A steadier tuner • The needle glides and settles on the note instead of jumping with every reading — on guitar and everything else • Bright, quick-fading strings like a banjo's no longer swing between high and low • "In tune" holds steady right at the edge instead of flickering Banjo • Drills show your picking-hand finger — T, I or M — the way banjo tab is written • New: Clawhammer & Old-Time lessons — the bum-ditty, drop thumb, and Double C and Sawmill tunings — with a Clawhammer drill to practice them Backing Band • A much better electric guitar: played through real recorded speaker cabinets and double-tracked the way records are, for a fuller, warmer sound — and no two strums alike

Your music keeps playing: opening Tonic no longer stops the song you're listening to — play along with it, run the metronome over it, record over it, or let the Key/Chord Finder hear it and name its key and chords. Backing Band • New: a horn section — trumpet, sax and trombone stabs and swells, on the funk, soul, Motown, big-band, ska and Latin feels • Real recorded electric guitar for the clean, crunch and heavy rhythm parts • A better-sounding band: a rounder, in-tune electric bass with real low end, a clearer upright bass, a brighter acoustic guitar, and brighter piano and organ • Save bands you like — feel, tempo, instruments, mix, chords and song structure — and bring them back with one tap • It reopens the way you left it Smoother practice • The screen stays on while you tune, play along, or practice — no more reaching over to wake the phone • The metronome keeps going when you switch to the tuner, until you stop it • After a phone call, the Key/Chord Finder picks back up, and a recording in progress is kept

Backing Band • Your own mix: a volume slider for drums, bass, keys, guitar and pads — turn any part down (or up) while the band plays, from the new Mix button beside Play • A better-balanced band: the bass now sits under the drums instead of on top of them, especially on headphones and speakers • Build your own progressions: tap any chord to make it a 7th or sus, switch it between major and minor, or move it — then save it to play again in any key • The band remembers the last progression you built

Tonic now speaks Spanish: the whole app, from lessons to theory, is translated. Metronome • Keeps playing with the screen locked — so do the Backing Band and practice drills • Subdivisions (8ths, triplets, 16ths), tap any beat to accent, soften or silence it, and odd meters grouped the way they're felt: 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 12/8 • Speed trainer (it speeds up on its own), gap click, four click sounds, flash and vibrate Recorder & Looper • A real looper: record a loop, layer parts over it, undo or mute layers, and save the mix • Practice loop: drag the loop points on the waveform, slow a passage down without changing its pitch, or shift its key • Import songs from Files to learn them, and a count-in before recording Tuner • Viola, cello and double bass; brass and woodwind presets that show the note you read • More tunings: whole-step down, drop C, drop B, open C, open A, open D minor, and more • A strobe display for the finest tuning (Settings) NEW: Brass & Woodwinds • Fingering charts for trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and alto and tenor sax — tap any note to hear it played on a real recorded instrument • Scales and arpeggios with every note's fingering, and how to turn concert notes into yours Theory • New pages: Reading Rhythms (with playback), Reading Tab, Reading Chord Charts, Song Form, and the Nashville Number System with a transposer and capo finder Instruments & Practice • Viola, cello and double bass pages; Practice drills and lessons for viola and cello • Arpeggio shapes up the neck, a bass lines page (root–fifth–octave, walking bass), and banjo rolls written out Key/Chord Finder • A chart by bar: it finds the beat in your playing and puts each chord on its beat, with the tempo, 4/4 or 3/4, and half time or double time iPad • Bigger, easier-to-read screens: the tuner, metronome, fretboards and keyboards grow with the screen, and lists read in a comfortable column

A new layout: Tuner, Metronome and Practice are now tabs, with Theory, Instruments, Backing Band and more in the menu. NEW: Theory • Chord Functions: what each of a key's 1–7 chords does (home, traveling, tension), the major and minor patterns, and where each chord wants to go • Harmonizing: harmonize a melody in 3rds, 6ths and more, in any key • Moving Through Progressions: tap the chord you're on to see where it can go next, and why • Jamming & Improvising: what to aim for over every chord, and when to go where Chords, explained • Every chord now shows how it's built: its formula, each note's interval, how it comes from the major scale, and why it sounds the way it does • Major and minor sit alongside the 7th chords in every chord picker, including piano • Many more chord types for guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and bass: sus, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords Practice • About ten new lessons for each instrument: ear training, playing a whole song, fingerpicking, harmonizing, hearing chord functions, minor keys, borrowed chords, and a review at the end of each unit • New Ear Training drills, including naming chords by ear in a key, with a warmer sound Backing Band • A rebuilt rhythm guitar that sounds far more like a real one • Livelier bass lines that build through each phrase and fill into the next chord Fixes: tapping a song section no longer closes the Backing Band; the first groove now starts with its full band; chord diagrams line up their open and muted strings correctly.

NEW: Practice Drills and Lessons • Guided courses for guitar, piano, bass, mandolin, banjo, violin, and ukulele, from your first notes to improvising in every key. Each lesson is a short read plus drills already set up for it • 44 drills: scales, arpeggios and triads, chord changes, strumming and picking, licks and call-and-response, technique, and more, shown on your neck or keyboard as they play • Triads Through the Changes: move through any progression with triads, smoothly, in one position, in one shape, or climbing the neck • Rhythm & Time drills: a subdivision ladder, a gap click that tests your inner clock, and a click on 2 and 4 • A tempo ladder, keys that rotate around the circle, a daily routine, and a Listen mode that follows you through the mic Backing Band grows into a full band: • Rhythm guitar (acoustic, clean, crunch, or heavy), keys (piano, electric piano, organ, vibraphone, synth), pads, and pedal steel • Punchier drums and a fuller bass, plus drum machines and synth basses, all mixed like a studio record • New blues styles: Classic, Chicago, and Texas shuffles, Delta blues, and blues rock, each loading the 12-bar form • New pop styles: pop rock, '80s synth pop, indie, tropical, and bedroom pop • 20 named progressions, and any song section can have its own chords Resources: • Progression Voicings for guitar, mandolin, ukulele, and banjo: see any progression as full chord shapes or as triads on any three strings, and how each chord moves to the next • 60+ chord progressions, an explainer on how progressions work, and every mode shown as the progression that makes it sound like itself • Sharper chord diagrams: the open and muted-string markers now line up with their strings on shapes higher up the neck

Backing Band (Beta), rebuilt from the ground up: - A new sound engine: tight, sample-accurate timing, a balanced mix, smoother piano voicings, and much faster loading - 20 genres and 76 feels. Pick a genre, then the exact feel: Motown's Stomp, reggae's One Drop, jazz's Two-Feel, bossa nova, boom bap, and many more - New genres: Country, Folk & Bluegrass, Reggae & Ska, Latin, Hip-Hop, Gospel, Disco & Dance, Metal, Spaghetti Western, Desert Rock, and Psychedelic & Jam - One-tap Slow, Medium, and Fast tempos for every feel - New Swing and Energy controls, adjustable while the band plays - Build your own chord progression, or edit any of the built-in ones - A now-playing bar shows the section, bar, and current chord, with Play/Stop always in reach - Keeps playing when you plug in headphones or connect Bluetooth

- NEW: Backing Band (Beta) - drums, bass, and optional piano or strings that follow your chords - Three ways to feed it chords: play live on guitar, pick a saved Song, or choose a key and a built-in progression (12-bar blues, ii-V-I, classic pop turnarounds, and more) - 12 grooves - Rock, Rock Ballad, Blues Shuffle, Funk, Jazz Swing, Waltz, Pop, Motown, Soul, Big Band, Lofi Chill, Synthwave - each sets a fitting drum kit, bass, and comping instrument automatically - Editable song structure (Intro/Verse/Chorus/etc) that advances automatically or on a tap - Auto-Start: arms itself and starts playing the moment it hears you play a chord, and picks up the tempo from your own playing - All Strings tuner now notes it works best with your instrument connected directly - Fixed a couple of sheet-music notation bugs: beamed note stems and flags on eighth/sixteenth notes now draw correctly - New Credits screen (Settings) for the sample libraries behind Backing Band

- Capo mode: tune with a capo on and see the notes your strings actually sound - Transpose display for Bb, Eb, and F instruments - Choose sharps or flats everywhere; notes are now spelled correctly for their key - New readout setting: show +/- cents instead of Hz under the note, great for setting intonation - Tap tempo on the metronome - Works in landscape, and on iPad - Chord Finder for bass, ukulele, mandolin, and banjo, with every dot labeled by chord tone - Scales now highlight what makes each mode sound like itself - Note Finder quiz and a rebuilt Reading Sheet Music section, with real staff notation - Tuner and All-strings accuracy improvements; Key/Chord Finder ignores noise and talking far better - Fixed the tuner sometimes needing an app restart after visiting another screen