FastChords

The Internet is filled with all sort of applications that could help you to learn new things and skills only using your computer. One of such applications is FastChords.

It allows you to listen to songs, play and print them in an easy to follow keyboard notation. It doesn't require you to know how to read music notation in order to play a song.

The application doesn't take long to install and it doesn't come with a complicated setup that you would need to complete before you can actually check out its features.

It sports a really intuitive graphical interface with plenty of features at hand and lots of tools that you could use. FastChords is a program to help you learn piano using music found in Fake Books. Fake books collect songs in "lead sheet music notation"  that show only the chords and the melody lines of the songs.

FastChords can even find the optimal chord configuration to simplify playing one chord after another. The program is also able to record, analyze and playback songs from your performance on your midi capable instrument. Both beginners and professionals use lead sheet music.

Expert musicians should have no trouble converting chord symbols into keyboard keys, but beginners and no-so-beginners do. With FastChords you can quickly create and print a table of all the chords and melody notes of a song for easy reference while playing.

The tempo of a song determines how fast or slow the song plays.  The tempo is defined in terms of beats per minute (bpm). The Player mode allows changing the tempo while the song is playing or setting it when no song is playing.

You can also preview multiple songs, identify the playing range, adjust chords and view the chord signature key.

FastChords is a very complex application that allows you to learn new piano songs from music found in 'fake books' and make some adjustments to them.