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You can quickly put in the changes to a chart for your own practice or to share with your students. There are quite a few things in this app that can help you as an educator or a collaborator. One thing that isn’t there but that I’d love to see is an option to show all of the different chords in a chart at once since I usually start my practice by going one by one individually through all of the chords and scales that the piece might use before I ever start playback. Some developers seem to forget that there are also bass instrumentalists using their apps. A big Thank You to the developers for also making these available in bass clef. These then show up from measure to measure while the piece is playing. If you tap on that, it will show you other chords and scales that would also fit and allow you to choose a different one for playback. If you tap and hold on a measure, it will show you a chord and scale that is musically viable in that spot. It allows you to see the chord and scale for each chord in the sheet as you play. ![]() This used to be an in-app purchase but is now standard. ![]() One of my favorite things is the Chord Scales. Occasionally there will be a chord or two that may not sound right to you but that is easily remedied as once you have downloaded a piece, you can duplicate it and edit it as well.Ĭurrently the only extra to buy. The forum has user-made charts that others have shared. To add new charts, you’ll either need to go to the in-app Forum and find some to download or input some yourself. When you first open up iRealPro, it will have a few exercises in it. I can also input the Jamey Aebersold exercises that I work on in iRealPro to enhance practicing those as well. iReal Pro shows me the chord changes and with an extra purchase, the standard chords and scales that go along with those. Anytune lets me slow down and play along with a recording. I usually choose the same tune to practice in both apps so that I am thinking about the same piece but in different ways. iReal Pro is the other side of that coin for me. I use a couple of apps to try and broaden my jazz horizons. Maybe even composing in it at some point. Despite the fact that I play bassoon, I listen to a lot of jazz and have always wanted to get better at playing it. It’s from the same people who made Drum School and has the same quality and attention to detail that really helps a practicing musician become better. ![]() Here I'll walk you through some of our early wireframes, mockups, and final designs.IReal Pro is a great app. It enjoys 4.5 to 5 star reviews across the board, growing a passionate user base over 150% since the complete suite redesign, rebranding, and new name we executed together. The app debut was a smashing success, and it has since re-launched on Android and OS X desktop. Our goal was simplicity, and when iOS 7 was shown months before our planned ship date, we quickly adjusted our designs to feel "at home" in the new iOS. As we'd already anticipated the cleaner, flatter, and multi-layered world of iOS 7, this turned out to be a matter of simply removing a few textures and tweaking iconography style. As anyone at Facebook knows, the smallest changes can frustrate large and vocal percentages of users. Ground-up app redesigns often leave room for competitors to pick up users quickly - or at least a sour taste sewing the future possibility. The app already had 4 stars and over 250,000 happy users.ĭespite its default iOS interface styles and intensely complicated features - one screen had over 25 buttons - we worked tirelessly to rethink the application from the beginning, exploring many ideas and visual styles, as shown here. When Massimo Biolcati, the creator of the most successful chord sheets and improv practice app on the App Store, first approached me about redesigning his app iReal b - originally titled iReal Books in an homage to the famous jazz "Real Books" bootleg chord books - I had my concerns, despite our clearly shared passions.
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