Piano Companion: Chords,Scales

Piano Companion: Chords,Scales

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category
price
Free (IAP)
Reviews
5 (693)
United States United States
Description
Piano Companion is a music theory app which helps songwriters, producers, teachers and their students. It’s a flexible piano chords and scales dictionary with user libraries, reverse mode, the circle of 5ths, chord progression builder with common patterns. If you can’t remember the name of a piano chord or scale, this app helps you to find it by keys or using your external MIDI keyboard. For example, just press C, G and you will get C Major as the first piano chord in the search result. If you don’t see a piano chord or a specific scale, you can create a custom piano chord or scale and use it for chord charts or your user library. 

The Piano Companion app shows chord and scale notes on the grand staff, degrees, relative scales, intervals, fingering for both hands in major and minor scales – and you can contribute your own custom fingering too. You can practice scales in different keys and clefs, practice progressions. Additionally, you can listen to how a scale or chord sounds in the loop or arpeggiated. You can see the list of compatible chords in the selected scale or list of compatible scales for a selected chord. 

The app helps you to compose, practice progressions and experiment with different chord progressions using our Chord Progression Builder with relative or common chords. 

Key features:

- 1500+ piano chords, up to 6th inversions such as major, minor, diminished, augmented, sevenths, etc.
- 10,000+ scales, such as Ionian (major), Aeolian (minor), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Locrian, Harmonic minor, Melodic Minor, chromatic, pentatonic, blues, etc. 
- Chord Progression builder with scale patterns (chord sequencer)
- Interactive Circle of Fifths with grand staff and relative scales 
- Ability to input your own custom chords and organize your own chord charts and library
- External MIDI keyboard support for reverse mode
- MIDI output with the ability to connect your favorite DAW (Ableton, Garage Band, etc.) with Piano Companion
- List of available chords in Circle of Fifths, practice common chords.
- Popular key notations: English, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, etc. 
- Shows chord and scale in different octaves on the grand staff with treble and bass clef
- Analytical labels: Secondary Dominant and Secondary Leading-Tone
- Common degrees: Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant, Dominant, Submediant, Leading tone (in Major scale) / Subtonic (in Natural Minor Scale) 
- Displays compatible chords’ scales
- Ability to create custom chords or modify existing ones
- Audio support: the ability to play a chord in the loop or arpeggio; ability to play a scale in the loop
- Arpeggio in the chord progressions
- Relative chords in chord progressions
- You can create your own scale fingering and have the ability to use community scale fingerings
- Custom chord libraries and chord charts
- Ability to create favorite scales 
- Chord Intervals: Unison, Perfect Fifth, Major Third, Minor Third, etc.

Has 1 year subscription for $1.99.
Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be provided.
Subscriptions may be managed by the user. Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase.
No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication.

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Facebook: http://facebook.com/PianoCompanion

Have questions? Community forum: http://forums.songtive.com or contact us at: [email protected]
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Reviews

Good app if bugs were fixed

Great app, good tool for learning chords. One annoying bug is that occasionally when I’m the piano progression section the app will immediately send you back to the Home Screen of the app over and over again until you restart the app only for the problem to happen again. Makes it almost unusable at times but when the app works it’s great

251sWed, Aug 9, 2023
United StatesUnited States

App needs work for basic functionality

The content of this app is great, it’s basically a chord and scale encyclopedia. Excellent reference tool. But it is so buggy that it’s virtually unusable. In the scales / chord dictionary sections, about 65% of the time there is no sound when you click the scale. You can open the scale and click individual notes which produces sound, but not from the main scale or chord dictionary pages. I have to keep hard closing the app over and over again until it decided to boot up with volume. I’ve run into similar issues in the chord progression section, where instead of playing back the chord, it’s just a single note.. (and I’m familiar with the chord / arpeggio settings in chord progression, not a settings issue)… This also can only be resolved (IF it decides to resolve) by hard exiting the app and reopening. Sometimes one reboot will get it to work and sometimes I reset the app 10 times and still can’t get any sound out of it, then all of a sudden it works. It’s a great idea for an app, but there are also a million apps that do the same thing as this one. Piano Chords and Scales is the exact same app (the original) but much better functionality

Murphy (Robocop)Tue, May 23, 2023
United StatesUnited States

Every scale and chord imaginable

The title says it all. This app shows countless chords and scales, what fingers to use, the whole or half steps you need, accompanying chords to use (plus a chart for those chords without having to look them up)….just everything. It’s very educational as well. It is easy to use and find what you need. Just a perfect companion for piano players.

DrummerkatMon, Nov 14, 2022
United StatesUnited States

Worth it

There’s always a steep learning curve with any new software but this one was worth it.

Proff2008Thu, Oct 6, 2022
United StatesUnited States

Hi

I’m horny

aaabb/Tue, Oct 4, 2022
United StatesUnited States

Crashes

Bro all things are helpful if they work. This app crashes consistently

kk_lofiMon, Jun 6, 2022
United StatesUnited States

Good work

This is well organized and color coated and I’m thankful for detailed visual resources like this. Good job to the team that created this and continues to support it.

MediaVikingMon, May 23, 2022
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 9.9KApr 2024Worldwide
REVENUE$236Apr 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
com.binitex.pianocompanion.lite
Min Os. Version
10.0
Release Date
Sat, Feb 9, 2013
Update Date
Thu, May 6, 2021
Content Rating
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
No
File Size
143.46MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
No
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish
What's New
version
6.64.504
updated
3 years ago
 1x, 2x, 3xYou can turn off MIDI output.
Fixed issue with Search scale by name. 
Added Airbuds support. 

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