Home screen

The Home screen is the starting point of smartChord. It provides you with the tools you want to use. The easiest way to select those tools is the Tools dialog which is reachable by the ⁝ menu.

You can reach the other tools by a swipe-up gesture on the home screen. The Add tools screen appears, where you can start the tools or add them to the home screen.

A long click on a tool icon opens a context menu. It allows you to remove a tool from the home screen, or to start the reorder mode in which you can reorder the tools by drag’n’drop. Drag an item to the trash can to remove it from the home screen.

If too many tools are placed on the home screen and the texts are too small, the option Home-screen scrollable makes the home-screen scrollable and the texts readable in any case.

Tools overview

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

Practice

Training module to practice your arpeggio, picking or scale patterns

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

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