Bluegrass Guru vs Mandoland

Bluegrass Guru is a song fakebook you have with you anywhere. When it’s your turn at the jam, glance your library for a song to play. At a festival, quickly search for songs that you can practice later. The whole app is specialized for bluegrass musicians and enthusiasts so you won’t be inundated with a bunch of songs and lyrics you don’t care about. "I used to think it was impossible to memorize lyrics to a song. I started using Bluegrass Guru and was surprised to learn how few words a lot of songs actually have. Seeing lyrics on a screen over and over while I play really helps me memorize the words a lot faster." –Boyd Timothy, Bluegrass Guru Founder Why should you get Bluegrass Guru? • Add new songs quickly with web search • Memorize songs quickly because your personal song library is with you everywhere • Keep your favorite songs organized and at your fingertips • Add new songs quickly with access to web text search • Find and listen to matching songs on the iTunes Store, YouTube, and Spotify • View a list of over 100 Common Jam Song titles • Tune your instrument with the built-in tuner • Keep your songs organized and at your fingertips • Share songs as PDF files Get more with a Guru membership: • Keep your songs updated between your iPhone and iPad • Create & manage set lists for your gigs that and share them as printable PDFs • Organize your song library better with tags Love Bluegrass Guru? • Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BluegrassGuru • Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BluegrassGuru

Mandoland is a mandolin chord finder that stays out of your way. Type a chord like Cmaj7, F#m or Bb7, or tap a root note and a chord type, and Mandoland shows you three ways to play it: - A two-finger shape, for when the change is coming up fast - The common shape players actually reach for - A movable barre you can slide up the neck unchanged Major, minor and dominant-7 chords across all twelve roots use hand-curated voicings taken from standard mandolin chord references, so what you see is a fingering a mandolin player would recognise. Everything else is worked out by a playability engine that prefers low positions, small stretches, open strings and a root in the bass. CHORD TYPES Major, minor, 7, maj7, m7, 6, m6, sus2 and sus4 are shown by default. Flip on Advanced for dim, aug, dim7, m7b5, add9 and 9. SCALES Switch to Scales to see the major, natural minor, major pentatonic, minor pentatonic and blues scales laid out across the full twelve-fret neck, with every root note highlighted. BUILT FOR PLAYING, NOT BROWSING Standard G-D-A-E tuning. Big buttons you can hit without looking. Diagrams that tell you which strings to leave open and which to skip. Mandoland works entirely offline. There is no account to make, no sign-in, and nothing to subscribe to. It collects no data about you at all.