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Piano Companion PRO: chords app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 7296 ratings )
Productivity Music Reference Education
Developer: Songtive
11.99 USD
Current version: 6.64.504, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 15 Dec 2012
App size: 114.07 Mb

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 (iOS) 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
- Displays compatible scales’ chords
- Displays similar and relative scales
- 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 scale suggestions
- Relative chords in chord progressions
- You can create your own scale fingering and have the ability to use community scale fingerings
- User libraries with the ability to add scale or chord
- You can create your own chord libraries and chord charts
- Ability to create favorite scales
- Chord Intervals: Unison, Perfect Fifth, Major Third, Minor Third, etc.

Prompt support from the Piano Companion Team is guaranteed! We would also be happy to hear your suggestions for Piano Companion.


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

Pros and cons of Piano Companion PRO: chords app for iPhone and iPad

Piano Companion PRO: chords app good for

I largely use this as a dictionary- being a professional in the audio industry but not a classically trained musician this app has saved me a lot of time. Its simple, the interface is pretty clean (much better since the last update) and it contains a wide breadth of information. Worth every penny.
Great resource for scales and chords. I use this a lot, to be honest!! Would totally recommend to any serious pianist.
Although I should be able to remember all the natural skills for their keys this is a great help whenever I just simply cant pull it up as fast as I need to. It has help me begin to craft songs as well as give me new ideas when it comes to melodies and even harmonies. If you are interested in practice or just memory games this is a awesome app and one. It is even better on the iPad because you can play the keyboard on the road.
Absolutely amazing. Very great and dedicated dev team behind this app, that keeps on updating and improving it regularly.
I am an experienced musician of almost 40 years. I also have seen (and presently own) some of the best music reference apps on the market. In the first release of this app, it is already one of the very best. It easily replaces three of the best piano reference apps I own. A terrific and well-thought-out resource. My only problem: theres little room for improvement. In a word, excellent. Still trying to grasp all the information contained in this app. If youre serious about music, theres a lot of necessary info here.
very usable and complete app! Better than other apps I found. Especially the reverse search of chords/ scales and the possibility to quickly prelisten to chord progressions make this one stand out. Usable for pros and beginners alike IMHO

Some bad moments

Purchased this app (June/2015) Tried to save a chord progression to file within the app———it doesn’t save———also the app does not transfer the file to the iTunes file folder————very disappointed ———if someone has had success with saving files I would appreciate you leave a comment
Wow! What a great tool to keep in my back pocket! Very thorough and extremely handy!
Like the simple but very functional design. The chord progression feature is very handy for me
Thank you Dev. This was an awesome gift that will be used often.
Where the heck was this when I was suffering through music theory?! This can be so useful now in composition!
More info than could ever be needed by any one person, but enough to help anyone grow and get better in their craft.

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