Never be without your guitar again
Guitarist is an innovative guitar simulator for the iPhone that ensures you will never again find yourself guitar-less during an inspirational moment.
•Experienced guitar players can use Guitarist on the road to experiment with chord progressions, and record riffs or solos on a "musical notepad" for later study back in the studio with their full kit.
•Novices can program in existing tablature and chords to popular songs, and then give note-perfect performances to their friends.
Performances can be recorded and overdubbed multiple times to create the perfect song, which can be saved for later playback. Effects and sustain can be independently applied to two guitars, which can be played together in the same song. Multiple guitar patches are available including acoustic, electric, and a 'clean tone' which can be used to play Guitarist through external effects pedals.
One of the first and best-selling guitar apps on the iPhone (reaching position 14 in the Top 100 Apps List), it has since been recommended by such media sources as The New York Times and T3 Magazine. Guitarist was used in the official Apple Guided Tour video for the launch of the iPhone 3GS.
The Guitars
Guitarist features a selection of guitar interfaces that have been especially tailored to the iPhone to give, for the first time, the ability to play music written for a five foot mechanical device on a three inch touch screen.
The 'Manual Fret' Guitar
The Manual Fret guitar is a complete emulation of a real guitar. Traverse the full fretboard to the 21st fret, then hold the string at a fret and then tap or strum over the pickup to sound that string. Hold that string for note sustain, or release it to mute the note. Each string has a label showing the current fret for your convenience when playing. Although the multitouch capabilities of the iPhone allow you to fret and strum chords, the size of the iPhone and touchscreen limitations mean that complex chords are difficult to play, which is where the other guitars come in.
The 'Hammer On' Guitar
The Hammer-On Guitar assists your playing by removing the concept of plucking the string, and allowing you to concentrate instead on fretting notes. This uses the same principle as the real-world guitarist technique of 'Hammer-On' where notes are played by striking heavily at a fret with a finger of either hand, allowing extremely fast solos and scales to be played. With the Guitarist Hammer-On Guitar you press on a fret to play that note, and then can either Hammer-On again to a higher fret, or Pull-Off (remove your finger) to a lower fret.
The 'Tab' Guitar
The Tab Guitar takes the opposite path from the Hammer-On Guitar and removes the concept of fretting strings, allowing you to concentrate on plucking notes. With the Tab Guitar it is as if you have already trained up your fret hand to fret the song for you before you arrive at the gig, and so no longer need to worry about it. This is represented in Guitarist through the use of the standard musical notation for guitars: 'Tablature'. You will be able to find tablature to any song on the Internet, and even novices can use the Tab Guitar to play their favourite songs.
The 'Scale' Guitar
The Scale Guitar allows you to play runs through a large number of musical scales (from Blues to Chinese) in any key. Both the key and scale can be changed at any time, even while you are playing the scale but running a finger up and down the guitar neck. Not only can the Scale Guitar be used as a live performance instrument, or recorded into the current song, but it provides a useful scale teaching aid by displaying the notes in each scale in each key as you play. Check out part 2 for more.
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