In a test conducted by Nicolas Guéguen, professor of behavioral sciences, 31 women out of 300 aged 18 to 22 gave their telephone number to a young man of 20 carrying a guitar case in his hand while only 14 did so when he was wearing nothing and 9 only when he was carrying a sports bag. (source: Le Parisien )
Whatever your motivations, learning the guitar will always be faster and more lively with a guitar teacher in music school or at home.
But it is possible to learn the guitar via your smartphone through applications.
There are applications for everything: tuning your guitar, having a metronome, reading a tablature, having a dictionary of chords ...
However, some serve as a real beginner or advanced guitar coach .
And if you are already taking music lessons, this can be a good addition to revise your guitar scales before your next appointment with your guitar teacher!
Discover the adThe Coach Guitar appWhat application to progress to scratching? Learning the guitar is more motivating when you're in a music group! (source: Seat42F)As a self-taught person, playing the guitar on your smartphone can be an excellent support.
The advantage of an application is that it is always present unlike your teacher, which you will only see once or twice a week, if you take lessons.
Your smartphone is always in your pocket or near you. In addition, applications tend to send you reminders to do your exercises. Your cell phone then becomes a real coach to learn the guitar easily and regularly.
Learning the guitar alone is then possible and fun!
The Coach Guitar method is new: a visual, fun and interactive method.
The application is intended for beginners, without any particular musical knowledge. No need then to know all the music theory, to know how to read a score or even a guitar tab to get started!
Five colors are assigned to each finger of the hand to facilitate the student's progress. Animations are present on the guitar neck via the application to guide the student throughout his learning.
Coach Guitar shows you how to play your favorite songs step by step on the acoustic guitar or the electric guitar.
Here are some titles that the application offers to learn:
Nothing Else Matter - MetallicaHotel California - EaglesGet Lucky - Daft PunkWish You Were Here - Pink FloydBack in Black - AC / DCNo Woman No Cry - Bob MarleyDiamonds - RihannaTears in Heaven - Eric Clapton,And many others from a catalog of over 500 titles!
The most advantageous is still to take a subscription at € 9.99 per month !
Available on Android and iOS.
Learn the guitar with My Music TeacherThe online guitar is a great way to learn at any time of the day, even when you only have 5 minutes. We take out our smartphone in public transport, when we are in the bathroom or we grab our pick and go for a few productive minutes!
The learning method of My Music Teacher is very comprehensive and of high quality. She promises to make you progress in a month.
The app detects the notes you play to correct yourself and help you find the right rhythm.
You choose a basic objective at the start and then you earn points as you learn. Thus, the application advises you on pieces to learn based on your progress.
My Music Teacher offers up to 2500 hours of practice: basic chords, barred chords, solos, known songs, composition, improvisation ...
The community dimension is very important: you can talk to other members on the forum, exchange or sell your music equipment, challenge yourself ...
The Fake Books contained the essential information to play a song but they also contained a lot of errors. This is why they have been replaced by Real Books.
IReal Pro is in a way the digital collection of these Real Books.
You will find more than 1500 chord grids . For each, it is possible to play them in loop with drums, bass and piano accompaniment. You can remove one or all of the instruments if you wish.
You can vary the tempo, the accompaniment style (jazz, Latin, pop rock, swing ...) or even the sounds of musical instruments (electric bass, double bass, vibraphone ...).
It is a very practical tool for training in improvisation . The advantage is to have other instruments that play in a rather lively way, with some variations from time to time to keep a certain dynamic and make the game more realistic.
The repertoire is rather jazz, know it, but there are also country, blues, pop rock or dedicated to an artist like Stevie Wonder packs.
Finally, you can also create a sequence of chords and save it: ideal for easily composing wherever you are!
Available on Android and iOS, as well as on Mac and PC for € 12.99.
Are you looking for a guitar lesson ?
The Yousician guitar appGetting started with the guitar can also be done using the Yousician app .
The application offers step-by-step tutorials and exercises according to your level but also feedback on your way of playing, your rhythm, in real time, by listening to the app via the microphone.
Your progress is saved and you can view it at any time from the first session with the application. There are 1,500 levels to complete, enough to spend time there, for beginners but also for intermediates.
Although there is no real teacher, the student still receives feedback on his work.
Yousician is also thousands of songs to play on the guitar at your own pace. And if yours is not present, you can download it.
You will also receive reminders to think about persevering in your guitar lessons learning ;)
Available on Android and iOS for free with the possibility of a paid version at 119.99 € per year.
The Chord Digital Guitar Chord Dictionary!How to use your smartphone to learn music? Learn the basic chords necessary for the guitar!Chord! is a dictionary of basic chords. Not very fun all that you say to me!
But in reality, the application offers much more than that. The interface is simple and elegant, it makes you want to dive into it.
The search is very intuitive and the possibilities for searching and filtering are endless, which means that it can be used by expert guitarists.
But beginners can find their account by discovering the basic chords that can be listened to. In the paid version, colored dots make it possible to distinguish each type of interval and their frequency.
In addition to this dictionary of chords, you will find an impressive range thesaurus .
Finally, the application also serves as a tuner for guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele or even mandolin.
Available on Android and iOS for € 3.59.
Can you learn guitar on YouTube ?
Develop your ear on the guitar with Perfect Ear 2This application is not strictly speaking an app for learning the guitar but it is complementary.
It is a great way to learn music theory since the application offers sight reading exercises.
Whatever your motivations, learning the guitar will always be faster and more lively with a guitar teacher in music school or at home.
But it is possible to learn the guitar via your smartphone through applications.
There are applications for everything: tuning your guitar, having a metronome, reading a tablature, having a dictionary of chords ...
However, some serve as a real beginner or advanced guitar coach .
And if you are already taking music lessons, this can be a good addition to revise your guitar scales before your next appointment with your guitar teacher!
Discover the adThe Coach Guitar appWhat application to progress to scratching? Learning the guitar is more motivating when you're in a music group! (source: Seat42F)As a self-taught person, playing the guitar on your smartphone can be an excellent support.
The advantage of an application is that it is always present unlike your teacher, which you will only see once or twice a week, if you take lessons.
Your smartphone is always in your pocket or near you. In addition, applications tend to send you reminders to do your exercises. Your cell phone then becomes a real coach to learn the guitar easily and regularly.
Learning the guitar alone is then possible and fun!
The Coach Guitar method is new: a visual, fun and interactive method.
The application is intended for beginners, without any particular musical knowledge. No need then to know all the music theory, to know how to read a score or even a guitar tab to get started!
Five colors are assigned to each finger of the hand to facilitate the student's progress. Animations are present on the guitar neck via the application to guide the student throughout his learning.
Coach Guitar shows you how to play your favorite songs step by step on the acoustic guitar or the electric guitar.
Here are some titles that the application offers to learn:
Nothing Else Matter - MetallicaHotel California - EaglesGet Lucky - Daft PunkWish You Were Here - Pink FloydBack in Black - AC / DCNo Woman No Cry - Bob MarleyDiamonds - RihannaTears in Heaven - Eric Clapton,And many others from a catalog of over 500 titles!
The most advantageous is still to take a subscription at € 9.99 per month !
Available on Android and iOS.
Learn the guitar with My Music TeacherThe online guitar is a great way to learn at any time of the day, even when you only have 5 minutes. We take out our smartphone in public transport, when we are in the bathroom or we grab our pick and go for a few productive minutes!
The learning method of My Music Teacher is very comprehensive and of high quality. She promises to make you progress in a month.
The app detects the notes you play to correct yourself and help you find the right rhythm.
You choose a basic objective at the start and then you earn points as you learn. Thus, the application advises you on pieces to learn based on your progress.
My Music Teacher offers up to 2500 hours of practice: basic chords, barred chords, solos, known songs, composition, improvisation ...
The community dimension is very important: you can talk to other members on the forum, exchange or sell your music equipment, challenge yourself ...
The Fake Books contained the essential information to play a song but they also contained a lot of errors. This is why they have been replaced by Real Books.
IReal Pro is in a way the digital collection of these Real Books.
You will find more than 1500 chord grids . For each, it is possible to play them in loop with drums, bass and piano accompaniment. You can remove one or all of the instruments if you wish.
You can vary the tempo, the accompaniment style (jazz, Latin, pop rock, swing ...) or even the sounds of musical instruments (electric bass, double bass, vibraphone ...).
It is a very practical tool for training in improvisation . The advantage is to have other instruments that play in a rather lively way, with some variations from time to time to keep a certain dynamic and make the game more realistic.
The repertoire is rather jazz, know it, but there are also country, blues, pop rock or dedicated to an artist like Stevie Wonder packs.
Finally, you can also create a sequence of chords and save it: ideal for easily composing wherever you are!
Available on Android and iOS, as well as on Mac and PC for € 12.99.
Are you looking for a guitar lesson ?
The Yousician guitar appGetting started with the guitar can also be done using the Yousician app .
The application offers step-by-step tutorials and exercises according to your level but also feedback on your way of playing, your rhythm, in real time, by listening to the app via the microphone.
Your progress is saved and you can view it at any time from the first session with the application. There are 1,500 levels to complete, enough to spend time there, for beginners but also for intermediates.
Although there is no real teacher, the student still receives feedback on his work.
Yousician is also thousands of songs to play on the guitar at your own pace. And if yours is not present, you can download it.
You will also receive reminders to think about persevering in your guitar lessons learning ;)
Available on Android and iOS for free with the possibility of a paid version at 119.99 € per year.
The Chord Digital Guitar Chord Dictionary!How to use your smartphone to learn music? Learn the basic chords necessary for the guitar!Chord! is a dictionary of basic chords. Not very fun all that you say to me!
But in reality, the application offers much more than that. The interface is simple and elegant, it makes you want to dive into it.
The search is very intuitive and the possibilities for searching and filtering are endless, which means that it can be used by expert guitarists.
But beginners can find their account by discovering the basic chords that can be listened to. In the paid version, colored dots make it possible to distinguish each type of interval and their frequency.
In addition to this dictionary of chords, you will find an impressive range thesaurus .
Finally, the application also serves as a tuner for guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele or even mandolin.
Available on Android and iOS for € 3.59.
Can you learn guitar on YouTube ?
Develop your ear on the guitar with Perfect Ear 2This application is not strictly speaking an app for learning the guitar but it is complementary.
It is a great way to learn music theory since the application offers sight reading exercises.
Mini-exams punctuate the learning and the scores are memorized in the app to keep track of its progress.