![]() ![]() IRealPro is a great tool for real musicians, since it's very easy to 1) change the chords into whatever re-harms one prefers, 2) write your own charts on originals or add any tunes not already available, 3) create intros, interludes and outros, 4) transpose into the key favored by the singer or leader on top of all that, one can send one's arrangements to either another player's device (phone or tablet) or to a printer. Now, want my recommendation for a great jazz app? Drum Genius is amazing. (No wonder the technocrats think they can automate music with AI.) It is another step down the line of the devolution of our music into ‘notes over chords’ and robotic, non swinging rhythm. A couple of these issues could also be identified from using the Real Book or Aebersold playalongs.īut iReal takes these problems, centralises them into one place and adds some more. jazz gigs devolve into people staring at their phones just like the rest of modern fucking lifeĪs a tool it is very useful, but increasingly it is becoming a crutch. excuse for people not to learn repertoire People start to think learning tunes is memorising chord progressions Playing ‘over’ standards (rather than learning to outline harmony in their lines) Robotic accompaniment (don’t practice with that shit, please, play with humans live or on record.) The program is priceless as far as I am concerned. It is really really convenient with ireal just to transpose anywhere and print a new chart. It will be at the lower end of her range and I will need tight underwear on some the tunes to hit the high notes, but in theory, it should work. I am transposing everything we will sing together up a minor third and we are splitting the difference on the keys. In other words, she is a real life diva (and a sweetheart to boot) I am currently working on making a book for myself and Thelma Jones, (Joe Pass/Ella style, only I croak out vocals as well) Thelma has been churning out R&B and soul / gospel records since the 60's and is much in the vein of Etta James. I had to doctor some tunes to my liking, and do a few from scratch, however, I can open the book, and have my upright player read off the same book I use for the lyrics (I can recall changes and melodies, but my memory sucks for lyrics) My complete standards vocal book of 200 plus tunes is ireal, with the ireal charts on the left and the lyrics on the right side. All in all, it was the best $20 I ever spent on a program. The guys and the moderator on the forum are very helpful. I posted Garden in the Rain (as there wasn't a chart even close to the Diana Krall version) and a couple more with my funny substitutions. ![]() I posted a few things there when I first started using ireal early last year. I kept my old iphone 4 longer than practical just for this app but the tiddly little screen was proving an eye strain so I invested in a new tablet just last week.ĭoes anyone here post up their transcriptions?Jazzbow,
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