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BLUES Playalongs in A app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 6544 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: artist ahead GmbH
Free
Current version: 2.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 13 Sep 2014
App size: 93.61 Mb

9 Blues Playalongs in A
The best way of learning how to play the blues

This Blues app for iPad (available in the keys G, E, C and A) offers you an exciting and practical way of learning how to play the blues. Play it solo or together with your teacher/partner. The titles are suitable for any solo instrument. Whether you play guitar, saxophone, trumpet or harmonica, you will have maximum playing enjoyment jamming to these tracks!

Improve yourself easily at:

▪ Groove skills
▪ Blues feeling
▪ Timing
▪ Improvisation in A on different themes

No Midi junk! A real band is playing for you. In the free version you get the first song “Backwoods Blues” (Fast Bluegrass-Style), if you like it, please feel free to charge for the remaining eight songs.

▪ Backwoods Blues - Fast Bluegrass-Style
▪ Been to Detroit - Detroit Boogie-Style
▪ Funky Mardi Gras - Funky Medium Blues-Style
▪ Gimme a Break - Rumba-Style
▪ Loose & Lazy - Jazz Laid Back Shuffle-Style
▪ Rockabilly Shake - Rockabilly-Style
▪ Steves Shuffle - Medium Shuffle-Style
▪ Straight Harp Shuffle - Heavy Medium Shuffle-Style
▪ The Third Kind - Shuffle-Style

On 23 pages Blues Playalongs consists of:

▪ 9 playalong songs
▪ Leadsheet version for improvisation

This app combines, for the first time, functionality, arrangement and handling of all required features. Different media and hardware are no longer necessary. Optimized design for iPad in HD, with many useful additional features. After downloading, all features are available. Internet access is not required, except for social media-channels or wikipedia.

LIST OF FEATURES

▪ optimized, auto-scrolling sheet music
▪ visual notes and beat guidance by cursor
▪ integrated tuner - easy to operate

▪ playalong mode with real band
▪ play-alone practice mode

▪ acoustic metronome in three different sounds
▪ optical metronome
▪ combined acoustic and optical metronome
▪ selectable tempo between 20 and 240 bpm
▪ 6 live-played drum tracks in different tempi
▪ adjustable beginning of the practice tracks with open and direct choice of pace
▪ turn-off mode for count-in

▪ easy to handle TOC
▪ scroll-bar for quick browsing
▪ book mark option
▪ wikipedia links for additional information

▪ direct access to the artist ahead apps facebook profile and youtube channel
▪ direct access to your facebook / twitter account
▪ direct access to your email client
▪ direct access to your dropbox – share video- and sound-files with your teacher

Connect your iPad to your stereo or amp and off you go! Connecting to bigger monitors, projectors or whiteboard, for teaching purposes, is of course possible. Appropriate adapters are available in specialist shops.