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• paulmcevoy75 Portland, MaineNew

  2:44PM Posts: 721

  Are you talking IBM or Android? I think you mean Android.

  There are a few apps that I like that are only on iPhone (itabla pro, which is definitely not necessary for Gypsy Jazz but is a cool practice tool) but most everything you need is available for Android.

  Mostly I use Irealpro and TE Tuner. And Open Camera sometimes.

  
• Lango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator

  4:07PM Posts: 1,892

  Could you tell me more about iReal Pro, Paul?

  Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
  
  Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
  
  Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
  
• voutoreenie New

  4:43PM edited 4:44PM Posts: 363

  itabla pro, which is definitely not necessary for Gypsy Jazz but is a cool practice tool

  Totally tangential but man, Paul's right - this is such a great app if you're into Indian music, I used to run it through a bunch of effects and samplers during free improv recording projects, very easy to sync up bpm when working on electronic music or playing with electronic musicians as well...and you can also select any key/scale/mode for the drone strings?? Plus all the beat choices, sympathetic percussion options and endless time signatures??? Ugh, don't get me started...let's just say I got my money's worth lmao
• voutoreenie New

  4:46PM Posts: 363

  Back to the topic at hand, iReal Pro is great and I used to use it when I still had a working tablet. I think every pro I know uses it in some fashion tbh.
• billyshakes NoVA✭✭✭ Park Avance - Dupont Nomade - Dupont DM-50E

  6:18PM Posts: 1,771

  When I went to DiJ in 2015, everyone said, "get irealPro." It was a one-time purchase for ~$10-15 I think. Best money I ever spent. We use it to send setlists back and forth for gigs. Any bass player that plays with us will just read off the ireal charts on their tablet. Its also cool for practice as it can "play" through the chords with various digital instruments. You can change tempo, key, etc.

  Pretty cool. If you have your iPad, just go on the App Store and look at irealpro, it 'll show you the features, layout, etc. There are a lot of charts out there that have been created for GJ (like the Django Fakebook) and just straight jazz. Most every standard you would want to play has probably 1 (or more) charts already made. You can edit them as you please with your own chord substitutions, reharmonizations, etc.

  
• Lango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator

  7:38PM Posts: 1,892

  Thanks everyone.

  One more question…

  Would iReal Pro allow me to import all the PDF charts I’ve made along with all their matching MP3 backing tracks?

  Thanks.

  Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
  
  Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
  
  Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
  
• billyshakes NoVA✭✭✭ Park Avance - Dupont Nomade - Dupont DM-50E

  7:53PM Posts: 1,771

  I've never imported anything so I'm not sure that would work. They are lead sheets as much as chord grilles. The backing tracks aren't really separate, they just read the chord symbols and play the music that way. Does that make sense? So if you wanted to change G to G6 or Gmaj7, the "piano player" might add those extensions to spell out the chord.

  If you have a bunch of pdfs, I would think the native Preview app in the Apple universe would work for that. Our concertina player has the ireal up on his phone but then has a lead sheet pdf that he puts up on a tablet.