Guitar Chords

Guitar Chords is for the moment when someone needs a chord shape fast, not a long lesson in theory. By our assessment, its strength is that it can make a guitarist’s basic vocabulary visible at a glance, which is exactly what a quick-reference app should do. The downside is obvious too: chord libraries are helpful only up to the point where the player still needs practice, ear, and muscle memory. In practice this kind of app is looked at in short bursts, with fingers on a neck and the phone or tablet open beside the instrument. Guitar Chords sits among the plain utility apps of music, closer to a pocket chart than to any full teaching course. It is most useful as a fast lookup tool, and it stops being enough when the user wants real instruction or repertoire help.