The best apps for guitar and ukulele

Our smartphones are useful for countless things. Also in the field of music. And not just to listen to it, because we can learn to play an instrument with our mobile. Those of us who play the guitar or the ukulele, we have a wide variety of applications that can help us.

We find everything from tuners to tutorials, with the convenience of having everything on your mobile. Other apps provide us with the chords and the lyrics of the songs that, apart from serving us to learn them, they can also get us out of trouble when someone tells us that “play that song I like”.

There are even games whose mission is to train your ear in a fun way. After this first bar, let's look at the best apps for guitarists and ukulele players.

To tune and learn chords

Guitar Tuner

There are many, but one of the most popular is Guitar Tuner (formerly GuitarTuna). This app is available for free for both Android and iPhone. It is very easy to use, because its interface is very intuitive.

It is able to accurately and quickly the guitar using the device's microphone, and offers options for more advanced users. Includes a programmable metronome and a library of chords with four songs displayed in tablature.

Its developers are working on adding more alternate tunings. An interesting point is that works well in noisy conditions by canceling background noise.

The Ukulele App

A good option for ukulele players, available for Android and iPhone. It has been developed in collaboration with the popular YouTube channel “The Ukulele Teacher”, with well-crafted videos to learn how to play this little instrument.

In addition to a tuner that is very easy to use, it has a complete library , in which we find all the chords, notes and any possible variation. A very interesting feature is that we can play a chord and the application will tell us what it is

Its interface is one of the most careful in this type of app. It really is like having a ukulele teacher on your smartphone. And free.

SmartChord

A complete free tool for Android with which to learn and expand our skills with the guitar and ukulele.Among its many features, its extensive chord dictionary stands out, in which all the positions for each one are shown as we prefer.

In its browser we find scales, inverted chords, arpeggios, chromatic tuner, tuning fork, metronome, tone generator”¦ It also has timer, flashlight and ear training functions.

Allows you to define a custom tuning, as well as the use of capo. In addition, it has released the circle of fifths, with which we can see the main chords and harmonic functions.

To learn to play songs

Tab Pro

When we already know how to play chords, the next thing is to learn songs. Tab Pro is a free application for both Android and iPhone, perhaps one of the best known.It gives us access to over 250,000 interactive tabs, with guitar accompaniment.

It has useful functions, such as listening to each part of a song to learn it at our own pace. You can create lists with the tabs you like the most to have them offline. It also allows synchronization between different devices using a single account.

Thus we have the comfort of being able to consult a song either from the computer, the smartphone or the tablet A point in favor is that the developers of this application update it very frequently, so it is constantly improving and its catalog grows.

Song for guitar

With such a descriptive name it is clear what this application is for.It gives us access to a large database full of songs, with their lyrics and chords. It allows you to create favorite lists, as well as the possibility of modifying the tone of the songs so that we can sing them more comfortably.

It is not necessary for the smartphone to be connected to the Internet to use this app, except when we want to download new songs. It also offers the option to import our own tracks and view lyrics with autoscroll, between Other features. It is available for Android for free.

To train the ear

EarMaster

It is one of the most popular music trainers, it is used by many schools in its computer version, but it is also available free for iPhone .It stands out for being an all-in-one, since in a single application we find many tools for learning.

We can improve our knowledge of chords, melodies, rhythms, music theory, scales, harmonic progressions, etc. Offers a course for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals and build a good foundation.

Among its most interesting features is that of learning to sing a stave using the microphone of the iPhone or iPad, because it provides very useful about our intonation and following the tempo. In short, a very complete app to train our musical skills.

Perfect Ear

A free Android app that provides a complete ear workout, with customizable exercises of scales, intervals, rhythms and chords.We can practice with music dictations and also learn with theory articles. We can also consult your dictionary of scales

All the exercises that it offers can be done with both guitar and piano, as we prefer. It is good for training the reading by sight, the tone absolute and the song of notes, all with a very intuitive and easy-to-use interface. Of course, it also helps to improve the ear to tune our beloved six-string instrument.

Playing the guitar or the ukulele is not easy, but the smartphone can make things easier Because today it is no longer It is essential to go to music classes to learn and improve our musical skills. Do you use any of these apps? If you know others, do not hesitate to leave your comment.