Looking for an all-in-one app to help polish up your axe skills? Try the Planet Waves Guitar Tools, which crams an impressive amount of content to aid in your ever-improving fretboard mastery.
Designed to be useful for beginner to intermediate musicians, the app has a library of over 7,000 chords, complete with charts and a listening feature (you can hear the chord by "strumming" the touchscreen). Searching for a chord is particularly clever, giving you a scrollable fretboard right on the screen. Place your fingers on any part of the virtual fretboard and the app will automatically bring up the corresponding chord.
Planet Waves also includes thousands of scales, modes and arpeggios, each of which you can choose for your practice sessions. Pick one and go to work on your progressions using the app's scrolling virtual fretboard -- you don't even need to be on a real guitar to get your practice time in.
There's also a tuner with two modes -- a strobe and a needle, both of which come with dozens of presets. It uses the iPhone's built-in mic and operates much like your standard low-cost tuner. Additional features include a metronome and search service for locating music teachers and stores in your area.
Planet Waves Guitar Tools crams a hefty amount of guitar-playing content. If you're a beginner or intermediate player, we can't imagine you needing any other resource than this app. Even more advanced players might actually find it somewhat beneficial. You can get it from the App Store, priced at $8.99.
[Planet Waves]
