For the six-string guitar
Fingerstyle &Strumming
Pick a chord. Hear the pattern over it.
Seventeen fingerpicking patterns and thirty strums play over any chord, a key’s progressions or your own, in standard, drop D, DADGAD, open G or open D. The thumb’s bass follows the chord, and every shape is worked out from the tuning, not copied from a chart.
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GStandard · EADGBE
All shapes →Slash chords
The thumb follows the bass
On a guitar the thumb plays the lowest note. When a shape puts another chord note there, it’s named for it, D/F♯ or C/G, and that’s how a bass line walks. Here is the walkdown in G, as the app builds it from the numerals I, V/3, vi, IV: watch the gold note step down string 6, then hop to string 5.
Basic Travis over each chord, a bar each, the thumb alternating from the bass.
Five tunings and your own
One chord, solved five ways
Nothing here is a chart. Change the tuning and every shape is searched again, for the fingers a real hand can hold. This is the same chord worked out for each tuning the app carries. Tap one to hear it.
Seventeen picking patterns
Travis picking six ways (thumb only, basic, ring on top, with a pinch, the roll, the four-string bass), the p-i-m-i, p-i-m-a, p-a-m-i and p-i-m-a-m-i arpeggios, a waltz, Travis in 3/4, a Rising Sun 6/8, boom-chick and the Carter scratch.
Thirty strums, down and up
Downs from the bass, ups lighter across the top. Misses drawn so the hand keeps moving. Chucks, palm mute, accents and swing, in eighths, sixteenths, 3/4 and 6/8: old faithful, the island strum, boom-chicka, the train beat, the shuffle.
One player for everything
Loop a pattern over one chord, a key’s progressions or your own, from I IV V to Freight Train’s ragtime turn. Change the chord, pattern or tempo mid-loop and it changes on the next note.
The tunings fingerstyle uses
- StandardEADGBE
- Drop DDADGBE
- DADGADDADGAD
- Open GDGDGBD
- Open DDADF♯AD
Or your own six notes, and a capo up to the 9th fret, with the shapes counted from it.
The chords of any key
Major, mixolydian, dorian, minor and fifteen more modes, pentatonics and blues among them, as guitar shapes with their progressions. A key with no open home chord shows where the capo goes.
Finder and tuner
Tap a fret on each string and the finder names the chord, slash chords included. The tuner hears which string of your tuning you’re playing. Sound is analysed on your phone and never recorded.
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