Educational SoftwareGuitar Shed

License: Shareware ($18.00) Version 2.9.9
For: Mac OS X Size: 10,150 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Astoundit Software

"A fully-integrated set of tools for the guitarist (And other musicians). Tools include a 2 tuners (chromatic and tonal), tablature organizer, chord library, metronome, gig manager, Web manager, jam machine, and song jam. Also includes a song slow-downer that can slow down any song, while keeping the pitch exactly the same - great for learning those complex songs."


Educational SoftwarePhotoScore Professional

License: Trial Version 4.1.2
For: Mac OS X 10.2 Size: 24,450 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Neuratron

"PhotoScore Professional, incorporating OmniScore technology, is fast and highly accurate music scanning and recognition software--the musical equivalent of a text OCR program. It transposes plays-back, prints out and exports scanned scores in a number of formats. It reads a wide range of styles including four and six line guitar tablature."


Educational SoftwareGarageBand

License: Freeware Version 1.0.1
For: Mac OS X 10.3+ Size: 1,100 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Apple

"GarageBand turns your Mac into an anytime, anywhere recording studio packed with hundreds of instruments and a recording engineer or two for good measure. It's the easiest way to create, perform and record your own music whether you're an accomplished player or just wish you were a rock star. And GarageBand is the newest member of the iLife family, so you can add your original music to your slideshows, your DVD menus, burn it to CDs or score your iMovie projects."


Educational SoftwareClarion

License: Freeware Version 1.1.2
For: Mac OS 8.1+ Size: 49.1 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: red-sweater.com

"Clarion is a simple tool for practicing the recognition of musical intervals. It supports the QuickTime music architecture, which contains a variety of synthesized instrument sounds that are available on all Macintosh computers with a current enough version of QuickTime."


Educational SoftwareLab Meter

License: Shareware ($9.00) Version 4.0.1
For: Mac OS X 10.2 Size: 402 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Laidman & Katsura

"Lab Meter is an application working with nearly all instruments. Main features include note indicator, fine tune indicator, and digital readout. Operations are hands-free and the software listens while you tune."


Educational SoftwareMelody Assistant

License: Shareware ($15.00) Version 6.4.4
For: Mac OS 8, 9, X Size: 4,820 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Myriad

"Melody Assistant edits and composes musical scores. It offers an integrated digital sound database and editor, tablatures, chord diagrams, lyrics, karaoke, and graphics. It imports MOD, MIDI, KAR, SGU, AIFF, WAV, and BMP files. It also features the ability to align staves both right and left while printing, the option to save files in a compressed format, and the ability to print braces and brackets to group staves."


Educational SoftwareScalePhobia

License: Shareware ($9.00) Version 1.2.2
For: Mac OS X Size: 547 K
Program's Home Page Publisher: Majorthird

"ScalePhobia focuses on the recognition of scales. Multiple choice Ear trainings for major scale, Minor scales, Modes, Blues Scale, and Pentatonic scales are included in this software. Scales can be played ascending, descending or mix. We also have software for Chords, Inversions, and Intervals."