⭐ Find your songs in the greatest internet song catalogs
⭐ Without registration or account
⭐ Not limited to one catalog
⭐ Regardless of the instrument
⭐ Store your songs with chords and tabs for offline use
⭐ You automatically get your favorite fingerings for your instrument and tuning
⭐ Regardless of the instrument the song was provided for
s.mart Songbook: Chords & Tabs & Lyrics
⭐ Songbook: New supported website for chords & tabs: https://acordesweb.com
? Circle of fifths and scale-circle: Empty chord gallery and a lot of error toasts when using solfége
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Doug Kutzli, Henk Oostrom, Jared Garcia, Jackie Oriol, Mike Williams and Peter Edlund for their contribution to this version
❗❗ ‘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
✅ Get the latest from smartChord also on our new channel on https://www.instagram.com/smartChord
✔ Many other improvements and fixes
▶ Our new video gives a quick overview of the Songbook: https://youtu.be/J5-mJTL4R24
❀ Special thanks to Emilio Polog, Glenn Homes, Henk Oostrom, Markus Schwarz and Rolf Puchtinger for their contribution to this version
Do you want to play your favorite songs and keep all your chords, tabs and lyrics always in your pocket? Get the best songbook ever!!! smartChord songbook can find songs in the greatest internet song catalogues extremely easy and fast and without registration or account. Choose between more than 30 instruments and every possible tuning. It knows every chord and fingering you need! smartChord is an integrated product family with millions of chords, more than 1000 scales, precise tuner and metronome, chord progression, virtual instrument, transposer, ear training…
FEATURES:
⭐ Get millions of songs from the greatest internet song catalogues like ultimate-guitar, azchords, chordie, e-chords, guitaretab, …
⭐ No need for sign in or an account
⭐ Supports tabs, chords, plain texts and the popular ChordPro format
⭐ Store every song you want and use it offline without internet connection
⭐ Open or import already existing song files on your smartphone or cloud: cho, crd, chopro, chordpro, tab, text
⭐ Use the songs as they are or transpose the songs
▫ between a lot of different instruments like guitar, ukulele, banjo, bass, mandolin, …
▫ between every possible tuning! More than 400 are predefined
▫ any desired steps up or down (change the key of songs)
⭐ Create ‘set lists’ to organize your songs and lyrics for performance or practice
▫ Add the songs from the songbook or PDF and image files
▫ Supports auto scroll, auto play, full screen mode and MIDI and bluetooth pedal support
⭐ Seamlessly integrated into smartChord. The Swiss Army Knife for musicians!
⭐ Get the chord diagrams with all possible variations and fingerings, … from the best and hugest chord dictionary: smartChord!
⭐ The songbook prefers your favorite fingerings and use them in every new song!
⭐ Change the fingerings in the songs to suit your own taste
⭐ Edit and adjust every song according to your own ideas or create a new one
⭐ 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, …
⭐ You’ll find no other app with so many features
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✅ 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
⭐ ‘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
✅ 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
✅ Android 12 compatibility
✅ 5 new color schemes
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Florian Jäger and Steve Stine 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
✅ Technical release with graphical improvements
✅ Open a chord in the fretboard explorer by the context menu of a chord gallery
✔ Other minor improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Jonathan Olson and Philibob Gossimer 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
⭐ History is filterable to speed up access to the entries like songs
✅ Songbook: MIDI support extended
▫ Control a MIDI device within the song text
▫ New directive to add MIDI commands which are sent to a MIDI receiver: {x_sccrd_midi:<midiCommand1>, <midiCommand2>, …}
▫ The directive appears as grey ‘MIDI’ line in the song
▫ The commands are automatically sent to a MIDI receiver when
◾ the scroller passes the ‘MIDI’ line
◾ the user taps on the ‘MIDI’ line
▫ Documentation: https://smartchord.de/s-mart-songbook/#Control_a_MIDI_device
✅ Songbook: Scroll breaks are recognizable as such and show the duration of the breaks in seconds
✅ Possibility to change the folder for import and search when ‘Read storage’ permission is granted
? Online song editor, importer, viewer: HTTPS support completed
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Angela Müller, Armin Schmitt, Jean-Pierre Martin, Jens Martin, Jörg Dengler, Stefan Balaz and Uwe Fischbach for their contribution to this version
⭐⭐⭐ ‘Set list link’ released ⭐⭐⭐
▫ Connects different devices of your bandmates during rehearsals and live performances
▫ Mirrors the set list of the ‘Leader’ to the devices of the ‘Followers’
▫ Opens, starts and stops the song on the follower devices in synchronization with the leader so everyone is on the same song
▫ Mirrors also songs, images and PDF files, even if they are not present on a follower device
▫ ‘Leader’ options:
◾ A secret code to prevent strangers from registering as ‘Followers’
◾ Need to acknowledge each ‘Follower’
▫ ‘Follower’ options:
◾ View the song of the leader or the own song with the same name
◾ Scale the songs to fit on a different display size
▫ Uses ‘Wifi Direct’ and works on Android Lollipop (5.0) or newer
▫ No need for a dedicated Wifi router
▫ Please see documentation: https://smartchord.de/set-list-link
✅ Online song editor, importer, viewer:
▫ HTTPS for all supported Android versions
▫ New ‘troubleshooting’ page: https://www.smartchord.de/song/troubleshooting.html
✅ Fretboard trainer: Game is resumed, if it is accidentally interrupted
? Menus were just partly visible after fullscreen mode
✔ Other improvements and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Frits Boogaarts, Hakkie de Groot, Harry Fehlemann, Jörg Dengler, Markus Knell and Philibob Gossimer for their contribution to this version