✔ Technical release with minor improvements and fixes like: ✔ Scale: Predefined filter for the ‘church modes’ and the most common scales ✔ Scale Name and Key Identifier: Fretboard range can be changed in the mode ‘Notes’ and on large screens ✔ Optimized chord diagram size ? Fretboard trainer: Missing signs in staff ? Chord name: Shortened 5th string can be muted again
❀ Special thanks to Emilio Polog, Hans-Peter Wegner, Leonid Shokarev, Manolo Ramirez Padilla, Robert Price, Scott Noroozi, Tobi Gelz, Uwe Fischbach and Uwe Tantz for their contribution to this version
⭐ Scale name: ▫ Determines the scale for a song or a chord progression ▫ Determines the scale also for an arbitrary set of chords or notes ▫ The set of chords can be entered as text or picked from the chord dictionary ▫ The notes can be entered either on the fretboard or on the piano ▫ If the scale cannot be determined unambiguously, the resulting list shows you: ◾ which scales are possible ◾ which notes are missing ◾ which notes do not belong to the scale ▶ Our video explains the Key Identifier, but the ‘Scale name’ works the same way: https://youtu.be/McveJtbFV2E
Identify scale for song
⭐ Songbook ▫ The musical key is automatically determined by the Key Identifier: ◾ For every new song on the internet ◾ If you click on the musical key in the info section ◾ On ‘Edit information’
▫ New directives to repeat blocks: ◾ New directive {bridge} shows the previous bridge block defined by {start_of_bridge} and {end_of_bridge} ◾ New directive {interlude} shows the previous interlude block defined by {start_of_interlude} and {end_of_interlude} ◾ New directive {pre_chorus} shows the previous pre_chorus block defined by {start_of_pre_chorus} and {end_of_pre_chorus} ◾ New directive {verse} shows the previous verse block defined by {start_of_verse} and {end_of_verse} ◾ New directive {tab} shows the previous tab block either defined by {start_of_tab} and {end_of_tab} or automatically detected ◾ Editor and online editor are supporting the new directive ◾ https://smartchord.de/s-mart-songbook/#Repeating_blocks
{start_of_verse:Verse 1}
A C
This is verse 1
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_bridge:Bridge}
A C E F Fm
This is the bridge
{end_of_bridge}
{start_of_pre_chorus:Pre chorus}
A C E F Fm
This is the pre chorus
{end_of_pre_chorus}
{start_of_chorus:Chorus}
A C E F Fm
This is the chorus
{end_of_chorus}
{start_of_interlude:Interlude}
A C
This is the interlude
{end_of_interlude}
{start_of_verse:Verse 2}
A C
This is verse 2
{end_of_verse}
{bridge:Bridge repeated}
{pre_chorus:Pre chorus repeated}
{chorus:Chorus repeated once}
{interlude:Interlude repeated}
{verse:Verse 2 repeated}
{chorus:Chorus repeated twice}
✔ Chord progression: Button to replace chord or fingering
✔ New Tuning: Russian Open G
? Add/replace a chord did work just the first time
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Frank Müller, Haisam Ido, Isidro Zúñiga, James Thomas, Paul Schoonderwoerd and Simone Sapienza for their contribution to this version
⭐ New tool: Key Identifier ▫ Determines the key for a song or a chord progression ▫ Determines the key also for an arbitrary set of chords or notes ▫ The set of chords can be entered as text or picked from the chord dictionary ▫ The notes can be entered either on the fretboard or on the piano ▫ If the key cannot be determined unambiguously, the Key Identifier shows you: ◾ which keys are possible ◾ which notes are missing ◾ which notes do not belong to the key ▶ Our video explains the Key Identifier: https://youtu.be/McveJtbFV2E
✔ Songbook: Menu item to open the Key Identifier with the chords of the song
✔ Chord progression: Menu item to open the Key Identifier with the chords of the chord progression
✔ Fretboard trainer: Plays notes in quizzes of the mode ‘Note’ (if the ‘Play sound’ option is active)
? Sharing: The share link didn’t open smartChord on some devices ? Scale name: Fixed sound ✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Hakkie de Groot, Hans Kaiser and Philip Fagét for their contribution to this version
⭐Determines the key for a song or a chord progression ⭐Determines the key also for an arbitrary set of chords or notes ▫ The set of chords can be entered as text or picked from the chord dictionary ▫ The notes can be entered either on the fretboard or on the piano ▫ If the key cannot be determined unambiguously, the Key Identifier shows you ◾ which keys are possible ◾ which notes are missing ◾ which notes do not belong to the key
⭐ Redesign of the ‘Chords’ screen – the chord reference: ▫ Clearer user interface ▫ Chord dictionary integrated so that more than 1200 chord types are available ▫ Enter the root and bass by the ‘note circle’ ▫ Always visible text field to enter the chord type or to filter the chord type list ▫ New spinner to filter the chord types: ◾ Dictionary ◾ Expert ◾ Advanced ◾ Beginner ◾ Custom ◾ Favorites ◾ Augmented ◾ Diminished ◾ Suspended ◾ 13th ◾ 11th ◾ 9th ◾ 7th ◾ 6th ▫ Your custom chords are always appended when a filter is applied
✔ Circle of fifths: ▫ A click on the scale view shows the scale in the ‘Scale’ screen ▫ Chord names completed for Major/Ionion scale when showing triads
✔ New option for small devices to make the home-screen scrollable and the texts readable in any case
❗❗ Only general settings are still accessible via the home-screen
? Songbook: Sometimes the drum machine played the wrong sounds ? Fretboard trainer & Circle of fifths: Fixed musical notation on large devices ✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Gustaf Norman, Hans Sta, Jakov Gacina, Piotr Czerniejewski, Scott Noroozi, Sergei Nikiforov and Stefano Tranchini for their contribution to this version
▫ 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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✅ 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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