iReal pro - a guide to programming 

Dan, I really appreciate your making this tutorial. It presents a perfect amount of information for someone to use in order get a good strong solid start using the iReal Pro interface.

YES---- I Real Pro is fantastic. It's the greatest music practice tool I have ever used. I just purchased it recently and was blown away by all the backing tracks available. Not just thousands of jazz standards, Brazilian, Latin, pop, country and whatever else you can think of---- but the many practice backing tracks for chords, scales, and arpeggios.

Thanks Dan. Clear and easy to follow. That's got me on my way.

Thank you! This was really instructive and saves me countless irritations and hours of trouble.

Brilliant. I had no idea that there was such an app. I bought it. Thanks for the video. Geoff.

Thank you so much for this generous and informative video. Kindness is supremely intelligent, and so - there you are! Thanks againl.

You sir are a very helpful person! Ireal Pro should send you a cheque for all your hard work as this is far superior to their attempt at explainning the app.Thanks so much.👍

Excellent video; big thanks for doing this. I agree with some of the other comments: you're doing what the developer should have done.

One of the better tutorials i’ve seen on this app It’s too bad that the developers of apps don’t do this. Thank you again for doing with the developer of iReal pro should’ve done.

Thanks Dan, 🙏 for the lesson and the singing ❤

Fantastic video, was deciding whether iReal Pro was for me and you have just convinced me!! Thank you so much. I learn music by ear and now I want to learn the language to go with that and you have just made it look super easy. I'm going to check out your GarageBand videos next...What else do you teach?

Thanks for sharing this, it really helped me - I have used iReal Pro for quite a long time but I was struggling with the editor. I didn't know that white space represents beats, so I was using them randomly trying to make the score look nice - when all I needed is having 4 white spaces (beats) per measure! Hah!

Thank you. I needed that workshop. So helpful.

Thank you, Dan. I'm excited to try your suggestions. Subscribed, liked and bell-ed!

Hey Dan... Great stuff!... It’s interesting how much of this actually makes sense to me...as a Play-By-Ear guitarist! I’m quite impressed with how much use the iRealPro app can offer my song creation process. I will download this app shortly & give it a whirl. Where I will likely face some challenge, will be with identifying Chord NAMES for rendering the desired sound. Probably will need to fish through some Chord Charts I imagine. Really enjoy your thoroughness explaining things!

A really relevant, clear and unpadded tutorial. Good work.

Thank you! This is awesome. I think you should do a few more shorter ones diving more into reading and writing notation marks in the app. Subscribed!

Excellent tutorial! Thank you for posting. Looking forward to more.

Best of all in net(if not) ireal tutorial ive seen so far. Kudos : D

Thank you for this. Very helpful.

Thanx! Very helpful!

Hello Dan, just subscribed....great videos I have to say. I have a studio at home, iMac , Logic, Korg Kronos etc.....I’ve just purchased a Roland A49, garage band on iPad , Shure mvi and ukulele for mobile purposes and using my Bose Bluetooth speaker . It’s excellent for a simple on the go setup. Many thanks for the garage band videos , really helpful.👍 I like your style of a quick recording , not too much fussing and getting it done. Too many videos out there are far too in-depth about meaningless stuff. Well done Dan 🎹🎷👍🙂

Nice one Dan ..your tutorial is a big help many thanks

Nice one Dan! Now I'm using Irealpro that used to just sit around and garageband!!🎼 😂👌 ❤️

This is a great tutorial! Your pacing is just right. I learned so much! Thanks.

Thank You very much! Now I'm ready.

Thanks this is a helpful resource.

So helpful and clear… thank you!

Dan. Thank you. Our band is moving to ireal pro and this was very useful.

Thanks, wonderfully clear tutorial

Thank Dan, realy amazing your class, congrat. Muy bueno, de gran ayuda

What a voice 👏🏻

Very good info. I want to practice the left hand chords on Ireal Pro and play the right hand melody on songs like Donna Lee. Fly me to the moon and what ever instrument I'm playing.I subscribed awhile back.

super cool! I will buy it now!

Thanks. Very informative. But how CAN you fix the two chord names that overlap??

Very useful video, very well presented.

Amazing video, thank you!

I have had the iReal Pro app for almost 2 years and didnt know how to use it until I found some great RU-vid tutorials. I want to say yours is one of the best. One quick question. I have a piano student who has written a vocal song. I want to help her find chords to play as she sings. Is it possible in IReal Pro to type the lyrics of a song and show the appropriate chord changes? Thank you in advance.

good explanation, thanks!

Does it change keys of any tune?

Very helpful. Thank you!

Nicely done. The one point I'd raise is that the mac interface is vastly different than the one implemented for android tablets, and the latter is lacking several important parts of the user interface (most regrettably).

Finally, i know how to input my own sheets. Thank you! One question though: how do you get this big keyboard? I only have a partial one on my phone and it's more difficult to input the data with it.

Great help thanks

Wow! Such a great Tutorial. Thank you so much mate!

Hello, some editing tutorial (cut, paste, loop, subdivision etc etc) ... greetings and thanks ....

Wow, so this app is like an electronic sheet music writing app? Thats cool!

Thx Dan, that's a good one

Thank you. Very helpful.. Subscribed!

Awesome ! Subscription based, or pay once...and that's all ? Is there special access to premium functions you need to spend money on ?

Nice info by you indeed! I want to know how to write half bar chord in 4/4 time signature in one bar like example if D major half bar & G major half bar so can we write D G| like this ????? What's the terminology to write?????

Instead of sight reading paper, this app in my mobile phone is what I've been using (after a bandmate showed it to me). Now, question: is there (or will there eventually be, if you know) the utility to write standard notation notes/rests/rhythms, in the bars, in line with the chord changes...?

Thanks for this great video (along with all your others).

I want to repeat first row 12 times how do I do it. Once is not enough.

Thank you, tham you, thank you! 😊

Cool!! So interesting!!

Nice video. I just bought and downloaded to my Mac desktop. Everything works fine except as the song is playing only the chord being played is show, not the whole progression like on yours? Make it in to guess work and not very easy?

Hi, great content. A newbie here. Wondering how I could use these for piano practice. I guess that I should only keep the bass and drums, right?

I’ve watched both of your insightful videos on Irealpro and I’m grateful for this tutorial since I bought the program yesterday! I’m just unclear if I can use the practice chord progression styles that the program generates as a base for creating a song in garageband without infringing on any coyrights from the makers of Irealpro. I’m hoping you might know?

I've got one for you Dan given your interests in iReal Pro and GarageBand! I've recently started exporting the MIDI file from iReal Pro and put it into GarageBand to get a higher quality of instruments. It works fabulously and sounds sooo much better than the rather crappy on-board midi sounding instruments in IRP. A good start is taking a simple 12 bar blues with turnaround.

What if you want an F#b5 chord? Why is that invalid?

Thank you! 🙏🏽

Very helpful, Dan. Can't thank you enough. A question: How can put parentheses around the last two chords to create an optional turn around just like in the "real" Realbook? Thank you.

I’ve seen I real pro with rhythms over the chords. How is this done. Thank you for the information

Wondered if you could just give me some advice. When I write out a card sequence and then try to save it the card sequence seems to change to different cards. What am I doing wrong?

Comment inclure un "break" dans la grille ? Merci cC

Great video Thank you Question: can you download these tracks into logic and add more instruments?

How does one get the PDF function to work? I can get to the share function but the PDF is "unsupported" Please advise THX

Thanks Dan. Ireal Pro RU-vid videos are awful. This video is the only one I found that actually teaches newbies how to enter their own songs. 😀

Dan, I'm using an android device---a Lenovo P11 plus. And my screen is different. No symbols, no 'done', and the chords get cut off at the end. Are you aware of any tutorials (or do you have any) for using ireal pro on an android device? Or does anybody?

Hi Dan, why you have four Instruments? I have only three. Thanks for your Channel!

Fab piece of kit, however can you show me how to write ds/dc coda’s in correctly. Ive seen the apps tutorial and for the life of me cant make it work. Thanks G

Where can I see the Country styles?

Your demo here makes it look easy, but in reality my iReal Pro doesn't format lines so nicely. Every tune I enter has line breaks in the middle of phrases, often with chord names squished against the right margin or even beyond the right margin. I am unable to figure out how to get iReal to insert a line break at a desired measure (and presumably it would be even harder to get it to remove a line break). I've tried the down-arrow key and instead of inserting a line break it inserts annoying down-arrow characters and leaves the corresponding measure horizontally in the same position. Can you point me to a video that shows how to do page / stave formatting? Thanks.

Thanks for the video Dan! Do you know how to change the chord on the last eight note of a bar? thanks in advance!

Is it possible in iReal Pro to loop the last measure in a song with a first measure?

if you could add strumming patters id use this alot more

I can’t add the extension like 9,13 and 11 :(

Wow such a powerful and versatile app. It’s a shame the built in instruments sound like a Casiotone.

Thanks

Is it possible to program syncopation of chords falling in the middle of beats ?

You’ve saved me hours of primal screaming!!! Thank you!

Thank you

have subbed

Following on from an earlier comment, could you demonstrate exporting midi from iReal Pro into GarageBand? Thanks

I would like to see melody charts, what I see is just harmonies.

This is great! Kind of a dumb question but bare with me. I have watched multiple videos but I haven't noticed if there is a chord chart or not. If I'm learning a song and I don't know the notes for an E7b9 is, is there a way to quickly look that up within the app or would I have to reference that somewhere else? Thanks again for sharing!

How to make it look better when you have, let’s say 4 different chords in one bar and the chords overlap? It plays them perfectly, but you can’t read it, because there is to much ink... looks terrible...

Brand new at this, but love this video!

My keyboard is not looking like that

Unfortunately, there are no kind of waltz-styles. I use a 12/8 to imitate a real waltz.

Cool, but there's just one problem - it sounds really aweful. 😨

Thanks for your video Dan. After watching your minor thirds progression, I thought you'd be interested in this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nBrbrnnRavY.html

So now

10:20-10:29 Hahahha fuck You man Hahahaha

Nice video, thanks