PocketGuitar for IPhone
When native apps finally became available for the iPhone, PocketGuitar was one of the first ones I bought. Having been a guitar player for most of my life, I...
When native apps finally became available for the iPhone, PocketGuitar was one of the first ones I bought. Having been a guitar player for most of my life, I thought this app was so cool. I was impressed by the way developer Shinya Kasatani mimicked the guitar fretboard and provided various types of guitar sounds (electric, classical, and so on). I also liked how you could choose alternate tunings, do hammer-ons and pull-offs and set up other effects. Unfortunately, this held my interest for all of about 30 minutes. In that time, it became apparent that learning to play even the simplest songs on the PocketGuitar was going to take hours of my life, which I would rather spend playing a real guitar.
In my view, the biggest problem with PocketGuitar is that it takes the guitar metaphor too literally. You fret the strings with one hand and strum/pick with the other, just like a real guitar. But because of the size of the iPhone's screen, you can only access a few frets at a time, and you can't slide ...
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Brian Beam, Macworld.com