Piano Companion is an Android app in the Music & Audio category, developed by Songtive. The current version listed here is 8.0.1007. The app centers on piano chords and scales, with tools for building progressions and organizing chord libraries.
The source material describes a space for writing songs or practicing new chord combinations. It also mentions using the keyboard to play sound in the traditional manner, and states that the application includes a real piano for composing songs.
Chords and Scales
The app provides access to more than 1500 piano chords. These include all inversions up to sixth, such as major, minor, reduced, augmented, and sevenths. More than 10000 scales are also included, covering major, minor, chromatic, pentatonic, and blues scales, among others. The source notes that users can learn these scales and combine them.
Chord and scale information is displayed on a staff with treble and bass clefs. The app shows chords that are suitable for a given scale, and it also displays scales that are comparable and related to one another. Relative scale suggestions are included, as are chords that are relative to one another in chord progressions.
Chord Progressions and the Circle of Fifths
A chord progression builder is included, featuring a variety of scale patterns described as a chord sequencer. The app also provides a participatory and interactive Circle of Fifths, referred to as a Chord Wheel. Chords can be played within the Circle of Fifths, and they are listed there.
The source mentions analytical terms such as the Secondary Dominant and the Secondary Leading-Tone. It also lists common degrees: Tonic, Supertonic, Mediant, Subdominant, Dominant, Submediant, Leading tone in the Major scale, and Subtonic in the Natural Minor Scale.
Custom Libraries and Charts
Users can insert their own individualized chords. The app supports arranging personal chord charts and libraries. It is possible to develop one’s own chord libraries as well as chord charts. Users can also construct their own preferred scales. The source states that users can build their own scale fingering in addition to having access to the community’s scale fingerings. User libraries have the capability of adding a scale or chord.
Search is available for finding a chord or scale by name. The source gives an example: searching for C or G returns the results. The app also helps navigate a MIDI keyboard.
Audio and MIDI
Audio support includes the ability to play chords or arpeggios in a loop, as well as the capability to play scales in a loop. Arpeggios may be heard in the chord progressions. The audio buttons are described as completely controlled, and users can adjust them to suit their voice. The source also mentions adjusting the number of chords to preferences.
External MIDI keyboards are supported within the reverse mode. MIDI output is listed for iOS, including the opportunity to link Piano Companion to a preferred digital audio workstation.
Notation and Languages
Notations are available in common languages such as English, Italian, German, Japanese, and Russian, among others. The source also refers to standard key symbols for English, Japanese, German, and several other languages.
MOD Features
This version is listed with the label Premium Unlocked.
MOD Info
Premium Unlocked
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