If you are learning the Guitar like I am, I recently found some really nice Apps for Android devices. These apps can help you learn some things faster and more easily, especially the Gibson's learn and master Guitar.
1) Gibson's Learn and Master Guitar.
This is one very, very good application for Androids for learning the guitar. This one is for complete beginners. It starts from complete basics, from the parts of a Guitar to how to start playing and practicing. The application links to a series of You Tube instruction videos which are easy to follow and practice with.
There is even a guitar tuner in the app which works fairly accurately but background and other noise can interfere with it. To overcome this, the mic of your android device needs to be as close as possible to the guitar's sounding hole.
Also, the tuner allows you to tune the guitar to other than the Standard tuning (I don't know what you mean by non-standard tuning, since I am still learning :) ). The app also has a metronome and a pictorial reference of the many different guitar cords. The images show you the string numbers, fret numbers and even the fingers that should be used for pressing down on the frets to form the chord. Register on their site and you will receive one mail daily with tips on how to improve your skills and learn better. Till now, I have found a couple of tips extremely helpful and was immediately able to improve my barre chord playing, The second tip was on how to become faster at playing, eventually. This app is a serious must have for any beginner, even more if you plan to learn on your own and without a teacher. For more advanced levels, I recommend buying the entire DVD set and booklets.
The best part is the app is free!
Here is a review on You Tube about the DVD set.
2) Jambox
This application shows you chords of the guitar pictorially. Chords can be selected from a predefined list and variations of the same chord are show one after the other by clicking/touching the on-screen fretboard. However, unlike Gibson's learn and master guitar, it shows you the notes/frets that need to be played but does not guide you on the fingers that need to be used.
Shaking the device then plays the chord out loud on the speaker, which is a pretty neat idea and can be used for some amount of playing with your device.(read, pretend like you are strumming the guitar)
The applications also shows you many different scales. I have not reached that level of musical abilities yet so I shall say no more about it.
3) Guitar Chords Lite.
This app shows you guitar chords in tablature format rather than pictorially. The basic version is free and the paid version is Rs. 63.07. The paid version has the following extras :-
- 400 chords
- left hand /right hand mode
- 1460 variations
- 1460 midi songs
- scales
- reverse chord search
4) Guitar Tabs
This app is mind blowing. It contains many guitar tabs for reference, with a large number of artists and many of their songs. It covers everything from Abba, Britney Spears (yuck) to AC/DC, Megadeth, Iron Maiden and most importantly METALLICA! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! I am completely in awe of the level of detail and the number of songs covered. Metallica coverage is the most important one for me, and this app will surely impress in that area.
It is too early for me at least to pick and try any Metallica songs, but just knowing that I have them at my fingertips, makes me very very happy :D.
So, if you are a beginner, then the above apps can come in handy to learn some things faster or more easily.
If you come across some nice, helpful guitar apps for android, do leave a comment about them.
In the mean time if you are looking for some guitar teaching books, have a look here.
Happy learning and KEEP ROCKING.
1) Gibson's Learn and Master Guitar.
This is one very, very good application for Androids for learning the guitar. This one is for complete beginners. It starts from complete basics, from the parts of a Guitar to how to start playing and practicing. The application links to a series of You Tube instruction videos which are easy to follow and practice with.
There is even a guitar tuner in the app which works fairly accurately but background and other noise can interfere with it. To overcome this, the mic of your android device needs to be as close as possible to the guitar's sounding hole.
Also, the tuner allows you to tune the guitar to other than the Standard tuning (I don't know what you mean by non-standard tuning, since I am still learning :) ). The app also has a metronome and a pictorial reference of the many different guitar cords. The images show you the string numbers, fret numbers and even the fingers that should be used for pressing down on the frets to form the chord. Register on their site and you will receive one mail daily with tips on how to improve your skills and learn better. Till now, I have found a couple of tips extremely helpful and was immediately able to improve my barre chord playing, The second tip was on how to become faster at playing, eventually. This app is a serious must have for any beginner, even more if you plan to learn on your own and without a teacher. For more advanced levels, I recommend buying the entire DVD set and booklets.
The best part is the app is free!
Here is a review on You Tube about the DVD set.
2) Jambox
This application shows you chords of the guitar pictorially. Chords can be selected from a predefined list and variations of the same chord are show one after the other by clicking/touching the on-screen fretboard. However, unlike Gibson's learn and master guitar, it shows you the notes/frets that need to be played but does not guide you on the fingers that need to be used.
Shaking the device then plays the chord out loud on the speaker, which is a pretty neat idea and can be used for some amount of playing with your device.(read, pretend like you are strumming the guitar)
The applications also shows you many different scales. I have not reached that level of musical abilities yet so I shall say no more about it.
3) Guitar Chords Lite.
This app shows you guitar chords in tablature format rather than pictorially. The basic version is free and the paid version is Rs. 63.07. The paid version has the following extras :-
- 400 chords
- left hand /right hand mode
- 1460 variations
- 1460 midi songs
- scales
- reverse chord search
4) Guitar Tabs
This app is mind blowing. It contains many guitar tabs for reference, with a large number of artists and many of their songs. It covers everything from Abba, Britney Spears (yuck) to AC/DC, Megadeth, Iron Maiden and most importantly METALLICA! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! I am completely in awe of the level of detail and the number of songs covered. Metallica coverage is the most important one for me, and this app will surely impress in that area.
It is too early for me at least to pick and try any Metallica songs, but just knowing that I have them at my fingertips, makes me very very happy :D.
So, if you are a beginner, then the above apps can come in handy to learn some things faster or more easily.
If you come across some nice, helpful guitar apps for android, do leave a comment about them.
In the mean time if you are looking for some guitar teaching books, have a look here.
Happy learning and KEEP ROCKING.
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