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Piano Chords, Scales Companion
Master 1,500+ chords and 10,000+ scales with the ultimate studio reference. Build complex progressions, identify chords in Reverse Mode, and bridge the gap between your MIDI keyboard and DAW.
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User Rating
4.7/5
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Publisher
Songtive SIA
Category
Music
Locales
20
Latest Version
6.89.318
Size
152.2 MB
First Released
Feb 9, 2013
Features
Elevate Your Sound with Pro-Level Theory
From bedroom producers to seasoned teachers, Piano Companion provides the precision tools you need to compose, practice, and master every chord and scale.
Smart Composition Tools
Break through creative blocks using the Progression Builder and Reverse Mode to instantly identify chords and explore harmonic patterns.
Studio-Ready Connectivity
Seamlessly integrate with Ableton or GarageBand via MIDI output and use your external keyboard for a professional, tactile production workflow.
The following screenshots and description are sourced directly from the app's official store listing and are the property of the app developer.
App Store
Screenshots
Comprehensive list of piano chords and scales with keyboard diagrams in the Piano Companion app
A search interface in the Piano Companion app showing how to find chords and scales by selecting piano keys
Interactive Circle of Fifths interface showing C Major chords and intervals in the Piano Companion app
Chord progression builder interface displaying C4 Major 7th G3 Major and A3 Minor 7th chords on piano keys
Interface of the Piano Companion app showing D Major scale details common chords and musical staff notation
Description
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. If you don’t see a piano chord or a specific scale, you can create a custom piano chord or scale and use it for chord charts or your user library.
The Piano Companion app shows chord and scale notes on the grand staff, degrees, relative scales, intervals, fingering for both hands in major and minor scales – and you can contribute your own custom fingering too. You can practice scales in different keys and clefs, practice progressions. 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, practice progressions 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
- Ability to input your own custom chords and organize your own chord charts and library
- External MIDI keyboard support for reverse mode
- MIDI output with the ability to connect your favorite DAW (Ableton, Garage Band, etc.) with Piano Companion
- 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
- Ability to create custom chords or modify existing ones
- 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
- You can create your own scale fingering and have the ability to use community scale fingerings
- Custom chord libraries and chord charts
- Ability to create favorite scales
- Chord Intervals: Unison, Perfect Fifth, Major Third, Minor Third, etc.
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Have questions? Community forum: http://forums.songtive.com or contact us at: support@songtive.com
This page is not an official page of the app or its developer, but an independent editorial publication created for informational and commentary purposes. Unless expressly stated otherwise, neither the app nor its developer is affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, authorized by, or otherwise officially connected with MWM, Apple, Google Play, the app publisher, or the app's developer, and nothing on this page implies that the app was developed using MWM's services. Any trademarks, logos, screenshots, and other content remain the property of their respective owners.