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Chordbook 1.5
- New Mandola view shows chords & scales for mandola. Requested by Robert Fernander!
Chordbook 1.4
- New Mandolin view shows chords & scales for mandolin.
- Note Mandolin view only supports 1 tuning right now, standard mandolin GDAE.
- New Home screen replaces the boring old menu with a graphical UI that looks/works like your iPhone's desktop
Chordbook 1.3
- New 'Scales' view shows you all the chords you can play in a scale, grouped by scale step.
- You can easily jump into the 'Guitar Chords' view from the 'Scales' view
- Improved menu UI
- Where there is enough space, I have now started showing longer chord names, i.e. 'C# /Db' instead of just 'C#'
- Changed help presentation a little, to make it more readable, and more obvious that you're in the help section.
Chordbook 1.2
- New menu for quicker navigation around views
- New view: "Guitar Chords" for quick, easy lookup of 2,448 chords!
- New view: "What's This Chord?" - simply dial in the shape you are playing, and Chordbook will tell you what chord(s) it might be, and let you view them in the "Guitar Chords" view.
- Improved UI in the original Guitar/Keyboard/Bass views
- Improved UI in the Options view
- New Help menu with lots more information. Help also now available from most views in the app.
- New icon & splash-screen
Chordbook 1.1
- Added new Options view, available from the "Options" button on the toolbar. It's an easy way to change any of the apps options:
- View: change views, or note display modes.
- Chord: change chord root and type.
- Scale: change scale root and type.
- Tuning: Change tuning type.
Chordbook 1.0
- 10 tunings: Standard, DADGBE, DADGAD, DADF#AD, DGDGBD, Open C, Open D, Open Dm, Open E, Open G
- 14 scales: Major (Ionian), Natural Minor (Aolian), Harmonic Minor, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Locrian, Jazz Melodic Minor, Lydian Flat 7, Whole Tone, Pentatonic (Major), Pentatonic (Minor), Blues
- 34 chords: M, 6, 6/9, M7, M9, M11, M13, m, m6, m7, m7-5, m9, m11, m13, 7, 7+5, 7-5, 7/6, 9, 9+5, 9-5, 9/6, 11, -5, -9, -9+5, -9-5, +5, +9, +11, dim, dim7, sus4, sus7
- 3 note display modes - name, roman & numeric
- Random chord
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General
- When you run Chordbook, it starts here at the home screen.
- This presents all the views in Chordbook in a similar way to the iPhone desktop.
- Tap on any item in the menu to see it.
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General
- The guitar chords view contains 2,448 chords for the guitar
- Use the dials to select a chord root, chord type, and up to 6 variations on where to play the chord on the fretboard.
Toolbar
- Tap the Help button to view help for this view.
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General
- Sometimes you may have stumbled across a great shape on the guitar fretboard, but you don't know what chord it is.
- Spin the dials in this view to match the fret positions that you are holding, and Chordbook will tell you what chord it is.
- Tap on any of the chords to see it in the Guitar Chords view.
Toolbar
- Tap the Help button to view help for this view.
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General
- This view shows you all of the available chords that work in the selected scale
- Spin the dials to select a scale root and scale type.
- Chords are grouped together by their step in the scale.
- Tap on any of the chords to see it in the Guitar Chords view.
Toolbar
- Tap the Help button to view help for this view.
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General
- This is an advanced view!
Note Colors
- Blue & Green notes are in the selected scale.
- Green notes are in the selected chord.
- Red notes are in the chord but NOT in the scale.
Toolbar
- Tap the Edit button to see the Options view, which allows easy editing of chord, scale, tuning, and note view type.
Quick Editing
- Tap a note to set it as the chord root
- Double tap a note to set it as the scale root
- Slide to the left of the fretboard to change scale
- Slide to the right of the fretboard to change chord
- Slide at the top of the fretboard to change tuning
- Shake for a random chord
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General
- This is an advanced view!
Note Colors
- Blue & Green notes are in the selected scale.
- Green notes are in the selected chord.
- Red notes are in the chord but NOT in the scale.
Toolbar
- Tap the Edit button to see the Options view, which allows easy editing of chord, scale, tuning, and note view type.
Quick Editing
- Tap a note to set it as the chord root
- Double tap a note to set it as the scale root
- Slide to the left of the keyboard to change scale
- Slide to the right of the keyboard to change chord
- Slide at the top of the keyboard to change tuning
- Shake for a random chord
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General
- This is an advanced view!
Note Colors
- Blue & Green notes are in the selected scale.
- Green notes are in the selected chord.
- Red notes are in the chord but NOT in the scale.
Toolbar
- Tap the Edit button to see the Options view, which allows easy editing of chord, scale, tuning, and note view type.
Quick Editing
- Tap a note to set it as the chord root
- Double tap a note to set it as the scale root
- Slide to the left of the fretboard to change scale
- Slide to the right of the fretboard to change chord
- Slide at the top of the fretboard to change tuning
- Shake for a random chord
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General
- This is an advanced view!
- Note: only supports 1 tuning right now, standard mandolin GDAE.
Note Colors
- Blue & Green notes are in the selected scale.
- Green notes are in the selected chord.
- Red notes are in the chord but NOT in the scale.
Toolbar
- Tap the Edit button to see the Options view, which allows easy editing of chord, scale, tuning, and note view type.
Quick Editing
- Tap a note to set it as the chord root
- Double tap a note to set it as the scale root
- Slide to the left of the fretboard to change scale
- Slide to the right of the fretboard to change chord
- Shake for a random chord
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General
- This is an advanced view!
- Note: only supports 1 tuning right now, standard mandola CGDA.
Note Colors
- Blue & Green notes are in the selected scale.
- Green notes are in the selected chord.
- Red notes are in the chord but NOT in the scale.
Toolbar
- Tap the Edit button to see the Options view, which allows easy editing of chord, scale, tuning, and note view type.
Quick Editing
- Tap a note to set it as the chord root
- Double tap a note to set it as the scale root
- Slide to the left of the fretboard to change scale
- Slide to the right of the fretboard to change chord
- Shake for a random chord
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General
- Select what to edit in the menu at the top
- Spin the dials to change your preference.
Toolbar
- Tap the Help button to view help for this view.
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General
- Most other views have a help button on them, but the Help Menu lets you access all the help in the system from one place, instead of having to navigate through all the other views.
- It also has some additional help info, indicated with the yellow dots.
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