Hello everyone! Thank you for your interest and kind comments about Genius Jamtracks here on Aimee's channel. We also thank you for your patience in waiting for the Android release. Well, Android users, the wait is over! The Android version of GJ is now available on Google Play! Here's the link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geniusjamtracks.geniusjt Happy practicing to all of you and keep watching and supporting Aimee's amazing work!!! The Genius Jamtracks Team
Genius Jamtracks just downloaded the android version. Seems great. I have a feature suggestion, if that's ok- how about a "drum solo" feature where you get 8 bars or whatever of the kind of things drummers do - maybe just a mixture of the different feels, or maybe something different. We could then practise coming back in confidently after the drummer's been clattering around.
Hi Matthew, This is a link from the Genius Jamtracks Forums page where I have posted two saved tracks of the app that might interest you (the orange links): geniusjamtracks.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=29 The idea is quite similar to what you have suggested. It's a setup which I use for practicing trade fours with drums. Of course every time you press "randomize all" you have new polyrhythmic phrases from every instrument. Hope you enjoy it! (The orange links open only by using the app)
Aimee, you are a breath of fresh air... you literally exude the love and passion that you have for music. Please never loose that... its so inspiring. YOU MY DEAR ARE SIMPLY AMAZING!
Question. Slightly away from the music itself. Where in the hell does that joy come from? You're like sunshine. Musical sunshine. Damn! Don't ever lose that!
Aimee. You,ve got the most pure voice I've ever heard. Really special and beautiful. I am a prof. musician (classical) and I thought I knew everything about music (bigheaded me). But You,ve made me to realize, there is lot's more to it. Congrats. Aimee
THX Aimee for a great review. It convinced me to get it. Love it. Responding to the change in rhythms is a little beyond me right now but I'll persist with it. I keep going back to your review for the great advice on ways to use it. I love that the app categorises tunes on the musical form (song form) and that I can save my own polyrhythm assignments. THX for a bunch of great videos that have really helped me.
This app is just too cool! I'm going to download it as soon as I finish watching. And, since I'm a guitar player, it gives me rhythm section to work with...... love it. Thanks for the recommendation!
You are refreshingly different and an amazing teacher and natural performer. Would you believe "The App Store is temporarily unavailable. Try again later"? Damn. I really enjoy your videos!
You're a darn fine teacher and a great scat singer!!! I will direct my students to your videos. I sing and teach in the Netherlands and am grateful that we can enjoy your work online. You work on the same things as I do but you have more knowledge of the harmony so I can learn from that.
Aimee Nolte I love it so far - it's teaching me I have a lot to learn about jazz rhythms - haha! Yes - maybe we can experiment with it when I have my skype lesson :-) thanks!
Very cool! Thanks for telling us about it. You're like a fountain of cool musical info, and your enthusiasm, is at the very least, kind of contagious. (which is good for people that are trying to learn music) You really do have a good way of presenting the things you have in your videos It helps that you don't go over things super fast, and also, repeating, and/or 'backtracking', to make sure, is helpful, because it's better (for me, anyway) than having to 'rewind' the video, which I've done often with other music theory videos, anyway, thanks,..great work!
You are so welcome! Hey Aimee, Ray Charles: 'Let's Go Get Stoned"? Maybe consider doing a video, talking about the chords that he used, to give that song it's unique sound?
Not a nerd, just THE COOLEST CHICK IN THE WORLD! New subscriber. Not sure what led me here...probably cuz I watch OP every chance I get (hence your lesson in Nov 2016 came up). I don't even play piano, just hack guitar, but you have so much passion for sharing your knowledge that I can't stop watching. I'm hoping the attitude & feel will sink in. Love this stuff...these vids are home runs sooooo....keep swingin". :-)
I was walking around near a park in the town where I live and I heard what sounded like a live jazz group. There was a sax player soloing but since I'm a guitar player I noticed there was a cool guitar player also. So I walked over to the place where the music was coming from and it was just a sax player playing by himself! He had a small amp and was playing to backing tracks coming from it. When he was finished with his tune I asked him if he made his own backing tracks. Then he showed me the I-real app on his smart phone. I asked him where he was "storing" or saving the tracks cause normally you save your tracks on some device like a laptop to take with you. But there was no device plugged into the amp. He told me he was shooting the tracks out from his phone to the amp over a Blue Tooth connection - how cool is that! That way you're not stuck listening to the backing tracks on your phone which has really lo-fi sound. I got the app and I use it all the time for practice.
Wow I dont know what's more Awesome; your mind, voice, eyes or that program. And the fact that your video is not only musically genius but perfectly descriptive. Blown away.
hahaha i love you! :D i was literally thinking, omg she thinks shes a nerd i'll totally listen to this in the Shower. Then you fn* say you do aswell :D made my year. Wow thank you.
Guess what? I was just thinking about those polyrhythms and how to work them out....and there you are with a pretty cool solution. Thanks a lot, Aimee!
Aimee, yes the apps are cool but you're cool too. I'm new to playing music (sax) and I can't sing at all. Hearing you kinda scat along with the rhythms was cool and I found myself smiling. I see how the apps can help me formalize musical thoughts and then express the rhythms inside my head. I've already got the drum genius app. I'll be adding iRealPro and Genius Jamtracks. I can use these apps even when I can't play my horn. These apps will help me learn chords, progressions, styles, etc. If I starting singing its your fault lol. Thanks for the video.
A really great rhythm section app would allow a bass player, piano player, or drummer to play the rhythm and tempo, then bring in electronic soloists and ensembles in tempo and tune on top. With existing apps we can generally tune out our rhythm instrument to practice setting rhythms with the others, but we can't practice pulling the ensemble along, correcting their tempo, leading their key changes, setting them up for their solos, etc. The rhythm section spends a bunch of time building the roadway, but the ensemble and soloists often insist on driving in the gutter or the sidewalk. Another app idea: A counting click-track for the ensemble so they know when to show up. Just sayin' ;-)
Youre great teacher and stunning musician! Great scat technique (intelligent melodies) and such a great voice! :) Keep going your work, thank you so much! :)
Gimberg Preval yeahhhh I feel you on that. I do think you'll have so much fun with it though. It's made me discover that I kind of suck at certain feels, so I've been practicing them extra hard! Lol
Haha wow, I've only just seen a couple of videos so far, but you're my favourite person already :D Sounds like a cool app btw, I'll be sure to check it out.
This sort of aural ability is so useful. Every bit as important as scale and arpeggio practice. By the way, how come you don't have books and sheet music piled everywhere? My room is such a tip!
This sounds very like iReal B and is very useful for jamming along to, but the piano does sound like someone is sitting up and down on the piano keys - becomes a bit wearing after a while. I've just discovered your vids and I love 'em - Your enthusiasm is infectious.
very cool. I finally watched it. Can't wait for Android, but I'll put on the iPad for now. BTW, the entire last two minutes if not the whole thing was you nerding out over this app. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
NERD! Sorry, had to be said. :) j/k, great way to demo the app! I do the same thing but using loops in my DAW (digital audio workstation). Your enthusiasm is infectious, keep up the inspiring vids!
I find iReal Pro extremely useful but I would love to edit rhythmic styles, mainly so the first and last chorus can stand out. There are some styles which have first and last chorus variations but not some of my favourite styles.
Hi, girl in a gale. You could try Song Rhythm Tracks / iOS. They do that. Nice rhythm and lots of them but only rhythms, no base or keys. Full Disclosure - I am associated with the product.
In the old days, I use to just keep rewinding my walkman cassette player, trying to figure out what my keyboard heroes were doing, but this thing is way beyond me. This is also way more sophisticated than a program I was using by Seventh String called Transcribe. Very pricey, but I'm thinking about getting it now.
Well, it does not have nearly the same amount of features as this app your using. I just liked the idea of being able to slow down those lightning fast licks I love. I would have never figured out those lines McCoy was doing on Resolution without it. It was just too dang fast. My little walkman's batteries would have died by then. But looks like this app is all that and more so, cool.
Aimee! Thanks for this app! Did you check the app called drums genius? It's all about drummer's language, so we can get better what musician's best friends do! It's amazing! Even though drummers are like condoms: with them is safer without is better, I still love them :)
This is great to watch even for beginners like me who can’t follow... but in terms of doing the exercises, the ones you called “for beginners” are still way too hard for me to follow. Could you make a video only for beginners, I mean beginner beginners?
I'm sure it's my problem but, so far, I don't see the value of this. Maybe I will learn enough to make this relevant but I don't understand this, so far. Mixing rhythms doesn't sound very appealing. I can see how you might change rhythms as you move to various sections but I would not imagine that would be too common during improvising and comping. With DrumGenius I have a very nice way to practice playing with other musicians and staying on tempo. That's what it does for me. I have a tendency to RUSH, especially when I play difficult changes. Sidemen get upset but DrumGenius just let's me try again.
You're not a nerd! think it's cool too. Oh wait, does that make me a nerd too? A music nerd perhaps 🤓. As a drummer I could see jamming along to this but, but I'll likely share more with all my jazz horn playing friends. Actually it would really be good ear training for me to hear the changes as well. Rhythmically of course also good training.
Oh, and on a side-note, I am extremely lucky enough to get perform along with my community big band with Eric Marienthal in October 2017 (speaking of Chick Corea Electric Band). Very excited! I guess I should get this app fir extra practice with my polyrhythms!
Aimee, love your videos with lots of great ideas for self teaching. I just bought this app (2021) having just seen your video about it. I must say I was very disappointed with it. Not withstanding lots of incorrect chord progressions, it also makes mistakes all over the place. Not a chart goes by where chords on the chart are just wrong…playing major sevenths when dom7 are ON THE CHART. For example the chart of “but not for me” has simplified but more or less correct changes but it hits a tonic chord on the second “A” every time despite the written change being correct. Very frustrating…especially because of the app’s potential for awesomeness.
I’m going to put you in touch with the developer and he will take care of you for sure. aimeenolte@yahoo.com So sorry your experience was bad. I know they have put out a new app that fixes what was wrong with this one. I’m sure he will give it to you for free if you write him.
Grabbed GJT after your review 5 yrs ago. They changed format later - became more like iRealPro - in particular it is not possible (as far as I know) to impose different feel on different part of the song. Still the backu tracks are good.
Follow them on Instagram and ask questions in the comments. They are great at answering. So glad you like the app. I use it to practice with all the time
@@AimeeNolte Thanks for the info Aimee. I value your expertise and your skills as a teacher. Inspiring people like you are a treasure in this world. Sent several friends to your channel over the years. PS. No worries - that was one time only compliment overload ;-) Best.
Aimee, what are your experiences playing along with guitarists using guitars made with "true temperament" frets? cheers John from Hampshire, in England.
2017.... maybe it's on Android by now.... I guess apps like this are replacing the old Jamey Aebersold book and CD method of learning to improvise. It's a shame there isn't an Aebersold app where you could subscribe for like 10 bucks a month and have access to all the play-a-longs and lead sheets.
iReal Pro! Found it on google play store! (I was afraid it was apple only) hope it already has some tracks in it, it sounds like you have to buy the tunes extra? Looks great!
