Great app, it's been helpful so far. Like others, I'm hoping for an update soon that allows for randomised changes to nail every note on the fretboard. Custom changes would also be handy, as would a session timer and a metronome. I believe most of these features are now available on IOS...
Reviews for Solo - Fretboard Visualization
← Back to Solo - Fretboard VisualizationGreat app, I took the scenic route learning scales by heart....wish I had started with this. it is a practice tool and works great as that, but an awesome addition would be better functionality to play along with tracks or be able to input a specific chord progression or song to practice chord tones over. really well thought out app. 4.5 stars really
Works well, with quick note recognition using your phone or tablet's onboard mic. Clear and clean UI. The app includes links to some very useful videos on how to get the most out of it. It won't improve your visualisation over night, that's down to you and measured consistent practice over time.
Not impressive. Doesn't allow you to choose your own progressions, has a limited amount of jazz standards, doesn't play chords or backing tracks, doesn't seem to have been updated in years. I do think the note recognition is good and I think it'll be helpful in my learning, probably more than a $15 book. YMMV.
I like TQ, but this is a rip-off. Even at the finest sensitivity it doesn't recognise notes anywhere close to fast enough + no updates for years/additions based on user feedback shows the lack of commitment. I didn't bother getting a refund when I purchased it (right when it came out) thinking all this would be improved, but no. I'm still sitting hanging on to notes, repeating them waiting for this app too recognise them.
Really Great app. It s makes it s easier to play those excersises with more volume. When You do this by yourself, it s hard for a brain. I usually find myself becoming tired after 5 minutes. With Solo you can sit for 2 hours. It s just more and faster However, I would also want to suggest a feature to write a chord changes by myself. And something that would eneable me not to watch at the screen all the time( to recall changes for myself). Sound confirmation that I m hitting the right notes....
Spectacular tool. There are some things that I think it could add to be the best app ever: -Adding a pad sound of the chords for musical context while playing. -Being able to toggle a metronome. -The ability of recognizing random orders of intervals chosen by the player in real time over each chord, instead of the suggested "random" orders given by the app for more melodic freedom on developing lines. -Dark mode in Android. Hope it keeps evolving to add these suggestions eventually.
Absolutely the best app I have ever seen for developing fretboard fluency, if not the best practice tool in general I have ever used. The whole concept of using intervalic structures rather than sheet music or diagrams is so good for training your ear and hands to play in all 12 keys. The app is incredibly quick and responsive, too. I love it. I think it's worth way more than $15 tbh.
Would benefit greatly from having a completely random order to notes in the changes mode. Going through the circle of 5ths over and over again in order will eventually lead to your muscle memory kicking in, which is not useful when you're trying to learn the skill of picking out any note on the fretboard instantly.
A great app for learning the fretboard, interval shapes, scales, etc. and easily worth the price! One thing I would like to see added is a simple mode that just asks for random notes - so that total noobs like me can finally learn all the note names on the fretboard. I am aware of the workaround Tom described in his video "Mastering The Fretboard - How To Begin Your Journey" but it would still be cool to have a proper mode for this!
Downloaded a couple days ago and paying dividends already. Is expensive compared to other apps and quite basic, but certainly does the job. I hope the team are still investing in it and adding to it. In a practical sense applied the fretboard knowledge I'd gained from initial exercises and played a song today using 5th and 6th strings changing position of the chord randomly every single time with confidence. Little lightbulbs are going off as I work through which is exactly what I want.
This a good concept and approach. I would happily pay for a desktop version, as I find mobile apps (in general) dinky, clunky (limited by form), unpractical and not as conducive (practice flow) as a desktop applications - which is where I practice. I am sure there are people who have no issue with a mobile app version, but I tried practicing with this on my phone & it just doesn’t work for me so I’ve given up using it. Hopefully we’ll see a desktop version soon!
This app is teaching me what my Jazz improv lectures in college couldn't!!! The scope and range of exercises possible is almost endless. Once I found out I could use the app through an audio interface and avoid background noise I was even more impressed. Kudos to the developers, this is worth every Penny and has already made a difference to my practice routine in the short time I've been using it. I'd rate higher if I could!
I want to love this app -- and I want to continue using it to practice changes and patterns, but the calibration process is akin to pulling teeth and doesn't improve note detection on the E/A strings even with fine adjustment. If I ever have to play anything on my E or A strings, I can be pretty sure I'll have to pluck a note more than 10 times to get the app to recognize it. This turns what should be a 10 to 20 minute refresher/fretboard warmup into a 45 minute practice block. I know it's not my mic, as it has no issues picking up ambient noise during calls or memo recordings. It's not quite there yet. Hopefully you can sort out the rest of the technical minutiae -- I'll be using this app constantly once you do!
It's a really decent app for practicing chord tones. Two issues with everyday use: 1. Note detection: even after it's calibrated, sometimes it's simply refusing to detect a note. It can usually be resolved by playing it an octave lower or higher, but it really breaks the flow. 2. Lack of instructions on how to progress. I can do any exercise slowly (play the notes at 10-20 BPM). It would be nice to have more guidance on how to progress, because I usually just pick random songs.
Recently a Android Update caused a display problem in the app. I messaged support and they fixed it within days! Now I'm just hoping the at some point release Solo 2.0 for Android aswell.
Good not great, almost great. Missing some functionality like being able to rotate through your ii V I keys without having to restart the session - just a microcosm of little things that could be better. 15 bucks might seem a little steep but this app offers a very unique practice style that's fun to add to the rotation. Some more updates would be nice but that seems off the table - maybe release an ad supported version and continue updates and legacy purchasers just don't have to watch ads?
It's like having a guitar teacher with perfect pitch and ADD. It's great that it can identify if the notes I'm playing are right or wrong. But if it can't tell me if the note I'm playing is right or wrong because it can't hear it very well or it's too busy writing down whether previous notes are right or wrong, it just leaves me guessing. Just learn your A major and C major scales, learn interval distance, and get some new strings with the $15 you'd spend here.
Don't understand peoples' troubles with note detection- I've had very little issue with it (but I am using an acoustic, so maybe that's part of it?). I was super surprised at how quietly I could pick with it still hearing. Only reason for 4 instead of 5 stars is because they have said that they won't be updating it anymore, which really sucks. Also wish they would've made it a VST that could be loaded into any DAW, but oh well.
Great app. Note detection seems fairly solid for me. Adding a bit of vibrato seems to help. In chord changes exercises, it would be great to optionally hear a synth chord to hear the played notes in context. You could play all notes other than the target tone, so it doesn't detect its own output. Please update the audio interface list with android compatible ones, if any.