Waste of money
This app for banjo has got to be some kind of joke. It seems like all of the songs notes are played linearly on one or two strings and not with licks, rolls, and using correct hand shapes and string grouping patterns. It is like forcing you to use one finger and just go higher up one string to play different notes of a song, if that makes sense. Ridiculous. And there doesn’t seem to be an answer to my emails I’ve sent. I downloaded it because it looked like a good idea to see the fretboard, musical staff, and tab all lined up for each song, but it’s the equivalent of being taught typing of stories with one or two fingers. Waste of time and money.
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Could Be a Great App
This app has great features and find it very useful. I bought to become proficient on Jazz Tenor banjo. I already play guitar and 5-string banjo. The problem with this app is that the tab lines are displayed completely in reverse of any of the dozens of tab books I own and standard tab software like Guitar Pro and Tabledit. To get it to display properly for Tenor jazz banjo you have type in A4-D4-G3-C3 into the custom tuning every time you use it. Very annoying. I spoke with the tech support several times. The answer I received was that it was designed that way because most people expect the tab to be displayed that way. Utter nonsense. It’s a design flaw but they won’t admit it. How could most people expect their tab to be displayed opposite of what 100% of printed and digital tab is displayed. I’ve been using tab for 30+ years and never saw it displayed the way they do. Nonetheless, the arpeggio and scale exercises are very good learning tool.
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