Every guitar player at every level, be it beginner, intermediate or advanced, should check out the helpful apps below. From looping to tuning, these valuable tools will save you many hours. They’ll alsom make your guitar-learning much easier and speed up your progress dramatically! *Rotate your phone horizontally for best view.
| App | Description |
|---|---|
| Guitar Elite | Free Virtual Guitars for mobile devices. |
| Looper For YouTube | Free Chrome feature lets you loop & automatically replay particular sections of a video for easier learning. |
| Video Looper (Kapwing) | Free website lets you loop & automatically replay particular sections of a video for easier learning. |
| How to Slow Down a YouTube Video | Slow down any song on YouTube so that it's easier to play along. |
| Chord Analyzer (Chordify) | Free website analyzes songs and displays the chord diagrams for you. |
| Chord Analyzer (Chordu) | Free website analyzes songs and displays the chord diagrams for you. |
| Chord Anaylzer (Yamaha Chord Tracker) | Free app analyzes songs stored in your iOS device and then displays the chord diagrams for you. |
| Ultimate Guitar Tab | Popular website providing chords and tabs for songs. |
| Piano App (Virtuoso | Free piano app for iPhone & iPad. Great for learning music theory. |
| Guitar Tuna (Tuner) | Popular guitar string tuner includes metronome and games to help you learn guitar. |
| Simply Sing | Great app for improving your singing voice. |
Helpful apps for guitar players are increasing in variety all the time. So why not take full advantage of these new technologies if they will help you become a better guitar player sooner? Youtube, for one, offers a host of valuable tools including the ability to both slow down a video as well as loop individual segments. These two features will undoubtedly make learning to play your favorite songs much easier.
Guitar Tuna is another favorite, especially for beginners! In addition to being a free and super popular tuning app, it also featurers various games and other tools to help you progress faster. A metronome is also included, in case you want to improve your timing. So if you’re intent on upping your guitar-playing game, you’ll definitely want to check out some of those listed above. And stay tuned; this list is always growing as new applications and other digital resources become available.
Ultimate Guitar Tab
Ultimate Guitar Tab is the most popular app for guitar players by far. It also serves other musicians as well. This basic version of this site is available for free. Premium subscribers are granted access to a wider array of features. The most commonly used feature of this site are the song lyric and chord sheets. A word of caution however: This is an open source website so you can bet on a lot of the info being, well let’s just say, inaccurate. The app includes features such as the ability to automatically scroll down the page as you play the song on guitar.
Ultimate Guitar Tab also enables users to transpose chords automatically. This is a fantastic feature, especially for vocalists having a hard time singing a song in a key not ideal for their voice. There’s also a Simplify feature whci, as you can probably guess, automatically simplifies the chords. This is great for beginners.