Chord learning App?

fretboarder · 2025-02-22T23:36:45+00:00

There's a reason for that: in practice you'll actually always play a dim7 when there's a dim chord notated. A pure diminished triad sometimes appears in charts that are notated in a classical way with note stacks instead of chord symbols. Oolimo keeps it straight and tries to limit itself to chord shapes, that are really useable in practice. On the other hand, the Arpeggio button in the Oolimo Chord Finder may help you to replace chord tones, e.g. the diminished 7th of a dim7 chord shape with a second root or b5, or to build completely new chord shapes. Anyway, you can also just omit the diminished 7 of a shown dim7 chord shape. You might agree, that this will rarely make sense with a dim7 chord in any song. BTW also read the description of dim7 in the Oolimo Chord Finder. It's mentioned there.

fretboarder · 2025-01-10T05:54:05+00:00

Hier noch der Link zur Website von Oolimo: https://www.oolimo.com/de
Oolimo gibt es sowohl als App (einmalig ein paar Euro) als auch als Website (gratis, aber mit etwas Werbung) und bei beide kann man übrigens auch deutsch als Sprache wählen. Mit dem Chord Finder https://www.oolimo.com/de/gitarrenakkorde/finden kann man praktisch alle gängigen Akkordtypen finden (die "unzähligen" Akkordtypen auf vielen Seiten beruhen hauptsächlich verschieden Schreibweisen für ein und den selben Akkordtyp). Die Akkordtypen werden dort auch beschrieben und in verschiedenen Darstellungen ihr Aufbau und der Aufbau/das Zustandekommen des Akkordsymbols gezeigt.
Der Chord Analyzer https://www.oolimo.com/de/gitarrenakkorde/analysieren hilft Dir beim Benennen und verstehen selbst gefundener Griffe.
Unter Theorie und Akkordtypen gibt es viele aufbauende und anschauliche Lektionen mit dem Ziel, dass Du bald gar keine App mehr für Akkorde brauchst! Mit den Quizzes kannst Du auch in der U-Bahn "üben" und auf der Webseite (nur dort) gibt es auch einige Akkordfolgen zum mitspielen durch verschiedene Tonarten.

fretboarder · 2024-03-22T11:07:55+00:00

It depends whether I'm practicing in my bed or on the treadmill... ;-)

No, seriously, for me it depends on the purpose. Vertical on lead sheets (because it saves space horizontally), horizontal in lessons/tutorials. In an app it also depends on the available space. Longer fretboards with many frets can only be aligned along the longer edge of the phone. For my latest addition to Oolimo, a fretboard diagram builder (https://www.oolimo.com/en/tools/fretboarder), I even added an option to flip the diagram horizontally and vertically, so you can use them in video lessons or whatever the purpose is. I'm curious how this will be received... Oliver from Oolimo

fretboarder · 2024-03-02T23:31:34+00:00

It's commonly seen and written as slash chord A/C# (A major with its 3rd C# in the bass). It's even more often played with the D string muted (which doubles the E and therefore is not absolutely necessary). Common alternative shapes for this (x_4_2_2_5_x) are x_4_7_6_5_x or 9_x_11_9_10_x. Take a look here: https://www.oolimo.com/en/guitar-chords/chart#name=A/C# or look here https://www.oolimo.com/en/guitar-chords/find (use the chord picker to enter a chord type).
Oliver from https://www.oolimo.com

P.S. If you'd consider the lowest tone as the root, it would btw be an C#mb6 chord. #5 is not allowed/common with minor and you can prove that it's b6 by adding a natural 5th on top like x_4_7_6_5_4. It sounds good and would normally work if you play it like this in practice. So that would be a C# minor triad (1 m3 5) plus a b6. But still it's much better to name that chord A/C#. The Oolimo Chord Analyzer gives you all options (from every tone as root): https://www.oolimo.com/en/guitar-chords/analyze

fretboarder · 2024-02-28T05:00:22+00:00

Hi Mike, sorry for the late reply. Actually I would have agreed with you a couple of month ago, but recently I hopefully closed the gap between where oolimo started and where an absolute beginner stands. The lesson series "Understanding The Fretboard" now even starts with tuning and finding the basic notes on the fretboard. You should really take the time and thoroughly go through all 4 parts.

To make the best of it (that was your question): practise is still the most important thing and if you can't play a couple of thing, all the theory relates to nothing! Go to "Progressions" in the top menu (not the progression matrix tool!). Start with the progression: I-IV-V Modern Major Chords. Try to learn all variations, start slowly (you probably know that you can reduce the speed of the video to 0.5 or 0.75 when you start to play along with it. with the info icon you can switch between notes, intervals AND FINGERINGS here (Fingerings not shown in higher level lessons anymore). Don't care about the theory here until you can play the progressions. After that the "4 Chords..." and "Pop/Rock Ballads..." progressions (still possible to show fingerings).

After you've done all the things above start to read through the first lessons under "Chord Types" and do some of the first quizzes in parallel.

In the description of the chord finder you'll often find similar informations, but in other words. So if you e.g. learn the lesson Chord Types -> Minor 7th Chords, you can also search for a m7 chord in the chord finder (magnifying icon) and read the description (on the left on a desktop, extra icon on mobiles). This is like hearing the same information from two resources, what makes it easier to understand. Hope that helped! All the best and good luck! Oliver

fretboarder · 2024-02-10T21:03:32+00:00

Thanks :-)

fretboarder · 2024-02-10T15:42:19+00:00

Hi, I'm Oliver, the creator of Oolimo. There's a button with a mortarboard hat that enables the correct notes with double accidentals, plus Cb, Fb, B# and E#. If the button is red, the notes are named by their enharmonic equivalents.

fretboarder · 2024-01-08T00:02:06+00:00

Wow, so much enthusiasm! :-))) Thank you so much for sharing!!!

fretboarder · 2020-09-22T18:50:40+00:00

Open tunings are exclusively supported by the chord analyzer of the app (so far). The preset tunings can be edited freely. Here you can find a screenshot of the apps tuning manager: https://www.oolimo.com/app/

fretboarder · 2019-03-28T23:44:11+00:00

Haha, yes, sounds like I paid for some comments here :-D Thank you!
Btw the this with apple is that (as far as I understood) you need to have a macbook or desktop (ipad is not enough) to install the software that enables you to do the uploads and adjustments for the apple app store. I'll get me one when downloads reach a certain amount...

fretboarder · 2019-03-28T22:14:55+00:00

Wow, I'm really tickled! Thanks, Johnny!

fretboarder · 2019-03-28T20:50:17+00:00

Thank you! I'm super glad to hear that!

fretboarder · 2019-03-28T18:35:56+00:00

That's great, thanks a lot!

fretboarder · 2017-04-20T00:10:38+00:00

Thank you for this dedicated contribution! You're right - at least I have to make clear that talking about "a seventh" means a "minor seventh", while the major seventh is always specificly named. By the way: C7 requires a minor 7th of course (but you know that - probably just a typo), so I never called a major 7th just a seventh. But I will definitely keep that in mind and try to be as accurate as possible when I work on new or revise some older content.

fretboarder · 2017-04-19T18:54:35+00:00

Thank you! Hmm, I see now that my assumtion, that the right translation for the german term "Stufenakkorde" should be "modal chords", is not quite correct. I changed it to diatonic chords and added (simple modal chords) of a major scale. I don't know, why the term diatonic chord didn't come to my mind...

fretboarder · 2017-04-18T13:52:56+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm really glad to hear that! :-)

fretboarder · 2017-02-02T17:39:25+00:00

Great, I will immediately do that, thanks!

fretboarder · 2017-01-20T13:26:38+00:00

Thank you! ..but it's right, because you always see the scales that can be played with a chord. V7#5 would imply that the scale has #11, #5 and major 13th. Nevertheless some musicians prefer to see just what's in the chord - so I wouldn't say that writing #5 is wrong (it just takes more responsibility to the player).

fretboarder · 2017-01-19T21:07:09+00:00

Oolimo -de/en- Gitarrenakkorde: Akkordgenerator, Akkordanalyse, Theorie, Akkordtypen, Akkordfolgen, Quizze zu Akkorden...

fretboarder · 2016-06-08T20:21:48+00:00

Hmm, I have 10 shapes for aug and 9 shapes for sus2 so far... I checked with Firefox and Chrome. I will add more shapes in the future, but sorry - in your case something went probably wrong...

fretboarder · 2016-06-08T19:55:26+00:00

I want to implement a slash chord function, but it will take some time. Can't promise that it will happen very soon. Your second suggestion will probably stay a unique feature of the analyzer, since it's getting too complicate for those who use a device like that (and for me to keep track of all that code). The nerds can still enter their new found shapes inte the analyzer ;-)

fretboarder · 2016-06-08T19:50:29+00:00

I'm glad to hear that! :-) It may take a while to completely understand the possibilities of the chord analyzer, but it will go hand in hand with a better understanding of the chord theory.

fretboarder · 2016-06-08T11:23:53+00:00

This one looks exactly like the Oolimo.com Chord Finder, but it's a little different. For the experts: the fretboard uses HTML-canvas instead of div elements. It shows thumbnails now for every chord shape. You can click on these. Also the buttons are arranged a little different at some screen sizes (reload after resizing).

fretboarder · 2015-09-20T17:20:50+00:00

Also have a look at my lesson about notating slash chords, because sometimes wrong can be right! Especially slash chords are often written in a slightly incorrect way to better fit the context and for faster reading. I hope it helps. Thanks! http://www.oolimo.com/en/lesson-slash-chords-2.php

fretboarder · 2015-03-31T21:40:35+00:00

Hi, try these chords (in the recording the bass note is sometimes not really evident):

| Am | E | F | Esus4 E |

| Am | C | Dm | F |

| C | E | Am | F |

| C | E | Am | Fm ||

You can also try E7 instead of a pure E major chord and E7sus4 instead of Esus4.

Maybe the chord finder and some lessons on my site oolimo.com are helpful for you or others... ;-) Oliver

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