![]() Choose from the included 51 different accompaniment styles (Swing, Ballad, Gypsy Jazz, Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Bossa Nova, Latin.) and even more styles are available as in-app purchases.Have a virtual band accompany you as you practice Practice with a realistic sounding piano (or guitar), bass and drum accompaniments for any downloaded or user-created chord chart. Now every aspiring musician has a backup band in their pocket.” – Tim Westergren, Pandora FounderĬreate, edit, print, share and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference while practicing or performing. “It’s the perfect technology for a practicing musician: high-quality digital audio, mixable, transposable into any key and completely mobile. Used by thousands of music students, teachers and some of the world’s top music schools such as Berklee College of Music and Musicians Institute. ~One of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2010~ The app also lets you create and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference. It simulates a real-sounding band that can accompany you as you practice. iReal Pro offers an easy-to-use tool to help musicians of all levels master their art. I wish Jeff Bezos would spend a day filling orders at one of his Amazon warehouses and see if he likes it.Practice makes perfect. Isn't that Captitalism in a microcosm? Workers get paid small amounts to do work that benefits the owners of the company. They all seem to think we practice our craft so they can make money from it, not us. Toss in ASCAP and BMI and you have a free-for-all claiming payments.which mostly only gets to the original composer, and sometimes arranger, in pitiful amounts. The music business and copyrights are a really messed area. Distribution electronically or on paper of transcriptions is another gray area. Sound tracks on recordings can be copyrighted, but there is no copyright that prevents transcription. The publishing company of the original tune will have granted rights to the paper publisher to use the tune, and distribute arrangements. Check with Harry Fox Agency or US Copyright laws, You'll see.Īlso arrangements can only be copyrighted for resale, paper or electric. ![]() That said, I am a little surprised they haven't added the ability to copy a pdf and associate it with a track.įYI: you can't copyright cord changes. somewhere) the Hal Leonard books on something like the Kindle store and have one screen up or swap screens if you want the melody. A tablet version would be nice but on both Android and iOS, you can have background apps or side-by-side applications depending on your screen size. I don't know how useful it would even be to have it on a phone screen anyway. The reason that the application doesn't have melodies is that it is purely a chord chart application exclusively. Adobe would be out of business immediately! Or even more pertinent, if you had to charge copyright if your application could view copywritten materials. That application likewise includes nothing 'out of the box' (if you'll excuse the pun), but there are ample community generated files that have melodies and chord changes to most of the realbooks. Band-in-a-box has a similar product but it includes the ability to perform melodies. The reason for that is the publication companies sent a cease and desist because they had titles of their songs built into the app.Now, the changes themselves have to be downloaded from a community maintained list as pointed out by others here. It isn't a copyright issue as the application itself doesn't provide even chord changes (as it did when it first started a long, long time ago) for anything other than the blues and a few sample exercises. ![]()
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