One Minute Changes Reviews

by Chikubi

I just upgraded to the new version and am not totally happy. First, it erased all of my prior scores and selected chords which is annoying, but I'll live. Second, the countdown and time-up alert sounds are waaaay too quiet now and it's almost impossible to hear them over my playing - even with the amp at fairly low volume. You had a volume slider before and if anything they were too loud, but that was far better than now. Please fix this. Thirdly, the score increase and decrease buttons don't auto count when you hold them anymore, now you have to hit them once for every count which is totally tedious. This needs fixed too. Lastly, the best score display is tiny. Why can't it just show in the score box like before? All minor things that can be addressed, but considering how much I use OneMinuteChanges they really are annoying. Otherwise, OneMinuteChanges has been amazingly handy and helpful. I hope to see it return to its former solid self. Thanks!

by Bacarlino

I want to love OneMinuteChanges. I'm following Justin's beginner course, so this is great! Except... Every time I practice, I have to change my device's settings to keep it from going into standby. It would be nice if there was a big button right smack in the middle labeled "keep screen from turning off" or at least let the timer keep running in the background. Either one of these features (or both) would earn this great tool an immediate 5 stars. I love OneMinuteChanges , especially for free (thanks!), but with having to change my device's settings every time I practice, and then back afterwards, I just can't give it a higher rating yet.

by Yostarbuck

OneMinuteChanges is great for keeping track of chord changes, but the interface isn’t very intuitive, and if you try to tag a chord the writing is invisible. Also, if you want to see your lowest chord scores, it includes those with 0 changes if you haven’t practiced that chord. But still a very useful app.

ALSO: it would be great to add a feature of you could see your progress over time by dates. It would be very motivating if you have 20 changes and get up to 40 in a few weeks!

by Lmtreid

Love Justin and his beginner course, but OneMinuteChanges needs some tweaks. I've selected the 8 cords I know and have used OneMinuteChanges for three days, and yet there are some combos that have no score because they haven't been selected in the random mode. Wish there was a way to manually select the cord combos so that I could at least get a baseline score. I like the concept of OneMinuteChanges , but it needs some changes to be more useful.

by Drstinkypsnts

I really like OneMinuteChanges. It is great. I just wish you could select chords you want to work on from the score menu. I like working on my slowest chords. Also I added a chord and even though I deleted it it comes back when I restart OneMinuteChanges . Ghost chords.

by CaptSail

I think it’s a great app and beautifully designed. I like that I can add chords to the library as need to I learn them. Personally, I’m glad that the library is not too extensive so you don’t have to spend a lot of time searching through and just focusing on the chords you want. I might’ve missed something, but I don’t see a way to remove a chord from the library. The only other issue I see is that once I shut OneMinuteChanges , it does not remember the cords that I was working on so I have to re-select them each time. That aside, I think OneMinuteChanges is brilliant and very helpful for beginning guitar players such as myself. Thanks Justin!

by Crazyhorse2014

I really like OneMinuteChanges, especially the option to focus on problematic chords. Here are some suggestions for future versions.
- It would be good if the problematic chords would include combinations I haven't played yet. Alternatively it would be good to be able to manually select a combination to practice because some combinations don't seem to come up in random mode, at least not yet.
- OneMinuteChanges doesn't keep the screen from timing out. If the screen times out in 1 minute which I believe is the default the screen sometimes turns off before the timer reaches zero and it stops counting down.
- it would be awesome if OneMinuteChanges could recognize a strum so that it could count the number of chord changes automatically. :) I sometimes mess up my counting while playing.
- there seems to be a bug. My lowest scoring combination is A-D but it doesn't come up if I select problematic chords.

I would definitely pay for OneMinuteChanges!

by Jean Robinson

1. I have on phone and iPad but have to enter new chords on each.

2. I like that I can add chords but it really needs a full library.

3. Allow you to edit chords after they are entered into the library. I have made a few boo boos that I need to correct but I can’t, frustrating.

by Charon96

I thought then app would track the changes for me, since it's hard for me to count and keep changing but if all your looking for is a timer this is a great app.

by Jsmeltzy

OneMinuteChanges is much more convenient than writing down what chord you played and how many changes you made. Having it randomly choose from the chords you've told OneMinuteChanges you know keeps you from choosing "easy" changes. Thanks Justin!

by Fishface.us

I can hear it when the timer starts but alas when the 60 second timer is up, I can’t hear the audio alert.

Maybe a setting option so I can set the type alert for start and end.

I admit I am hard of hearing and do wear hearing aids.

by Agakshat

It’s easy to use, clean interface. Usability is not amazing, but it’s free!
One request: add option to delete or modify a previous score. I mistakenly added 302 chord changes instead of 30, and since then it’s 302 has always been my high score :(

by Jreck29

OneMinuteChanges really helps keep track of your progress on chord changes. Definitely better than writing it on paper!

by J2NSF

I hadn’t used OneMinuteChanges in a couple years but I was having problems with some advanced chord shapes. With the added feature it really is a great app for practicing and advancing.

by Floundertoad

So far I’ve only used OneMinuteChanges for two practice sessions. I’ve been working through the beginner course and now to the point of working on getting all my cord changes to 60 in a minute. I was tracking this just using the iPhone timer and pencil/paper but OneMinuteChanges makes the whole process much more efficient so I end up getting to practice many more chord changes in the same practice session and can track the results is awesome.

Having the cord chart right there for reference is another bonus especially just starting to learn the chord I found I ended up having to refer back to the section in the book to make sure I got it right.

As someone who started with right hand guitar and switched to playing left handed I also appreciate that in the settings you can enable left handed mode so the chord charts are mirrored. I ended up not using it but I may be in the minority as to me it makes sense to look at the right handed chord chart and just flip it in my head - your results may very.

All in all an invaluable tool to add to your practice routine which is definitely not a distraction. Highly recommend OneMinuteChanges.

by UtahN

Wish. It would keep track of the scores / records of one minute changes so as to know how progress has been during app use.

by So-I-Fish

Wow! I have been using Justin Guitar to relearn guitar an have done these one minutes changes exercise the last couple years. I’ll use this to generate a random pair, then I’ll try building a cool rhythm... it just an all around cool little app that can improve anyone’s skills.
“ it’s cranked to 11!”🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

by TheDav1

I love OneMinuteChanges, it is very helpful in practicing chord changes and I don’t know what I would do without it. However I have also run into a minor problem, when creating a new chord, it doesn’t allow special characters like “/“ which I use for slash chords. Its a very small detail and it doesn’t really matter but again, thank you so much Justin!!!!

by Csk137

I just discovered that the two greatest shortcomings of OneMinuteChanges have been fixed—the timer sound is now loud enough to hear, and you can hold your finger down on the count “counter” to jump up by large increments instead of having to tap it 50 times. Also it’s showing my previous high count which I could never figure out how to see before on my iPhone. Thanks for the efforts! A very nice app now, great for building up my speed.

by 123123123piuuouy

I heard about this while doing Justin's course. It changed the way I do my chord changes and keeps me honest about sticking to the time. The pressure of having a timer forces me to pick up the speed and in the few days I've using OneMinuteChanges , I can really notice a big improvement. Thanks Justin for all your hard work and dedication.