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Guitar tools is a multi-platform application for Guitar and Bass Players of any style. It can also be used by other fretted instruments players, as you can customize the number of strings , from 4 to 7, the strings and neck appearances, and the tunings to use. It's a learning tool which helps you finding scales, chords, voicing, harmony and practicing. It comes with a bunch of useful features and customization : right and left handed neck, different guitar and bass sounds, metronome, favorites tunes, circle of fifths, diatonic chords and scales, printing and copying the neck, ... The
What's New
Version 1.1:
- Sharps and flats notation !
- Circle window : Tonality Helper
- Tools window : Add a BPM detector
- Preference window: note preview
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Downloads:9,222 |
| Version Downloads:705 |
| Type:Home & Personal : Music |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:27 Sep 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $10.99 |
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Guitar tools is a multi-platform application for Guitar and Bass Players of any style. It can also be used by other fretted instruments players, as you can customize the number of strings , from 4 to 7, the strings and neck appearances, and the tunings to use. It's a learning tool which helps you finding scales, chords, voicing, harmony and practicing. It comes with a bunch of useful features and customization : right and left handed neck, different guitar and bass sounds, metronome, favorites tunes, circle of fifths, diatonic chords and scales, printing and copying the neck, ... The neck can be customized to suit your own guitar : wood, inlays, inlays shapes, frets, strings shapes,... More, you can use several necks and quickly change from one to another. You can open several windows, for example, one showing a chord and another showing the relative scale. The favorites tunes "Player" can play almost any video or sound files. See the screenshots and manual for more details. Guitar Tools is available for Apple Macintosh and Windows, and is localized in english and french at the moment.
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skyebluebill reviewed on 17 Aug 2011
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Amc3 reviewed on 07 Feb 2011
The developer is very responsive and I look forward to GuitarTools as a mobile App.
Thanks, Amc3
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-The neck wasn't upside down.
-The neck was perhaps, vertically aligned, or had an option for such.
-The chords had more options so you can see individual chords rather than every note of the chord strewn across the entire neck. This is a learning tool, not something for professionals to use for reference (what would a professional need to reference?)
-Toss the "diatonic" option, it's nothing more than a series of finger exercises within the major scales. Either make a finger exercise section, or lose this one altogether, me thinks.
Nice app for a freebee, though!
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-Diatonic has nothing to do with finger exercises. I'm not sure why there's harmonic and melodic included as diatonic, though.
-Chords are just a combination of intervals. For example, a Major chord includes the 1,3 and 5 scale degrees. The way these are displayed enables any guitarist to choose the notes he/she wants across the neck. If the software showed you individual chords you would have dozens of chords in a very small graphical space. Maybe the author can include an option to show the basic C-A-G-E-D forms or something similar.
Have a look on the site, there are explanations concerning Diatonic scales ;-)
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Pepelepugh reviewed on 11 Aug 2010
It covers a comprehensive range scale and chord types and even includes a simple circle of fifth reference chart for figuring out chord progressions. The layout is quite intuitive and offers lots of gui customization options. With a little bit of teaking, it really doesn't look half bad at all and my setup now matches my guitar quite nicely.
I'm really quite pleased with this app and hope the developer keeps this project alive for a good while to come because he's definitely off to a very promising start.
Highly recommended.
Keep posted !