ChordLab 3.6.9
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Paid Version
Publisher Description
Help with chord spelling, note placement and other tasks in four-part harmony. Now includes Apple Watch app.
ChordLab is a specialist tool and calculator of sorts for modern four-part voice leading. Everyone has heard these colors in the arrangements of Big Bands - the horn riffs in the Jetsons carton song for example. With ChordLab we can in a way flip through all possible permutations of these chords. More theoretical background is available in the documentation. This is not a general chord app for beginning instrumentalists. To the intermediate player, however, ChordLab can be a source of great inspiration and introduction to many new color choices.
Four-part harmony may feel restrictive on instruments capable of more than 4 voices, but for a small choir for example it is a basic fact of life. It has become a staple in modern music as well as it allows the accompanist to declutter the spectrum in a sense by playing fewer notes. Root and fifth substitutions are applied automatically when dialing up a chord in ChordLab. Simply like that. Once the quality of a chord has been set it can then be viewed and listened to in all standard and not so standard drop voicings and moved through its inversions. This is of particular importance to guitar players as quite a few voicings are impossible to play and one may be left with rather few options. Chord spelling is also the main feature of ChordLab's Apple Watch app.
ChordLab has an interactive Circle of Fifths. With it we can look up key signatures for major and minor scales as well as all other modes derived of the major scale. So it is possible for example to display key signatures for all mixolydian scales and simultaneously highlight the other degrees for that mode. Additionally ChordLab displays degree structures for a key in standard Roman numerals. This is extremely useful when putting together chord progressions. Roots of the current harmonic domain are highlighted in white and can be tapped to audit the associated chords.
The chord finder feature in ChordLab allows you to search its database for 3 or 4 note structures to determine their harmonic quality. To find a chord in its database ChordLab uses the enharmonically simplest solution and does not require you do know whether a note is called G# or an Ab. This is especially useful for guitarists that seldomly encounter chords in root position due to the tuning of the instrument.
Features include:
• Chord spelling for all common chords
• Notation and textual representation of chord tones
• Chord finder for triads and seventh chords
• Alto, bass, tenor, treble clefs, TAB and grand staff
• All inversions and standard voicings
• Virtual piano and guitar instruments
• Chord tone labeling in instrument views
• All common open and alternate tunings presets (guitar)
• Automatic root and fifth substitution
• Apple Watch app
There is a lot of functionality built into ChordLab, but as with any tool it is what we make of it. If chord spelling is a term in your vocabulary ChordLab should be of interest. Or maybe you want to grow your chord reportoire. Putting music theory into words often makes it sound overly complex yet nobody would say that orange or purple are complicated. ChordLab lets you play and work with colors in a sense and shows you how to play them on your instrument. It is very a unique tool for musicians, song-writers, professionals and music students and one that you will find yourself coming back to again and again.
Oct 16, 2021
Version 3.6.9
Version 3.6.9 includes some graphic updates and improves overall performance.
About ChordLab
ChordLab is a paid app for iOS published in the Audio File Players list of apps, part of Audio & Multimedia.
The company that develops ChordLab is RoGame Software. The latest version released by its developer is 3.6.9.
To install ChordLab on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2021-10-16 and was downloaded 21 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the ChordLab as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install ChordLab on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the ChordLab is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After ChordLab is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
