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Any app that will help draw custom guitar scales?
Hi! I have wanted something like this for years, where I can draw in a note on a blank guitar neck and it would populate the rest of that notes locations, helping me craft my own arpeggios and scales. I had high hopes for Chord! which seemed to come close, but the UI was entirely inscrutable and any successes I had was from its own built in scales. I'd like to create them from scratch. I had also hoped that Tonality might offer this but so far haven't seen that functionality. Anyone know of something out there? Thanks!
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fretboard which has multi instruments and one called harmony is my fav. It has an A# Bb in the thumbnail. I think it should help ya mate.
Ahh - that does look useful! I'm grabbing it now, but sadly will have to wait until tonight to take a good look. Does it allow user entry, or is it pre-loaded only? Either way it is sure to be useful, but I am wanting to step a bit outside of western harmony from time to time, and even with inside harmony stuff I find that if I input the notes one at a time from discovery on the guitar in my lap they tend to be more memorable to me. I have of course for years used sheets of paper for this stuff, but the resulting charts look kinda messy, and I just know a computer can make it all look rather nice! This should be easy for these tools, one would think - but the right tool is elusive! Thanks so much for the suggestion, cheers.
One of the oldest guitar apps in the appstore does what you are asking. "Guitar Toolkit". The scales section has a "search" button (looks like a magnifier), so you get a blank fretboard and can start adding notes. Once you add one, it fills out the same note in every location across the fretboard. It will try to identify the scale for you, once you enter enough notes, but it won't add anything you don't want.
Oh wow - that sounds perfect! Is it true that all these years that I have visualized it, there it was already? Of course! Thank you for pointing it out, kind sir. I will try it!
Now to grapple with the question of ios and printers . . . oh Apple, why so obtuse, you are just a computer actually . . . much torn hair on floor, many tears on shirt (I suppose screenshots could be exported as jpeg, hmmm). Thanks again!
I just checked and I don't see a way to save your custom scale so what I would do is simply screenshot it.
Ah, ok! Downloading now - what a miraculous age in which we live! Thanks again. If people know of other apps, I'd be interested - to see which produces the nicest output etc. I had been using Notability with a guitar neck template, but that was not able to fill in the notes everywhere they are on the neck, strictly manual entry. And after all why have supercomputers in our pockets if not to fill in some of the missing notes for us, right?
You might want to request this over in the Tonality thread. The dev pays attention to user requests.
Any chance of a link. Can't seem to find the amongst the chaff.
I use Guitar Toolkit. You can't save or rename scales but it populates the fretboard and a screenshot may work?
(edit) whoops, about 5 hours too late.
I don’t have this app, but was partly designed by Snarky Puppy guitarist Chris McQueen
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitar-note-atlas/id971847390
One of my faves. You can auto extract diatonic chords off any scales selected and add them to a chord sheet. I'm not sure if that works for custom scales though.
Have you got a link for that app? I can’t find anything in the app store with the name “ Guitar Scales & Patterns”.
There is one with that name but on Google Play only as far as I know.
Thanks! Was hoping for iOS.
I'm impressed so far with Solo Fretboard Visualizer, but it's not an app that lets your draw custom guitar scales. It is more of an app that makes you learn the notes on your fretboard by showing you something, then waiting until you play the pitch it expects to hear from you. Separate thread here
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/933482
The only problem with that is, is that one note on a guitar neck could populate hundreds of potential chords. even one chord can be played dozens of ways with inversions and positions on the guitar neck.
Midi strummer let’s you put notes on a sequencer, populates a scale, but then let’s you add custom chords or change the chords any way you like. You then draw your arpeggio into the sequencer, and change chords by pad, or by song mode.
Tonality is also amazing- it is several Au apps in one, but the highlight is the AU chord pads. You can pick any key in like six or seven different scales and it will populate the chord pads for you. You can also create custom chords, or literally put whatever you want on the pads. Then you can strum the pads, in an Arp like fashion, with the strum bar or even by making each individual pad Strummable by note, so instead of a pad with a chord you have a pad with 3, 4, 5 however many notes on it.