Help
Two apps, two manuals, written the way you would explain the thing at a rehearsal. Every page is on this site, so none of it needs the app open to read.
Stage Player
Everything the app can do, explained the way you would explain it at a rehearsal. Start at the top if you are new, or jump straight to what you need.
- What Stage Player is for The idea behind the app, and why a phone beats a box of hardware on most stages.
- Getting started Your first session, step by step: one set, two pads, and a grid you can play from.
- Good habits Not a feature list. The handful of habits that make a set survive a real gig.
- Sets The grid of pads that holds your show, and every way to shape it.
- Preparing a pad The long one. Every switch, slider and button inside a pad, and what each of them does on stage.
- Lyrics and scores Words that scroll themselves, and scores that turn their own pages.
- The library One recording, any number of sets. What is shared, what stays with the pad, and what happens when a title goes.
- Cloud backups The copy of your work that survives the phone, and what the credits are actually for.
- Two sources in one pad A click in your ear and the band in the PA, from a single pad.
Chord Analyser
Press the notes and read the name, or pick the name and read the notes. Start at the top if the app is new to you, or jump straight to what you need.
- What Chord Analyser is for The idea behind the app, and why it reads a chord in both directions.
- Your first ten minutes Sit down with the instrument in your hands: press four notes, read the name, hear it.
- Naming a chord you are playing The reverse direction, in full: the readings, the degrees, the staff, and how to narrow what the app considers.
- Looking a chord up by name The forward direction: the two rows at the top, the builder for awkward names, and the positions it hands back.
- Instruments and tunings Banjo, mandolin, ukulele, violin and the rest, plus open tunings and the left-handed neck.
- The microphone and MIDI Two ways to hand the app a chord without touching the screen, and the honest limits of each.
- Chord charts The long one. The editor gesture by gesture, from a blank grid to a printed chart.
- The free version and the full one The honest list. What you get without paying, and what the purchase actually buys.
Something missing, or something that did not work the way this says? Tell me. The apps are made by one person and every message is read.