Android apps by Leafcutter Studios

You Are Your Own Gym

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:40:09 +0000

Finally, the bible of bodyweight exercises can be kept in the palm of your hand!

Based on the best selling book by Mark Lauren, the bodyweight exercises in this app have been used to create society’s leanest, strongest, most confident people. Mark honed his program for a decade while preparing nearly a thousand soldiers for the extreme demands of the most elite levels of the U.S. Special Operations.

Use this mobile companion to reference over 200 different body weight exercises!

Need to spice up your workouts? Mark Lauren's proven training techniques are now available to you in the form of timers for Tabatas, Supersets, Stappers, Interval Sets, and Ladders. Let Mark Lauren guide you through workouts and tell you exactly when to workout and when to rest. Get into shape with as little as 30 minutes a day!

Recent changes:
Thanks to everyone who gave us feedback and ideas for the app - please keep telling us what you think.

This version includes:

All new UI for easier access to exercises and routines
The latest exercises and pictures from Mark with updated descriptions
Integration with the YAYOG Video expansion pack to bring full screen videos of all the exercises to your Android device (the YAYOG Video expansion pack is a separate download)
Exercise history export to text file

... and much more.

Blobble Write Lite

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:13:10 +0000

Learn to write letters and numbers with the blobbles.

'Blobble Write Lite' is a free trial version of our 'Blobble Write' app. This lite version allows children to practise writing six random letters from the alphabet. The full version of this app, 'Blobble Write', gives unrestricted access to all letters in upper and lower case.

Children can copy the blobbles as they trace out the correct way to write letters and numbers.

Features:

- Letter shapes are based on a font specially created for children learning to read and write.
- Phonic letter sounds to help children associate letters and pronunciation.
- Bright and colourful graphics.
- Audio and visual feedback to help correct mistakes.
- Easy to navigate user interface.
- Set in the kid friendly BlobbleWorld universe.

** Adobe AIR is required to run this app. If AIR is not already installed on your device then you will automatically be given the option to install it. **

Recent changes:
- Rating Blobble Write Lite on the Android Market using the in app button unlocks six more random letters.
- Bug fix to make the app scale correctly across small and large screen sizes.

YAYOG Video Pack

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:44:56 +0000

The You Are Your Own Gym video pack is an expansion pack for the You Are Your Own Gym Android app. It adds video capabilities to the YAYOG app with over two hundred and forty videos of the YAYOG exercises being performed by Mark Lauren.

Note: This app is an expansion pack and will only work if the YAYOG app is already installed on your device. It does not run on its own.

Recent changes:
New Version

Matt Warnock Guitar 251 Chords

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:58:11 +0000

Have you been spending hours in the practice room learning chord voicings and different inversions, but struggle when it comes time to take these chords to tunes and common progressions?

Are you tired of leafing through big chord dictionaries only to find that they don’t help you apply the shapes to actual music once you get them under your fingers?

If you are in this situation, or are simply looking to increase your ability to play jazz guitar chord progressions, then the Matt Warnock Guitar 251 App is just the thing to get your guitar chord playing to the next level.

With fun and easy to follow material designed to help you increase your ability to comp common chord progressions and tunes on the guitar, the Matt Warnock Guitar 251 Chord App is a chord dictionary and voice leading textbook all in your pocket, without the heavy reading or hours spent sifting through books and articles to find the chords you need.

The Matt Warnock Guitar 251 Chord App lets you build custom 251 chord progressions in major and minor keys all at the touch of a button.

You can customize each 251 with the following options, giving you countless new 251 chord progressions in major and minor keys to explore in the practice room and take out on the bandstand.

Every progression is presented with proper voice leading, which minimizes hand movement on the fretboard, making it easy to move from chord to chord as you bring these voicings to your favourite changes and tunes.

251 Chord Generator Options Include

•Drop 2, Drop 3 or Drop 2 & 4 Chords
•Multiple strings sets and fretboard positions to provide countless options for each 251 on the guitar
•iim7, iim9 or iim7b5 Chords
•V7,V9, V7b9, V7#9, V7b5, V7#5, V7b9b5, V7b9#5, V7#9b5 and V7#9#5 Chords
•Imaj7, I6, IMaj9, Im7, Im9, Im6, ImMaj7 Chords
•Random Chord Generator for fun and challenging practice routines
•Left or Right-Handed Fretboards
•Multiple Rhythms for Playback and Adjustable Metronome Allowing You to Practice Along with Each Progression in Real Time and with Common Comping Patterns

Alongside the 251 Chord Generator, the app includes a chord dictionary where you can explore specific chords outside of a 251 progression to further enhance your jazz guitar learning experience, and there is a Practice Tips section that lays out fun and productive ways to get the most out of this app in the woodshed.

The Matt Warnock Guitar 251 App is not only a reference tool, but it will help teach you proper and easy ways to voice lead 251 chord progressions with any chord variations you can think of on the fretboard.

David Mead : CAGED

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:13:20 +0000

Improve your guitar playing and master the fretboard with world renowned guitarist and best-selling author David Mead‘s CAGED guitar app.

The CAGED guitar system has been used by guitarists for decades to understand and map the guitar fretboard. The system is based on the relationship between the five basic chord patterns (C, A, G, E and D) and how they can be joined together to help you find any chord in any key wherever you are on the fretboard.

The David Mead : CAGED app gives you all the tools and information you need to master this trusted system quickly and efficiently.

The app contains:

- Eight easy to follow lessons that take you from the basics of chord construction to understanding the full power of the CAGED system across the fretboard.

- Each lesson includes interactive fretboard diagrams that allow you to see and hear the CAGED chord shapes, the notes and intervals they contain and the best way to play them on your guitar.

- Reference tools to help you visualise the entire CAGED fretboard in any key and to see the CAGED chord shapes around any root note.

- Exercises to help you practise the key parts of the CAGED theory and build up your knowledge wherever you are and whenever you want.

- Progress tracker to monitor your performance on each exercise and highlight where you can target your practice most effectively.

David Mead is an acoustic guitarist, writer, journalist and teacher. Find out more about David, his music and his best-selling guitar books at www.DavidMead.net.

Recent changes:
Found and fixed some bugs that were causing the interactive fretboard exercises to hang.

Chord and scale dictionary added to the CAGED Reference section.

Left handed fretboard support enbled as an option in the settings page.

Choice of maple or rosewood fretboards

Omniglot Chinese

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:29:24 +0000

Omniglot Chinese is an app to help beginners learn to read, write and recognize Chinese characters.

The app presents one hundred of the most commonly used characters for beginners. For each character the app features:

- large easy to read character graphic
- pinyin spelling with tone marks
- English translation
- animated stroke by stroke demonstration of how to write the character
- audio pronunciation of the character by a native Chinese speaker

The app also features exercises to practise reading, listening and writing the characters.

Omniglot.com is one of the world's leading websites dedicated to writing systems and languages.

** Adobe AIR is required to run this app. If AIR is not already installed on your device then you will automatically be given the option to install it. **

Recent changes:
Version 1.2

Writing : Added an option to highlight the next stroke to be written.
Reading : Added status text to track the number of correct answers, the number of total questions attempted and the percentage score.
There is a new settings page to toggle the stroke start and stroke highlight features in Writing on and off.

Blobble Write

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:29:06 +0000

Learn to write letters and numbers with the blobbles.

Children can copy the blobbles as they trace out the correct way to write letters and numbers.

Features:

- Letter shapes are based on a font specially created for children learning to read and write.
- Phonic letter sounds to help children associate letters and pronunciation.
- Bright and colourful graphics.
- Audio and visual feedback to help correct mistakes.
- Easy to navigate user interface.
- Set in the kid friendly BlobbleWorld universe.

** Adobe AIR is required to run this app. If AIR is not already installed on your device then you will automatically be given the option to install it. **

Primal Smoothies

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:19:39 +0000

The Primal Smoothies app contains over ninety unique, mouth-watering and healthy primal/paleo smoothie recipes.

Written by primal blogger and smoothie enthusiast Todd Dosenberry (Primal Toad), these recipes are the ideal way to enjoy a primal diet with great tasting and healthy smoothies. The 90+ recipes are organized into ten categories and each recipe includes:

- Full list of ingredients
- Primal Toad’s comments and suggestions
- Macronutrient and Vitamin nutritional profile
- Your personal five star smoothie rating
- Picture of the finished smoothie

You can view the recipes as a single list, by ingredient, by category or just your favorites. The app includes a shopping list that allows you to keep track of all the ingredients you need to make your favorite smoothies. You can tell your friends on Facebook about the recipes you are enjoying with the ‘Share on Facebook’ button.

To learn more about primal smoothies you can visit www.primalsmoothies.com

David Mead : Guitar Gym

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:21:13 +0000

Just doing five two minute exercises a day will help sharpen your skills as a guitarist!

'David Mead : Guitar Gym' is the latest app from David Mead, guitarist, teacher and author of the best-selling Guitar Workout books. The 'David Mead : Guitar Gym' is filled with the most effective guitar practice exercises to develop your technique and turn you into a better guitar player. Create your own daily routine to hone your skills and improve your playing.

The 60 exercises are split into five categories, each containing three levels of difficulty. The categories cover Warm-Ups, Co-ordination, Ear Training, Stamina and Rhythm, but all will test your left and right hand capabilities to the limit.

You can design your own custom workout by taking one exercise from each category to practise every day.

You can hear the exercises in advance and play along using the tab player and there's an adjustable metronome to keep you rhythmically on track.

There's a timer, too, to make sure you perform each exercise for the full two minutes. You can keep a record and view stats for each exercise to help track your progress.

"However you use the 'David Mead : Guitar Gym' app, I hope you see the benefits in your playing soon!" - David Mead, Sep 201

Recent changes:
The phone's volume button should now change the volume of the tab player when the tab is playing.

The app now won't let the phone go to sleep during a workout.

Audio engine improvements.

Thanks to everyone for your feedback and if you have any more ideas or suggestions then please let us know.

David Mead : Chord Coach

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:17:08 +0000

Everything you ever wanted to know about chords in a single app.

The David Mead : Chord Coach app is the easiest way to learn about guitar chords on your Android device. Using David's years of experience as a teacher, player and author the app gives you a fast-track insight into how chords actually work.

The ten easy to follow lessons take you from the basics of creating the simplest three note chords, through the differences between major, minor and dominant chords, right up to diminished and augmented chords and beyond.

Not only does the app contain a comprehensive reference library of chords in all the keys, but it actually gives you the knowledge to understand how the chords are created and the tools to go out and create your own.

The app features our interactive fretboards that let you see and hear chords on a fretboard. You can switch between the musical notes, intervals and fingering positions to really understand why they are played the way they are.

The specially created games and exercises help you hone your chord knowledge and memorize the theory you need as quickly and easily as possible.

With this app you can be learning more about guitar chords wherever you are and whenever you want.

Recent changes:
First Release