Too Basic to be useful for serious transcription – Chord Detector - Guitar, Ukulele, Banjo Review

I am a working professional jazz musician who has experience transcribing songs. I bought this app out of curiosity, just to see how accurate it is. I selected a basic three chord 1-4-5 blues progression in Am. It detected the basic chords mostly correctly, but failed 100% of the time if any coloration was added. It will detect an Am played in the first position, but will not detect an Am6 played in the 5th. It will detect a first position Dm, but will transcribe a 10th position Dm6 as a first position Dm. For dominant 7 chords, it transcribed them as 1st position major. Verdict: may be useful for beginning players trying to learn very basic, first position folk songs; useless for serious transcription because it does not accurately detect chord extensions, slash chords or chords above the 3rd position.
Review by MontereyJacques on Chord Detector - Guitar, Ukulele, Banjo.