Thursday, March 11th, 2010
This week we had the pleasure of test driving one of TouchChord’s newest iPhone apps - the TouchChord’s Songbook Rolling Stones. TouchChords has built a new way to learn music and practice guitar using your iPhone. They’ve built a suite of iPhone apps and have recently released a set of “songbooks” that include music from The Rolling Stones, The Police, Cat Stevens and James Taylor among others.
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Gibson has decided to get into the mobile app game and released their first effort with the “Gibson Guitar App“. The app features a tuner that can handle chromatic as well as open tunings, a metronome with tap tempo, chord charts and video lessons. After playing around with the app for a little while we’ve found it’s best feature to be it’s price - free.
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Paul Reed Smith has released a new iPhone app that combines a guitar amp simulator, an accurate tuner, and a song practice tool which lets you upload your original ideas, jam along to hits, and slow down riffs and solos for easier learning. The new iPhone app is called the PRS Jam Amp and is on sale now in the iTunes store for $9.99.
Before you buy make sure you’ve read this review. There are some considerations to think about before buying the app.
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
We had the opportunity to get to test out another iPhone app geared for guitar players. The iStroboSoft from Peterson Tuners is a visual tuner that features their classic “rolling LEDs” that slow and stop as you get closer to being in tune. It’s a great feature that’s become a distinguishing feature on Peterson Tuners and makes tuning a simple visual process.
The iStroboSoft (opens iTunes) is the best iPhone guitar tuner we’ve see to date. The iStroboSoft provides the best tuning accuracy we’ve seen and comes with a couple extra features that really make this app stand out among guitar tuners on the iPhone. Highly recommended iPhone app. Full story…
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
We were just given a chance to preview a new iPhone app for guitar players called FretBoard. FretBoard is similar to many other guitar iPhone apps in some respects but also has some neat features that separate it from the pack. It’s big differentiation from others is the fact that it supports many stringed instruments including the guitar, banjo, bouzouki, bass, mandolin, violin, viola, cello, lute, viola da gamba, ukulele, dulcimer, all Chapman Sticks and Warr guitars. Extra points if you even know those last two instruments.
We’ve added the app to our iPhone Apps For Guitar Player’s page. Read the Full story…
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Here at Fretbase we’re big into guitars (you may have already realized this), but we also are big fans of technology. Sure, it is nice to sit back with a small bodied acoustic and try to figure out a blues tune. But we don’t have time for that now. Apple has launched an iPhone App Store!
Combining two of our passions, we are providing here a list of new iPhone apps that we’d expect to be of particular appeal to the iPhone owning guitarist (e.g., Brian and me).
Update: Many new applications added. See the new list at iPhone Apps for Guitar Players.
