iReal Pro

Name: iReal Pro
Price: 21.99 USD
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: Technimo LLC

Music Book & Backing Tracks

Only for Mac

$21.99 · In‑App Purchases

Ages

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

Technimo LLC
Language

EN
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Size

179.9
MB

Mac

Practice makes perfect. iReal Pro offers an easy-to-use tool to help musicians of all levels master their art. It simulates a real-sounding band that can accompany you as you practice. The app also lets you create and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference. ~One of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2010~ Used by thousands of music students, teachers and some of the world’s top music schools such as Berklee College of Music and Musicians Institute. “It’s the perfect technology for a practicing musician: high-quality digital audio, mixable, transposable into any key and completely mobile. Now every aspiring musician has a backup band in their pocket.” – Tim Westergren, Pandora Founder • It's a Book: Create, edit, print, share and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference while practicing or performing. • It's a Band: Practice with a realistic sounding piano (or guitar), bass and drum accompaniments for any downloaded or user-created chord chart. FEATURES: Have a virtual band accompany you as you practice • Choose from the included 51 different accompaniment styles (Swing, Ballad, Gypsy Jazz, Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Bossa Nova, Latin,...) and even more styles are available as in-app purchases • Personalize each style with a variety of sounds including piano, Fender Rhodes, acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic and electric basses, drums, vibraphone, organ, and more • Record yourself playing or singing along with the accompaniment Play, edit, and download any songs you want • 1000s of songs can be downloaded from the forums in a few simple steps • Edit existing songs or create your own with the Editor • The Player will play any song that you edit or create • Create multiple editable playlists Improve your skills with the included chord diagrams • Display guitar, ukulele tabs and piano fingerings for any of your chord charts • Look up piano, guitar and ukulele fingerings for any chord • Display scale recommendations for each chord of a song to help with improvisations Practice in the way, and at the level, that you choose • Includes 50 exercises for practicing common chord progressions • Transpose any chart to any key or to number notation • Loop a selection of measures of a chart for focused practicing • Advanced practice settings (automatic tempo increase, automatic key transposition) • Global Eb, Bb, F and G transposition for horn players Share, print, and export – so your music follows you wherever you need it! • Share individual charts or whole playlists with other iReal Pro users via email and the forums • Export charts as PDF and MusicXML • Export audio as WAV, AAC and MIDI • Upload your songs and playlists to iCloud for safekeeping and for synchronization across any of your iCloud enabled devices such as iPhone, iPad or Mac Always backup your songs!

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This app is awesome for any player of any level
05/17/2023

EstudioEspanol
Having the ability to play with other people is an essential skill for a musician and this gives you all the practice you need. It doesn't matter what instrument you play or sing you can play along with this, mute instruments you don't want and put any of the songs in different styles to really stretch your ability and imagination.You can change keys each time around to really level up your ability. I have every one of my piano students on this app too and I've seen their ability and enjoyment of playing increase rapidly. Forget metronomes! Pick any song and style, mute everything but the drums and suddently scales are fun! Can't say enough good things. Just do it!

Developer Response
Thank you so much for the nice review! Enjoy your practice!
This app is awesome for any player of any level
05/17/2023

EstudioEspanol

Having the ability to play with other people is an essential skill for a musician and this gives you all the practice you need. It doesn't matter what instrument you play or sing you can play along with this, mute instruments you don't want and put any of the songs in different styles to really stretch your ability and imagination.You can change keys each time around to really level up your ability. I have every one of my piano students on this app too and I've seen their ability and enjoyment of playing increase rapidly. Forget metronomes! Pick any song and style, mute everything but the drums and suddently scales are fun! Can't say enough good things. Just do it!
Developer Response 06/05/2023
Thank you so much for the nice review! Enjoy your practice!
Bad learning workflow
Jan 6

Supergenre
This app works fine as a backing track tool once you've already learned the chords and basics of a song, but it's absolutely awful for getting to that point. There's no way to hear individual chords without starting full playback. Stopping resets your position and clears your selected start point (forcing constant re-selection, even if you’re in loop mode). And the real head scratcher: you can't see the actual notes being played by default, or even hear the chord options when you cycle through. These features are such low-hanging fruit and wouldn’t detract from the app’s core workflow / target user in any way. What's most frustrating is that forum posts show users have been requesting these basic learning features for over a decade, but they've been completely ignored. Simple additions like chord preview on-click, persistent selection, note visualization, and better hotkeys would transform this into an actual learning tool, but the developers clearly don't prioritize that use case. If you want to learn new songs from scratch, this isn't worth the money - it's only valuable if you're already proficient and just need accompaniment.
Bad learning workflow
Jan 6

Supergenre

This app works fine as a backing track tool once you've already learned the chords and basics of a song, but it's absolutely awful for getting to that point. There's no way to hear individual chords without starting full playback. Stopping resets your position and clears your selected start point (forcing constant re-selection, even if you’re in loop mode). And the real head scratcher: you can't see the actual notes being played by default, or even hear the chord options when you cycle through. These features are such low-hanging fruit and wouldn’t detract from the app’s core workflow / target user in any way. What's most frustrating is that forum posts show users have been requesting these basic learning features for over a decade, but they've been completely ignored. Simple additions like chord preview on-click, persistent selection, note visualization, and better hotkeys would transform this into an actual learning tool, but the developers clearly don't prioritize that use case. If you want to learn new songs from scratch, this isn't worth the money - it's only valuable if you're already proficient and just need accompaniment.
Great App except for lack of documentation
06/11/2021

Neubop
Well done. Super tool and super flexible. The single largest issue is when you admirably succeeded in maximizing how many chords can fit on a page, it overcame your otherwise wonderful intuitive user interface.Also I am a beta tester on the iOS version.There is need for some expanation about the relationship between where chord symbols are placed in a measure and when they sound. It appears there are many places where a symbol can be placed which will sound the same number of beats as spaces are ignored except when creating ambiguity. A bit of documentation would be helpful.
Great App except for lack of documentation
06/11/2021

Neubop

Well done. Super tool and super flexible. The single largest issue is when you admirably succeeded in maximizing how many chords can fit on a page, it overcame your otherwise wonderful intuitive user interface.Also I am a beta tester on the iOS version.There is need for some expanation about the relationship between where chord symbols are placed in a measure and when they sound. It appears there are many places where a symbol can be placed which will sound the same number of beats as spaces are ignored except when creating ambiguity. A bit of documentation would be helpful.
Game Changer
07/10/2024

rusty71885
I am an intermediate guitar player, learning jazz. This app, after even one week of regular use, has accelerated my ability to learn jazz by orders of magnitude. This is what I have been looking for forever. After a few more years of regular use, I am confident I will become the expressive melodic musician I have always knew I was able to become, I can already feel it starting to build. I am forever grateful to iReal Pro, for the continued gift of learning music. You got a lifelong champion in me. Bravo.

Developer Response
Thank you Rusty for sharing your story! We'll keep on improving the app and adding new features ;) Enjoy your practice!
Game Changer
07/10/2024

rusty71885

I am an intermediate guitar player, learning jazz. This app, after even one week of regular use, has accelerated my ability to learn jazz by orders of magnitude. This is what I have been looking for forever. After a few more years of regular use, I am confident I will become the expressive melodic musician I have always knew I was able to become, I can already feel it starting to build. I am forever grateful to iReal Pro, for the continued gift of learning music. You got a lifelong champion in me. Bravo.
Developer Response 07/25/2024
Thank you Rusty for sharing your story! We'll keep on improving the app and adding new features ;) Enjoy your practice!

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