iReal Pro - getting the most from it ✅ (the good and the bad) 

I'd love to know your thoughts on this app. Plus leave any tips you have that others might find useful. Cheers- Andy.

It’s fantastic for learning walking jazz bass! Thanks for your video.

Negative #5: kudos for the Spinal Tap reference.

I agree with you about the negative aspects of IReal Pro, but for beginner/intemediate and even advanced musicians, the #1 thing that outweighs any criticisms you can make ---- it's cheap! For about $25 you get a one-time download with thousands of tunes. Obviously it doesn't sound as good as serious professional backing tracks, or playing live with other musicians ---- but as a practice tool I think it is fantastic. And another great benefit you didn't mention, for anyone seriously wanting to learn to sight read from a chart and vastly improve your reading and rhythm skills ---- IReal Pro is superb.

iReal Pro was introduced to me by a professor at school to practice soloing at home. I find it very useful for just that. I agree with everything you've said about the app especially when it comes to editing/creating your own charts. It's such a learning curve to figure all that out, especially on a mobile device. I can't say much for the desktop version because I don't own a Mac to know if that is anymore more user-friendly there. I think the app serves its main purpose well enough just to mimic playing with a band for practice on your own time. I still like it for that reason at least even though it definitely could use some improvements.

In fairness if you long press a chord diagram it opens the chord library and you can select better chords.

Thank you

Hi Andy, what are you using to show the features of ireal pro? Desktop/Laptop? I've got it on my phone and laptop but the version is clunky and doesn't look like the one you're using? Best wishes Andy

I’m tending to use Band In a Box now at home. But might still use IReal pro at a jam if I don’t know the progression.

Hey Andy - when watching jazz guitar comping, I often see progressions where only one or two notes change with others ‘anchoring’ and this happens repeatedly throughout the chord progression. It’s a really nice sound instead of changing wholesale to the next chord. Could you cover this a little? Thanks. I am a subscriber so I don’t know if I’m asking in the right place.

i would add it's a good tool for students to improve their intonation (on upright bass, wind instruments and vocals etc.)

I think It's really good - a bit like a simplified version of Band-In-A-Box. For the cost of another pedal that you don't really need, BIAB is well worth having.

Thanks for this, Andy. I’ve been using it for a couple of months and fully agree with all your + and -ves (especially the massively annoying “paying again if you want it on a laptop as well as a phone” thing). I have a dumb question which I’ve not been able to find an answer to and maybe you can help - if I edit a chord in a tune from a playlist does that edit change it for everyone who has that playlist or does it just change for me? And if I save it with a new name is that new version public or private?

Great advice how . But I will ask how to do a sequens ower and ower in a number ! I have my IReal pro on my phone, but I don"t know how make these sequenses inside the number ? Thanks from Denmark

you can loop sections

is there any place to add lyrics above the chords?

Hi can you print the charts you make?

no WIndows version?