IPhone Apps
Gibson Guitar App Review
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Superficially, the Gibson Learn and Master Guitar app looks like a great app, and it’s hard to argue with the price (free!) when comparable apps may run $10. The Gibson guitar app features a tuner, metronome, chord charts, and video lesson previews, as well as a link to Gibson.com. It features some similarities to the [...]
Guitar Rock Tour Review
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011It’s hard to deny the power of a phenomenon. Every since the first Guitar Hero hit the shelves, video games have changed, so much so that it’s become a whole new genre of game. Guitar Rock Tour is a solid implementation of this for the iPhone. If you’re not familiar with the gameplay basics at [...]
Tab Toolkit Review
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011Tab Toolkit is another winner from the makers of Guitar Toolkit (the hands-down best guitar utility app I’ve seen). Tab Toolkit is a full-featured player for “Guitar Pro” .gp5 files – sophisticated tab files which include timing information. For any song with an available .gp5 file, Tab Toolkit will play a midi rendition of the [...]
Guitar Studio Review
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011The core idea of Guitar Studio is that you can play a song by pressing buttons that represent chords, and then strum your finger across virtual strings to create the sound of the instrument. By arranging chord buttons however you want them, you can make it possible to play a variety of recognizable songs. The [...]
TouchChords Premium Review
Monday, February 7th, 2011There are a lot of good intentions in TouchChords Premium. Its creators have put some good thought into what sorts of chords a young player needs to learn, they’ve organized them into lessons that make sense, and they’ve gone through the effort to make videos of the lessons so you can see and hear what [...]
Pocket Guitar Review
Monday, February 7th, 2011PocketGuitar is a fun little app which lets your iPhone act like a guitar. It shows you a fretboard, and you can hold chords and strum. Different settings allow you to use the guitar as an electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, or even a ukulele or a bass. The sound can further be modified [...]
7Chords Review
Sunday, February 6th, 20117Chords is a chord-chart iPhone app for guitarists. It’s pretty simple: dial in the root note, select what form of chord you want, and then slide around to see charts of different positions on the neck. It’s a simple implementation of a useful tool. The biggest problem with this application is that, quite simply, there [...]
ChordMaster Review
Sunday, February 6th, 2011ChordMaster is a great little reference guitar iPhone app. What it does is quite simple: you tell it what chord you want, and it shows you where to press on the fretboard, including advice about what finger to use, all up and down the guitar neck. What really elevates this app compared to a variety [...]
Scale Wizard Review
Saturday, February 5th, 2011Scale Wizard is a useful, inexpensive app from Planet Waves – a company known for making a lot of good entry-level guitar gear and, of course, D’addario strings. The app itself is very simple: you use scrolling menus to select a scale, mode, or arpeggio. It then displays a scrollable fretboard with that scale clearly [...]
Guitar Toolkit Review
Saturday, February 5th, 2011If you’re looking for an all-purpose, useful guitar utility, look no further than Guitar Toolkit. You’ve found it. Guitar Toolkit is the guitar iPhone app that every pro player I know has on their iPhone. It’s the one you’ll see somebody pull out of their pocket at a late-night jam session to check tunings or [...]
