Description
Never forget a chord anymore. Pianochords allows you to easily look up all those nasty keyboard and piano chords. Major, minor, sus, flat and sharp, they are all there. Just press a key on the keyboard to set the root of the chord and click the display to select the derived chord.
The perfect companion for every piano and keyboard player!
FEATURES
- choose from over 50 derived chords from all 12 keys
- shift chords up and down to see all variants
- toggle between single key and chord mode
- uses openAL to play selected chords using high-quality piano samples.
- great looking and super intuitive user interface
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
A great app -- but missing one, important feature.
Congrats to the developer on a beautifully designed and useful app. Much attention has been given to detail, which makes for a very rich, pleasant user-experience. However, a very important feature is missing: The developer assumes that the user already *knows* the name of the chord he or she wants to hear. That's an academic, analytical approach. But more often than not, musicians are simply creating music, they stumble upon a chord they like, then find themselves wondering -- "What chord is that?" Or a keyboard player's working with a guitar player who wants to know what chord's being played in a certain spot. You can show him the notes you're hitting, but if he doesn't play piano, knowing the name of the chord would move things along.... So the following would make Pianochords far more useful: (a) The user taps the notes of the chord in question (causing each note to be highlighted); (b) The user confirms that all notes have been entered (perhaps by double-tapping the last one); then (c) Pianochords displays the name of the chord that was spelled! - If the chord is nonsensical or unknown, Pianochords would simply say so. - Also, if removing a note would make a nameable chord, Pianochords would indicate this by changing the "stray" note to another color and displaying the name of the chord spelled by the remaining notes. It baffles me that developers of apps like this never think of this feature. Maybe it's a left-brain/right-brain thing. :-) Please consider adding this functionality.
Great App
I read and play chords just fine, except when it gets real complicated. So, this is a great reference tool. Having a single note playing feature is very nice, too. My 10-year old son who is a piano student loves to play with this app. He is learning as he plays with it. Essentially it's like having a mini piano in my pocket. It's very useful. I no longer need a pitch pipe. Thank you for the great app!
Nice...
Just what I was looking for for just $2. This will help me compose. The highlight of the black keys is a little hard to see, but functionally it's sound so far. Thanks.
- $1.99
- Category: Music
- Released: Sep 14, 2008
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 3.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: mekentosj.com
- © 2008 Mekentosj BV
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 2.0 or later
