Guitarist’s Reference for the Palm Pre is a useful and colorful new app that delivers everything a guitar owner needs short of a good amp. This Palm Pre app comes with references for chords, scales, arpeggio’s, triads, and notes. You can also tune your guitar using this app. In other words, it lives up to its name and brings a full-fledged guitar reference to your smartphone. You will also find some interactive features, including a Chord Finder that brings up chords that correspond to notes that you entered. There’s a Chord Quiz that can help you refresh your memory as you learn new chords, and it tracks your scores so you can see if you’re improving or not.
The interface is certainly quirky and colorful, but it is very functional indeed – so you won’t find any problems in that department. The text and position diagrams on the strings are clear and relatively high-contrast, so you’ll be able to park your smartphone on a chair a few feet away and practice the diagrams on your guitar quite easily. Each chord and scale comes with an info box that goes into more detail regarding the symbols and corresponding notes associated with it. Some minor issues include the presence of interface elements even when their contents are empty, but otherwise this is a fantastic reference for novice guitarists as well as the pro’s. A welcome addition to the Palm Pre apps catalog.
