# Bassist Buddy

> Bassist Music Theory Companion

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6773560076](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6773560076)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6773560076`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** DOUGLAS ANDRE DEVILLIER
- **Category:** Music
- **Version:** 2.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-03
- **First published:** 2026-06-03
- **Size:** 6.10 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-30
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bassist-buddy/id6773560076)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://andredevillier.github.io/low-end-music-theory/](https://andredevillier.github.io/low-end-music-theory/)

## Description

Your bass guitar music theory companion

Bassist Buddy is a music theory reference and practice tool built for bass guitar players.

Select any of 30 major and minor keys — including all enharmonic pairs — and instantly see the notes in the key, the 7 diatonic chords, and a bass fretboard diagram showing exactly where to play them.

Key Features:
• Circle of fifths with all 30 keys — tap any segment to select
• Diatonic chords with chord quality labels and Roman numeral analysis
• Chord enhancements — Major 7, Minor 7, Dominant 7, Sus chords, Diminished, Augmented and more
• Bass fretboard showing all chord tones and scale notes in position, tap fretboard dots to hear individual bass notes and try out different base lines in the app
• 7 modes — Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian
• Chord Progression builder — arrange a progression of 4, 8, 12, or 16 bars, set rhythm patterns, play at any tempo - play your bass along with the progressions and practice your improvisational skills.  Comes with a strong set of default progressions and rhythms to minimize set up time.  3 common time signatures supported.  Ability to save new progressions and rhythms to your app.
• Karplus-Strong plucked string audio synthesis
• Setup Bass page, including
- Support for a 5 and 6-string basses and lefties in a Set up Your Bass page
- Custom tuning support per string
• Native IOS GUI with full dark mode support
• Support for pentatonic scales on the fretboard
• Consistent nomenclature for the degrees shown on each of the scale notes for a chord being displayed.  Root of selected chord is always 1, regardless of its degree in the Diatonic Scale.
• Scale display selection in the chord progression table
* Display box positions to support bassist improvisations
* Metronome and count in added in Progression playback and Baseline builder pages
* Walking baseline generator

## Rankings

- #2,107,588 — Overall

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