https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk A one-person app shop, out loud. Chris Reedy, 35 years of electric guitar and a former worship leader, talks through the apps he builds (DrumClock, Chartless) with Nova, a synthetic co-host who asks the hard ones. How the apps work, what they get wrong, and what they're for. Eight minutes an episode, every other Tuesday. en-us © 2026 Creedy Solutions LLC Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:29:47 +0000 Chris Reedy Chris Reedychris@creedysolutions.com false episodic yes https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep01 creedysolutions-shop-talk-ep01 Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0500 Most bands play to a click. Plenty of bands can't, and some players won't. DrumClock puts a phone by the kit, listens to the drummer, and sends MIDI clock and tap tempo to the keys rig, pedals and DAW. Chris answers the skeptic questions: how a phone pulls a tempo out of a live kit, what happens on a break, the stick count-off, the Sunday Keys tap-tempo problem, set-list presets, and what it gets wrong. 0:00 Shop Talk · 1:02 Your drummer is the click · 2:34 How it hears the drums · 3:11 Breaks and the count-off · 3:54 Drummers who hate the click · 4:20 Clock, tap tempo and Sunday Keys · 6:10 Set lists · 6:36 What it gets wrong · 7:07 Price and platforms · 7:33 Why build it Transcript and chapters: https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep01 DrumClock: https://creedysolutions.com/drumclock 489 1 full false Most bands play to a click. Plenty of bands can't, and some players won't. DrumClock puts a phone by the kit, listens to the drummer, and sends MIDI clock and tap tempo to the keys rig, pedals and DAW. Chris answers the skeptic questions: how a phone pulls a tempo out of a live kit, what happens on a break, the stick count-off, the Sunday Keys tap-tempo problem, set-list presets, and what it gets wrong. https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep02 creedysolutions-shop-talk-ep02 Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:30:00 -0500 The set lands Thursday night, two songs you've never played, one chart in the wrong key. Chartless listens to the actual recording, in a browser tab or through the mic, and shows the chords live, in key, on the beat, then reads the whole song into bars. Chris answers the skeptic questions: why chord apps are a little wrong and how Simple mode fixes that for worship and folk, why there is no AI in the app, the other four tabs, why a guitar with every needle dead center still sounds sour and what Sweetened tuning does about it, where it runs, and who it is not for. 0:00 Shop Talk · 1:02 Setlist dropped Thursday · 1:30 Live chords · 2:17 Simple mode · 3:11 Why no AI · 3:39 The other four tabs · 4:00 Sweetened tuning · 5:08 Where it runs · 5:41 Price · 5:54 No song left behind Transcript and chapters: https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep02 Chartless: https://chartless.creedysolutions.com 385 2 full false The set lands Thursday night, two songs you've never played, one chart in the wrong key. Chartless listens to the actual recording, in a browser tab or through the mic, and shows the chords live, in key, on the beat, then reads the whole song into bars. Chris answers the skeptic questions: why chord apps are a little wrong and how Simple mode fixes that for worship and folk, why there is no AI in the app, the other four tabs, why a guitar with every needle dead center still sounds sour and what Sweetened tuning does about it, where it runs, and who it is not for. https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep03 creedysolutions-shop-talk-ep03 Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0500 Not the Thursday emergency this time. The craft side: sitting with a song, looping the bridge at sixty, trying two or three capo spots with the chords running, charts in drop D and DADGAD, and why the number system does more for a volunteer player than anything else. 0:00 Shop Talk · 0:38 Learning the song · 1:37 Practicing · 2:35 Capo positions · 3:35 Alternate tunings · 4:33 Honing the craft · 5:33 Where it runs · 5:59 Price · 6:33 No song left behind Transcript and chapters: https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep03 Chartless: https://chartless.creedysolutions.com 426 3 full false Not the Thursday emergency this time. The craft side: sitting with a song, looping the bridge at sixty, trying two or three capo spots with the chords running, charts in drop D and DADGAD, and why the number system does more for a volunteer player than anything else. https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep04 creedysolutions-shop-talk-ep04 Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:30:00 -0500 The lesson ends and the paper doesn't make any sound. Build the progression in the lesson, loop it over a pad, send it home on the phone. One chart for nine instruments, Nashville numbers for beginners, chords from the YouTube lesson, PDFs for the folder, and no account or ads on a kid's phone. 0:00 Shop Talk · 0:37 The lesson ends · 1:42 One chart, every instrument · 2:31 Teaching the numbers · 3:31 The YouTube lesson · 4:36 The folder · 5:21 No account, no ads · 6:04 No song left behind Transcript and chapters: https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep04 Chartless: https://chartless.creedysolutions.com 395 4 full false The lesson ends and the paper doesn't make any sound. Build the progression in the lesson, loop it over a pad, send it home on the phone. One chart for nine instruments, Nashville numbers for beginners, chords from the YouTube lesson, PDFs for the folder, and no account or ads on a kid's phone. https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep05 creedysolutions-shop-talk-ep05 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:00:00 -0600 Chris has stomped a tap tempo button between parts for twenty years. Now the iPad sits on his music stand where he can watch the ring lock, a mic on a boom by the kick runs into a Scarlett, and the Scarlett's MIDI out runs into his pedals, so the delay lands on the drummer's time from the first downbeat. Count-off, the plus or minus eight BPM anchor, set lists on a foot switch, what it gets wrong, and what it costs. 0:00 Shop Talk · 0:35 Why would a guitar player care · 1:36 The thing on the stand · 3:11 What the pedals do with it · 4:10 Keeping it honest · 5:13 What it gets wrong · 5:41 Price and where · 6:05 Last word Transcript and chapters: https://creedysolutions.com/shop-talk/ep05 DrumClock: https://creedysolutions.com/drumclock 403 5 full false Chris has stomped a tap tempo button between parts for twenty years. Now the iPad sits on his music stand where he can watch the ring lock, a mic on a boom by the kick runs into a Scarlett, and the Scarlett's MIDI out runs into his pedals, so the delay lands on the drummer's time from the first downbeat. Count-off, the plus or minus eight BPM anchor, set lists on a foot switch, what it gets wrong, and what it costs.