FastChords Pro 4.7.0.2

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• Price: Free to try (15-day trial, limited printing); $19.95 to buy
• Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Date added: March 24, 2009
• Total Downloads: 1,820
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 30, 2009

FastChords Pro provides a little something for piano players of all skill levels. With an ability to transcribe as well as play songs, musicians will get a lot of use from this program.

This program's ingenious layout makes all its many operations simple to access. With a piano's keys laid across the top and a calculator-like box for all other commands, users shouldn't have to make too many trips to the Help file before they are navigating the program like an old pro. Playing a song was very simple and only required users to input the specific chord on the control panel. This plays the note and shows the finger positions on the keyboard. This is ideal for anyone writing their own song or wanting to hear a song from a fakebook. Recording and playing back music written with FastChords is equally easy, using a panel similar to media players that users may already have on their computer. The design is so intuitive that users of all levels will be utilizing this program in no time.

A few additional features help round this program out. Its biggest add-on was its ability for a MIDI keyboard to be plugged in instead of the digital piano. Though we would have liked a longer trial than the 15 days offered, this program's simple interface and solid functionality make it a great option for musicians of all stripes.

Publisher's description

Learn new piano songs from fake books with the MIDI version of FastChords. Record your MIDI performances or import midi files from the net. Single step through your performance to observe your finger's work at the piano. Play a range of recorded midi while adjusting the playback speed. Build a table of chords by playing them on the keyboard then print the songs in FastChords' unique piano keyboard notation for easy reference while playing. Novices and aspiring players will be able to see which keys to play for each chord. No need to read music.

The program can even find the optimal chord configuration to simplify playing one chord after another. Experienced musicians will appreciate FastChords' ability to transpose entire songs, to play chords and melody notes, to play entire songs with correct rhythm, to identify chord names from piano keys played, to recognize chord synonyms.

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