Bluegrass Guru

Name: Bluegrass Guru
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Author: Bluegrass Guru

Song fake book with set lists

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

4 Ratings
Age Rating

16+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

Bluegrass Guru
Language

EN
English
Size

14.7
MB

Bluegrass Guru is a song fakebook you have with you anywhere. When it’s your turn at the jam, glance your library for a song to play. At a festival, quickly search for songs that you can practice later. The whole app is specialized for bluegrass musicians and enthusiasts so you won’t be inundated with a bunch of songs and lyrics you don’t care about. "I used to think it was impossible to memorize lyrics to a song. I started using Bluegrass Guru and was surprised to learn how few words a lot of songs actually have. Seeing lyrics on a screen over and over while I play really helps me memorize the words a lot faster." –Boyd Timothy, Bluegrass Guru Founder Why should you get Bluegrass Guru? • Add new songs quickly with web search • Memorize songs quickly because your personal song library is with you everywhere • Keep your favorite songs organized and at your fingertips • Add new songs quickly with access to web text search • Find and listen to matching songs on the iTunes Store, YouTube, and Spotify • View a list of over 100 Common Jam Song titles • Tune your instrument with the built-in tuner • Keep your songs organized and at your fingertips • Share songs as PDF files Get more with a Guru membership: • Keep your songs updated between your iPhone and iPad • Create & manage set lists for your gigs that and share them as printable PDFs • Organize your song library better with tags Love Bluegrass Guru? • Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BluegrassGuru • Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BluegrassGuru

Ratings & Reviews

5.0

out of 5

4 Ratings

Unable to get songs to my library
02/06/2025

Bud Robbins
My membership says null, is there a way to restart my membership?
Unable to get songs to my library
02/06/2025

Bud Robbins

My membership says null, is there a way to restart my membership?
Fantastic
06/06/2017

aytee1
This is a fantastic app to have in your pocket. No more lugging around a songbook so you can remember those few words of a song that never seem to stick. And having unlimited search capabilites for way less than you spend on strings in a year = serious win.
Fantastic
06/06/2017

aytee1

This is a fantastic app to have in your pocket. No more lugging around a songbook so you can remember those few words of a song that never seem to stick. And having unlimited search capabilites for way less than you spend on strings in a year = serious win.
Good start but couldn’t really try it out
11/29/2017

JourneyGirl
I love the idea of this app but I can’t fully endorse it as of this version. I downloaded the free version and tried to search for a few common bluegrass jam songs (using the content preloaded in the app). Each time I search, it miscounted the number of searches I had completed. So, I got to search for three songs rather than the 20 promised. In the app, nothing is pre-filled except the song list. This means the user must search for the lyrics of each song and will quickly need to pay for a membership to use it. One a search is completed and the lyrics saved, each song has the lyrics. But the app has no means or mechanism to help you determine the melody or a chord pattern. I can understand why neither of those are included due to copyright restrictions, but you can find this information on other apps and websites. That makes those sites more useful than this app. I hope the developer will look at the search problem and consider improving it, or offering more free surges to people trying the app. Also, being able to edit the song text files (to add key and chord pattern) would make it more useful. Kudos to the developer for pre-organizing the content by tempo and time signatures. That is a welcome addition. Bonus kudos for serving the bluegrass music lover at all! With some tweaks, this could become my go-to jam app.

Developer Response
Thanks for taking the time to write a review of the app. Sorry if you experienced any problems with it. If you'd like to try out the free searches again, I could send you a promo code. I'd love to hear more of your feedback and exchange some ideas. There's definitely a lot of room for improvement, but I've also got to make sure it's viable for me to keep this app alive (since it costs me $ to keep the search engine going). Send me an email to support [at] bluegrassguru.com
Good start but couldn’t really try it out
11/29/2017

JourneyGirl

I love the idea of this app but I can’t fully endorse it as of this version. I downloaded the free version and tried to search for a few common bluegrass jam songs (using the content preloaded in the app). Each time I search, it miscounted the number of searches I had completed. So, I got to search for three songs rather than the 20 promised. In the app, nothing is pre-filled except the song list. This means the user must search for the lyrics of each song and will quickly need to pay for a membership to use it. One a search is completed and the lyrics saved, each song has the lyrics. But the app has no means or mechanism to help you determine the melody or a chord pattern. I can understand why neither of those are included due to copyright restrictions, but you can find this information on other apps and websites. That makes those sites more useful than this app. I hope the developer will look at the search problem and consider improving it, or offering more free surges to people trying the app. Also, being able to edit the song text files (to add key and chord pattern) would make it more useful. Kudos to the developer for pre-organizing the content by tempo and time signatures. That is a welcome addition. Bonus kudos for serving the bluegrass music lover at all! With some tweaks, this could become my go-to jam app.
Developer Response 08/06/2019
Thanks for taking the time to write a review of the app. Sorry if you experienced any problems with it. If you'd like to try out the free searches again, I could send you a promo code. I'd love to hear more of your feedback and exchange some ideas. There's definitely a lot of room for improvement, but I've also got to make sure it's viable for me to keep this app alive (since it costs me $ to keep the search engine going). Send me an email to support [at] bluegrassguru.com
Cool Jam tunes app
07/25/2016

KrisR21
This is a great app to get. It helps me to learn new songs. You can even put your own songs in this app. It's great to put this app on your phone during a jam session. It has great search engines to find the song your looking for.
Cool Jam tunes app
07/25/2016

KrisR21

This is a great app to get. It helps me to learn new songs. You can even put your own songs in this app. It's great to put this app on your phone during a jam session. It has great search engines to find the song your looking for.

- Improved web song search - Improved workflow for set lists - Added a hint for pinch to zoom text size on song views - Added a "Plain Text Available" hint when viewing a song from the web - Various stability and performance improvements

Version 12.4 Apr 7

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Information

Seller: Bluegrass Guru, LLC
Size: 14.7 MB
Category: Music
Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 16+

16+

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Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References

Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
In-App Purchases: Yes

Yearly Premium Access $14.99

Monthly Premium Access $1.99

1 year Guru Membership $9.99

1 month Guru Membership $1.99

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Unable to get songs to my library

Fantastic

Good start but couldn’t really try it out

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