Grab your instrument and hear, learn, and write music with the circle of fifths! This handy music practice and theory tool can be a game changer for learning songs, writing your own, and understanding how chords fit together.
NEW in 2.1: 21 color themes — tap the palette to redress the entire app; a few are suspiciously reminiscent of your favorite films, albums, and bands.
NEW in 2.0: Piano mode and a chord progression builder.
Switch between guitar and piano on the fly — chord diagrams, sounds, and strumming all swap to match. Jump to the Progressions tab to build your own chord progressions, pick a tempo, and hear them played back with realistic strumming patterns. And now, tap the palette to recolor the entire app — wheel, badges, and chord charts — with 21 handpicked themes.
Features:
• 3 full rings with support for all major and minor keys
• 36 interactive notes/chords on the circle
• NEW! 21 color themes — personalize the wheel, badges, and chord charts (just tap the palette icon)
• NEW! Key badge in the center of the wheel — your current major and relative-minor key, plus its key signature, at a glance
• Toggle between guitar and piano modes — affects both sounds and diagrams
• Synthesized piano with rich, multi-voice triads
• 36 real guitar audio recordings of every chord on the circle
• 36 guitar chord charts — now drawn right in the app and themed to match; just tap and hold to learn
• Piano chord diagrams with highlighted notes on a keyboard
• Color coding to help you reference and learn the note/chord you're playing
• Chords tab to see all chords in each key, with major/minor relationships
• Progressions tab — build your own progressions and hear them play back
- Pick any major or minor key (24 total)
- Tap I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii° to add chords to your track
- Tempo control and loop for practice
- Strum patterns: Whole, Quarter, Eighth, Folk, Rock
- Built-in metronome
The outside ring of the circle has all the major keys. Tap any of them to hear and change the key. The color coding tells you which number each chord is. The middle ring has all the minor keys, and the inner ring has the diminished chords. Tap any chord to hear it, or tap and hold to see how to play it on guitar or piano!
If you're playing in a major key, use the color coding up top to understand the chord relationships. If you're playing in a minor key, use the color coding on the bottom.
Use the Chords tab to play songs in any key, transpose on the fly, and see major/minor key relationships. Use the Progressions tab to compose, practice over a loop, or hear common progressions like I-IV-V or ii-V-I in any key.
A helpful App that gives a useful introduction to this aspect of music theory. Would be even better if it could also show the notes for major & minor pentatonic.
Why Only Guitar ?
MremmyK
Although the App does well in understanding chords in relation to any key, I would like to see an option of changing the instrument in relation to how the chords change. I play a Baritone Ukulele and although the chart goes some way in showing the chord shapes it does not help if one plays a concert or tenor Uke. Otherwise, for someone learning all the notes of a scale, it is very useful.
PERFECT!
weepingman
I’m extremely happy with this app. It’s very lightweight and straight to the point, it’s scaled perfectly on the iPad and it’s helped me a lot in understanding the circle of fifths. Best 0.89 I’ve ever spent.
Serious musical error
Jezar
At the time of writing, the B major chord sound on the wheel appears to have a BSus sound sample, so it can’t be used. Also, the touch responsiveness (on iPhone 14 pro) is so bad as to make the feature of clicking chords on the main wheel unusable. Sometimes touching a chord doesn’t play a chord sample, other times it will. Similar apps respond to touch instantaneously and reliably.
Polishing a few things.
Version 2.1.1
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Information
Provider
Sleep Laugh Studios LLC
Size
9.8 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
