Hello everyone,
I play acoustic guitar on weekend for fun and I was wondering If there are any apps for guitar on smartphone. Now I use tunerly to tune easily the guitar and it’s great. I check tabs on the site of Ultimateguitar with the smartphone but I find it not very easy to use (I have to check it in “Desktop” mode by smartphone to read the tabs better). Do you know any other good apps for guitar? Thanks
IReal pro for chord charts and backing practice.
Chord AI is good for “what’s the chords in this YouTube video”
https://www.sheetmusicscanner.com is useful for I have sheet music I want to put into guitar pro on the desktop.
Scan; export as musicml; import on desktop. Cleanup.
8Strummer - getting new strum pattens down can be a challenge and this gives a useful visual
The guitar pro app, in general, is mid. The user experience on it is clunky.
But, guitar pro on desktop is incredible. Very valuable tool.
You can download ultimate guitar tabs and play them in guitar pro. You can take those downloaded files and get them on your phone in a very not user friendly way, and then open them on your phone, and the simple feature of playing and seeing that tab is then available to you through the app on your phone.
I found it was very valuable when I was in a band that me and the other guitarist shared a Google drive of guitar pro files, and we would be able to open them on our respective guitar pro apps to reference parts on our phones during practice.
Then there’s the songsterr app. Much better user experience, I think it’s free? The guitar pro app is useless if you don’t purchase guitar pro. The trouble with the songster app is that you don’t get to make or modify any of the tabs, it’s just a resource.
But, those are the two that I use.
I used Tux Guitar in my Linux days, and that worked well enough for what I needed it for as a Guitar Pro substitute.
As a curmudgeon I must ask - why did you abandon linux?
No reason in particular, and technically it’s still my most used OS if we’re counting Android.
Most of my work is on company Windows laptops, and most of my personal things are just done on my phone these days.
I do have a few old laptops I keep alive with Linux LiveUSBs of various things, but I did live from the end of the XP years until Windows 7 with just Linux at home.
Still a lover of FOSS, and always try to find a solution there first when I need new software, but I never became a zealot. The older I get, the more I want stuff to “just work,” so I don’t mind if the solution is open or not, for example.
I would like to play around with a current “full power” distro again, but the next computer I actually purchase will likely be for music production, so it will also probably be Windows just so I don’t need to worry about compatibility.
The Fender Tune app is pretty useful. It has a tuner, metronome and you can look up scales and chords. It’s also free.
I’m a fan of Songsterr. The website and the app.are good, even if you dont subscribe
I didn’t know there was an app! I use the website constantly.
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Mapping and Tonal Harmony Pro: a master class on the harmonic possibilities of any standard or uploaded track. As an idiot guitar player, I can barely understand it.
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Peterson Strobe tuner (with sweeteners)
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ultimate guitar tab: for its ubiquity. Someone should rip it and open source that library. Fuck ultimate guitar. Still, their app has allllll of the tabs.
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garage band: in the iOS ecosystem is absurdly good…and I am a master of Avid, Pro Tools, Live, and Logic but I haven’t really looked back.
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I use metronome beats for a metronome.
“TonalEnergy Tuner & Metronome” is easily the best money I have spent on an app, ever
Not specifically for guitar but MusicSheets is the best app to collect songs into collections and setlists for performance.
!guitars@lemmy.world might be helpful
Oolimo, the website and phone app is a great resource for me. It lets you enter notes on a fretboard to identify chords.
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A human teaching you. I would have never learned guitar without. But okay might be a useless comment
