Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro for Android

The developer and those creating this app really understand their stuff. The knowledge and understanding of Harmony is outstanding, and the product really helps to lead users to grasp the concepts deeper. You have to dig a bit to understand all the power (which I don’t even fully understand yet), but I’m really enjoying this so far. Great app for studying harmony and practicing. I’m enjoying this more than iReal Pro. Ready for version 9 on iOS please. It’s lagging behind the update on Android OS by more than a month now.

Today May 3rd 2022 the app is not transposing. It does change the chords but when you play it, it keeps playing in the original key instead of the new key. Also, I set 4 repeats for one song and it’s affecting all of the other songs. I was hoping to use this app in a gig next week but it’s unreliable. Beware!!

This is the best app to study Tonal Harmony today and it gets better on every update. I highly recommend this app for anyone looking to compose, analyze or teach harmony. The upper structures and target notes are really useful if you want to learn how to improvise and play over chord changes. I would certainly recommend watching the videos to get a better idea of all the things you can do with this app. This app gets better and better. Saving performance settings is a great new feature.

Update to first response: okay target notes work. But no instructions on how to make them work. Why not a simple explanation on your web site like this: ==== To enable target notes or upper structures: 1. Go to the TOOLS menu (click on the hammer icon on right panel) 2. Select target notes drop down 3. Turn on target notes by selecting, single, combined or lines. Note that you must click to the right of the “off” button to select on of these options. Otherwise, the options are no clearly visible. 4. Choose one of the target note types below. Options are guide tones, tensions, chord tones. Follow a similar procedure for upper structures in the TOOLS MENU. An explanation like the above would save so much time. I spent time doing this so all you have to do is paste on the app and web site. This app does a lot of nice things but doing a lot of nice things means it has a complicated UI. Therefore, any add-ones need instructions. I’m upgrading to 4 stars. Would be 5 if you just provided instructions like I did. ====== First response: Added target notes under staff presets. Notes do not appear for any of the songs listed on your site. Examples: Afro Blue, Afternoon in Paris. I did rebuild the catalog.

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro is a fantastic idea, and has many wonderful attributes. It is well worth the price. However, be aware of a large learning curve, and next to no technical support. Currently my app will not load and I am on the verge of losing a lot of work, and they are proving no help. There’s a lot of tutorial videos, but it’s very difficult to search for what you are looking for. Also, email support is all but non-existent. There are many bugs and UI issues that, when solved, will make this a wonderful tool. For instance, every time you save a new progression and then tap play, the program crashes. If you have saved your work, you will not lose anything, but a pain in the neck to deal with. The play button is tiny, and any transpositions you want saved with a progression do not save. If you are looking for a much simpler and consistent play along app iReal Pro is still your answer. MTHP might get to be your best choice, but still has work to do.