{"id":438,"date":"2017-01-20T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/?page_id=438"},"modified":"2018-01-28T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T17:31:45","slug":"irealpro-software","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/en\/books-tools\/irealpro-software\/","title":{"rendered":"iRealPro"},"content":{"rendered":"

iRealPro : a toolkit for improvisation learning.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Software industry clealy brought tools that make music learnig easier.<\/p>\n

In the old days, jazzmen who wanted to work scales whith a backing track had to use the well-known Aebersold books + CDs or even audio cassettes. Each book covers one theme and comes with the associated backing track. For example, there is a book on II-V-I showing different ways to work scales on this pattern and providing backing track on CD, in every key.<\/p>\n

That was very useful, but the backing tracks chord grids were sometimes confusing. And, of course, the apprentice had to adapt to the grids, style and tempo chosen by Aebersold.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, numerous apps allow us to work our scales in a very easier way.<\/p>\n

iRealPro app is available on every platform (iPhone, iPad, Android, and also Mac and PC) and allows you to write your own grid and to play it using a (limited) choice of styles.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the embedded forum, you have an easy access to a lot of jazz, pop and rock standards. Bare in mind that you will only have access to chord grids, not to melodies (probably protected by copyright).<\/p>\n

On top of the backing track, iRealPro also displays on your screen the on-going chord and the scales you can use to improvise on it. Generally, it provides several scales (for example X dorian and X bebop minor on a Xm6 chord).<\/p>\n

Of course, you can adjust the tempo and repeat the grid as much as you want. The software also allows you to mix the volume of each of the backing instruments.<\/p>\n

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Styles are just midi file based (far below the RealTracks you can find on Band In A Box), but they still work very well for a homework session.<\/p>\n

Similarly, unlike BiaB, iRealPro doesn’t show a \u00ab\u00a0soloist\u00a0\u00bb feature (improvisation example broadcasted by the system). This function could be interesting in order to work on the basis of an example.<\/p>\n

It is true that iRealPro is really cheaper than Band In A Box.<\/p>\n

In short, iRealPro is a very effective tool to work on scales and improvisations. But if you want to produce backing tracks for you to record your own improvisation and if you want to get a good sound rendering, then you should go for Band In A Box.<\/p>\n

Laurent Vigouroux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iRealPro : a toolkit for improvisation learning. Software industry clealy brought tools that make music learnig easier. In the old days, jazzmen who wanted to work scales whith a backing track had to use the well-known Aebersold books + CDs or even audio cassettes. Each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1307,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/438\/revisions\/1005"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetharmonica.com\/NextGen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}