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Musical chords by name, example, and interval pattern. Look up the full name of a chord for the abbreviation that appears in FATpick. Use the interval formula to identify the notes in any key for more than 50 different types of chords, from "Major" to "Minor 6th" to "Dominant 7th Sharp 5th Added".

Summary of changes introduced in FATpick v2.5.4. The primary objective of this release is to share recently implemented bug-fixes and support-related enhancements.

A detailed walk-thru of the various controls and configuration options available in FATpick's Audio Settings menu. (Updated March 7, 2022.)

Partial listing of ENV and INI parameters for advanced configuration of FATpick.

If you've ever wondered exactly when FATpick expects you to play a note to achieve perfect timing - or just want a better understanding of the timing component of FATpick's note detection - this is the post for you.

When should I "hit" a note? What point am I supposed to be targeting? Is there some visual indication I can track against? Is there another cue I can look for?

The answers to all these questions - and detailed, illustrated examples of the note-timing behavior - can be found inside.

Rhythm is one of the fundamental components of music. It tells you when each note is played, for how long, and with what emphasis. Learn the difference between time-signature, tempo, meter and more with this gentle introduction to rhythm from the music theoretical perspective.

It took nearly a full year to grow FATpick's song catalog from the app's first launch to the 500th shared song. It only took 128 days for users to share the next 500 songs with the rest of the FATpick community. On the occasion of the 1,000th song shared, let's pause to take a look at the growth in and current state of the song library.

Print any tab for offline use, or export the printable tab to a local file. Improvements to chord discovery and track difficulty estimation logic. Various other minor changes.

The FATpick app can run a self-diagnostic, generating a detailed report that describes the state of the application and the context it is operating within at the push of a button. If you encounter an issue that is difficult to pin down, this report may help the support team identity the problem. Here's how to generate and share a detailed diagnostic report from with the FATpick app.

Have you ever wished you could play songs from your FATpick library when offline or away from your computer? Now you can. Print or export the full tablature for any song in FATpick using the Print Tab option on the main tab view/gameplay screen.

Index to some of the important tags we use to categorize blog posts. (Updated 1/15/22.)

First release of 2022! Adds support for arbitrary input and channel selection on multi-input audio interfaces. Slightly smarter sorting by song, band or album title. Fix a couple of context-specific bugs.