Guitar Chords - tomChord app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 6096 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: Thomas Hoddes
Free
Current version: 2.2.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 14 Jun 2010
App size: 4.25 Mb

"Exceptional Detectional" 4/5 stars
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Learn to play "Teardrops On My Guitar" by Taylor Swift, with tomChord 2.0 on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OO-UePPCXo

What the users are saying:
"This is a great tool unusually tucked away in the store. Highly recommended."
- Brian Rice (US)

"By far, from what I have seen, this is the most user friendly chord app out there"
- Aceautomation (Canada)

"I fully recommend this app to any beginner players, professionals, producers, composers, recording engineers... The list goes on. "
- Warren Hutton (Canada)

tomChord is NOT just a chord library!

It is a tool to help musicians learn to play along with songs as well as train their musical ear!

The unique Detection feature will analyze music through the microphone and tell the user what chords are heard as well as what key.

Using advanced harmonic algorithms tomChord can reach up to 95% accuracy in ideal conditions.

tomChords easy, intuitive interface gives you note, key, and chord information on one screen.

New in 2.1:
You can now load songs from your iPod library!

- No waiting time! The detection is still done in real time so you can play the song seconds after loading it!
- Detection from original audio data increases accuracy due to no background noise
- Slow down the song to hear every note
- Navigate to any point in the song for playback


New in 2.0:

A new algorithm allows tomChord to run in real time with a 4x faster refresh rate.

A volume control allows filtering of background noise and increased accuracy!

An improved user interface with new intuitive controls and results as well as HD iPhone 4 retina graphics.

Various crashing problems fixed.

Piano Major and Minor chords added

Pros and cons of Guitar Chords - tomChord app for iPhone and iPad

Guitar Chords - tomChord app good for

This app is worth checking out. The key finder is really cool and makes figuring out how to start attacking a song really easy. Surprisingly accurate - its fun figuring out how to play any song i want to!
ive bought a lot of music apps but nothing ive seen has attempted what tomChord has. Its surprisingly accurate for acoustic songs and its a very useful tool for musicians like me who want to develop their musical ear
I just graduated from an audio production program and am so impressed with this app. It will allow me to recreate cool guitar riffs with my own style on it. Im excited for the music and recordings to come with this tool at my side. I fully recommend this app to any beginner players, professionals, producers, composers, recording engineers... The list goes on.
Great app! Works like a charm and its really useful especially for beginners who want to learn different chord structures of songs.
This app came up on my sale feed so I thought Id check it out. Its awesome, already learned 3 songs that I couldnt find tabs for. Glad I caught it on sale but wouldve paid full price for sure!
Sheeeit, I be feelin like the 2010 version of Mozart since I downloaded this app. Great find. Id buy two of them if I could.

Some bad moments

Was looking for a life chord picker to detect songs which are not stored in my phone. That works poorly. Even more annoying that it always crashes when I want to detect a song from my itunes library, even on latest iOS version on a 6s. And for this you should pay nearly 10€??
Can open it up once after a hard reset... Even having removed any apps running in the background... Only once...? Looks interesting but not the kind of functionality I would spend ten bucks on.
i have a degree in music, and thought this looked interesting...well, it does look interesting, but thats about it...pretty much useless for anything more complex than Puff The Magic Dragon. ill keep an eye on it though, its a great concept which has yet to come into its own. A major bug as well...you HAVE to finish one song before trying another, unless you completely kill the app and restart it...
The UI is quite nice. Getting the songs to identify chords is really easy. Chord tracking is awful. It identified a new chord every eighth note or so. Does not filter silence, so will list many chords before a song starts. Highly recommend trying the cheaper apps first. I had much better luck with those. Note that I tried this with songs I knew well, or could easily do by ear, yet the output of this app was not very helpful.
This app is a piece of junk designed to steal your money. Try other cheaper one. Why does Apple allows such junky app on their app store. Retain your reputation of quality by removing such app please! I am very angry this doesnt do what it says.
You should indicate just the important chords and not every single note! The app like this is useless. There is no chance to save what detected so that everytime you loose what detected. The bar is also not appropriate. One star for you!

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