D'Accord Personal Guitarist

"The best complete application for learning to play stringed instruments!"

Personal Guitarist is the best solution for anyone wishing to play guitar and a range of other stringed instruments too. It comes with all the major features you’ll need to learn and improve your technique. You learn at your own pace, in your spare time, with your own virtual teacher: you’ll quickly understand exactly how to play the songs, and it comes complete with an electronic tuner, a chord dictionary and a metronome.

Versatile
Personal Guitarist can be used to learn all kinds of stringed instruments, including guitar, bass, cavaquinho, violin and many others.

Easy
You’ll have a virtual teacher on hand, ready to teach whenever it’s convenient for you to learn. The application plays each piece of music along with the lyrics and chords, and demonstrates how to play each chord in turn.

Interactive
You’ll also be taught to play any chord in several positions on the neck. The dictionary shows fretboard diagrams of each chord inversion, along with audio examples so you know how they’re meant to sound.

Tuner
Whatever is your instrument, Personal Guitarist’s built-in tuner makes it staying in tune a breeze. Just place the microphone close to the instrument and the software will indicate how to tune each string.

Metronome
Personal Guitarist’s onboard metronome is a useful tool that will help you to master playing at the correct tempo. It can even detect the tempo that you’re playing a particular song at.

In-depth knowledge
Personal Guitarist is the complete solution for anyone wanting to improve their skills on stringed instruments. It’s the only application which offers everything you need to know to improve on your instrument, all in one place. Personal Guitarist also enables experienced musicians to improve their musical knowledge and expand their repertoire. It’s useful for all kinds of string instruments, including acoustic guitar, electric guitar, cavaquinho, bass, violin and others. You can even use the software to create custom instruments (with four, five or six strings), in alternate tunings.

Virtual scores – in-built Player and Editor
You’ll have a virtual teacher and musical assistant every time you need one. Personal Guitarist plays songs with the lyrics and chords, and shows how all these chords can be played, focusing on both hands. The application’s Player is a versatile learning tool, which enables you to control the speed and the key in which your song is played. And using the Editor, you can create your own notation – easily! You also can choose to view the fretboard in the way that suits your playing style, and you can easily optimize the application for left-handed viewing. Personal Guitarist already comes with 10 complete songs, and many others are available for sale on the Daccord website.

Chord Dictionary
Personal Guitarist’s intelligent Chord Dictionary learns to play any chord, in many positions. The dictionary shows each chord on the fretboard, with the notation, fingers, intervals and a sound clip for each one. It also plays audio for each chord you select; you can even import and transpose chords to accompany lyrics, as well as print the lyrics with chord diagrams.

Electronic Tuner and Metronome
Because you don’t need to worry about tuning your instrument, you can spend your time doing what you enjoy: playing music! Just turn on the microphone close to the instrument, and the software will show you how to tune each string. The application’s built-in metronome allows you to play the music at the correct tempo, and also can detect the tempo you’re playing a song at.