iPhone Pocket Guitar: Metallica

[arn]

Youtube link | Pop Up



Youtube link | Pop Up


interesting videos of someone playing guitar on their iPhone.

arn

[Jeav93]

in the first video, he's using Guitarist app and Pocket Guitar app is used in the second video...


very nice find, btw..

[Rocketman919]

^ wrong. Pocket Gat for both.

[BATTLE BORN]

nice! I'm a guitar player myself. I wish somebody would do a comparison of the different guitar apps. I haven't tried any yet

[PeterM11]

hey! I'm gonna start trying to learn guitar and I was wondering if these are any guitar apps out there that will actually teach me how to play?
Thanks

[BATTLE BORN]

Peter,

I'm sure any of em are a good starting point. something to show you some chords, then you'll want to practice changing smoothly from chord to chord on a real guitar if you can get your hands on one. but I'm sure one of these apps will be fine for learning chord shapes and getting a general idea how they sound.

when I get the chance, I'll try to check out the different guitar and piano apps and buy one or two. I havent' tried any of em yet so if anybody has some suggestions to get the ball rolling I'd appreciate it.

[BATTLE BORN]

I got the MooCow guitar app today. haven't tried it yet, but I'll post some impressions when I do.

if anybody has tried any of the guitar/piano apps, jump in and let us know what you think of them.

Chad

[Everydaynormalguy]

I bought the PocketGuitar app eventhough i don't know how to play a guitar haha. I think it's awesome though, especially with update 1.1 (let's you scroll through frets). Someone needs to post some video turorials on youtube for apps like these.

[gospel9]

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=n23WE...eature=related


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 this is so outdated.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

[BATTLE BORN]

thanks for your input gospel9! I've only tried one, played around with it for a few minutes, but that's about it.

playing guitar requires you to feel what you're doing, and you just don't get that with a tiny piece of glass.

but using guitar apps as a reference is probably a more useful purpose.
to learn different chords and scales on a real guitar

I don't know if any apps tell you which fingers to use when learning your scales in different positions. if not, people may try to learn them incorrectly which of course isn't a good thing

kind of a neat little toy though. I guess I'm a little critical as I've played guitar for nearly 15 years.

HOB hollywood with Paul Stanley and Jane Wiedland