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    Hi

    Hope everyone is staying safe in these continuing uncertain times. I am in Australia

    I have switched from old iphone to galaxy s22 with android. The google play store lists some apps when I search mandolin but it is hard to know from the thumbnails what they do. Most cost several dollars so trial is not an option. I was wondering whether anyone had any recommendations or advice. I dont need a tuner but I am open to trying out hardcopy substitutes for references, charts etc

    Warm regards/gary

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    Default Re: Mandolin apps on adroid for smartphone

    Quote Originally Posted by electric bassist View Post
    Hi

    Hope everyone is staying safe in these continuing uncertain times. I am in Australia

    I have switched from old iphone to galaxy s22 with android. The google play store lists some apps when I search mandolin but it is hard to know from the thumbnails what they do. Most cost several dollars so trial is not an option. I was wondering whether anyone had any recommendations or advice. I dont need a tuner but I am open to trying out hardcopy substitutes for references, charts etc

    Warm regards/gary
    Its unclear what type of apps you are looking for. What apps were you using on your iPhone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveGinNJ View Post
    Its unclear what type of apps you are looking for. What apps were you using on your iPhone?
    On the iphone I didnt have any mandolin apps. I had one general app - circle of fifths but I deleted it when I got a circle of fifths watch: https://www.zazzle.com/circle+of+fifths+watches

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    I can recommend 'Fretboard Learn' and 'Scales Learn', you can select mandolin as your instrument, among others. Although not mandolin-specific, I can also recommend 'Music Theory Helper' and 'Key Signature Quiz', I found both pretty useful. All of the four mentioned are free, with ads.
    Lastly, I've been pretty happy with Earmaster, it's more curriculum oriented, but I feel like I learned the most from it due to its structure. Again, not mandolin specific, and this one I believe you will have to pay for on Android (they recently released the app version that I didn't try, I bought the Windows version).
    That's about as far as I got in my search, I don't believe there's really any apps solely dedicated to the mandolin, at least not when I was looking through google play.
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    Not Mandolin-specific, but I use the Amazing Slowdowner on my Android device.

    You can change speed and pitch of songs and it can pull songs from your Spotify playlist.

    It's not free, but I find it very helpful for learning songs by ear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gfury View Post
    Not Mandolin-specific, but I use the Amazing Slowdowner on my Android device.

    You can change speed and pitch of songs and it can pull songs from your Spotify playlist.

    It's not free, but I find it very helpful for learning songs by ear.
    If you want free, Music Speed Changer works nearly as well as Amazing Slowdowner

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