.
Of course, now that ears are pretty good - I wanted software to make these abilities as fast as possible!
So, in my dream software - ear training should be like this:
- Learn to recognize intervals. I want to hear the reference melodies not just read about them in a book (example a half step or minor 2nd is jaws)
- Learn to track bass movement - that way I'll learn what chord to play.
- Learn what intervals make up a melody.
- Learn to sing an interval over a bass note.
- Learn to recognize an interval over a bass note (all truly good improvisers can do this)
- Out of a group (that I have chosen) be able to recognize a chord or scale played.
- Have 4 different methods or developing perfect pitch! (incidentally, there's a really good perfect pitch course below that I found - called "Pure Pitch")
- Simulate academic tests.
Quickchords for guitar
One of the most powerful features I want in some guitar software is to be able to intertwine chords and scales seamlessly.
This feature is possible in Guitar Freak Workstation only!
You can select 15 different chords voicings for every chord you have in your software (as well as the ones you've added.
You can then, with a click of a button, see every scale that will work over that chord. A combobox become available and you can see the each chord with the white scale notes around it!
Click on any of the 15 shapes and see that chord or scale enlarged. Play the scale, the chord or both simultaneously with a button.
Click on the enlarged shape and you'll see all the notes involved (great for practically apliable theory!)
You can also choose any scale and then see what chords will work over that scale. Great for composing!This means
- If you can play a chord, you can use the scale notes to add notes to the chord(making it a little more interesting)
- You can pinpoint the notes in the scales that are chord tones and resolve on them - more meaning-full solos!
- No box shapes!
- Play a chord tone on the strong beats (1,2,3 or 4) and any other scale note on the "ands" or other timing subdivisions that aren't 1,2,3 or 4 and you have yourself a hot lick that works well over that chord
- Will definitely break you out of a rut.
- You can choose whether to play a chord or scale at any time!!!!
- The chords are the shapes that Grammy award winning guitarists use.
- Highly graphical interface - if you've ever seen chord grids before, you'll recognize the shapes!
- Print the shapes out on your local printer!
The Invertor - a revolution on the fretboard!
The Invertor is a powerful new feature never before seen in guitar software!
It will allow you to choose any scale or chord - in a any key. This will display on a fretboard.You can then click notes on the fretboard until you create a shape - it can be a sweep, a whole scale, a chord - whatever shape you like.Using 5 options you can hear this shape played
- All once - like a chord.
- Ascending (it will play all the notes from lowest to highest notes - at the speed you choose)
- Descending (same as above but going down)
- Ascending and then descending
- Descending and then ascending
Then - with a click on a button or hotkey, this shape will move up one note in the scale or chord.
It's still in the scale but the next inversion up.
You can move shapes up and down the scale - so you scales and chords stay in the scale but you can play them anywhere on the fretboard!
Check out the video on the right to see it in action!
Freaks - Alan holdworth uses this wayout method to create his unique chord shapes (not in software however (well not to my knowledge ))
The great news is that you can enjoy the ride!
The progression creator and player is something not before seen in software!
You can create progressions with the creator. Then using them in the trainer, you can choose which progression to use, what keys it's going to play this progression in.
Press play and you get 8 bars of the chosen progressions in different keys.The progression player then plays these chords with a bass and an keyboard sound (you can turn either off)
Another great feature is that you can launch a transparent "Quickchords" over the top of the progression player so you can check out your chords and scale options.
Often, if you work out a lick, the lick will be played over chords. You just learn the lick, find the chords - make a progression out of it - and when, you'll be able to practice that lick in any key you select!
(if you want to know more about progressions I've made a video to learn more on the right)With this you can master:
- Chords playing
- Soloing over difficult chords
- Get your scales down
- get your licks down
- practice singing your intervals over the chords
The worksheet and the resource page.
I thought, I want guitar software that enables me to create worksheets for my students...I want to take any graphic off any part of my software and create a page where I can position the graphic, raises it, drag it anywhere, rotate it - add text and save it.
Oh - and If I had a graphic on the clipboard (example - in Powertab, you can copy a stave to the clipboard) - I want to be able to add that!
Another thing - I want to be able to print it, and access the metronome to practice it!
Now if my software came with preloaded resources like tab, sheet music, examples and lots of useful thing, that would be great!
A great resource for yourself and your students! The Worksheet is ready to go!