Piano Companion:chords, scales

Piano Companion is a music theory app which helps songwriters, producers, teachers and their students. It’s a flexible piano chords and scales dictionary with user libraries, reverse mode, the circle of 5ths, chord progression builder with common patterns. If you can’t remember the name of a piano chord or scale, this app helps you to find it by keys or using your external MIDI keyboard. For example, just press C, G and you will get C Major as the first piano chord in the search result. The Piano Companion app shows chord and scale notes on the grand staff, degrees, relative scales, intervals, and fingering for both hands in major and minor scales. Additionally, you can listen to how a scale or chord sounds in the loop or arpeggiated. You can see the list of compatible chords in the selected scale or list of compatible scales for a selected chord. The app helps you to compose and experiment with different chord progressions using our Chord Progression Builder with relative or common chords. Key features: - 1500+ piano chords, up to 6th inversions such as major, minor, diminished, augmented, sevenths, etc. - 10,000+ scales, such as Ionian (major), Aeolian (minor), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Locrian, Harmonic minor, Melodic Minor, chromatic, pentatonic, blues, etc. - Chord Progression builder with scale patterns (chord sequencer) - Interactive Circle of Fifths with grand staff and relative scales - User libraries and chord charts: organize your own collections of chords and scales - External MIDI keyboard support for reverse mode - MIDI output and Export to MIDI, with the ability to connect your favorite DAW (Ableton, Garage Band, etc.) with Piano Companion - Drag & drop chords and progressions straight into your DAW as MIDI files - List of available chords in Circle of Fifths, practice common chords. - Popular key notations: English, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, etc. - Shows chord and scale in different octaves on the grand staff with treble and bass clef - Analytical labels: Secondary Dominant and Secondary Leading-Tone - Common degrees: Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant, Dominant, Submediant, Leading tone (in Major scale) / Subtonic (in Natural Minor Scale) - Displays compatible chords’ scales - Fingering for both hands, shown right on the keyboard - Audio support: the ability to play a chord in the loop or arpeggio; ability to play a scale in the loop - Arpeggio in the chord progressions - Relative chords in chord progressions - Ability to create favorite scales - Chord Intervals: Unison, Perfect Fifth, Major Third, Minor Third, etc. - Songbook: write lead sheets with chords above your lyrics, then perform them with playback, auto-scroll and chord diagrams; export or print as PDF - Metronome with tempo marks, customizable beats per bar, subdivisions and polyrhythms - Playable piano keyboard, splittable into two rows — record your ideas into a local library We would love to hear your feedback. In case you have any questions or comments, write to us at [email protected]. Terms of Use: https://www.songtive.com/pages/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.songtive.com/pages/privacy