Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro version 9 is now available for iOS, so today, I want to talk to
you guys about a few of the features, just a few of the features, that this new version offers us,
including all these shortcut buttons at the bottom of the screen, especially handy if you're on your
iPhone, and the new analyzer, which also allows us to import files from iReal. So stick around
and check it out, and also be on the lookout for all sorts of other videos, where we talk about
all of the new amazing features available to you and this new version of Mapping Tonal Harmony.
So I want to show you these features today on the iPhone, because I really really
think like these new features and these new shortcuts, that we've implemented,
really enhance the iOS function on these iPhones. But obviously, it's going to be the same on the
iPad, but you can imagine, if we're doing this on this phone here, and it looks this great, it's
going to be that much easier on the tablet. So, what do all these buttons down here do? So, here
we have "Afternoon In Paris" just kind of randomly loaded. Here they have the map, we got the chart.
This eyeball, start from left to right here, in this this is second row, this eyeball just merely
shows me on the map, it's kind of a shortcut to uh another sub menu that we've created, that lets
you, you want to see all the chords in the current map, or just the chords relevant to the song.
There you go! There's that on, off. Underneath our eyeball here we have our function shortcut. So,
that just merely allows you to change the map from a chord view, the alphabetical designation of the
chords here, to the functions of those chords. And I have quick access to that right there,
with just a little toggle the "f" is our function button. Next to that, the map button. So,
I can hit that and get rid of the map altogether, and just see the entire chart in the current view
we have selected. We'll talk about how to change these views uh in a second. Back up to the top uh
or the second row here, we have this player icon here. This is our shortcut to change the AI player
from, well, what is currently selected, to whoever we want let's say we want to change it to Herbie.
We tap that to load. Now our playback AI player is going to have a slightly different take on
the voicings and how to play them. Quick access to that. So our keyboard icon here, is a nice little
shortcut that lets us get to the instrumentation of a playback. Whether I want to use a piano,
or a Rhodes, nylon guitar ,what I want the bass to sound like, or which kit I'm going to use:
the jazz or the standard kit. Very useful here, the next button adjacent to that is our play along
mixer. So this allows me to adjust the volume of any of the instruments or even the reverb within
the playback. You can zero something out, you can dime something all the way up if you want right
there, with that shortcut. Jumping back down to the third row here: this is our stage mode button.
This is really useful if you're on stage, or in a dark environment and uh don't want, don't want to
strain your eyes, or just don't want it obvious that you know you're reading the the thing,
or whatever. This is a really useful sort of feature here. Boom! back to light mode, stage mode
uh ,again really handy! Let's talk about these next two buttons next to Stage mode. I mentioned
earlier how we could kind of change the way we're interfacing, or the view of the current
um chart. And that's what these buttons over here allow you to do. They allow you to toggle back and
forth between them. Here we have a view where we have the key uh the functional analysis present,
the Cadence detector, the arrows and arrows and brackets analysis, and all the chords there.
If I toggle to the right now I have a worksheet. I can hand out to students, and have them kind of
fill in the blanks for us, and then we talk about it in our next lesson, and see where they
went right, where they went wrong. Next view is a more stripped down view no more chord scales,
no more analysis, no more arrows and brackets analysis. It's just kind of a straightforward.
These are the chords, these are the order that you play them in, and this is the form
of the song. So this is a view that might be more consistent with what you're used to on like iReal,
which we'll also get to a little bit later, where, you know, you don't have any beats, no staff. It's
just the chord symbols within the measures. Also, I guess this is a good time to talk about this
function over here. This spacing shortcut here this allows me to use the bar lines as a means of
of spacing everything, or the chord symbols as a means of spacing everything. So, if you got, like
you look at here, this uh, what is that? measure six, everything gets a little bit crowded there,
with those chords symbols, the Dm7b5 and the G7b9 can merely fit that. Boom! Just by doing that.
Remember, if you're doing this on an iPad, you even, you have even that much more real estate
to play with, so this might be perfectly fine on your iPad, if you're on your iPhone however,
maybe you want to use this. So the versatility is built in to accommodate any situation that you're
in, on any device that you're using. On to the next view. So you notice all the chord symbols,
it's just like a different version of what we were just looking at, but now all the chord symbols
have been displaced down a little bit, so that if you want to use our upper structure feature.
There is now room to do so. So, boom! Now you see there's room for the original chord progression
in the original Harmony, and now our upper structures: the quartals, the triads. This is a
really handy feature as well. This next view here is kind of similar to one we already looked at,
or it's just kind of like tighter spacing so everything's kind of closer together,
if you want it to be a little tighter for whatever reason, if you have a smaller a larger chart,
you want it all to fit on one screen without having to scroll up or down. And again, I still
have this spacing shortcut over here. I can fuss with with any of these views. By the way, so,
if I want to make the bar lines equidistant, or if I want to make the chord symbols equidistant,
I can still do that with this little toggle switch over here: the arrows. Next view...
so now we have the uh, I guess this was like yeah very similar to the first view we were looking at
right? So, we have the functional analysis at the bottom the arrows and brackets analysis the
chord symbols. And again, if you're trying to get everything on one screen, let's say It's a larger
chart - doesn't really apply uh to Afternoon In Pairs here - but you get what I'm saying. So this
next view here, we have a rhythm slashes back the chord symbols but now some chord diagrams
for our guitar player friends out there. This can be really really handy if you and just so you know
the the voice leading is built into these these voicings that are expressed on the core diagram
so not only are you going to get nice voicings you're going to get really good voice leading too
if you follow these chord diagrams so again here I can use the spacing feature to kind of make things
uh more legible it's still kind of a tight fit though which is why this button over here this
little system break shortcut comes in handy so now instead of four bars per line I now have
two it's a little cleaner it's a little easier to digest and understand and I can still use the auto
spacing feature here with the system break feature active also so you can see how customizable The
Experience can be with the app how it's always really been and now how easy it is to get to these
these with this the shortcut buttons down here so yeah there's all these different views here
you can kind of experiment with and see which one works for you in the situation that you're trying
to use it in whether it's performance on stage or you're just practicing at home or in a practice
room let's go ahead and talk about this top row of buttons here where you can see where the tempo
is the number of repeats the key and the the playback route here um so let's press play here
[Music] thank you [Music] all right so now if I want to change anything about
those playback defaults I can do that here I can change the tempo we can slow it down
I don't want to repeat it three times I only want to repeat it twice
um I don't like the key let's play it up modulated up a whole step there and let's
change the groove to I don't know Balsa for whatever reason I don't know don't ask
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uh the next button I want to talk about is I really like my new iteration of afternoon in
Paris I want to save all of those features that I just changed that's where you use this little
download into the box save button right here so it's asking me do you want to save all the
current performance settings I say yes now I have that ready to go whenever I need it so I mentioned
iReal before so let's talk about a really cool feature of mapping tunnel Harmony Pros it's the
analyzer so we'll make more videos about this in the future but you can basically plug in any chord
progression that you want the app will analyze it and tell you what's going on functionally give you
the chord chord pairing give you all sorts of analysis that just relates to the song Why is
this useful well I can go to iReal now take any of the songs in here like this Knight in Tunisia
chart which gives me some like basic information this is serviceable it's fine it's great but
if I want to sort of unveil uh some embedded information or really see what's happening here
um see the modulation see the the functional analysis of the song see the chord chords scale
pairings and by virtue of that maybe some tensions that are also available to us all sorts of stuff
not to mention uh the superior playback that is available to you on mapping to Harmony Pro I can
do that here we share export chord chart music XML and I see here that mapping Turtle Harmony
Pro is already showing up if it's not showing up on your phone just click on the more button
there on the right and uh you'll find it there but we you we choose mapping tunnel Harmony Pro
there's the analyzer sort of uh and it's most default setting I click on the analyze button
analyze it's analyzing and it's figuring out all the ins and outs of the song okay and now
boom awesome look at that so E flat 7 is now E flat seven sharp 11 why it's the sub five and as
we all know the sub fives chord scale pairing is lydian flat seven that gives us that sharp
11 tension something that wasn't really there in the original chart so mapping Turtle Harmony Pro
is picking up on all these awesome subtleties the functional analysis is there we've added tensions
when they're available not only that check this out in the piece section it's detected the key
change the modulation up a minor third all these great little things that were embedded into the
tune are now available to us they're now obvious and we can take advantage of those when we create
our lines when we improvise when we voice our chords all sorts of stuff is now obvious to us
that might not have been so before and again not to mention the playback is way better
[Music] thank you [Music] so there you have it all the newest features available to you
for mapping tonal Harmony Pro if you don't have mapping total Harmony Pro
yet you can check us out on the App Store hope today's video was useful thanks for watching
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