Best guitar playing app for non-guitar player??

[pablo19]

Title is a bit confusing, but What I wanted was a guitar app where you could kind of learn the songs through tutorial or something. MoocowMusic has one that is very polished but I want to know if a person with no guitar playing experience can learn to play at least an iphone version.

[pablo19]

okay, that was 2 days and sorry for double posting.

changing the question... what guitar app do you have IF you have one and do you like/recommend it

[SmallSoldiers81]

pocketguitar is really cheap altought it's very basic. If you want a guitar playing app then pocketguitar or guitar from moocowmusic. if you want one that will help you learn get something like 7 chords or another similar app

[MeTeHe]

yep i like pocketguitar

[thepretender]

pocketguitar is good

[wilson]

umm i guess you can learn realy simple songs on a guitar app but go with pocket guitar, its very simple and are you interested in playing real guitar? if so moocow guitarist realy helps cuz u can go thorogh all the notes slowley i use it for sweeps and for wrighting tabs

[SmallSoldiers81]

its ironic that there's an ad for guitar lessons on this thread

[wilson]

its ironic that there's an ad for guitar lessons on this thread

shh its magic its ok

[pablo19]

its ironic that there's an ad for guitar lessons on this thread

It's genius! those ads recognize the words used in the thread actually, if you post something about pirates the Blackbeards assault ad will pop up (not literally). If you post about guitars that's what comes up, and so on.....

thanks for the help, I'll be buying the moocowmusic one, and later the pocket guitar one. I just got a itunes gift card so my dilema has been solved.

Still, Thanks guys.

[SmallSoldiers81]

the moocow music app is full of features pocketguitar isnt

[rootbeersoup]

I like Guitarist personally

[pablo19]

I like Guitarist personally


I downloaded it, I like it a lot, I especially like the recordeing feature, and the long help and guide it has. I don't think I'll regret this at all :D

[rootbeersoup]

I like the tremolo/whammy feature the best. Although I'm really not a big fan of the echo...

[Killquake]

I never played a guitar before i bought pocket guitar, and i was very let down. Holding down the strings while strumming proved to be frustrating. Later on I bought guitarist and wow am i happy, the hammer on mode alone is worth the price (you don't have to strum you just tap the strings and made sound) and the recorder tops it off.

As I said I never played before but so far i can play Green Day, Guns n Roses, and Three Doors Down

[rootbeersoup]

I never played a guitar before i bought pocket guitar, and i was very let down. Holding down the strings while strumming proved to be frustrating. Later on I bought guitarist and wow am i happy, the hammer on mode alone is worth the price (you don't have to strum you just tap the strings and made sound) and the recorder tops it off.

As I said I never played before but so far i can play Green Day, Guns n Roses, and Three Doors Down

PocketGuitar also has a hammer on mode now I believe

[pablo19]

I never played a guitar before i bought pocket guitar, and i was very let down. Holding down the strings while strumming proved to be frustrating. Later on I bought guitarist and wow am i happy, the hammer on mode alone is worth the price (you don't have to strum you just tap the strings and made sound) and the recorder tops it off.

As I said I never played before but so far i can play Green Day, Guns n Roses, and Three Doors Down

how did you learn'em? is there a learning mode or something within the guitarist app?

[istopmotion]

Pocketguitar is better for just plain fun, Guitarist is a bit trickier and requires a little more knowledge about guitar.

I totally recommend Pocketguitar, because it's cheaper and it's much easier to use.

To learn simple guitar songs, google "[song name] tabs" and you can find a site that'll teach you how to play that song without needing any experience with a guitar. Tabs are a little complicated to learn how to use at first, but you can also google "how to read tabs" and something should come up.

Pocketguitar actually convinced me to buy a real guitar and get guitar lessons, so I'd go with that one :) Hope that helps.

PS, I learned about 75% of Metallica's "The Day That Never Comes" with Pocketguitar and the help of a tablature site. If I was able to learn that quickly and easily, I'm sure you won't have any trouble finding a song you could play :)

And... @Killquake... Pocketguitar has many more features and ways to change how you play the guitar. It has string bending, hammerons/pulloffs, automatic plucking, adjustable string positions (moves the strings to how you like it), whammy (by tilting device), several different instruments and effects to pick from. PocketGuitar kicks Guitarist's butt :P especially with the lower price.

[pablo19]

Pocketguitar is better for just plain fun, Guitarist is a bit trickier and requires a little more knowledge about guitar.

I totally recommend Pocketguitar, because it's cheaper and it's much easier to use.

To learn simple guitar songs, google "[song name] tabs" and you can find a site that'll teach you how to play that song without needing any experience with a guitar. Tabs are a little complicated to learn how to use at first, but you can also google "how to read tabs" and something should come up.

Pocketguitar actually convinced me to buy a real guitar and get guitar lessons, so I'd go with that one :) Hope that helps.

PS, I learned about 75% of Metallica's "The Day That Never Comes" with Pocketguitar and the help of a tablature site. If I was able to learn that quickly and easily, I'm sure you won't have any trouble finding a song you could play :)

Thanks I'll try doing that! ;)

[secretkillerofnames]

I have Guitarist and Pocket Guitar but find the most useful app is GuitarToolkit.

Mainly because I like to mess around with tunings and it adjusts the (hundred or so) different scales to suit your tuning / can help tune guitar and has a metronome. I don't use the chord chart since it doesn't support non-standard tunings yet but the dev says they are working on it.

If you just want to learn some basic chords from songs I think Guitarist is more useful as you can just download tabs from the interwebs and enter them in.

[pablo19]

I just got the tab for smoke on the water, works great. I think I get how it works. Great Great Great:D

[gospel9]

I answered this one sometiime ago, but it was in the other thread that was unfortunately in a wrong section, so I'll quote myself here:

I pretty much have all the guitar apps, minus the new "Guitar" one, which is similar to Chord Play (but better).


For starters, Pocket Guitar and Guitarist both offer a manual mode and a "pluck" mode. Due to the limitations of the screen... it just gets very difficult to actually play in manual mode. Some songs are better in one while some are better in another... Neither apps will ever simulate playing a real guitar although if your fingers are perfectly sized for it, and that you don't need to deal with scrolling the frets, you can get a good guitar out of it.



Guitarist also offers a Tab mode where you can simply preprogram tabs into it and then play it back (by pressing one button on the screen, one line at a time). This isn't really playing the guitar, but I guess it can help if you want to experiment something (but it does take a long time to set things up here).

Pocket Guitar also offers the ability to resize/scale the frets if you so need, it can make some songs easier to play. Guitarist has a big black bar at the left that comes with two big buttons for you to scroll the frets, but it's slow and only one at a time. It's hard. If you have a song that needs to scroll pretty far away you can forget about playing it here, although Pocket Guitar isn't really much better for scrolling.

Sound quality wise, they are different, but the samples in Guitarist is almost perfect (and to some extent a lot better than Pocket Guitar).


As for the controls... well, honestly I prefer to play Pocket Guitar more for the things I have already listed, but as well as its precision detection for your fingers. Especially true in manual mode; I find myself accidentally hitting wrong strings more often in Guitarist (although with practice it's not really a huge issue, but it's something that Pocket Guitar has done a really job in).


Both apps can never really simulate a real guitar... if you aren't sure I suggest you try Pocket Guitar first and see if you actually enjoy that one. It's a hit and miss thing.

They are very well priced anyway. For Guitarist you are really paying more for the sound samples and effects or if you want something like the Tab Play mode (which is NOT a simulator). You can also record your songs in Guitarist, and save Tabs in the tab mode for replay.





NOW... there's something that is missing in both of the apps. This is where Chord Play and Guitar comes in.

These two apps let you pick a chord and pluck or strum. That's it. This in my opinion is the easiest and possibly best way to actually play songs with complicated chords on the iPhone.

Chord Play is slow, sometimes laggy when switching chords, and no ability to save custom sets of chords, and no ability to edit chords that you have already made.

Guitar is basically Chord Play but with the ability to save a set of Chords per song - this is a lifesaver. In Chord Play you would have to switch your chords every time. Chord Play offers 12 chords on screen at once, Guitar offers 10. But Guitar's strings are much more easily accessible.


I highly recommend Guitar right now.
If you can understand Chords, you'll know what I am talking about :) I just don't like the interface of Guitar (it's kind of dull).


Here's an awesome video of Guitar demo,
Skip the video to the middle... the video is in Korean, but you should be able to see the entire interface of the app here and a really really good example of the app in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UxHjgmEjf4

video of same song, another dude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n23WEqqrP0I&feature=related


EDIT: I didnt know this was in the jailbreak section... this is so outdated. This thread should be moved.

[mek]

its ironic that there's an ad for guitar lessons on this thread

google adwords at your finest, imagine if you started talking about *censored* or *really censored*