Tools
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, orr to start the reorder mode in which you can reorder the tools by dra’n’drop. Drag an item to the trash can to remove it from the home screen.
Tools overview
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Arpeggio |
| Arpeggios and their patterns for every chord |
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Chords |
| Ultimate chord reference lists every possible chord and voicing for every possible tuning |
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Chord name |
| Find the chord name for every possible fingering |
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Chord progression |
| Work like a songwriter creating new pieces of music putting chords together that sound good |
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Circle of fifths |
| The most important tool of western music to find the key, understand modes and scales, transpose and compose songs |
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Drum kit |
| Just a simple drum kit to have fun 🙂 |
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Drum machine |
| The drum machine can be used as a rhythm trainer or for musical accompaniment in the Songbook or Song Writer (YouTube) |
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Ear training |
| Improve and train your musical ear. It helps to connect musical elements like pitch, intervals, chords and scales in your mind |
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Fretboard explorer |
| Explore chords and scales and learn the whole fretboard with control for every string and note |
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Fretboard trainer |
| Learn the notes and chords on the neck of your instrument in a playful and nevertheless effective way |
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Key Identifier |
| Get the key of a song or chord progression or just for a bunch of notes (YouTube) |
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Metronome |
| Train your ability to maintain a tempo or to speed up your tempo |
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Notepad |
| Good place for saving your musical ideas, exercises, annotation or just notes |
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Pattern |
| Picking patterns reference and trainer with hundreds of patterns and the ability to apply them to your songs and chord progressions (YouTube) |
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Piano |
| Just a simple piano to have fun 🙂 |
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Pitch pipe |
| An alternative way to tune your instrument and train your ear at the same time |
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Playground |
| A virtual instrument for jamming on the simple fretboard or with a chord on each fret |
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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 (YouTube) |
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Song Analyzer |
| Analyzes any song and determines its key and chord progressions (YouTube) |
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Song Writer |
| The Song Writer makes it incredibly easy to write and arrange your own songs (YouTube) |
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Lyrics Pad |
| Editor for writing your song lyrics. It can help you find catchy and interesting rhymes (YouTube) |
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Practice |
| Training module to practice your arpeggio, picking or scale patterns |
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Scale |
| Scale reference with more than 1000 scales and all patterns for every instrument and tuning |
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Scale name |
| Find the key and scale name for a set of notes or chords in the scale reference with more than 1000 scales |
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Set list |
| Organize your songs and lyrics for rehearsals and live performances or practicing (YouTube) |
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Tap BPM |
| A quick way to calculate tempo by tapping along with the rhythm |
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Tone generator |
| Test your hearing, the bandwidth of your headphones and speakers or other audio equipment |
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Transposer |
| Transpose music from one key to another |
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Tuner |
| Precise chromatic tuner for every instrument and tuning |
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MIDI test |
| Simple tool to show the MIDI messages received by smartChord or to send MIDI commands to a MIDI device |
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Instruments |
| Screen to select an instrument, create custom instruments and define your favorite instruments |
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Backup/Restore |
| Tool to backup and restore all smartChord data such as settings, exercises, songs, … |
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Timer |
| Simple timer to keep track of exercise time |
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Triads |
| Triads allow you to simplify complex harmonies, understand musical structure, train your musical ear and create diverse soundscapes |
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Flashlight |
| Tiny pocket lamp uses the display and/or LED to bring light into the darkness |
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Shop |
| Treat yourself to more ease and efficiency with a product from our shop |