s.mart Circle of Fifths

The Circle of Fifths is the probably most important software for understanding western music. In music principle, the Circle of Fifths is a visual illustration of the relationships among the 12 tones of the chromatic scale, their corresponding key signatures, and the associated major and minor keys. More particularly, it's a geometrical representation of relationships among the many 12 pitch classes of the chromatic scale in pitch class space. It helps musicians to:

- perceive the relation between chords

- figure out the vital thing of a chunk of music

- transpose music to a different key

- compose new music

- perceive key signatures, scales and modes.

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smart Chords Circle of 5ths is a plugin for the app 'sensible Chords Tools' (V2.13 or later). It cannot run alone! You want to put in 'smart Chords Tools' from the Google Play store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.smartchord.droid

It supplies lots of different useful instruments for musicians like the ultimate word chord reference and scales. Furthermore there is a chromatic tuner, a metronome, an ear training quiz, and lots of other cool stuff. smart Chords provides lots of devices like guitar, ukulele, mandolin or the bass and plenty of completely different tunings.

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The interactive Circle of Fifths is built up in colors, so that every diploma of the size has a selected colour. The degrees according to the diatonic operate are:

I (Tonic)

II (Subdominant parallel)

III (Dominant parallel/Tonic counter parallel)

IV (Subdominant)

V (Dominant)

VI (Tonic parallel)

VII (Incomplete Dominant seventh)

The colored and white notes of the outer ring are the notes of the size. By rotating the outer ring, other tonicas can be chosen. Another chance for choosing the tonica, is the button Key. With this button every observe with each sign may be chosen as the tonica.

If the button Play is activated, each note/chord you tip on, will sound. If the button Play is not activated, every chord that has been tipped on within the circle, shall be proven on the fingerboard within the traditional chord detail display screen. That means, that you could see the notes of the chord, the potential fingerings, the extent of problem ...

In the center of the circle are proven the treble clef or bass clef with the signs of the key. By tapping on the middle, you possibly can change the clef.

With the button Legend an overview of the colors and the capabilities of the notes could be shown.

There are a lot of nice sites with details about the Circle of Fifths. For additional information you would go to e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths.