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"If you're prone to serenading your friends while doing air guitar, the new Songful iPad app from InstruMagic and Ultimate Guitar is for you.\r\n\r\nThe $2.99 app lets you strum through any chord page from Ultimate Guitar's 200,000-song collection. The best part is you can hold it like a minstrel or a hippy with an autoharp and strum and sing along.\r\n\r\nIsrael-based InstruMagic has taken it upon itself to create &amp;quot;ultra-friendly music-playing apps&amp;quot;, and teaming up with Ultimate Guitar was a wise move. The quality of the charts can vary from song to song, but you can pick through different versions and a star rating system helps weed out the duds. You can provide feedback on the songs from within the app, in case you find a mistake, and you can also share to Twitter and Facebook.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAlso a nice touch, the app has a ukulele sound, so you can perform that cover of &amp;quot;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&amp;quot; you've been dreaming about.\u00A0Favorited and featured songs can be accessed offline, but you'll need an Internet connection to browse the full library.\r\n\r\nThe app really is quite friendly to non-musicians. You can just strum away on a chord and then tap the arrow to move to the next one. As a guitar player, I found myself wanting to do more with the app, like fret individual notes or re-voice the chords, but that's not really what this app is about. In many respects, it's more like an interactive karaoke interface than a virtual guitar.\r\n\r\nThat being said, it could be useful for beginning guitarists to learn on. If you're just learning to pluck out chords, you could easily pull up a chord chart on Songful and check your own sound against the app's.\r\n\r\nInstrumagic says an iPhone app is coming soon. I'm sure we can expect more easy-to-use music apps from the team in the future, and that's music to my ears.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Songful\u00A0for iPad\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Py8hojFlY\r\n\r\nDisclosure: This article contains an affiliate link. While we only ever write about products we think deserve to be on the pages of our site, The Next Web may earn a small commission if you click through and buy the product in question. For more information, please see our Terms of Service.\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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