After a lot of blood, sweat and tears, Uberchord 2.0 has finally arrived!

This is our biggest release ever and we’ve added even more exciting features for you to learn better & faster. Here is what is new for you guys:

All New Learning Paths

Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced levels

Whether you are a beginner or an intermediate or an advanced guitar player, we have your back. We have all new learning paths with new content suitable to your needs and level. Explore new songs, exercises, chords progressions, full songs courses along with strumming and rhythm trainer.

Starting from simple two finger chords to playing your first song, to learning the complex rhythm and strumming patterns, we have carefully handpicked songs and topics to kickstart your guitar career. As you progress further on this journey, the difficulty level of exercises and songs will keeps increasing, challenging you a notch higher each time.

Introducing Songs

With our new licensing partnership Universal Music we can finally offer you all the famous songs you always wanted to learn. Our learning paths already include about a dozen of the finest songs ever created, with handcrafted exercises to prepare your skills.

Everybody wants to start learning their favourite songs as soon as they can. But are you learning them correctly? The internet is great for finding out how to play millions of songs, except there’s little guarantee you’re being shown the right chords and lyrics—unless you learn them here at Uberchord.

Selected songs from the Universal Music’s catalogue will be added on regular basis in the app for you. To begin with, Coldplay’s Yellow, Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters and Bob Dylan’s House Of the Rising Sun, are available for free in the Beginner’s Course 1. You can learn to play the complete song in the perfect way along with lyrics, and rhythm trainer.

The Strumming Trainer: World Premiere

Get your your right hand to work

It’s one thing to get your chord fingering perfect, but your strumming hand is just as important to get those cool rhythms happening and play some tunes properly. A lot of guitar tutorials don’t pay enough attention to strumming, but here at Uberchord we believe great technique with both your hands is essential and focusing on just strumming is a good practice method. So we’ve developed the world’s first interactive Strumming Trainer for guitar to get those rhythm and grooves working for you.

New Premium Content Every Week

While the first Beginner’s Course is absolutely free for you to try, for just $ 4.99 per month you can subscribe to our exclusive and premium content and select songs based on artists and difficulty level.

We’ll be adding new songs and new learning content every week so that you never feel stuck or bored from learning to play guitar. Keep a look out on our online music platform, newsletter, blog, or any of our social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or GooglePlus to get the latest updates and news about us.

Uberchord is personal

Daily Workout and Statistics

To build a great chord repertoire requires a lot of repetition and practice. Uberchord’s Daily Workout feature turns a chore into a pleasure. It creates great individual chord exercises for you.

Your personal profile gives you detailed statistics on your overall learning progress, allows you to set reminders and goals, and schedule your practice.

Daily Workout: Uberchord will introduce you to new chords and patterns that you might otherwise avoid for longer than you should. Just ten minutes a day in the Daily Workout Uberchord gymnasium can make all the difference. And the heaviest thing you’ll have to pick up is your guitar.

Coming Soon: Uberchord Music

A new music platform for guitar players

Very soon you will be able to browse your favourite songs and artists from our growing catalog along with lyrics and strumming patterns on our brand new online music platform: Uberchord Music.

All of our content will be available as interactive exercises in the Uberchord app — your mobile guitar teacher is just a click away.

Our fantastic deal with Universal Music Publishing allows us to offer an ever-growing selection of popular songs with accurate chords, lyrics and rhythm trainer. More and more songs will added every week and we’re aiming to provide a huge library of songs from which you can choose.

We really hope you enjoy and use our latest additions. Let us know what you think. We’re always open to feedback and suggestions.

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With a large GUI that can be seen on any iOS device Uberchord will show you the right way to play chords with the correct finger positions. Using the inbuilt microphone of your iPhone or iPad, Uberchord “listens” to your playing and gives you instant feedback on your progress. The app includes real-time exercises that let you rehearse at your own pace and keeps a record of the chords and patterns you’ve practised. Uberchord is your personalised guitar tutor ready with the next lesson anytime you want without the stress.

Here are five great things about Uberchord.

1. Large and easy to read chord diagrams.

Uberchord is designed with smart phones in mind — although it works just as well on an iPad. The GUI is very clear even on smaller screens. Still, if you have problems seeing any of the interface at all then tapping on the illustrations zooms in for better look. You won’t be squinting at tiny pictures and trying to figure them out.

2. Chord exercises with real world examples.

Sure, at the very beginning levels Uberchord will show you just the basic chords and how to play them. The exercises prompt you to learn the alternate chords in each lesson, switching to and fro to get your fingers used to moving around the fret board. But it’s not long before you’re playing actual tunes. There are a million songs based around these fundamental chord progressions and Uberchord quickly introduces you to exercises that echo familiar tunes you hear on the radio every day. Sooner than you think, you’ll be unlocking your inner Jimi Hendrix and the Eagles to name just a few. That’s what you want to do, right? Be playing real songs as soon as you can? Uberchord will show you how.

3. You can build your own chord exercises.

Every guitar player discovers their own problem chords — the ones your fingers just don’t want to play. The only remedy is to practise these troublesome chords until they become as easy and natural as the simpler ones — and that will happen with regular rehearsing. Uberchord allows you to create unique exercises that can focus on the chords that are driving you nuts (but you know there’s only that one solution). Advanced players can use this function to program in chord progressions that need extra practise. It’s not just beginners who can get their fingers tangled up.

4. The Chord Finder function.

This works brilliantly in two ways. First, perhaps a music chart or another band member (it’ll be the pesky piano player) wants you to play a certain slightly obscure chord? All you have to do is enter that chord into Uberchord and the app will display all the possible Root Positions you can play plus the potential inversions, too. If the chord can be played on a guitar, Uberchord will show you how to do it. The second Chord Finder functions works in reverse. You might play a nice-sounding chord without actually knowing what it is (we’ve all been doing that for years). Uberchord will listen to your chord and identify it, displaying the name on the screen. That’s pretty clever, right?

5. The new alternate tunings in Uberchord opens up a whole world of cool sounds.

Alternate tunings can make your guitar sound beautiful and rich with open strings creating most of the tones. However, it means all those standard chord shapes get thrown out the window — with your strings tuned differently they don’t apply anymore. So what chords are you playing? The Chord Finder still works! Anything you play can be recognised by the app and displayed. Alternatively, learning how to play familiar tunes in that alternate tuning (giving the song an awesome new sound) is done by simply entering the chord into the Chord Finder and Uberchord will show you the correct fingering with that tuning. The free version of Uberchord includes Open D tuning. In-app purchases can add more options from a large list of other popular alternate tunings.

As you can see Uberchord offers great functions for both beginners learning their first chords and experienced players looking for solutions when the charts — or the songs — get challenging.

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Technology is a funny thing. It creates a need for items we never really wanted or offers a solution for problems we never really had. The slightly more jovial upshot of this is that it has improved our lives beyond recognition, which even the most cynical futurephobe would struggle to deny. The music learning process has also been kissed by the tech gods. Powerful apps have entered the market which can quite effectively substitute piles of books or hours of lessons. Chord finders do just this, and we will be briefly combing over the main reasons how apps, such as Uberchord, can assist if not rejuvenate your guitar learning.

One of Uberchord’s main features is its Chord Finder. You can browse the large interactive library to look up all finger positions for virtually all guitar chords. If you can play it, Uberchord will know it.

Are you an Android user? Don’t worry! Uberchord has also launched the  chord finder for the Web so you don’t miss out!

Virtual Chord Book

Traditionally, a child would be accompanied to a music store by acquiescing parents. Following a brief conversation, he would walk out excitedly clutching a starter guitar pack and a convenient book listing basic chords. Nowadays, chord finder apps pretty much constitute a virtual encyclopedia on every chord which has ever existed. Not only does this save the need for periodically buying new paper books, but it also bears huge benefits for the advanced/expert guitarist. Unrestrained by matters of physical space, chord finders allow for instant access to every mathematical permutation of every chord. Musicians often need only the slightest spark of inspiration to set the songwriting process in motion, and chord finder apps are the perfect hack for broadening your musical vocabulary.

Instant Chord Recognition

Ever been noodling around and came across a chord that sounded neat, but you had no way to identify? Back in the day, and by that I mean a few years ago, you would have to enter each note manually into prehistoric and wildly cumbersome chord recognition software. Apps are a lot more sophisticated. To pause briefly on what exactly an app is, it’s a computer program that allows you to harness the processing power and features of your device for a specific, third-party purpose. As smartphones become exponentially more powerful, chord finders now have the ability to utilize your device’s in-built microphone. This means that while you’re strumming away on your guitar, the app can register what you’re playing and give you precise feedback in real-time. They can tell you instantly what chord you are playing, and if you’re slightly off; how to correct your fingering.

Like it or not, technology and apps are encroaching into every aspect of life. Although the digital floodgates have barely just opened, thousands of companies across the world are energetically pushing forward the frontier of technological possibilities. Uberchord contains one of the most powerful and sophisticated chord finders available on the market. It also offers an array of other essential guitarist’s tools, comprising an invaluable didactic program for guitarists both new and experienced. But don’t just take our word for it, try it for yourself here or download the app.

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I don’t know how many times I have daydreamed of saying those very three words in the last few years. From its inception up to today’s launch, I’ve poured more sweat, tears and blood into this than anything else in my life.

Uberchord is designed to help you learn guitar chords

The app registers a guitar being played through the device’s built-in microphone and provides instant feedback to what you’re playing. We had been wanting this ourselves for many years and building it was a real quest. Looking forward however, this journey has only really just begun.

We expected the audio recognition technology to be the hardest part, which it duly was. It took us a full two years to get it working. When we finally filed the patent last November, we could hardly believe it ourselves. It’s really the first time that polyphonic pitch recognition (a.k.a. chord recognition) has been able to make sense of complex guitar chords in real-time, including the most evil of Jazz chords. We accordingly gave our technology the name ‘ChordSense’.

ChordSense is a great start, and we will even take it further. ChordSense makes it possible to learn guitar chords like never before, with interactive visual feedback. We tested it with countless guitars and in almost all cases it worked exceptionally well. Being the Swiss and German perfectionists that we are, however, we already have ChordSense 2.0 deep in production. We expect it to be even faster and more precise. We’ve already been approached by several players of the music industry and naturally, we are open to collaboration.

Realtime Chord Recognition Was No Easy Task

While the technology development was a cheerful valley of death, the real surprise was how hard it would be to create the actual app. Music apps often have very cluttered interfaces and we wanted to reduce it to the max. Uberchord looks really simple on the surface, but it’s loaded with technology underneath. At its peak we had eight iOS engineers working simultaneously on this, and those gentlemen were no rookies.

we hope you will enjoy using it as much as we did creating it

Uberchord is finally in the App Store today and I’m so incredibly proud of this team that I have the honor to work with. We’re a crazy bunch of software professionals who happen to love music and have set out to change the way we learn our instruments. Uberchord 1.0 won’t change everything straight away, but we do hope it will make a difference when you begin to learn guitar chords. In fact, we hope you will enjoy using it as much as we did creating it. And obviously, it doesn’t stop here.

That said, we are certainly aware that new products might have bugs and other unexpected problems. If you do have any issues or suggestions for improvement, please drop us a line at support@uberchord.com.

We’ll take it from here and push it further. It’s a long walk to musical freedom but we are looking forward to every single next step — a bit foolish maybe, but definitely hungry. ;-)

Sincerely,
Eckart Burgwedel

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It’s been a while since our first initial post. We have been working hard on our project to create a new guitar learning app and we just wanted to let you know that things are starting to fall in place. We’re doing this in our spare time, so of course it takes a while. It’s a tough road, but we are getting there!

We know that you guys out there are wondering what’s actually going to happen. We said in our recent post that our first app is going to be a guitar chord analyzer for iOS. Well, we’d like to drop the next hint today:

Imagine your iPhone could listen to your guitar and recognize what you are playing. Not simply whether you have played a specific tone or not, but the full blown chord with all the tensions you might dream up. Imagine this was working in realtime. Any idea what you could with this? Well, we do… ;-)

We know, many people have tried this. We can’t wait to show you what we are working on.

The Uberchord Team.

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