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Chord!

4.83 • 50 Ratings

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Chord! is a chord and scale reference that works with any fretted instrument like guitar, basses, ukulele, banjos,… It computes and analyses all the possible fingerings for chords, scales, and arpeggios. With Chord!, you can also write a song by simply dragging and dropping chords, transpose it in any key, compute the fingerings with any tuning and generate a beautiful print-ready PDF, etc. You can also import your existing songs in text format (please note that the app does not ship with songs). You can also link audio tracks from your music library and play them at the same time while adjusting their pitch and/or speed. 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 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 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. Chord arpeggios are also supported, as well as drop voicings (drop 2, drop3, etc.). The app also ships with the biggest list of named scales (and you can create your own 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) and compute their fingerings. 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 that ship with the app, or you can add your 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 finger 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 want to have your songbook available at any time, in your pocket; • You're a beginner and you want to know how to play easily a D/F# chord; • One gave you a 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!); • You want to print your song and share it with your band. • You want to experiment with 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 supports left-handed instruments. Main functions of the app: - Write, transpose, fingerize, print, and share songs; - 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.
What’s New
This update fixes an issue when accessing your songs on iOS 16.1. As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to reach me if you have any issues or suggestions.
Version 2.8.2
Version History

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Ratings and Reviews

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4.83
out of 5
50 Ratings
  • Mollyandmike, 04.07.2022
    Chords in the scales
    Would like to see the chord fingerings in each of the scales
  • Murdock Scott, 29.05.2022
    Fantastic tool.
    I am not a stringed instrument player, they have confounded me for decades (honestly it's a cognitive disconnect). But with this tool I finally feel in command. I tell it what I want to play and how I want to play it and it shows me how to accomplish that goal. I tell it that I want to see what that song would look like on a completely different instrument or tuning and it shows me... Fantastic. The app itself is deep and complex and could benefit from some simplification in the UI. If I had not been someone who has been using computers for music since the 80s I might have been a bit more lost. As it turned out, I still found it challenging. The developer needs better documentation and a good set of how to movies right away. To avoid people getting frustrated. I did have a problem with the app not showing me common fingerings of basic mandolin and ukulele chords but I emailed the developer and got a response that was honest and clear the same day. I am confident he is actively working on this project and dedicated to making it better. Good thing too, because it is great. If this had been available 30 years ago I would be calling myself a string player today. *Update May 30th 2022* Thanks so much for the Apple silicon version! I don’t have a M1 Mac yet, but I will soon and it’s great to know I will be able to use this there as well. Show more
  • 17473$;)/)-&,, 17.03.2022
    Must-Have
    This is a must-have App for beginners and intermediate guitar players looking to learn a wide variety of chords AND for advanced players looking to arrange and find new ways to play around with theory. ONLY gripe is that the UX can be a little obtuse at first, but you learn it relatively quickly. Show more
  • MikeBurlman, 03.03.2022
    Use it daily
    I use it daily and I can’t recommend it enough.
  • bells ?, 24.09.2021
    steep learning curve
    i often use this app to “reverse search chords” when playing new ideas by ear. It would be great if i could immediately save the notes i selected on the neck as a new chord fingering. as it stands, i need to click the fingering area in the top right, and often going through the additional pain of creating a custom fingering (or scrolling endlessly through the generated fingerings looking for the one in inputted on the neck) this app seems very powerful, but i do not yet feel as if i totally know how to use it. more tutorials and guidance would be great. Show more
  • Hfkfjc, 22.08.2021
    Thank you
    Truly amazing work!!!!! I would love to see a tab builder in the future! Thank you for your hard work!
  • flat ride, 30.07.2021
    Wonderful
    This app is a gem. Since it has so much to offer, there is a bit of a learning curve, but so worth the effort. Also, I had a question early on, and the developer responded right away. Along with iReal Pro, Chord! is a great addition to my music toolbox. Thanks. Show more
  • Bonzisouth, 09.07.2021
    Powerful chord app
    I have been using Chord! For over 4 years and I depend on it when I’m practicing new and old songs. I play in a church band where we play a wide range of worship music from contemporary to old hymns. Many different chords to know and Chord! Has been my go to app. Show more
  • Nullty098654, 14.06.2021
    Truly exceptional
    There is so much low effort app sludge aimed at people learning guitar that buying one is a gamble. Frankly they are cash grabs. This app though has put in the work. Clear and simple. No ads no subscription nonsense and surpasses my expectations in every way. It’s more for musicians who want a reference resource than for hand holding note by note learning. Show more

Information

  • Category
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Price
    4.99 USD
  • Size
    19.3 MB
  • Provider
    Thomas Grapperon
Languages
English
Copyright
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