▫ Three new quiz types to learn scales: ◾ Identify scales ◾ Locate all notes of a scale ◾ Locate all fretboard positions of a scale
▫ Get the chords and scales optionally represented in musical notation and learn them along the way ▫ Learn the fretboard string by string with the new option to limit quizzes to a subset of strings
✔ Scale: ▫ Uniform way to select a scale ▫ New option for direction: Ascending – Ascending & descending – Descending
✔ Uniform use of the note circle for note selection
❗❗ Basic chords list reduced
? Circle of fifths crashed on some selected tunings ? Songbook: Remove capo did not work in every case
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Andy Lopez, Dominique Portalier, Lena Schütten, Philibob Gossimer, Pisarev Oleg, Scott Noroozi and Stefano Tranchini for their contribution to this version
⭐ Scale: ▫ Modes for each scale ▫ ‘Note-circle’ to visualize the distribution of a scale ▫ Select the scale either from your favorites, the modes or the whole scale list ▫ Swipe gesture on the musical notation changes the scale ▫ Button to show the scale in the scale-circle
✔ New ‘Note-circle’ view to select the root notes e.g. for the scales
✔ Home-screen: ▫ Dialog to define the tools on the home-screen in one step ▫ Short description for each tool
✔ Songbook: Support for changes on chords-and-tabs.net
✔ Picking pattern: Improved handling of muted strings
✔ 13 new 8-string tunings for Lap Steel Guitar
✔ Screenshot is automatically created for an error report initiated from the menu
❀ Special thanks to Emilio Polog, Glenn Homes, Henk Oostrom, Keray Rainer, Konstantin Paus, Lena Schütten and Xavier Fornari for their contribution to this version
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❗❗ ‘Choose chord’ screen starts always in mode ‘Chord type’, except it is started from the ‘Scales’ screen ⭐ Practice: Add new exercises to existing exercises ▫ Add arpeggio patterns to existing exercises ▫ Add scale patterns to existing exercises ▫ Add picking patterns to existing exercises ▫ Combine any exercise with existing exercises
✅ Chord simplification improved
✅ Songbook: Detects all chords from the chord dictionary
✅ Songbook YouTube search: Additional button to extend search text by ‘acoustic’, ‘cover’, ‘lesson’, …
✅ ‘Show arpeggio’ added to menus in chord screens and on long-press on a chord diagram
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⭐ Online editor to edit your songs comfortable in the browser of your computer
⭐ Intelligent line break option saves you horizontal scrolling. It formats the song to max. number of characters and breaks belonging lines as a block
⭐ Autoscroll with individual speed for each song. Fine tuning with delay and scroll breaks at each position of a song
⭐ Integrated audio player: ▫ Add audio files from your device to a song ▫ The intelligent search makes this very comfortable ▫ Jam with your songs in the songbook ▫ Audio player supports A-B loop to repeat only a part of a song
⭐ Integrated drum machine
⭐ Integrated metronome
⭐ Integrated YouTube player
⭐ Find YouTube videos for your songs. Link the lessons or covers with your songs and have it in parallel to your songtext
⭐ Sing with your audience and show them the lyrics of the current song in any browser
⭐ Full text search to find your songs
⭐ Easily replace the fingerings or chords of a song
⭐ Colorize the song parts like chorus, verse or interlude with custom colors
⭐ Generate a chord progression from the chords of a song and practice it in the chord progression player
⭐ Continuous zoom and fast text scaling
⭐ View just what you need: Optionally hide chords, tabs, comments or lyrics
⭐ Fullscreen mode
⭐ Multi column layout
⭐ Benefit from the left-handed support
⭐ Use the ‘Dark’ mode for your live performance or to reduce battery consumption
⭐ Get quick access to your latest songs by the history
⭐ Print your songs or create PDF files
⭐ Share your songs with your friends
⭐ Synchronize your songs with your cloud or between your devices
⭐ Benefit from the support for large and small screens, landscape and portrait mode
⭐ A bunch of other features like: accurate tuner, precision metronome, scales, arpeggios, …
✅ Scale: Size optimized view ✅ Scale: Scale chart is resizable ✅ Color scheme is active even if ‘Diagram info’ is set to ‘Nothing’ ? Songbook: video player covered song text ✔ Minor improvements and fixes ❀ Special thanks to Philibob Gossimer, Sean Hartigan and Stefano Tranchini for their contribution to this version
⭐ Circle of fifths ▫ Option to get triads, 7th or 9th chords ▫ Option to show the chord charts ▫ Option to show the scale on the fretboard ▫ Shows sheet music for the chords
Circle of fifths
⭐ ‘Scale-circle’. New innovative mode of the Circle of fifths ▫ It shows the chords for all 7 degrees: either triads, 7th or 9th chords ▫ It can be used with each scale which does have all 7 degrees ▫ There are more than 300 scales beneath the modes of the major scale like Dorian, Lydian or Mixolydian
Scale-circle
✅ Songbook: Automatically creates custom chords when not built-in chord types are used
✅ Songbook: Support for chord names with brackets and comma (e.g. C7(no3,b5))
? Songbook: Crashed on devices with Android 4.1.x
? Problem to create custom chords starting with a note name
smartChordDroid-V8.15
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Alberto Ruiz Ibargüengoitia, Christ Deva, Glenn Homes, Joshua Loflin, Nathan Brooks, Tariq Abdus-Salaam and Thomas Güttler for their contribution to this version
⭐ Simplify chords ▫ Choose chord: Possibility to simplify chords ▫ Normally a simplified chord is easier to play but less colorful and interesting
⭐ Songbook: Optimized transpose functionality immediately shows the changes in the song
✔ Chord chart galleries are resizable
✔ ‘Black bright’ and ‘Black dark’ theme
✔ Dialogs are movable by dragging the title bar
✔ Songbook: Support for ‘N.C.’ (abbreviation for ‘no chord’)
✔ Transposer with color scheme support
✔ Scale and arpeggio fretboard: Allows portrait mode also on medium-sized devices ✔ A tap on the name of a stored item (song, set list, quiz, …) opens the ‘Table of contents’ ✔ Long press on a chord in the chord chart gallery opens a menu to show the chord in the Fretboard Explorer ✔ Charango tunings: Charango Hatun (six course and seven course) ✔ New color scheme ✔ Other improvements and fixes ❀ Special thanks to Alois Gillhofer, Benno Schoppel, Dmitry Prokopenko, Paco del Mar, Philibob Gossimer and Vittorio Bernardini for their contribution to this version
? Chord details: Gallery scrolling problem ? Fretboard trainer: Problems to create new quizzes or to show statistic ✔ Other improvements and fixes ❀ Special thanks to Glenn Homes, Konstantin Paus, Lutz Behnke, Rolando Chicas, Thomas Andrews and Thomas Suntinger for their contribution to this version
⭐ Fingering explorer to find the best fingerings for your needs ▫ Change the relevant chord settings and get the fingerings immediately in the gallery ▫ Define your fingering favorites, so they are always visible, independent from the chord settings ▫ Apply the new chord setting changes or discard them at the end of your exploration
✅ Songbook: ▫ Fingering explorer is used to replacing a fingering ▫ New directives to embed links to images and PDF files ▫ Songbook editor supports these new directives. Image and PDF pickers are used to add them
✅ Technical release with graphical improvements like better support for large fonts
✔ Fix: Chord name UI refresh after instrument change
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Bob Crowder, Kalle Mackel and Olav Stüwe for their contribution to this version
⭐ Songbook: Replace a chord or fingering by direct input on the fretboard
⭐ Improved handling of fingering favorites ▫ Fingering favorites are always visible independent from the chord settings ▫ Fingering favorites for major, minor and seventh chords are automatically created for every instrument and tuning
⭐ 5-string Banjo with improved chord algorithm
✅ Set list: Possibility to add PDF or image files from GoogleDrive
✅ Scale favorites are now part of the synchronization
? Save and restore favorite instruments ? Fretboard explorer used with settings ‘Solfège’ and ‘Theory notes’
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Armin Schmitt, Carsten Bleisch, Jörg Dengler, Luiz Marcos Wal, Ricardo Zalba, Rudolf Stetulic and Teddy McGibbie for their contribution to this version
