✔ Open at random: ◾ New item in the ‘Folder’ menu opens an item like a song or exercise at random ◾ Use it to break ingrained habits. It challenges you with unexpected exercises or songs 📖 https://smartchord.de/docs/practice/open-at-random/
✔ Tuning Favorites: ◾ Possibility to add a capo to a favorite tuning ◾ Possibility to add a tuning multiple times with different capos
✔ Tuning List: ◾ Custom tunings are also listed ◾ The current tuning is pre-selected ◾ Button to select the standard tuning ◾ The current tuning is the template for a new custom tuning
✔ New scales: ◾ Major sixth diminished ◾ Minor sixth diminished ◾ Dominant seventh diminished ◾ Dominant seventh flat fifth diminished
❗ Tuner behaviour change: The tuner now vibrates only when a tuning note is hit exactly
🐞 Fretboard Trainer: Changed accidentals in the settings were ignored in the notes input view
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Anke Kellermann, Craig Jackson, Christian Sylvoz, David Lingerak, Franky Ka, Henk Oostrom, Hubertus Gawinski and Lindsay Debb for their contribution to this version
🐞 Table of contents: When assigning and filtering categories, the category values of all elements were preselected instead of only the values of the selected elements
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Barth Harrington, Franky Ka, Henk Oostrom, Nikos Karavasilis, Pr. Prom, Scott Noroozi and Tim Rice for their contribution to this version
🐞 Utilizing the entire screen, especially in full-screen mode
🐞 Fretboard Trainer: Invisible notes and accidentals in the staff output view
🐞 Piano: The ‘C4’ was placed on ‘C3’
🐞 Playground: Full range of playground wasn’t possible on small displays
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Dave Clews, Diallo Mudd, Eugene, Heiko Sommer, Martin Schumacher, Matteo Tognin, Paul Schoonderwoerd, Pepe Moscosos and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version
🐞 Set List: Some PDF files were not displayed on devices with large screens
🐞 Fretboard Trainer could freeze if a very small octave range was selected
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Andrea Petrone, Bruce Reirden, Henk Oostrom, Hubertus Gawinski, John Engelberd, Martin Heissenberger and Vanessa Wong for their contribution to this version
◾ Deeper Musical Understanding: This series moves beyond playing, ensuring you to truly understand the underlying structure and theory of music
◾ Maximize smartChord Tools: Learn to effectively use smartChord’s powerful features, such as the Ear Trainer and Fretboard Trainer, through practical exercises
◾ Structured Skill Development: The tutorials offer a step-by-step path to progressively build essential abilities like ear training and fretboard mastery
◾ Practical and Measurable Improvement: Benefit from targeted drills that directly sharpen your technique and expand your theoretical knowledge
⭐ The Ear Trainer Tutorial is the first in the series: It provides a structured, step-by-step path, ensuring you to achieve absolute fluency in recognizing every musical interval, which is the cornerstone for improved improvisation, composition, and transcription by ear
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🎧 Help: Contains links to the corresponding smartChord podcasts (https://smartchord.de/docs/getting-started/podcasts) in English and German ◾ E01: smartChord Overview ◾ E02: Getting started with smartChord ◾ E03: smartChord – Tools for Musicians ◾ E04: smartChord – Instrument variety and individual customization ◾ E05: smartChord – Tunings ◾ E06: smartChord – Musical naming ◾ E07: smartChord – Customizable look and design ◾ E08: smartChord – Toolbar ◾ E09: smartChord – Settings ◾ E10: smartChord – Save and organize ◾ E11: smartChord – Sharing content ◾ E12: smartChord – Synchronization ◾ E13: smartChord – Cloud ◾ E14: smartChord – Backing up and restoring ◾ E15: Getting started with the s.mart Songbook ◾ E16: Introduction to the s.mart Song Writer ◾ E17: smartChord – Chords ◾ E18: smartChord – Fingerings ◾ E19: smartChord – Chord inversions ◾ E20: smartChord – Chord name a reverse chord finder ◾ E21: smartChord – Simplify chords ◾ E22: smartChord – CAGED system ◾ E23: smartChord – Diatonic chords ◾ E24: smartChord – Chord Pad ◾ E25: smartChord – Circle Of Fifths ◾ E26: smartChord – Scale-Circle ◾ E27: smartChord – Drum Machine ◾ E28: smartChord – Ear Trainer ◾ E29: smartChord – Fretboard Explorer ◾ E30: smartChord – Fretboard Trainer ◾ E31: smartChord – Instrument Translator ◾ E32: smartChord – Key Identifier ◾ E33: smartChord – Lyrics Pad ◾ E34: smartChord – Notepad ◾ E35: smartChord – Piano ◾ E36: smartChord – Scales ◾ E37: smartChord – Song Analyzer ◾ E38: smartChord – Triads ◾ E39: smartChord – Tuner ◾ E40: smartChord Songbook – Functional overview ◾ E41: smartChord Songbook – Get new songs ◾ E42: smartChord Songbook – Chords and fingerings ◾ E43: smartChord Songbook – Song presentation ◾ E44: smartChord Songbook – User interface and operation ◾ E45: smartChord Songbook – Edit songs ◾ E46: smartChord Songbook – Scrolling ◾ E47: smartChord Songbook – For singers ◾ E48: smartChord Songbook – Import songs ◾ E49: smartChord Songbook – Organize songs ◾ E50: smartChord Songbook – Appearance ◾ E51: smartChord Songbook – Present your songs to your audience ◾ E52: smartChord – Set List ◾ E53: smartChord Song Writer – How to use ◾ E54: smartChord Song Writer – How to write a song
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Artyom Donka, Barth Harrington, Bernie B., Bostjan Jadrat, Bruce Reirden, Gerrit Horeis, Henk Oostrom, Marcello Casali, Richard G. Riley and Scott Noroozi for their contribution to this version
✔ Songbook with two new color schemes for those who don’t want to use colors ◾ ‘Black on white’ for the ‘Light’ mode ◾ ‘White on black’ for the ‘Dark’ mode
✔ NextCloud: support also for older versions and older Android versions
🐞 Sort order in the Table of Contents was not retained
🐞 Playground: Diatonic chords mode made trouble
🐞 A lot of improved messages in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Basque
✔ Other minor fixes
❀ Special thanks to Christian Ceulemans, David Murgatroyd, Henk Oostrom, Mike Ellis, Paul Schoonderwoerd, Remco Bekkema, Steffen Heckmann, Stephen Getson, Tony Bifolchi and William Jordan for their contribution to this version
We have started a podcast series. Here you can get to know the smartChord tools and their functions in an entertaining way – ideal if you don’t have time to read the documentation.
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▫ Cloud sync is the easiest and therefore the recommended option. However, it is also possible to sync data without using the cloud. This method is more complex and only recommended for technically experienced users.
✔ File synchronization: Refresh button to read the current and possibly changed content of your cloud folder
🐞 Set List: Online song viewer
🐞 MIDI support
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Blaise Ardouin, Bruce Reirden, Chris Drexler, Harry Fehlemann, Ján Hovančík, Patrick Sénac and Uwe Fischbach for their contribution to this version
⭐ Dropbox: new faster interface to your cloud which works smoothly with each browser, also on Chromebook
✔ Backup: When a backup is saved, it is also uploaded to the cloud—provided a cloud backup folder has been defined
✔ New menu item to show the tips for the screen
🐞 MIDI commands were not sent with incorrect settings
🐞 Songbook: Directive {new_page} had no effect
✔ Minor improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Bruce Reirden, Chris Drexler, Jürgen Schulz-Ohlberg, Michael Prodey, Martin P. Daniels, Patrick Sénac and Uwe Fischbach for their contribution to this version
▫ Support for www.boiteachansons.net ▫ Comprehensive French music resource specializing in traditional French chansons, regional European songs, and detailed lyric-focused content with cultural context notes 📖 Documentation
▫ Translate the lyrics into your language ◾ Translate the whole song using the ‘⁝ menu -> Translate’ ◾ Translate the selected text using the contextual menu 📖 Documentation
▫ Create and edit comments directly in the Songbook ◾ Click on a comment to edit the comment ◾ Click on a comment and delete the text in the dialog to delete the comment ◾ Select a text and use the contextual menu to add a comment above the selection ◾ The option to show comments is automatically activated
🎨 New option to define the text and background color of TABs for the color schemes: Light, Dark, Printout
▫ The Songbook temporarily switches to full-screen when adjusting line height
▫ MIDI commands can be given a meaningful name ◾ The name is visible in the Songbook ◾ Sample: {x_sccrd_midi: Meaningful name; 90 30 6F, 91 3A 6F}
▫ You can set a different key for a song in the Set List. If the key differs from the song’s original key, the song will be automatically transposed when used in the Set List
▫ Possibility to define MIDI commands which are sent to a MIDI receiver ◾ When an entry is opened or closed ◾ For all kinds of entries: songs, PDFs, images and also breaks 📖 Documentation
▫ Sort function
▫ Repeat indicator to indicate when a song is included multiple times
🐞 Songbook: The directive to send MIDI commands when opening a song had no effect
✔ Minor improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Bostjan Jadrat, Christophe Cavard, Gérard Boutruche, Martin Porubsky, Thomas Just and Uwe Fischbach for their contribution to this version
✔ ‘Scroll-break’ and ‘Scroll-time’ dialogs with reset button. A duration or time stamp of 0 deletes the ‘Scroll-break’ or ‘Scroll-time’
✔ Color dialog:
◾ Offers you commonly used colors
◾ Offers you your recently selected colors as pre-selection options
✔ Refactored codebase to reduce technical debt and improve maintainability
🐞 Toolbar configuration crashed on some devices
✔ A lot of other minor improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Andreas Eggenberger, Jimmy Rogers, Julian Haas. Laura Grammegna, Michael Schlicht, Michal Půža, Thomas Just and Thorsten Mittag for their contribution to this version
The review of the new version V11.21 by Google was completed after two weeks and the new version is available online. Normally the check only takes a few hours. We apologize for the delay.
