smartChord is THE app for every musician – from beginner to professional. In addition to more than 1,000,000,000 chords and fingering options, it integrates many other interlocking tools: Tuner, Metronome, Scales, Songbook, Set list, Chord Progressions, Arpeggios, Circle Of Fifths, Reverse Chord Finder, Pattern trainer, Transposer, Musical Audio School, Virtual Instrument, Notepad…

Guitar, Bouzouki or Mandolin: For about 40 string instruments, the specific chords, notes and moods are visually and acoustically presented – for viewing and listening – for predefined and custom tunings, from 3 to 9 strings, from the first to the last fret, with capo, for left- and right-handed, … Whether for the classroom or for fun around the campfire – smartChord offers almost everything a musician’s heart desires.

Arpeggio

Arpeggios and their patterns for every chord

Chords

Ultimate chord reference lists every possible chord and voicing for every possible tuning

Chord Name

Find the chord name for every possible fingering

Chord Pad

Play and experiment with chords at your fingertips. Use it to compose, accompany a song or to jam around and have fun 🙂

Chord Progression

Work like a songwriter creating new pieces of music putting chords together that sound good

Circle of Fifths

The most important tool of western music to find the key, understand modes and scales, transpose and compose songs

Drum Kit

Just a simple drum kit to have fun 🙂

Drum Machine

The drum machine can be used as a rhythm trainer or for musical accompaniment in the songbook or Song-Writer

Ear Trainer

Improve and train your musical ear. It helps to connect musical elements like pitch, intervals, chords and scales in your mind

Fretboard Explorer

Explore chords and scales and learn the whole fretboard with control for every string and note

Fretboard Trainer

Learn the notes and chords on the neck of your instrument in a playful and nevertheless effective way

Key Identifier

Get the key of a song or chord progression or just for a bunch of notes

Metronome

Train your ability to maintain a tempo or to speed up your tempo

Notepad

Good place for saving your musical ideas, exercises, annotation or just notes

Pattern

Picking patterns reference and trainer with hundreds of patterns and the ability to apply them to your songs and chord progressions

Piano

Just a simple piano to have fun 🙂

Pitch Pipe

An alternative way to tune your instrument and train your ear at the same time

Playground

A virtual instrument for jamming on the simple fretboard or with a chord on each fret

Songbook

Extremely feature-rich personal songbook for all of your favorite songs with chords, tabs and lyrics. Helps you with practicing or with your performance

Song Analyzer

Analyzes any song and determines its key and chord progressions

Song Writer

The Song Writer makes it incredibly easy to write and arrange own songs

Lyrics Pad

Editor for writing your song lyrics. It can help you finding catchy and interesting rhymes

Practice

Training module to practice your arpeggio, picking or scale patterns

Scale

Scale reference with more than 1000 scales and all patterns for every instrument and tuning

Scale Name

Find the key and scale name for a set of notes or chords in the scale reference

Set List

Organize your songs and lyrics for rehearsals and live performances or practicing

Tone Generator

Test your hearing, the bandwidth of your headphones and speakers or other audio equipment

Transpose

Transpose music from one key to another

Triads

Triads allow you to simplify complex harmonies, understand musical structure, train your musical ear and create diverse soundscapes

Tuner

Precise chromatic tuner for every instrument and tuning

MIDI Test

Simple tool to show the MIDI messages received by smartChord or to send MIDI commands to a MIDI device

Instrument Translator

Translates the fingering from one instrument or tuning to another

Instruments

Screen to select an instrument, create custom instruments and define your favorite instruments

Synchronize

Tools to synchronize data between your devices or with your cloud

Backup/Restore

Tool to backup and restore all smartChord data such as settings, exercises, songs, …

Tap BPM

A quick way to calculate tempo by tapping along with the rhythm

Timer

Simple timer to keep track of exercise time

Flashlight

Tiny pocket lamp uses the display and/or LED to bring light into the darkness

✔ ULTIMATE CHORD REFERENCE
⭐ Contains almost all chord types and all possible fingerings
⭐ For a variety of instruments such as guitar, banjo, bass, mandolin, ukulele
⭐ Includes more than 500 predefined tunings (for example, Drop D or Rain Song)
⭐ Supports any tuning with 3 to 9 strings
⭐ Provides modes suitable for the skill level (beginner, intermediate, expert)
⭐ Supports ‘Slash’ chords, capo, the 5-string banjo with shortened string
⭐ With ultimate comfort features like: Filter, Search, Sort, Favor
⭐ Acoustic reproduction of all chords and fingering possibilities
⭐ Finds the chord name to the handle (reverse chord finder)
⭐ For right and left-handed people
⭐ Compose and transpose chord progressions
⭐ Solfège and Nashville Number System

✔ Personal SONGBOOK
⭐ Find and save all the songs you like – without registration and account
⭐ Millions of songs from the best internet song catalogs like ultimate-guitar, azchords, chordie, e-chords, guitaretab, … for every instrument and tuning
⭐ Transpose between instruments, tunings, keys, with or without capo!
⭐ Intelligent word wrap, zoom and autoscroll feature
⭐ Integrated audio player with A-B loop
⭐ Full screen mode, ‘dark’ mode, history, print, …
⭐ Import, export, synchronization, share with friends

✔ SETLIST
⭐ Organize your songs for your performance and practice
⭐ Supports auto-scroll, auto-play, gestures, PDF, full screen and pedals / Bluetooth devices
⭐ Share the lyrics of your set list with your audience

✔ PRECISE CHROMATIC TUNER
⭐ Precise tone determination in every frequency range
⭐ Supports all instruments and any tuning
⭐ Special modes for beginners or string changes
⭐ Visualization of the mood at the instrument head
⭐ Optional vibration when tuning or visualizing of the signal
⭐ Pitch pipe for training the musical ear

✔ SCALES for improvisation
⭐ More than 1000 different scales like Mixolydian, Dorian, Pentatonic, Chromatic
⭐ Musical notation, formula and fingerboard
⭐ For all instruments and any tuning
⭐ Diatonic chords
⭐ Patterns show how and where a scale is best to play – including fingering
⭐ The reverse scale search helps to find the key and scales for a lot of notes

✔ PICKING PATTERN TRAINER
⭐ It’s a dictionary, a sound explorer and a trainer
⭐ Learn and discover about 380 easy and legendary picking patterns
⭐ Have a look at the huge list of picking patterns for beginners and fingerstyle professionals
⭐ Apply the patterns to your songs and chord progressions
⭐ Create exercises to practice the patterns with the speed trainer

✔ METRONOM for the perfection of timing
⭐ speed trainer
⭐ precise to 300 BPM
⭐ optical, acoustic, vibration
⭐ sound for over 60 instruments

✔ MUSICAL HEARING SCHOOL
⭐ Learn to distinguish chords and tones of different octaves
⭐ > 80 different instruments
⭐ Learning control by means of statistics

✔ PRACTICE feature
⭐ Create your exercises for scale, arpeggio and picking patterns
⭐ Play the patterns forward and backward
⭐ Supported by a speed trainer and timer

✔ ARPEGGIOS

✔ PLAYGROUND – as a virtual instrument

✔ TRANSPOSER – for easy transposition

✔ NOTEPAD – to save your musical ideas

✔ EXACT TONE GENERATOR to your equipment

Your satisfaction is our main concern – therefore we constantly develop smartChord based on your suggestions and hints. We look forward to your mails: info@smartChord.de.

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