Guitar Scales & Chords Power 4+

Guitar Chords, Scales & Tuner

Thomas Gunter

    • 4.7 • 78 Ratings
    • $5.99

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Description

To improve your guitar playing, learn scales, chords, and the relationship between them. Stay in tune with the tuner and enhance your rhythm by practicing with the metronome.

Practice scale loops to master positions and develop muscle memory. Engage in scale exercises that will improve your finger dexterity and ability to improvise. Begin slowly and gradually increase your speed as you improve.

Play scales and chords by swiping across the strings. The direction of the swipe determines whether the playback is ascending or descending. Tap on a note to play it.

Scale positions correspond to the CAGED system, which consists of five patterns that cover the fretboard for each scale. The chord shape for each position is displayed to assist you in learning it in any key.

The tuner offers a chromatic mode or the option to select from various tunings.

The tuner and instruments use an adj. reference frequency, set to 410 Hz - 470 Hz (default A = 440 Hz).

The Circle of Fifths displays common chords for a key, aiding in composing music, learning key signatures, and transposing songs to different keys.

Metronome provides click and drum voices, beat subdivisions, and tap to set the BPM (10 - 400). Time signatures: 2/2, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 3/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, and 12/8.

Create PDF diagrams (color and black-and-white) of scale positions or all notes on a full fretboard, as well as diagrams of all chord notes on a full fretboard. These 8.5” x 11” PDFs are easy to print, save, and share.


FEATURES:

• Chromatic tuner
• Scale position and exercise loops with adj. playback speed
• Chord and scale information, including their compatibility
• Chord/scale notes display letter, interval, and fingering
• Chord/scale playback - choose from 5 instruments and set them independently
• Count-in option before scale playback
• Play scales and chords together to hear them in combination
• 48 alternate tunings
• Guitar display (vertical/horizontal and right/left-handed)
• iPhone - zoom in/out to see the complete fretboard
• iPad - 3 fretboards: full, scales, and chords
• One-time purchase usable on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch


SCALES:

Pentatonic etc:
Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, Blues (Minor Blues), Major Blues

Major modes:
Ionian (Major), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (Relative Minor) and Locrian

Harmonic Minor modes:
Harmonic Minor, Phrygian Dominant (Spanish Gypsy)

Melodic Minor modes:
Melodic Minor Ascending (Jazz Minor), Dorian b2 (Javanese), Lydian Augmented, Lydian Dominant (Overtone), Mixolydian b6 (Hindu), Locrian #2 (Half-Diminished), Super Locrian (Altered)

Symmetrical:
Chromatic, Half/Whole Diminished (Octatonic), Whole/Half Diminished, Whole Tone

Miscellaneous:
Bebop Dominant


CHORDS:

Major:
Major, Major 7th (maj7), Major 9th (maj9), Major 13th (maj13), Major 6th (6), Major add9 (add9), and Major 6add9 (6/9)

Minor:
Minor (m), Minor 7th (m7), Minor 9th (m9), Minor 11th (m11), Minor 13th (m13), Minor 6th (m6), Minor Major 7th (m(maj7)), and Minor 7th b5th (m7b5) (Half-Diminished)

Dominant:
Dominant 7th (7), Dominant 9th (9), Dominant 11th (11), Dominant 13th (13), and Dominant 7th sus4th (7sus4)

Altered Dominant:
Dominant 7th b5th (7b5), Dominant 7th #5th (7#5), Dominant 7th b9th (7b9), and Dominant 7th #9th (7#9)

Other:
Augmented (aug), Diminished (dim), Diminished 7th (dim7), Perfect 5th (5) (Power Chord), Suspended 2nd (sus2), and Suspended 4th (sus4)


TUNINGS:

Standard, Std. Half Step Down, Std. Full Step Down, Drop D, Drop C#/Db, Drop C, Drop B, Drop A#/Bb, Drop A, Drop G#/Ab, Drop G, Drop F#/Gb, Drop F, Drop E, Double Drop D, Double Drop C#/Db, Double Drop C, Open A, Open A Alt., Open A Slide, Open C, Open D, Open E, Open F, Open G, Cross-note A, Cross-note A Alt., Cross-note C, Cross-note D, Cross-note E, Cross-note G, Asus4, Csus2, Dsus2, Dsus4 (Dad-Gad), Esus2, Esus4, Gsus2, Gsus4, E Modal, Bruce Palmer Modal, All Fourths, Baritone, C6, Dad-Gad (Dsus4), Dad-Dad, Dobro, Lute, New Standard

What’s New

Version 2.4.5

Changing fretboard note label type (letters, intervals or finger) no longer stops scale playback.

Performance improvements.
Thanks for the feedback and reviews!

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
78 Ratings

78 Ratings

Noble Wolf ,

THE BEST GUITAR APP AVAILABLE

I have been studying and playing guitar for many years. I play blues and other styles and I use many alternate tunings. I have been looking for something like this and am grateful I found it. This app is outstanding for understanding music theory, scales and chords, in any tuning. It allows the user to print out in color all possible scales and chords for any tuning. Even if you only use standard tuning this is a wonderful learning app. I think the developer is a genius for taking such complex data and making it so usable. And the app is free with no additional charges - very unusual. I recommend this for any guitar player no matter the experience level. Thank you Thomas Gunther!

Wolfie

CarbonFiberGuitar ,

Well Designed, Very Useful App

I’ve had this app for a few years now. It’s one of a few apps I use every day. It was useful to me as an absolute beginner, and has become more useful as an early intermediate.

I’m using this on an iPad Pro 12.9. It is a ‘horizontal’ only app on iPad, but works in both horizontal positions, so is OK for us left-handers. Would be nice if it worked in all orientations like the iPhone version.

Their privacy policy is decent. I’ve been deleting a lot of apps now that Apple requires them to disclose their spyware policies. This app is staying on my device, but I would prefer they gathered no data at all.

I have forgotten how much I paid for the app, but whatever it was, I’ve gotten my money’s worth. I’m really glad this is a paid app, and not a subscription, as I never subscribe to any apps.

TylerTheWonderBoy ,

Genius!

This may be the only app that many people may need for practicing scales and arpeggios. Take a couple minutes to learn how it’s laid out and that will convince you. I have several apps for my iPad and Mac for creating scales and fingerboard patterns that overlap in functionality but none compare to this one in terms of functionality and simplicity for learning scales and chords. Kudos to the developer for providing relevant functionality without adding complicating features!

App Privacy

The developer, Thomas Gunter, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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