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Learn to Play an Instrument with Apps for Apple TV

Turn your Apple TV into a music teacher for you or your child. With these apps, you can learn and practice instruments like piano, guitar, and drums.

Guitar Lessons - Guitar Tricks

Guitar Tricks Inc.

Introducing Guitar Lessons by Guitar Tricks, the best, most fun, and educational way to learn guitar with guided, step-by-step videos. Our system is tested and proven to work for beginners and advanced guitar players.


Guitar Tricks is designed to empower beginners to play guitar by learning actual hit songs from the very start – not boring drills and exercises. 



Learn to play guitar from top instructors who guide you through every step with shorter, incremental videos to increase skill rapidly. In a recent survey, members reported learning 50-100% FASTER than with other guitar apps!

* Award-Winning: Best Online Guitar Resource and Instructional Material
* High Quality Step-by-Step Video Guitar lessons
* Over 3 Million Members since 1998


Core Learning System – Perfect for beginners
The Core Learning System guides beginner guitarists through a series of short videos that focus on you making music from day one. After you nail the basics, the guided videos branch out so you can learn different styles of guitar like Rock, Country, Blues, and more.



The Most Song Lessons Available
Guitar Tricks has been teaching people how to play guitar since 1998. We offer over 11,000 lessons, ranging from skill and technique videos to artist and genre studies. 


We offer over 700 (and counting) song tutorials that include massive hit songs from great artists such as:

-The Beatles
-Ed Sheeran
-The Rolling Stones
-Eagles
-Rihanna
-Stevie Ray Vaughan
-B.B. King
-Eric Clapton
-Van Halen
-Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Many more!


High-Quality Tools and Features
Along with our world-class instructors, we provide our members with useful tools to speed up the learning process:
-Full, precise tabs and notation which are downloadable
-Scale finder
-Chord finder
-Reference tuner
-Fretboard trainer
-Advanced video playback and quality settings



The free version of this app offers a rotation of free lessons. Access all of our content with an in-app subscription purchase.

- Choose monthly payments ($19.99), or yearly payments ($179.99)
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal



Lessons that have worked for millions


“More than just a great teaching experience. Guitar Tricks has knowledgeable and entertaining instructors who really seem to care about the student and material. I’ve learned a lot in a short amount of time. It’s a really fun spot.” – James Cox

“I have always wanted to play guitar. Not learn it, just play it. My first experience (with Guitar Tricks) was amazing. Within a few minutes I was playing a song on my guitar.” –Phil Snell


Enjoying our guitar lessons or love learning to play guitar from our instructors? Please leave us a review!

You can also contact us directly if you have any questions at admin@guitartricks.com

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FretBud - Chord & Scales for Guitar, Bass and More

Cem Olcay

FretBud shows you many scales and chords on the guitar, bass and ukelele fretboards with many tuning choices and ability to create custom tunings as well.
You can even create 7 string guitar or 8 string bass tunings!
Also, you can customize the fretboard and change the fret count, starting fret, showing fret numbers, string names and note names.
It shows vertical fretboard on portrait mode and shows horizontal fretboard in landscape mode.

FretBud offers its core components MusicTheory, CircleOfFifths, and Fretboard for Mac, iOS and tvOS completely open source on GitHub.
Check them out at:
https://github.com/cemolcay/MusicTheory
https://github.com/cemolcay/CircleOfFifths
https://github.com/cemolcay/Fretboard

Supported Scales:
- Major
- Minor
- Harmonic Minor
- Melodic Minor
- Pentatonic Major
- Pentatonic Minor
- Pentatonic Blues
- Pentatonic Neutral
- Ionian
- Aeolian
- Dorian
- Mixolydian
- Phrygian
- Lydian
- Locrian
- Dim half
- Dim whole
- Whole
- Augmented
- Chromatic
- Roumanian Minor
- Spanish Gypsy
- Blues
- Diatonic
- Double Harmonic
- Eight Tone Spanish
- Enigmatic
- Leading Whole Tone
- Lydian Augmented
- Neopolitan Major
- Neopolitan Minor
- Pelog
- Prometheus
- Prometheus Neopolitan
- Six Tone Symmetrical
- Super Locrian
- Lydian Minor
- Lydian Diminished
- Nine Tone Scale
- Auxiliary Diminished
- Auxiliary Augmented
- Auxiliary Dim Blues
- Major Locrian
- Overtone
- Diminished Whole Tone
- Pure Minor
- Dominant 7th

Supported Chords:
- maj
- min
- aug
- b5
- 5
- dim
- 6
- minor 6
- 6add9
- minor 6add9
- Dominant 7th
- Major 7th
- minor 7th
- minor Major 7
- aug7
- dim7
- 7b5
- m7b5
- 7#5
- m7#5
- 7b9
- m7b9
- 7#9
- 7#5b9
- sus4
- sus2
- 6sus4
- Major 7sus4
- 7sus4
- 9sus4
- Major 9 sus4
- 9
- Major 9
- minor 9
- minor Major 9
- add 9
- minor add9
- 9#11
- 9b13
- 11
- Major 11
- minor 11
- minor Major 11
- 7add11
- Major 7add11
- minor 7add11
- minor Major 7add11
- 13
- Major 13
- minor 13
- minor Major 13
- minor Major 7add13

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Guitar Tab Tutor

Jeff Perrin Music LLC

Guitar Tab Tutor is the best way for beginning guitar players to learn how to read AND play tablature notation (TAB)!

Guitar Tab Tutor is designed to be the ultimate reference guide for any and all techniques you may encounter when learning to play songs on guitar. Accompanying video lessons, available via a single in-app purchase, provide an even greater in-depth look into each technique by providing visual demonstration and performance tips.

FEATURES:

— Comprehensive reference sheet illustrating every TAB technique imaginable for guitar!

— Accompanying description teaches you how to perform each technique!


VIDEO LESSON BUNDLE:

The video lesson bundle is an essential resource for beginning guitar players learning to play songs through sheet music and tablature.

— Includes 39 video lessons, each providing an up-close demonstration of all guitar techniques!

— Many videos contain additional performance and practice tips!

— Taught by Jeff Perrin, an experienced guitar instructor and master transcriber!


NOTE: Video lessons are downloaded “on demand” in order to save storage space on your device.

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Guitar 3D - Basic Chords

Polygonium Inc.

-No Ads! & No In-App Purchase!
-Instead of guitar Apps we recommend studying with a real guitar teacher (a human). It is much better. This app is just for guitar education from the creators of "Final Guitar 3D" to guitar lovers who have trouble finding a real guitar teacher in their location.

Hard to learn guitar chords with photos or videos? Need to see the finger positions from different angles?... Then come and enjoy learning basic guitar chords with real-time 3D interactivity. Observe the correct finger movements between chord changes.
All animations and real guitar audio samplings are made with academic musicians.

Features of Basic Guitar Chords 3D:

- 3D Camera to observe finger positions (fingerings) from different views.
- 3D Hand and fingers to demonstrate correct positions on guitar.
- Finger transitions between chord changes.
- Guitar chords on staff.
- Guitar chords on chart.
- Basic and common guitar chords for beginners. For now no barre chords.
- Real guitar samples for each chord.


Basic chords demonstrated on guitar

- Am (A min, A minor, La minor)
- A (A maj, A major, La major)
- A7 (A Dominant Seventh, La Dominant Seventh)
- B7 (B Dominant Seventh, Si Dominant Seventh)
- C (C maj, C major, Do major)
- C7 (C Dominant Seventh, Do Dominant Seventh)
- Dm (D min, D minor, Re minor)
- D (D maj, D major, Re major)
- D7 (D Dominant Seventh, Re Dominant Seventh)
- Em (E min, E minor, Mi minor)
- E (E maj, E major, Mi major)
- E7 (E Dominant Seventh, Mi Dominant Seventh)
- F (F maj, E major, Fa major)
- G (G maj, G major, Sol major)
- G7 (G Dominant Seventh, Sol Dominant Seventh)


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MoRhythm-Africa

Susan Marvin

ABOUT MO’RHYTHM DJEMBE/DUNUN PLAY ALONG

Mo’Rhythm Beginning African Drumming Play Along App is the brain-child of world-renowned percussionist Monette Marino. Designed to provide you with a platform to practice individual drum parts on your real drums while listening to the other instruments of the djembe orchestra, all with the convenience of your smartphone or tablet.

Here’s how it works:

First, select the rhythm you want to practice. Then select the instruments you would like to play accompany you while you practice. Select the tempo and then press Play. You will hear the djembe signal at the start of each rhythm and then you can begin playing your drum along to the instruments you have selected.

This App contains audio only, however there are 50 videos available (10 rhythms times 5 drums each) as In-App purchases if you would like to see the movement and position of the hands on the drums.

“Play Along” increases your listening & playing skills and will help you to play in sync with other instruments of the djembe orchestra, enhancing your understanding of how all the parts fit together.

African rhythms for Beginning Content included are: Balakulandjan, Denedon, Djole, Fe, Kuku, Moribayassa, Soliwulen, Konden, Soli (Fast), and Toro.

Once you have downloaded the app, you may add intermediate and advanced levels of rhythms as in-app purchases.

The Intermediate level includes: Dallah, Djaa, Djansa, Kakilambe, Kassa, Mendiani, Sofa, Sorsonet, Sunun, and Tiriba.

The Advanced level of rhythms include: Abondan, Dunungbe, Konkoba 1, Konkoba 2, Konowulen 2, Lekule, N'Goron, Soboninkum, Zaouli A, and Zaouli B.

For more information on Mo’Rhythm programs visit www.mo-rhythm.com.

ABOUT THE APP

When you buy this app, all the audio and play along rhythms for the first level of instruction are available. This includes 10 beginning rhythms.

The video instructions from Monette are optional and available as additional in-app purchases. To access the videos, press on the button that looks like a tv with a picture of the drum. You don't *have* to buy the videos.

The Play button for the audio is on the bottom row of buttons.

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TrueFire Guitar Lessons

TrueFire

Play guitar or want to learn how to play guitar? Download TrueFire’s app to your iOS device for access to over 40,000 video guitar lessons, 30,000 guitar tabs, and 20,000 jam tracks at your fingertips. TrueFire’s library of 800+ guitar courses covers all levels, techniques, and styles of blues guitar, jazz guitar, rock guitar, country guitar, acoustic guitar, fingerstyle guitar, and other guitar styles.

Whether you're a beginner just learning how to play guitar or you're an advanced pro, you can learn from the best in the biz: Matt Schofield, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Vai, Pat Martino, Stu Hamm, Alex Skolnick, Dweezil Zappa, Johnny Hiland, Mike Zito, Redd Volkaert, David Grissom, Andy Timmons, and over 200 other top artists and educators.

New to TrueFire? Welcome aboard! Join TrueFire for free and get a 30 day trial of All Access - unlimited streaming access to all 40,000+ video guitar lessons including tab, notation, and jam tracks. You'll also get a free downloadable guitar course, 10 Guitar Licks You MUST Know for your offline learning pleasure.

Questions? Please visit our support desk to review our knowledge base and/or contact us.

Practice Smart, Play Hard.

TrueFire All Access Subscription. Term: 1 month or 1 year. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to Account Settings after purchase
. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
Link to Terms & Conditions: https://truefire.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://truefire.com/privacy-policy

At TrueFire, we pride ourselves on being able to offer the best music instruction to anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world, and that includes those with disabilities or impairments. We’re proud to announce that we’ve worked hard to update to our app to make learning with TrueFire even easier for those who use the VoiceOver Accessibility feature.

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C6 Lap Steel Guitar Sleepwalk TV

Pamela Piburn

Sleepwalk is one of our most popular Apps for learning song specific licks and is a favorite of lap steel guitar players worldwide.
Prior experience with the C6th tuning, low to high strings C-E-G-A-C-E, as well as basic lap steel guitar knowledge is recommended.

This Sleepwalk App with Practice Track is geared toward Lap Steel Guitar players who would like to learn GeorgeBoards C6th versions of licks for imitating popular steel guitar sounds heard on original recordings of Sleepwalk. The track is played by a professional band, useful as accompaniment when practicing the licks learned in the lessons, or as a backup track during performance. The material presented on this App is intended for Intermediate Level Players.

The App contains movies that demonstrate GeorgeBoards C6th versions of
Sleepwalk licks including:
* The Intro Lick with Detailed Tabs Graphic Overlaid on the Movie
* The Melody with Graphic Tabs
* A really good passing chord into the Bridge
* The Bridge with the Ending all with Graphic Tabs
* More licks to get back to the Head of the Song
* How to make up your own licks
* The Whole Song
* C6th Tune Up movie that covers 6 String Lap Steel Guitars
* All movies have the Players View Camera to Enhance the Learning Experience

This App is designed to play on your home Apple TV on full screen with
good audio and behave like rental movies. Use your remote control to select the movies of your choice. The pause, back up, and replay features of App
simplifies the learning experience.

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Scales for Apple TV

Kris Collins

Presenting a software tool for your Apple TV designed to help guitarists of all levels improve their knowledge and application of scale playing. View 46 different guitar scales in every key. Select from different coloring and labeling schemes that suit your style.

Practice in your living room. Hook up the Apple TV to monitor in the rehearsal space. Dial up scales in the music classroom, and let the woodshed commence!

More scales will be added when available.

Made by a guitar player - for guitar players everywhere.

Scales currently included:

Acoustic
Aeolian
Algerian
Augmented
Bebop Dominant
Bebop Major
Bebop Minor
Blues
Blues 2
Blues 3
Blues 4
Dorian
Double Harmonic
Enigmatic
Flamenco
Gypsy
Half Diminished
Harmonic Major
Hirajoshi
Hungarian Gypsy
Insen
Ionian
Istrian
Iwato
Locrian
Lydian
Lydian Augmented
Lydian Diminished
Lydian Minor
Major
Melodic Minor, ascending
Melodic Minor, descending
Minor
MixoLydian
Neapolitan Major
Neapolitan Minor
Pentatonic Major
Pentatonic Minor
Pentatonic Neutral
Persian
Phrygian
Prometheus
Tritone
Ukrainian Dorian
Whole Tone
Yo

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B Flat - Sight Reading

appsolute GmbH

••• Apple TV version comes free when you purchase this iOS app! •••

The B Flat app will help you learn and improve your music sheet reading skills - whether you are a beginner, music student or professional musician. Beginners will benefit from the integrated wikiHow article for learning sheet music reading and the special exercises for first-time users. Advanced users can significantly increase their sheet music reading speed.

Compared to similar apps, B Flat has no timeout. Instead, depending on the needed time, a time bonus will be given. To practice in this way makes learning to read sheet music more enjoyable for beginners and thus they will succeed faster. Advanced users in turn have the incentive to complete the exercise more quickly.

B Flat remembers misread notes and will display them more often. This increases the learning effect.

The results are clearly presented with statistical charts so the learner will easily recognize their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their progress.

B Flat brings its own tone generator based on SoundFonts. It can play displayed notes, as well as user entries. Instruments can be expanded with your own SoundFonts using iTunes File Sharing or iCloud Drive

Features :
- Suitable for both beginners and professionals
- Support for treble and bass clef
- Misread notes are displayed more frequently
- Support Solomisation (Do, Re, Mi, Fa ...)
- No time limit, thus stress-free learning
- Support for all key signatures
- Sound generators on SoundFont basis.
- Extendable with your own SoundFonts
- Extensive statistics
- Various settings

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Jazzy ABC - Music Education

The Melody Book

Learn about music instruments and letters in a fun and interactive game!
Featured on Apple's Best apps for Ages 5 and Under.

This top educational app for kids offers a brand new musical learning experience, as they learn the alphabet and expand their vocabulary through music!

Highlights:

• Easy to use interactive pages designed for little fingers.
• Your child will learn to recognize a flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, bass, vibraphone, drums and many more instruments by sound and sight.
• Audio recordings of real acoustic instruments from professional musicians.
• Put your knowledge to the test with our games : "Find the instrument" and "Which instrument starts with (ABC)?".
• We added an auto play option! Now you can view all letters in order - great for young ones and special needs learners!
• Take a picture with the jazzy kittens and share your photo.
• This app will teach and inspire your child to start playing a musical instrument.

Thanks to all of our supporters! We are honored by the fantastic reviews:

• "Terrific musical app for preschoolers. The app runs smoothly and has been well thought out." The iPhone mom

• "I highly recommend to any parent who wants to introduce musical instruments and alphabets to young juniors." Geeks with Juniors

• "This is a great app that you shouldn’t miss out on." PadGadget

• "This is a fun, educational, family friendly app that I would HIGHLY,HIGHLY recommend! " APPreciation

• "This vivid, colourful app is so unique, offering three early learning opportunities for the price of one." iPad App Reviews


PRIVACY POLICY:

We care about your child's privacy. We do not collect personal information or have any ads. Not now, not ever. You can refer to the privacy policy here: http://themelodybook.com/privacy-policy/

Contact us at info@themelodybook.com.

Check out JAZZY 123, A JAZZY DAY and JAZZY WORLD TOUR for more educational fun with the Jazzy Cats!

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C6 Major and Minor Chord Locator

Pamela Piburn

Simple C6 Major and Minor Chord Locator

Simple chord locator for some basic Major and Minor chords on 8 string Lap Steel Guitar.

This application is a simple chord locator for some of the basic Major and Minor chords on an 8 string Lap Steel Guitar. Listen to chord sounds to help train your ears to hear the correct pitches.

The tuning on the particular guitar used in the app is C6 and goes from Low to High: A - C - E - G - A - C - E - G.

To make Major chords, play combinations of the C - E - G strings with the bar positions shown in the app.

To make Minor chords, play combinations of the A - C - E strings with the bar positions shown in the app.

View Major and Minor Tab string combinations by highlighting the different chord
names from the Tab lists and select the “Play” button to listen to the sounds that go with each tab.

White circles indicate open strings. (no bar)

Black circles indicate strings played
with the bar on the fret where the circles are.

Numbers indicate inversions of each chord.

You can review directions on how to use this app on the Info screen.

Once you learn to play some chords, we show you how to play simple songs.

The app is meant to be easy to follow and fun for all ages.

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Gammes - scales library

Seraphin Hochart

Scales library for guitar, ukulele and bass guitar.
Now available on your wrist and at a glance on your phone!

Explore 50+ scales and learn them anytime and anywhere.

The last scale you viewed is always a few seconds away, on your Apple Watch or via the "Currently Learning" extension available in your notification center. The simplest companion out there for your music skills.

Features :

- 50+ scales, for all 12 keys
- Look at an overview of the scale or a zoomed mode to decompose each pattern
- Description and pattern for each scale
- Play the scale and follow the rhythm of the app
- The Apple Watch and the extension for the Notification Center will show you the scale you are currently exploring.

Tips :

- Airplay from your phone to your AppleTV for a bigger view
- Put your watch inside out while playing guitar. You will look cool AND learn.

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