Blue Notes app for iPhone and iPad


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Reference Music
Developer: T-NO
5.99 USD
Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 29 Jan 2010
App size: 159.84 Kb

Blue Notes is a simple songbook for the harmonica.
It translates your notes into harmonica tabs, transforming the iPhone into the perfect companion for one the most portable instruments.

This release has only limited support for editing: Blue Notes can transpose whole songs, but to fill its database, it relies on the popular ABC-Format. This allows you to choose from several thousand files that are freely available, and as ABC is easy to understand, you can create your own tunes.
If you dont want to learn ABC, please look for tunes before you buy - due to copyright issues, there is no material included.

If you are not playing the blues harp, instructions like "4 4 -4 4" might be irritating for you — but as the overall design of Blue Notes is very flexible, fans of guitar or piano may be able to get output in their favored format with a future upgrade (it wont help you carry those instruments, though).
As alternative to harmonica tabs, Blue Notes already supports textual output ("A B D C#") — and it can handle lyrics (even if it is very hard to play harmonica and sing in parallel ;-).