Author: Wired Product Reviews. Gear Date of Publication: 02.07.13. 02.07.13 Time of Publication: 6:14 am. 6:14 am School of Rock: 5 Apps for Learning the Guitar Sub Title: School of Rock: 5 Apps for Learning the Guitar Left Image: HardWire HT-6 Fasttune. Right Image: GuitarToolKit Tune, strum, solo, and shred with apps designed to help you get the most out of your six-string. School of Rock: 5 Apps for Learning the Guitar Wired More than two dozen options for metronome click sound, plus 22 for time signature. Tired Despite price, still requires additional in-app purchase for printable chord sheets. How We Rate 1/10A complete failure in every way 2/10Barely functional; don’t buy it 3/10Serious flaws; proceed with caution 4/10Downsides outweigh upsides 5/10Recommended with reservations 6/10A solid product with some issues 7/10Very good, but not quite great 8/10Excellent, with room to kvetch 9/10Nearly flawless, buy it now 10/10Metaphysical product perfection GuitarToolKit With a tuner, a metronome, a chord finder, and scale guides, this app is a must-have for every guitar player with an iPhone. (Don’t worry, banjo, ukulele, and mandolin players; the app can be set to work with your instruments too.) It also supports custom tunings and left- or right-handedfingering. $9.99 iOS | Guitar Lessons: Rock Prodigy Think of it as Rock Band with an actual guitar. Rock Prodigy helps you work on your chops by using your device’s microphone or a direct line-in to hear how well your actual playing matches the notes scrolling across your screen. Choose between free lessons or the $4-a-pop instructional sessions built around songs by bands like Modest Mouse and Megadeth. WIRED Difficulty settings range from Easy to Prodigy. Progressive lessons will help you move through at least some of those levels. TIRED Note detection through mic is iffy. $19.99 iOS | Ultimate Guitar Tabs Search Ultimate Guitar’s massive online repository of guitar tablature by title, difficulty, or rating, or see a list of what’s popular now. Interactivity is mostly limited to transposition and auto-scroll, but if you want to know the chord changes to “Owner of a Lonely Heart” in a hurry, it’ll give you what you need. WIRED Tab Packs provide an overview of genres from grunge toChristmas songs. TIRED Tabs become difficult to read if phone is more than an arm’s length away. $2.99 iOS | $2.99 Android | $2.99 WP | Guitar Jam Tracks: Scale Trainer & Practice Buddy Is that a band in your pocket? Choose a major or minor key and hit Play. Jam Tracks provides drum and rhythm-guitar backing for you to practice pentatonic scales or just rock out. WIRED Shows chords and scales that work for current track. TIRED Tracks last three to five minutes—or about 1/14,000 as long as a true jam session. Free iOS | HardWire HT-6 FastTune Traditional guitar tuners allow you to tweak only one string at a time. With FastTune, you strum all your strings at once, and colored dots—blue is good, red is bad—appear on the onscreen fretboard to tell you which parts of your E-A-D-G-B-E array are out. (It also works as a plain old single-note tuner.) WIRED Capo mode with automatic fret detection. TIRED Supports only one alternate guitar tuning: drop-D. $4.99 iOS | Share Comment Share Comment
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