OK, there not flamenco apps as such, they are guitar apps. But they are mightly useful.
I'm using two. Both have tuners, chord dictionaries and metronomes.
This one from Gibson is free. I'm mainly using it for the metronome on my iTouch and I've been checking out the lessons in bed. Crazy.You can get it here at the iTunes store.
This one is not free. It's five English pounds & from someone calling themselves Agile Partners. But it is pretty good. I particularly like the way you can tap in finger positions and it will tell you what chord it is. A must for a flamenco guitarist who inevitably plays all sorts of strange, fragment chords and doesn't know what they are. You can also set the chord dictionary for different members of the guitar family, like the banjo, mandolin, ukuele etc. I've been fascinated by that: i had no idea how they are tuned. And when you strum it, it has sound! So you can pretend you are playing the banjo in a meeting. How cool is that? One quibble: for that amount of money they might have thrown in some lessons. It also has a metronome but or some reason I play the Gibson one. Maybe cos it's free. I'm like that...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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