The Chord Wheel
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $6.99 | Chord Wheel | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
***** THE CHORD WHEEL; The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians *****
The Chord Wheel is a revolutionary device that puts the most essential and practical applications of chord theory into your hands.
This tool will help you:
UNDERSTAND CHORDS - Know the 'when, why and how' different chords work together.
IMPROVISE & SOLO - Talk about chops! Comprehend key structure like never before.
TRANSPOSE KEYS - Instantly transpose any progression to any key.
COMPOSE MUSIC - Watch your songwriting blossom! No music reading is necessary.
"I have given this information in lectures for years, but it's great to just tell people to go to your website and buy this thing. It's an amazing way to understand tonality and harmony."
- Bonnie Hayes, Songwriter “Have a Heart” and “Love Letter” from Bonnie Raitts’ multi-platinum, multi-Grammy ‘Nick of Time’
"This is the kind of device that players of any instrument can use to enhance their musical understanding. Chord and key relationships are inseparable, and learning these relationships is a must in becoming a successful musician."
- Alan Remington, Orange Coast College Music Dept.
The word of mouth from the first 100,000 customers as well as recommendations for countless teachers worldwide has made The Chord Wheel the most successful device of its kind. Countless testimonials from users (see Amazon.com for numerous examples) assure you that this will help you in your quest to become a better musician. This product is intended for beginners and intermediate students; if you can rattle off the chords of a ii-V7-I progression in the Key of Bb and know whether a C7 sound good in this key without thinking about it, you may not need it. For the rest of us, here is the answer.
Though it's still primarily intended for musicians, the iPhone App version allows users to depress the wheel's cells and hear the chords played back in the instrument and chord voicing selected in the 'Settings' page. The result is an entertaining song composer that allows you to play chord progressions without any musical knowledge whatsoever. For musicians, it allows your ears to hear the relationships between chords and key.
Reviews
Great app
Stratfan11
Neat training aid that helps me transpose songs on the go. Handy to have as an app. Save me tremendous time transposing songs for band.
I never take the time to review but....
Haroldiv
Totally NOT worth The money, feel like it was totally wasted. I thought this would have come with a lot more options for that much cash. Feelsbadman.jpg
Big disappointment
musicguy76
I was expecting this to be like the book that it is based on but it's even less useable. The price is entirely too much for the limited functionality and it took me too long to figure out how to use it to begin with. Not intuitive at all, it would have been better to just take a picture of the book cover instead of spending so much on this.
Where are the promised updates?
Kodiakkills
The app mentions more voicings and more instrument sounds.. When are we going to see those?
Not bad....
vindub
This app is designed for intermediate and above level players. If you do not know how to find C, C7, Cmaj7, Cm, and Cm7 chords already, then I wouldn't bother with this app just yet. This app is designed to help you find those "breath of fresh air" chords which will help you resolve your progressions. This app will not tell you which notes are in a chord! So if anything, this app would be a hinderance to you. Learn all your notes on a piano and or guitar. Then learn the five previously mentioned chords/triads. Once you get a basic understanding of where all the chords are and how to find them, learn some basic progressions such as I-IV-V and III-VI-II-V-I. If you are not familiar with anything I just mentioned, then this app really won't help you much since you will still have to know where to find the chords on piano or guitar. With that being said, this app has really helped me resolve a few progressions I've been working on. I have found this app very useful.
Wonderful app for vocalists and Solfège
DianaDoesIt
I am vocalist who is trying to learn solfeggio. I purchased Jim Fleser's book, "The Chord Wheel", (published by Hal Leonard), and this app. LOVE them both. I sing in a choir, and have difficulty finding the lower harmony part, as I sing alto. My habit is to sing the melody, or soprano part. My whole reason for learning Solfège is to try to find and hit a lower, harmonizing note. The great thing about this app, for me, is that when I play the sequence of ascending notes in a scale, (each one a chord), I can hit the root note of the key. It is the fact that the scales ascend in chords that makes it easy for me to find my starting note. That is why I use this app, rather than a piano app, when I am singing with a choir. The book and app are great for trying to add solfeggio prompts to musical scores. For example, if I am in the key of D, I set the dial to the key of D. Then, I can see at a glance, that I - Do - D ii - Re - E iii - Mi - F sharp IV - Fa - G V - So - A vi - La - B vii - Ti - C sharp I also learned a lot about major scale diatonic 7ths. Thanks for the app!
What I was looking for
Baskervilles
I was looking for an app that could show me any chord progression in the major keys, and this was exactly the app that I was looking for. The play function is a little clunky on the app, but generally it works well and satisfied my expectations.
Great app
chupacerveza1
Very useful for me as an intermediate player who has been self-taught. I wonder why the VI (V of ii) 7, sus4 isn't also marked. Seems like it would be appropriate, but perhaps there is logic to its omission...? There's some latency in the chord playing but overall quite helpful!
LOVE IT!!!
iammartian_mel
This app is great. Much more easier than just looking at the paper. But i would love for you guya to update this app. At least let it show you the minor scales of that scale and also to be able to show you the scales that you tap or double tap.
Interesting app
Taomahn
This is really a great app. The only reason I gave it 3 stars is due to the fact that it's incomplete, since it doesn't include the same setup with minor keys being the tonic.
