Guitar Tab Notes vs Chord Therapy

Guitar Tab Notes is a fast sketchpad for guitar players. When a riff or a chord shape shows up, open the app and get it down before it slips away. Instead of finger numbers or fret numbers, every position on the fretboard is shown as the actual note it plays (C, C#, D and so on). You read the sounds, not the shapes, so an idea still makes sense days later and is easy to move around in your head. WHY GUITARISTS USE IT - Capture ideas fast. Tap the fretboard and the note appears. Nothing in the way. - Think in any tuning. Standard, drop, open, or completely custom alt tunings that you type in and save. Every note name updates instantly across all of your chords. - Made for sketches, not for perfection. Group ideas into projects, drop in quick section labels like verse or chorus, and reorder everything by dragging. - Hear it back. Tap play to strum a chord and check an idea on the spot. - Color your voicings. Highlight alternate notes in four accent colors (turquoise, violet, amber, coral) right on the diagram. Colors can even share one spot with the main note: the dot splits into colored sections. - Capo aware. Set a capo and the fretboard and note names follow along. EVERYWHERE YOU WRITE Guitar Tab Notes runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and your whole sketchbook syncs automatically through your private iCloud. Start a riff on the couch with your phone, then finish the arrangement on iPad or Mac later. Nothing to set up and no account to create. EXPORT AND SHARE Send a single chord as an image, or a whole song as plain text or as a print-ready PDF: clean black-on-white A4 pages with your section labels, automatic page breaks and a choice of 2, 3 or 4 chords per row. On Mac, exports go through the standard Save dialog. Simple on purpose and quick by design. Keep the guitar in your hands and let the ideas land.

ONE KEY, ONE CHORD, SEVEN VIEWS CIRCLE OF FIFTHS: The keys arranged in fifths, with the one you have chosen lit and its key signature written in the middle. Tap a ring to move to a new key; the chord moves to its tonic with it. Both spellings are named at the two enharmonic positions, so F# and Gb are each there when you need them. KEY: Seven chords, one tap each. Major, the three minors and every mode. Each degree gets a card with its numeral, chord, stack of thirds and name, from tonic to leading tone. Switch between triads and sevenths, then jump to the relative or parallel key. The pentatonic and blues scales on the same tonic sit underneath. CHORD: Names, spells and plays any of 52 chord types. The Chord panel plays the current chord. It is also where you look up a chord, either by its name or by the notes you are holding. PROGRESSIONS: Write it once, play it in any key. A progression stores scale steps rather than fixed roots, so changing its key transposes the whole thing and the numerals stay right. Chords from the key change quality with it; a borrowed chord keeps its sound, and a pinned one stays exactly where you put it. Six starters are included, from I–V–vi–IV to a 12-bar blues. Play any progression on piano or strummed guitar, or write it out on the staff. TWO WAYS IN: Know the name? Or just the notes? Type a chord name in jazz or plain notation and it is selected. Type the notes you are holding and Chord Therapy names them, reading the first note as the bass, so an inversion comes back as a slash chord. On the piano, tap the keys and press Identify. 52 chord types, from power chords to thirteenths. NOTATION: The Notation panel writes music on a grand staff, treble and bass together, the way a pianist reads it. It shows either the current chord on its own or the whole selected progression. PIANO: See a chord on the keys, or tap one in and name it. The Piano panel shows the current chord on a keyboard, and works the other way too: tap a chord in, note by note, and press Identify to have it named. Play it back with a sampled piano, as a chord, or arpeggiated. GUITAR: Playable shapes for every chord, in eight tunings. The Guitar panel shows playable fingerings for the current chord. There is no chart behind it: shapes are searched on the neck for whatever chord and tuning you choose, so every one of the 52 chord types works in all eight tunings. Hear the chord strummed by a sampled guitar.