Yes this is a beautifully-laid-out app, yes it makes excellent use of the space on a phone or tablet, and yes it has a broad amount of harmonic subject matter available to it.
BUT - what good is any of that if there is NO WAY to perform the simplest of functions, such as, oh, maybe "bookmarking a favorite chord for later retrieval"? Or maybe even "building and saving a chord progression with chords chosen from the apps large library"?
In short, if you don't at once memorize instantly each and every chord you come across that you prefer -and believe me, there are thousands more garbage, unusable chords on a guitar than there are valuable and usable ones - then you are doomed to have to LOOK UP EVERY CHORD YOU LIKED, EVERY TIME YOU'D LIKE TO REVIEW IT!
That doesn't sound like much fun, does it? Well, it isn't. Oh, I suppose you could always get a pen and paper and write the chord down for future reference - but then what's the point of having a tablet/smartphone and this app in the first place!??!
Message to app author Tom Rugen - you apparently borrowed a fair bit of your interface for your app from the piano app Piano Companion" - its clean interface, its quick and easy access to useful chords, its reverse reaserchability between chords and scales - so why don't you go the last few steps and build in a "favorites " list and a "chord progression" feature.
Let me guess, adding these two functionalities would take about about an hour or two at most?
That app quickly becomes unusable without basic bookmarking features, Tom. Get with the program or I'm not done badmouthing your product,
Chord!
3 | 56 ratings
Price: 3.99
Last update: 08-09-2024
Latest updates
What's new in version 4.2- V4.2:
- Dark theme
- Sound preview of chords from harmonized scales. Tap to hear them, long press to see more fingerings.
- Import former Chord! 3 custom tunings (in Settings, Advanced section).
- Alternative dot marks patterns: Folk, Banjo, Chapman Stick (in Settings, General section).
- Fixed the scrolling issue in the settings with Android 4.
- Faster sound feedback
- Fixed some stability issues and visual glitches.
- V4.0:
- Completely rewritten from the ground up.
- True scales fingerings with block patterns.
- Chord arpeggios.
- Better Reverse search.
- Better Harmonizer.
- Voicing filtering (Inversions, Strings sets, Drop2, Drop3, etc.).
- Display all your favorite fingerings at once.
Product Details
Release Date: 2012
Date first listed on Amazon: May 23, 2012
Developed By: RabugenTom
ASIN: B0085E7Z92
Customer reviews:
3.0 out of 5 stars56 customer ratings
3.0 out of 5 stars56 customer ratings
Developer info
- [email protected]
- http://getchord.com
- More apps by this developer
Product features
- Gives all fingerings for any chord for any fretted instrument (guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo,...) in any tuning.
- Gives fingerings of about 400 scales, with the same freedom of tuning, and compute their harmonization.
- Possibility to reverse search chords and scales from fingerings.
- Allows to find scales to improvise on from a sequence of chords.
- Possibility to add any tuning, with any number of strings, with or without a capo.
Product description
Chord! is at the same time the simplest and the most complete chords and scales app for guitar or any fretted instrument like bass, ukulele, banjo, etc.Unlike other chord charts app, Chord! doesn't rely on a database of charts. Instead, it computes and analyses all the possible fingerings.
You don't even have to know music theory to use it: behind its brute force, the app knows how to handle by itself some subtleties of music in order to give meaningful results.
If you don't have to be an advanced player to use the app, you can however take a look under the hood and tweak the parameters if you like! Whatever is your level or your instrument, Chord! will adapt and give you the most precise answer.
You can search for practically any chord, split (like D/F#) or not. If you're a beginner, you can choose the chord from a list, but you can also use the intelligent keyboard to enter the chord as it is written. If this keyboard is a great way to enter chords, it is also very useful to discover and understand how the chords are formed. You can also enter some notes on a neck to find which chords it can be. You can hear how each fingering sounds.
Chords are not all and the app is also shipped with the biggest list of named scales. It analyses and presents them with nice interactive views (scale, score and keyboard). Of course it can also lay down these scales on a neck (with sound). Like for chords, you can even search for a scale from its fingering!
Each scale can be harmonized (decomposed into chords). You can also enter a sequence of chords to find which scale you can use to improvise onto.
You can use one of the hundred tunings shipped with the app, or you can add you own ones, for any instrument, with or without a capo, even with broken strings if you want!
The app uses custom and unique algorithms to generate charts, easily input complex harmonic structures, extract chords from fingerings, determine fingers positions, compute keys of scales, generate chords from scales and find scales that go well with some chords.
For example, Chord! is the right tool in these situations:
• You're a beginner and you want to know how to play easily a D/F# chord;
• One gave you an ukulele and you want to know how to tune it and how to play the G Hawaiian scale;
• You want to know on what scale you can improvise for some chord sequence (and the answer can be different than the Pentatonic minor!);
• While transcripting a song by ear, you've found something and you would like to know which chord is it and other ways to play it;
• You want to experiment this nice open tuning, moreover with a bottleneck;
• Your little sister can't make bar chords and you want to show her how she can do without bars, with three (little) fingers only;
• You want to impress your little sister by showing her how you can play the same chords with two bars!
• You want to understand how this fingering for C13 is actually a fingering for C13;
• You broke a string and want to know how to play some chords without;
• You want to know how Django managed to play with two and a half fingers.
The app fully support left-handed instruments.
Translated in: English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish .
See http://getchord.com for more informations.
Main functions of the app:
- Search chord fingerings (or chord charts);
- Search chords from fingerings;
- Search scale fingerings;
- Search scales from fingerings;
- Search chords from scale;
- Search scales from chords.
User Data Privacy
Information not provided by the developer.Technical details
Size: 5.1MB
Version: 4.2
Developed By: RabugenTom
Application Permissions:
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- Open network sockets
Minimum Operating System: Android 4.1
Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute
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