Matt Warnock Jazz Scales app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Leafcutter Studios Ltd
First release : 09 Apr 2013
App size: 42.88 Mb
Are you looking to improve your guitar scale knowledge, build your technique and learn to improvise over chords changes?
Tired of buying big, thick books of scales, scale patterns and theory textbooks and want to have all of that information in the palm of your hand?
Then the Matt Warnock Guitar Scales App is the right choice for you.
Providing dozens of scale fingerings for all of the common, and uncommon, scales and modes needed to improvise in a modern musical context, this app also gives background info for each mode, tips on where to use each mode, backing tracks and scale patterns for every scale and more!
Here is a preview of what you get when you download the Matt Warnock Guitar Scales App.
Scales and Modes Covered in the Matt Warnock Guitar Scales App
•Modes of the Major Scale
•Modes of the Melodic Minor Scale
•Modes of the Harmonic Minor Scale
•Modes of the Harmonic Major Scale
•Pentatonic and Blues Scales
•Bebop Scales
•Symmetrical Scales (Whole Tone, Diminished, Tritone etc.)
Matt Warnock Guitar Scales App Practice Tools
•Dozens of 1 and 2 Octave Fingerings for Each Scale
•Jam Tracks for Every Scale in Every Key at 3 Tempos
•Dozens of Scale Patterns for Every Scale with Adjustable Metronome
•Background on Every Scale/Mode Including Improvisational Guidelines
•View the Note Names, Intervals and Fingerings for Every Scale/Mode
If you are looking to improve your scale knowledge, learn how to improvise over chord changes and work out your scale pattern technique all in one place then the Matt Warnock Guitar Scales App is for you!
Latest reviews of Matt Warnock Jazz Scales app for iPhone and iPad
Simply ridiculous! Expensive! Trash! I’m angry.
Thanks for this great App! For me its a good tool for practising systematically without boring patterns!
While I would like to have a scale pattern reference as well, this is still the best scale app I have found. One of the cool features is that you are given the root notes and tapping the root note rotates through 1 and 2 octave scales around that root note. The jam tracks are basic, but its a lot better than just noodleing by yourself. Highly recommended for those still learning scales. Also great support by the author, I did not understand how it worked and emailed the author and got a quick reply that resolved my issues, GREAT SUPPORT!
This app has been very very helpful for me to learn my scales. Its like tons of guitar lessons distilled down into a $7.99 app - and the jam feature is awesome! Very well designed and thorough app that more than met my expectations... I was expecting **just another** scale app, but this one is well made and considerably more than that. Nice work, and thanks Matt! Also, check out Matts website for lots of helpful information! (I dont have a guitar teacher, but Ive found that Im making some pretty significant gains just using his website alone, and I think this app will really complete the picture and get me there - if I just find enough time now!)
I recently decided that it was way past time for me to thoroughly learn the fretboard. I found this app by searching the Internet for scale patterns for the melodic minor modes. First, the good news: theres quite a lot to like about this app. Its fairly deep, and definitely lives up to the developers claims. There are backing tracks for each mode of each scale, and while theyre nothing special theyre definitely good enough to practice over. All significant scales/modes used in jazz seem to be represented - including a few Im unlikely to use. You can select several scale patterns (such as 1235 ascending - good for working on Giant Step!) and play along. Now for the problem areas: when you first select a scale, you have to tap a root note to get a pattern "around" that note - in reality, you get one of several one octave patterns starting on that root. You can click another root note and get ... well, it depends. Sometimes the original scale pattern is extended, sometimes you just get a new pattern based on the newly chosen root note. Getting a full two octave scale pattern for a given position doesnt seem possible - unless you happen to be looking for a scale with the root on the 6th string. And, tapping root notes to get different patterns is clunky and a bit annoying. Id love to have the option of simply displaying every note of the scale all across the fretboard, from the nut to the 12th fret. Warnock also provides some brief comments on each mode and their respective uses. Unfortunately, on the iPhone at least, some of his comments are cut off (or else missing) at the bottom. If you already know the theory, thats not much of an issue, but it seems like a quality control issue. Ive had some problems with the app spontaneously jumping back to the "choose a scale" page when in trying to select a mode. Seems like a bug. Finally, I think $7.99 is a bit expensive. Its weird to say that, as theres at least as much value as a similarly priced book on the same subject - but the simple fact is that the usual price point for iOS apps is generally quite low. I wonder whether the developer would sell more copies with a price point closer to $5? All in all, however, this is a pretty good app. Ill hope some of my niggles are addressed in an update.