TONALY: Songs, Scales & Theory

Certainly is easier to to just play the piano with one thumb, if you understand music theory enough it’s pretty exciting to do all this very easily. I like the features that structure the song writing easily, even down to the small things like being able to see the mini piano as the chords play. Which brings me to something I would love to see in the future (I have searched to see if this is a feature, I haven’t found anything about it). So sometimes I’ll play a chord once, for example, Dmaj7/F#, one time, play something else and back to Dmaj7/F# again but the second time the F# is an octave above from the first one. I would like to be able to control the octave of the bass notes as well. I would also like to see if we can play a chord on the piano that shows when sideways and get it to appear as a chord, and implement it into the song, in case we wanted a more spread out chord per se. I would like to see us be able to write melodies in these chord progressions with this app. I was hoping it would do that since it was the price it is, although its pretty good for its price now, it would really make it better if it had the ability to write melodies with these chord progressions. Despite all of that I do believe this app is brilliant with its features on not only being able to exercise your knowledge in music theory by creating beautiful chord progressions, but also teach music theory to beginners while also giving both beginners and advanced users inspiration for creating something new, and giving ideas when we hit a creative block. Overall, great app, could be better but good enough.

Hats off to the developer(s). This app is so well thought out and designed. I’m absolutely in love with it. A great tool for learning, songwriting, and deconstructing popular songs for making your own arrangements. One thing I’d really like to see added is more in depth archive options when you save songs. I’m in the process of building out covers I know and would love the ability to tag songs to a genre, artists, etc. and be able to type in a search bar to jump right to it. It would also be nice to be able to add custom text fields above song parts. If I could just type in the first line of lyrics for versus, choruses, so on that’d be awesome. Then this app will be dang near perfect! 🤙 There are options to export out to PDF lead sheets so you could still use this app as a tool for building a good archive system yourself, but the app design and functionality is so beautiful I don’t wanna leave it.

Great little app, very helpful for composing and actually hearing chord progressions back for those who don't have relative and perfect pitch. The only thing is that I would love for more customizations of the chords, namely inversions (even in combination with four note chords) and different rhythms that aren't 4/4. Right now, the root of the chord is always on the bottom. Inversions add a different color to the chord and are very widely used in songs and compositions. Some chords in the context of a certain progression just aren't the same sound without inversions. As for rhythms, it would be helpful for more control over how many bars a progression is and how many beats are in a bar. Right now, it's always 4 beats to a bar. Either 4 or 8 bars. I don't think adding different time signatures would be incredibly difficult nor adding custom length of bars any amount between (2-8). Also, adding chord changes within a bar would be awesome. That would add more complexity, sure, but the app for have so much value for making fully realized chord progressions for a song or composition. Other than those things, a solid app with lots of potential for improvement. I'm sure the inversions and rhythms features can be included in a future update.