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It's a phone!
It's a music player!
And now, it's a Guitar!

Guitar is the great new app for iPhone and iPod Touch that makes playing your favorite songs easy and fun. With an innovative user interface you won't find anywhere else, Guitar's focus is playability. Both chords and scales are easily assigned to its fretboard buttons, making it a cinch to strum chords, play melodies, or both. Based on high quality acoustic guitar samples, Guitar sounds like the real thing, and makes writing, learning, and playing songs on your iPhone easy and fun!

There are other guitar apps out there... but when it comes to playability, Guitar stands alone. That's because we've made the interface both fast and flexible. To play a chord, just press a fretboard button and start strumming. Slide to a new chord on another button, and hear that chord on the next strum...easy and very fast! Each button can hold one of over 1500 built-in chords, or any chord that you create in the built-in chord editor.

You can play dynamically when you're strumming a chord: the soft- or loudness of the chord can be controlled by where you strum the strings. Strum higher for softer sounds, low for louder ones. A dedicated button in the corner lets you switch between a bright picked string sound and a softer finger-plucked sound. Both are incredibly realistic, due to entirely separate sets of recorded samples.

Want to play a melodic lick between chords? That's easy too, since a button can also activate a set of frets or one of 21 scales (in all 12 keys). Scales can be either standard, in which the notes are confined to the scale you've selected, or chromatic, allowing you to reach the notes "between" those in the scale. Just like on a real guitar, you can play notes using hammer-on's, pull-off's, and fret slides up & down.

Creating a song with Guitar is simple: just assign your choice of chords, fret positions, and scales to Guitar's assignable fretboard buttons. You can reorder the fretboard buttons at any time. Then name and save your song, which adds it to the Playlist. (And naturally, you can rename, reorder, or delete songs from the Playlist at any time.)

Finally, you can configure Guitar to your own preferences. You can make the fret status area show fret number, note name, or the scale degree of each string. Set Guitar's pitch to match another instrument or transpose up to +/- 2 semitones. Switch between right- and left-handed interfaces. A handy "button-lock" gives you a way to play Guitar with one hand, by always leaving the last fretboard button "pressed."

Want to see Guitar in action? Check out our demo videos (listed up above on the left), or the page of user videos, like this one from Bankie666, who clearly suffers from a multiple-personality disorder. :-)


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