Harp for iPhone/iPod

JennHi, of Los Angeles writes:

This app is everything I ever needed in a musical transcription tool. Anyone can haul out a MIDI keyboard or guitar, if they wish, to try to transcribe the chords of a song by ear, and how nice is it to balance a guitar on your lap while trying to write, or get room for a keyboard at your desktop? I have room for neither, and besides which, I don’t play piano or guitar. Enter “Harp”, a compact, easy iPhone app which will give you every chord you can think of and a friendly interface from which to pick the chord. It doesn’t insult your intelligence, either, by only giving you a major, minor, or 7th; it offers diminished and augmented triads, and the whole gamut of combinations for the 7th chords. Pick, strum, hear, match to the music. Within a half hour, I had everything I needed from Paul Williams’ Faust, a task that I had been putting off for years due to the hectic struggling to try to get all the tools together. Not bad for someone who doesn’t play guitar or piano!

I like the way Harp is laid out because I have easy access to the circle of fifths along with all the chord variations… that’s 168 different chords at my fingertips. It’s very easy to strum the bar on the right while changing the chords with the left hand. If you want to play an extended chord simply touch the root note and then glide or slide to the structure to extend the chord. It’s a great way to test chord progressions… you can quickly try different chord changes to help speed along songwriting or inspire new directions.

Review of Harp at iPhoneMusicApps.com

Oh, and we will be making the built-in sounds better, and we also have some other surprises coming for Harp. Happy New Year!