![]() ![]() export your song as a PDF chord chart to share with others.export your song to an audio file (.WAV) to use as a backing track.transpose to different keys (you will see the chords change accordingly).choose from quite a few instrument choices for backing and adjust the mix or even mute some (guitars, keyboards, bass and drums).create your own chord chart from scratch.download a chord chart for a song from a massive library (and you can edit it if you like).There are some things that are still present in the app including some “jazz-centric” notation that I’ll be talking about so let’s get into it. iReal Pro was originally developed as a tool for jazz soloists (guitarists, pianists, horn players, etc) that would play a jazz chord progression for them to practice their soloing over. So what is iReal Pro? It is an app that at this moment in time is available for iOS, Android and Macs, and I will be reviewing the iOS version that I use on my iPad. The accompaniment to the jazz charts are passable, but some of the arrangements that accompany the pop charts sound like they were churned out by a cut-rate wedding band.This is my review for the iReal Pro backing tracks app this is a super cool app that you can use to download chord charts for songs, create your own chord charts from scratch, and then use the app to play backing for you in multiple styles with various instruments. The styles offered by iReal Pro are just as limited. For instance, for the piano track you can choose an acoustic piano, electric piano, or vibraphone. And within each instrument, you have just a few variations. Regrettably, you don’t have the option to choose better-quality instrument sounds that you may have added to your Mac-via GarageBand or Logic Pro X, for example. Background tracks use the Mac’s built-in software instrument sounds, which are only okay. Instrumentally, iReal Pro is pretty limited. You can additionally export tracks as audio or MIDI files or email charts as HTML files that other users can import into their own libraries. While arranging a tune, you can change time signatures, enter repeats, create sections, and mark sections as an intro or verse. Just pull up the editor and enter in the chart area the chords you like. ![]() While the forums provide you with plenty of material, iReal Pro also includes an editor so that you can create tunes of your own. With iReal Pro’s editor, you can edit existing charts or create new ones from scratch. No melody lines or lyrics are included, which I suspect is how the app’s developers get around any copyright issues-after all, if you could copyright chord progressions, the Blues bin at the local record store would hold exactly one album. Click one of these links and the charts are automatically added to iReal Pro and gathered in a playlist. For example, choose the Jazz forum, and you’ll find links to a load of jazz standards. And you should, because it’s within those forums that you’ll find links to the tunes you really want to play. However, when you first install the app, you’re cleverly asked if you’d like to visit the iReal Pro forums. This isn’t much to start with, and it certainly doesn’t reflect the content of the real Real Book. Pick a tune on the left, and you can read the chart for that track on the right.īy default, you’re supplied with 50 exercise charts. When you press the Play button you hear clicks (the count-off) that indicates the song’s tempo the highlight moves through the chart as the song plays, so you know which chords to accompany. By default, the currently playing measure is highlighted in yellow (though you can change the highlight color as well as the color of the background “paper”). And on the far right are the chords and arrangement for the selected song. Just to the right of that is a list of songs in the selected library or playlist. ![]() ![]() Along the left side of the window is a Library pane where you choose from among libraries and playlists of tunes. ![]()
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