If music has seduced your soul, you’ll have picked up one of the
basic but iconic instruments known to humankind — the guitar. With its
strings and its wood, you can produce beautiful music. It’s easy to
pluck away at the strings and image yourself in a few years’ time,
singing to huge crowds or just crooning to a small intimate gathering.
Regardless
of how big you want to be as a musician, you can’t always be next to
your instruments 24/7. We’ve got other obligations too, such as work,
school, and family. If you want to take your guitar-playing passion with
you wherever you go, we’ve got your back covered. We scoured the Google
Play Store to find you some of the best apps for guitarists and guitar
players, regardless of how recently you just started playing or how
seasoned you are.
Don’t you just hate it when you find your guitar isn’t quite tuned?
If you’ve got the time and the ear for it, you can tweak it to
perfection, but if you’re on a tight schedule or you’re just not that
good at tuning your instrument, you might benefit from a little extra
help.
Make sure that you always sound good with
Tuner – gStrings Free,
a chromatic tuner for your guitar. But, it isn’t just limited to just
that. If you’ve got a buddy who needs help in making sure they’re not
off key, gStrings can also help musicians with violins and other
instruments.
gStrings includes orchestra tuning for when you want
to redefine tone frequencies, different temperaments such (e.g., just,
pythagorean, meantone, comma, and more), a variable nonlinear scale,
microphone sensitivity, pitch pipe, and more. Download gStrings for your
Android device today and make sure that your guitar is always in tune.
If you just want a tuner specifically for a guitar, then
Guitar Tuner
might be your best bet. Just like a pitch pipe for the guitar, Guitar
Tuner is the app for the musician on the go. It helps you figure out
which notes to tune the strings of your guitar to.
The app shows
you a graphical guitar on the screen, highlighting the string of your
choice so you can easily locate it on your guitar. The app will then
play the note for the string, allowing you to get an idea of the sound
your guitar should be making.
Guitar Tuner may be too simple for
some users, as the app doesn’t detect your instrument’s sound, nor does
it allow you to work off of any conventional meter or gauge to tune your
guitar. If you’d like to develop your hearing and learning how to tune
your guitar by ear, Guitar Tuner might be for you. Guitar Tuner is
perfect for beginners and seasoned guitar players alike.
by Workpail
>250,000 downloads, 15779 ratings (3.9 avg)
If you’re concerned about having to bring a big bulky metronome with
you when you’re on the road or if your friends want an impromptu jam
session, make life easier with this app.
Mobile Metronome
is a simple-to-use, robust, and fully functional metronome that you can
bring with you right on your Android device. It gives you fine tempo
tuning from 10 to 20 BPM, as well as tap tempo.
Mobile Metronome
lets you save your presets and load them up when you need them again.
Tempo is adjustable for simple, compound, and complex meters. Set the
beat tempo by tapping on the plus or minus signs or you can tap the
tempo yourself. Adjust the time signatures to the one you want and set
the beat subdivision as quarter, eighth, triplet, sixteenth, quintuplet,
or sextuplet notes.
Mobile Metronome also lets you adjust the metronome’s volume. When you’re ready, tap on
Start Metronome.
Don’t worry about incoming calls because Mobile Metronome automatically
turns off when someone calls you. Just one note of warning: If you own
an HTC Wildfire, there may be some compatibility issues with your
device.
Being on the go can make or break a musician. We’re not just talking
about living conditions or being able to get a gig. We’re talking about
getting inspiration and coming up with songs. You might be on a bus or
who knows where when inspiration hits you for a potential hit.
Seize the moment with this songwriting tool and electronic accompanist.
Chordbot Lite
is an app that lets you create and play advanced chord progressions
easily on your phone. Whether you’re experimenting with songwriting or
using Chordbot as an accompaniment for your guitar, this app is packed
with features. It has 60 chord types in all keys and inversions, slash
chords, transposition, automatic inversion selection, and an automatic
song generator.
If you want more features, you can purchase
Chordbot’s full version for more than 50 comping styles and MIDI/WAV
file export. Download Chordbot Lite for free from the Google Play Store
today and songwrite on the go.
Whether you’re right-handed or left-handed, here’s an app that’ll help any guitarist in need.
JamBox Light Chords & Scales
is a comprehensive chord and scales app. Featuring 22 chord modes, 13
scales, dynamic scale calculation, and limited split bass/slash cords,
JamBox may just be your new best friend.
It displays and plays
current chords in most popular variations and has notes display. Forget a
certain chord? Look it up with JamBox and even hear it. The app also
supports standard tuning and a left-handed option for left-handed
guitarists.
JamBox may not have every chord in existence but it’s
handy for beginners who are still feeling their way through their
guitars. JamBox is free to download from the Google Play Store but is
ad-supported. If you’d like to do away with ads and unlock more
features, you can purchase JamBox Pro Chords & Scales for a small
fee.
Get all the tabs you ever need in one convenient place.
Ultimate Guitar Tabs
allows you to easily and conveniently view guitar tablatures and bass
tablatures. The app boasts unlimited access to the world’s largest
database of tabs, Ultimate-Guitar.com, and lets you browse the site’s
collection of over 400,000 tabs.
Learn or practice your favorite
songs whether you’re at home, outdoors, or jamming with your friends.
Look up a song with Ultimate Guitar Tabs’ Quick Search by entering the
artist name or song title. If you still can’t find the tabs you’re
looking for, make use of the Advanced Search Tool so you can specify the
tab type, part of the song, difficulty level, tuning, and rating.
Once
you’ve found tabs that you love, add them to your Favorites so you can
make them available for offline browsing. Ultimate Guitar Tabs offers SD
card support, so users can store not just the application on their SD
card for safekeeping but also the tabs that they want so they can view
them offline. If you need more tools, you can purchase Tab Tools and Tab
Pro right from within the app.
So maybe you’re not a seasoned guitar player yet. Or, maybe you’re
still struggling to hold your guitar and position your fingers in the
right places. It’s okay, we all start somewhere. Naturally, the only way
to become the best is to practice, practice, practice. That is, after
you learn to find chords.
With
GChord (Guitar Chord Finder),
you’ll be able to find your chords in no time. It’s especially handy
for beginners who are still learning their instrument. Look up a chord
and learn where your fingers go. There are four ways of finger
placements per chord.
You can also easily conduct a reverse search
and save your data. If you’re left-handed, don’t worry, because GChord
also supports left-handed players. GChord is rather barebones and
straightforward, but it’s perfect if you just need help learning all
those tricky finger positions. Get GChord today for your Android device;
it’s available for free on the Google Play Store.
by Asoft
>250,000 downloads, 473 ratings (4.6 avg)
Doesn’t it suck when the urge to play hits you when you’re nowhere
near your guitar? You might be commuting, at the office, at school, or
on a vacation when your musical mojo’s in full force. Don’t despair
because there’s an app to save your day.
Solo is an app that lets you play your favorite songs or create some of your own, right from the comfort of your Android device.
It’s
perfect for when you don’t have your guitar with you and you want to
get your rockstar on. If you do happen to have your guitar with you,
Solo is great as a reference or an accompaniment. Solo features
classical guitar, acoustic guitar, and electric guitars, each boasting
an authentic sound.
It also sports a chord library with chord
diagrams so you can hear and see how each chord is played; you can even
create your own chords. Play along with any of the music tracks loaded
on your phone and speed your learning process up by getting chord and
lyric overlays from the web. Samsung Galaxy Note users will definitely
enjoy how the S Pen works with Solo. Purchase it for a small fee today.
Here’s another app that makes sure you’ve always got a guitar with you.
Virtual Guitar
is great for both beginners and professional players, boasting a
realistic sound especially when you use headphones or external speakers.
If
you just want to play for yourself and not bother the crowd around you,
plug in your headphones and practice a few songs. You’ll just look like
you’re playing a game. If you want to jam with your friends, plug in
external speakers and let your musical fingers fly free.
Virtual
Guitar also sports a chord library that lets you find all the important
chords that you need and multi-touch support for when you need to hold
down several strings. The app comes with Solo Mode, which allows you to
touch a string on a selected fret to get a sound and try out that
tablature you’ve found. It also comes with Chords mode for when you
want to play a song and you have its chords with you.
For Android
devices with smaller screens, users can go to the app’s settings to
reduce the number of frets displayed on the screen; choose between 6, 9,
and 12.
by appsmz
>250,000 downloads, 2559 ratings (4.0 avg)
Last but definitely not the least, here’s an app that’s not just a
guitar emulator but also a chord guide, a tuner, and a metronome rolled
into one convenient package.
Robotic Guitarist is everything you need in one app so you don’t have to switch between apps.
You
don’t have to be a seasoned guitarist to appreciate this app. You can
choose a chord without having to learn the finger positions; hit the
strings and hear gorgeous sounds recorded from a real instrument. Strum,
play arpeggio, or try any desired technique.
For those of you who
do play the guitar seriously, you’ll definitely enjoy Robotic
Guitarist’s multi-touch support. Change your chord selection on the go
with the app’s easy interface and check where your fingers go with the
app’s finger position diagram. Tune your guitar and keep your tempo with
the app’s built-in metronome. Choose between Robotic Guitarist’s
acoustic or electric guitar and if you’re starting to get bored, you can
choose the sound of pianos, chorus, or flutes and map them to the whole
guitar.
Take this all in one guitar app with you wherever you go. Download Robotic Guitarist for free from the Google Play Store.
