Solo - Fretboard Visualization

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1. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

   Not what I thought it would be. I thought this was to help learn the fretboard without holding the guitar or even requiring a guitar. I thought this was to learn finger placements by having a virtual fretboard.

2. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

   Technical difficulties galore. I like the app in theory but in actuality it doesnt work because it wont detect the notes. Ive done all the trouble shooting. Even when it sometimes works it only detects half the notes and it wont move along on the exercise. I really wanted to like it. Wouldve been worth $15 if it worked

3. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

   Very Poor Functionality. The scale/interval/note exercises do not change upon tap (one of the selected options) Not recommended.

4. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

   Money wasted. Totally confusing app. Can’t correctly identify a note it’s asking for half the time. After a little bit I’d start playing wrong notes on purpose and it would register them as correct. Tim is a genius on guitar but this app is rushed and I haven’t seen an update for this thing since I bought it. Save your money, wish I would’ve.

5. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

   No better than a tuner. I paid $15 to have something identify a note and tell me if I’m playing it. All of the other functions are grayed out and don’t work. No part of the app or it’s help explains how I unlock them. What a waste of money.

6. ★★★★★high price for limited feature set

   Far Too Limited For $15. I wrote a giant review and unfortunately lost it, so I am keeping this short: This app is crude and left the product development stage too soon. Features that many would consider basic do not exist. I would expect more from an app that costs $15. I would probably value it at $1 out of generosity. My advice: hold off on purchasing until several updates are released.

7. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

   Support completely unresponsive - zero.. Seems like a decent app. I needed help. I tried the FAQ, no joy for my issue. Sent an email to support. Waited 6 days, no response. NADA, NOTHING. I checked my spam and nothing. I initially rated as 2 stars as I figure the app must have some value, otherwise support gets ZERO stars. Update: Somone finally contacted me but then never answered when I gave them my original email. Now it has been a month! Totally unresponsive after I send emails to both email addresses. Can I PLEASE get a refund on this worthless subscription? If I pay for an app, I ought to get some minimal level of help. Total FAIL. I cannot give zero stars or I would.

8. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

   Not Worth 14.99. I respect the amount of work that went into writing this app. And yes Intervals are a great way to learn the fretboard. However, the app is not close to being worth what they are charging. All it does is intervals. It does not use or recognize notes. There is an entire channel dedicated just to figuring out how to use the app. Many other apps for less than half the price of this one and are far better in terms of learning the fretboard. I would get a refund if I could after purchasing and realizing it does nothing with notes.

9. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

   Terrible Waste of Money. Unless you understand theory you may not want to buy this. You certainly don’t want to be a play by ear player looking for a tablature based application. I wish I could get a refund. Thanks you all.

10. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

    Garbage. 15 dollars for an app that doesn’t register the notes i’m playing even after calibrating 5 times. Don’t tell me to reach out to support. I’m just trying to improve in guitar and that’s 15 bucks i’m never getting back. Terrible overpriced app

11. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

    Rating so far is 0. I have yet to receive a response by support, for help on calibration of the app, useless without help👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻app is absolutely of no use.👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

12. ★★★★★high price for limited feature set

    Could be great- too expensive for what is is currently.. Could be great with more features- too expensive for what is is currently.

13. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

    AAAAARGH!!!. I’m sorry, I feel really stupid for buying this app. Watching the tutorial videos and three lessons in and I had to switch off as I couldn’t follow or understand anything being said. It just about sums up my frustration with trying to learn guitar theory, the language used is totally alien to me and it makes no sense. I can find better (for me at least) tutorials on YouTube, I’m sure this a fine app for certain students but I’m not one of them.

14. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

    Sadly It Doesnt Work. This app is a great idea however it doesnt pick up the audio and therefore doesnt work. I have to crank my amp for it to pick up notes and even then it really has no clue half the time. It sucks all the enjoyment from practicing and I gave up on it in the first 3 days. Save your money and just pay attention to the shapes youre playing.

15. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

    Could have been made for beginners too, but it isn't. Lack of the ability to practice chord tones in a single key makes this app an intermediate guitar experience required app. Would have been so easy to make single keys available to draw in beginners to learning chord tones in a key across the whole fretboard. The closest the app gets is continuously changing keys after each chord, which is beyond a beginner to practice chord tones with. Opportunity missed to attract beginners and keep them for a long time and I'm looking for another trainer app due to this oversight.

16. ★★★★★missing features and custom progressions

    Could be great…. Lots to like about this app but it’s missing (imo) a couple of key features. - to be able to drill the same note/chord/progression a certain number of times before going to another. This would let you drill the same chord/etc in various locations, or fingerings. - to be able to program your own progressions, such as in iReal would be nice - and for $15, it should really have an integrated metronome and be able ask you to keep up with the progression in time. - to be able to hit the notes in any order instead of prescribed order would be.a good improv mode - also, for $15 and since it’s detecting pitch, anyway… why no integrated tuner?

17. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

    2 1/2 stars. I saw that I could use an audio interface with this app (class compliant) Witch I already have. After setting it up into the device no sound reaches the app. After reading the troubleshooting Section and following the instructions it still doesn’t register. I don’t like bothering people around me by playing with the amplifier, no choice but to do that now. The $15 spent on this app could be been spent on something else.

18. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

    cool but….. i’m only five minutes into using it and I feel a little scammed which is surprising because I really like Tom Quayle and his stuff. It might just be my microphone on my iphone 10 is bad but i just openned up the scales exercises doing A dorian, i play A twice and the app counts it as the first AND 2nd note in the scale….like is this a joke….the whole point is for the app to track your notes accurately and individually and it wont even let me practice a basic scale without accidentally picking up notes im not playing. AND when it does work, it wont recognize the notes if i play faster than about 100 bpm up and down the scale….very disappointed 😞

19. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

    Not what I wanted. This is for guitar players that already have the entire fretboard memorized and know each note and each scale and chord configuration up and down the neck. It will show you the next chord or note to play but no tabs or any indication of where that note or chord falls on the fretboard. How simple would it be to show a quick diagram of the notes on the fret board or the chords for each change? I seriously want a refund but I suppose those don’t happen so I can only suggest an update that shows the tablature for each suggested note or chord. Add tabs please!!!

20. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

    Don’t understand the benefit. I don’t think this app is good for beginners. If you’re a beginner, you don’t even know what intervals are yet. Not only that, even if you do know what they are, there’s no way you have the intervals memorized for the various scales. When the app tells you an interval value (1,4,b7) it’s going to take a while to figure out where they are. I also don’t see how this is reinforcing anything nor is it really teaching you much as far as I can tell. Perhaps because I leaned scales as “patterns” my brain is not used to this but this is not helpful for me.

21. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

    Dissatisfied. This app was called solo and from the pictures it seemed you were able to solo in different keys and master the fretboard but inside you just hit note in the order of the scale over and over

22. ★★★★★high price for limited feature set

    could be better. For what it costs, I was expecting more. Some things that feel like no brainers to me: showing the note on the treble clef, and showing the fretboard for scales. Something that would be nice given the technology is giving a reference note and then asking to find another note (interval ear training). Also, a way to gamify it (e.g. streaks, quests) would be nice to have a sense of reward. Overall a decent practice tool to start learning the fretboard, but given that it's paid it could be a lot more.

23. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

    Disappointed. I recently started using this app. Viewed training videos. This app isn’t for beginners and maybe not for intermediate level players. I’m a visual learner, however, I’ve been told by my guitar instructor that I have a talent for knowing notes/chords by ear. I was expecting an interactive fretboard when doing scales. I also would like the option of seeing each note played in a scale instead of only seeing numbers (1, 3, 4, 6, 7).

24. ★★★★★high price for limited feature set

    Abandoned by Developers - Decent App as it Sits. Good app for what it does, but don’t expect a ton of development or bug fixes / innovation from the developers. This was a fairly expensive application that has since been largely abandoned by David and Tom. I’ve had a few email exchanges with David about it and they always seem to have something in the works, but nothing ever comes of it. So, for what this app does today, it works well, but when you purchase an app for $10, I’d expect a little bit more in terms of future updates and innovation. Personally it kind of feels like a money grab if I’m being honest.

25. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

    Need some work !. Need some work ! Please fix it!

26. ★★★★★not for beginners: no diagrams or visual guidance

    Not for Beginners. Good app, if you already know the fretboard and notes of the scales. Only giving the intervals, and not an option to see the notes those intervals correspond to is frustrating. Seems a simple thing to add and open the usefulness to more folk. Especially as a paid app.

27. ★★★★★crashes and launch failures

    love this app but. Got a brand new mac with an m1 chip and the app seems to crash.. I used this app all the time on my old iphone but really wanted to incorporate it into my "normal" practice workflow... If this is fixed, 5 stars, hands down

28. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

    It would be nice if it had an option to tell me if I’m right or wrong. I can find the notes, but the chords change even as I’m not playing anything, so I’m unsure if I’m actually playing the right note or not

29. ★★★★★missing features and custom progressions

    Good, still could be better. Very good software, the reason for 3 stars is - one need to pay for it (quite a lot as for AppStore apps), and there are few things which are a bit annoying. I’d give 3.5 star if had a choice or maybe 3.75. What I’m missing is: for very standard II- V- I progression there is no choice of making II chord just simple minor with b3 instead of 3rd. Every time soft starts one need to navigate to what is needed, from my perspective it would be better if soft remember last choice, there are favourites, that’s Ok, usually we are working on something for quite sometime and it would help to get on screen what was last used. Good idea and I hope It’ll help a lot in developing improvising skills. All the best guys and keep going.

30. ★★★★★note detection bugs and sensitivity issues

    Great App. Great app , well it was until the latest update , it is now way to sensitive and keeps triggering intervals when I haven’t played anything.