Smart fingering
MusicXML without tab? It gets frets.
Parts that arrive as notation only get strings and frets assigned automatically, in comfortable positions on the neck.
Compose anywhere
you hold it.
Write guitar, bass and drums on iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. See notation and tab together, hear every note and practise your way. Start a song from scratch, or open the files you already have.
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Free for 7 days, then €9.99 once. No subscription, no ads, no account.
Your library
Every song you're learning or writing, in one place.
Start a song from scratch, or import Guitar Pro and MusicXML files from Files or straight from the share sheet. Each song shows its tuning and string count at a glance. New to DuoScore? A one-minute tour writes your first riff with you.
Library
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Notation & tab
Notes on top. Frets below. Room for both.
Standard notation over tablature, laid out to use every inch of the screen, so you read more of the song and turn fewer pages. Each track can show standard notation, tab, slash or numbered notation, in any mix. Notation or tab always stays on.
Score view · notation over tab
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Playback
Hear it the way it's written.
Bends, slides, vibrato, whammy dives and tremolo picking sound the way a guitarist plays them: smooth and expressive, never stepped.
Bends
Whammy dives
Slides
Vibrato
Tremolo picking
Every technique was tuned by ear. Bends reach the note quickly and hold it, and vibrato pushes the note upward.
Playback · cursor following the music
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Practice tools
Slow it down. Loop the hard part. Get it.
Everything you need to work through a passage, and none of it touches your file.
Practice · speed, loop and mixer
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Speed
Play anywhere from 25% to 150% of the written tempo, with one-tap shortcuts for the speeds you use most.
25% – 150%
50%
75%
100%
Loop any passage
Select the bars you're stuck on and they repeat until you've got them.
Count-in & metronome
Get a count-in before the music starts and a click to keep time with, at the volume you want.
Metronome volume
Mixer
Mute, solo and balance every track, then play your part over the rest of the band.
Faders in dB
Live level meters
Pan
Master fader
Mute & solo
Editing
Fix that wrong note. Right where you found it.
Write and change notes with an on-screen palette. Undo and redo as much as you like. Every change saves automatically, and plays the beat you're editing so you hear what you write.
Editing · note palette
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01 · Notes
Write and rewrite
Enter and change notes from the palette, with undo, redo and automatic saving. Each change plays the beat you're editing. Select a whole chord with one tap, and copy and paste a beat.
02 · Tracks
Shape the band
Add, remove, reorder and rename tracks. New songs start from instrument cards: guitar, bass or drums.
03 · Structure
Bars and repeats
Edit bars, time signatures and repeats, plus the song's title and artist.
04 · Techniques
Every guitar technique
Each in its variants, written from the palette.
Bends
Slides
Vibrato
Harmonics
Tremolo picking
Grace notes
Tremolo bar
Brush
Rasgueado
Slap & pop
Tapping
Trills
Fades
Wah
Sustain pedal
Drums
A piano roll for the kit. Paint it in.
Paint drum parts with your finger on a grid with one row per kit piece, then hear every hit as you place it. The sheet shows them in standard drum notation.
Pattern · Power kit · 1/16 grid
01 · Grid
One row per piece
Kick, snare, toms, hi-hats, ride, crashes, splash, china and rim, on a 1/8, 1/16, 1/24 (triplet) or 1/32 grid.
02 · Writing
Paint, select, erase
Paint with a finger, select, erase, copy and paste, and add a Flam.
03 · Feel
Velocity and timing
A velocity lane for every hit, and timing off the grid for a human feel. Quantize strength runs from 0 to 100%, plus a Q button.
04 · Moving
Notes follow your finger
Drag notes and they follow your finger. Overlap them freely.
05 · Navigation
Scroll and zoom
Scroll and zoom with two fingers. Tap the ruler to move the song cursor anywhere, or drag the playhead.
06 · Sound & sheet
Hear it, read it
Hits play as you paint them, and the sheet shows them in standard drum notation.
07 · Kits
11 kits, Power by default
Standard
Room
Power
Electronic
808/909
Dance
Jazz
Brush
Orchestral
and more
08 · Logic
MIDI drums, both ways
Send a drum part to Logic as MIDI, or bring one in with a preview first, on the Modern & Massive 2 or General MIDI map.
Bass
Low end, written properly.
Bass tracks get their own tunings, clef, sounds and chord shapes, not a guitar in disguise.
4 strings
5 strings
6 strings
Bass tunings
Bass clef
8 bass sounds
Power chords
Tenths
Chords
Name it, find it, play it.
Build chord symbols with a few taps, then get playable positions for the track's tuning, on guitars with 7 or 8 strings too.
Am7
Root
Type
01 · Building
Tap it together
Root, type, additions and slash bass: tap each to build the symbol.
02 · Positions
Up to four per region
Get up to four playable positions per region of the neck for the track's tuning, including guitars with 7 or 8 strings.
03 · Naming
Named as you write
Chords are named as you write, the way a chord finder does, or suggested for you.
Sound
A full band in your pocket.
Every track has its own base sound plus effects, on top of a carefully calibrated mix. Drums and bass included.
Base sound + effects
Room, compressor, limiter
Sounds kept in your files
11 drum kits
8 bass sounds
Base sounds
Each track has one, plus effects.
Clean
Low gain
Overdrive
High gain
Lead
Acoustic
Nylon
Synth lead
Synth pad
+ 8 bass sounds
Mix
A room, compressor and limiter on the master. The overall sound was calibrated against reference exports of seven songs.
Sounds travel with the song
Sounds stored in .gp files are read, played where the song switches them, and saved back.
Drums
11 drum kits to choose from.
Sound changes
Change the tone mid-song.
Switch a track's sound at any bar. Build a sound from a base and effects, and see every switch as a ▾ mark in the track list.
Rhythm guitar
Lead guitar
Base
+ Effects
Switch at any bar
Retuning
New tuning? You choose what stays.
Change a track's tuning or string count, from Eb to E standard or from 6 to 7 strings. Keep the sound and the notes move to new frets. Keep the frets and the shapes you play stay the same. Notes that can't be played are flagged. It works for bass too, and for guitars with 7 or 8 strings.
Guitar · 6, 7, 8 strings
Bass · 4, 5, 6 strings
Eb standard
E standard
Before · Eb standard
After · E standard
Can't be played in the new tuning
Export & share
Send it as a file, or print it.
Share a song as a Guitar Pro file, as a clean A4 PDF with title, tempo, tuning, notation over tab and page numbers (the full score with every track, or one track), or as MIDI with every track for Logic. Export from inside the song or straight from the library. The exported file keeps your chord names, each track's sounds, and DuoScore's exact drum velocities and timing.
Guitar Pro file
A4 PDF
Full score or one track
MIDI for Logic
Keeps chords, sounds & drum feel
From the song
From the library
Made for your device
One app. At home on every screen.
DuoScore launches on iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo at the same time, each with a layout designed for it, not stretched to fit it.
iPhone Duo
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iPhone Duo
- The whole score across the unfolded screen
- Practice and editing tools in side panels, beside the music
- Split View with a lesson or a recording next to the song
- Folded, the outer screen writes and plays, held in portrait
- Pauses when you fold or unfold, and stays awake while you play
iPad
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iPad
- A roomy canvas for scores, tab and drums
- Side panels that open beside the music, not over it
- Split View, so your lesson or recording stays in reach
iPhone
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Launching
iPhone
- Held upright, the fret pad and the palette sit under your thumb, the score above them
- Turned sideways, the score gets the width and the tools move beside it
- Play floats over the score, so nothing hides under it
- Tracks, the mixer and the song's details are one tap away
Pick up your guitar.
Start the song.
DuoScore is coming to iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. Free for 7 days, then €9.99 once.
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