Comments on: How my iPhone and iPad helped me (re)learn guitar http://gigaom.com/2012/04/06/how-my-iphone-and-ipad-helped-me-relearn-guitar/ Fri, 24 May 2013 20:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gaetan http://gigaom.com/2012/04/06/how-my-iphone-and-ipad-helped-me-relearn-guitar/#comment-827301 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:36:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504938#comment-827301 “Every Monday night, I take a lesson from an excellent blues guitarist”: A good teacher is still the best tool to learn an instrument!

]]> By: kcporter http://gigaom.com/2012/04/06/how-my-iphone-and-ipad-helped-me-relearn-guitar/#comment-827237 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:48:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504938#comment-827237 Right before the iPhone app craze I bought a professional strobe tuner for hundreds, and now the app for that is about $9.99, iStroboSoft by the same manufacturer, Peterson Tuners. Worth every penny and just as good!

]]> By: Ben Ng http://gigaom.com/2012/04/06/how-my-iphone-and-ipad-helped-me-relearn-guitar/#comment-827039 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:58:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504938#comment-827039 Agile Partners has a pretty good tab viewer called TabToolkit. The only annoyance is the hassle of getting tabs on and off the device (you have to do it through a network using a browser.) Otherwise, the app is hands down the best tab viewer out there.

AmpKit is actually a partnership between Agile and Peavey. The other one I have tried is iRig, but the quality was so awful I returned it in a week. The problem I hear is that iRig’s adaptor is passive while the AmpKit’s is active. I’m surprised you were able to use it without tearing out your hair — I couldn’t take it.

I was a little disappointed as well by Songsterr, so I made my own tab app: http://canary.fm. The goal was to bring together the best parts of TabToolkit and Songsterr. You can try it online or on your iPhone/iPad. Let me know how you find it!

This was a great article, and its fantastic to see musicians embracing technology. Not too long ago I was still flipping printouts on a music stand.

]]> By: scottburrow http://gigaom.com/2012/04/06/how-my-iphone-and-ipad-helped-me-relearn-guitar/#comment-826971 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:27:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=504938#comment-826971 There are a lot of great apps out there, It seems like I have all of them. Being a semi professional musician for more then twenty years I was excited when this technology made itself available. I have all three versions of the ipad as I am a technologist as well. My advise for every one is to get away from the Guitar input devices that use the headphone plug as there is a lot of cross talk. the thirty pin devices work a lot better, because they are digital. The good thing about amplitube that I just found out is that their next release of their software will let you use your thirty pin connector such as an Apogee Jam (99 bucks). A few other great guita apps are JAM UP Pro, which to me sounds the best and has the ability to loop a song, change a pitch and slow it down. Indispensable for someone who is trying to learn songs on a regular basis. The last one I will mention is AMP KiT by peavy, it does get pricier as you add more amps and it doesn’t let you slow things down or change pitch but it does sound good.

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