GuitarWorks for DOS

ChordWorks was a chord-reference program. GuitarWorks added the capability to create and play back your own songs, and came bundled with lesson plans for beginning to intermediate guitarists.

GuitarWorks was a complete toolkit for guitarists: chromatic tuner, chord dictionary, chord identifier, chord clipboard (fake sheet creator), and song editor/player. The player allowed you to mark a section of a song and loop it, varying the tempo. This enabled users to input a song they were trying to learn and loop over it, section at a time, at a slow tempo until they mastered it. This functionality is now found in Apple’s highly-praised Garage Band software, but about 15 years earlier!