My Life In A Nutshell, songwriting and iPhone Pocket Guitar

My Life In A Nutshell has been updated.

I'm writing a song for Urban Tapestry to perform in a couple of weeks at our CIBC Run For The Cure gig. I didn't intend to; the whole chorus just popped into my head without warning. I used my iPhone guitar apps to figure out a chord structure.

Speaking of iPhone guitar apps (and in keeping with the theme of the above cartoon), I recently downloaded another guitar app. This one's called Pocket Guitar, and it cost 99 cents:



The basic idea is to press the frets in various chord positions, and then strum or pick the bottom row. You can also adjust the settings so that you can pick the fretboard and automatically have the right note sound (as in the video below, though I'm not sure if the app is exactly the same or an earlier version). You can also choose from different instrument sounds, from electric guitars to acoustic to ukulele. Different effects can be achieved by tilting the Iphone.



From some of the YouTube videos I've found where people are using the iPhone guitar apps, it certain seems as if there's some potential, if you know what you're doing.



Next I may try out MooCowMusic's Guitarist.

Hm...it would be fun to get together with other iPhone musicians and have an iPhone jam session with all our digital instruments sometime. :-D



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[Debbie Ridpath Ohi]

Testing out the Wordpress comment function. I'm still going to leave the LJ link at the end of each post, but I think it's about time I adopt the standard Wordpress comments feature to make it easier for those not on LJ.