Name: iReal Pro
Rating: 4.85913 (7255 reviews)

Description

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 • Support for AirTurn™ and other bluetooth page turners • 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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Reviews

Devs: why did you change the keyboard layout?

I am begging you guys, please let us have the old keyboard layout back. Or at least an option to have it. I had mastered a workflow to quickly make charts on the fly. The most frustrating part is having to hit two buttons to get the "repeat last measure" symbol. Still rating high because I love the app. But please guys, why fix what wasn't broken
By Jaksalad

Poor customer service

I wrote to the support team more than a week ago and still no response from them. Apparently support services are an issue here. You would think by sending an email they would get back to you after 7 days. For now I’ll give 3 stars until the matter is resolved.
By CoachRamirez

Trashy tech

You can’t even reset your password. It sends you a link to reset your password that requires your password. Bizarre. No wonder I stopped using it a while back. I thought they might have made it easier to use. Nope….can’t even get started.
By Edingess

Awesome

Literally a must have for any jazz musician and even pop musicians. Everyone at my university uses it.
By butteryboi

Snag it, best decision ever!

iRealpro I love it. From beginner to a pro in a week.The online forums and the YouTube videos really help. I’ll be making a video 2023 as a teaching resource. The programs and the styles work great to get a understanding of how progressions fit with tempo in a particular style. Placement of notes usage of Hutton helps to control the flow and the notation used. Being able to transfer this to a midi capable program is also amazing. Using this as a tool for musical growth the functional piano/guitar/uke setting make it possible to see chords and how to play them as well as see the mode associated with the chord chosen. From the choices out there this is The Best tool For any musician that writes and practices daily. Let’s all look forward to updates, new styles of songs, and possible new music to be written by you! Wish there was a referral system for users to suggest… Wish the program was updated with more styles at relatively i expense costs for packages Wish the program allow user collaboration Wish the ideas that are awesome in the forum actually happen (like adding outro buttons/ highlight beat count inside repeat measure…. By far best program out there!!
By greedywankers

Changes

A great tool for learning changes.!
By NiteSeer

IReal Pro

One of the greatest “tools” for gigging and getting vocals and tunes lined up for gigs and performances… great practice tool too … just super just wish I could find a copy for my old iPad replacement… someone stole my old iPad and when I bought a refurbished older one APPLE wouldn’t let me get a copy for it so I’m using my iPhone… but they should make older versions of the apps available 😳
By Jazzman1945

Pretty good

The app is fine but may bug out on you. Often it insists that I have the bars arranged incorrectly even when I have them in the proper format, which is irritating when I’m trying to get a certain harmonic rhythm. Aside from this the language the app uses for displaying chords is not very user friendly. I try to understand what info they provide but I’m still yet to understand how I would go about getting certain voicings like augmented 6th and chords without the 5th. But the app is good for getting rough ideas, practicing, and familiarizing yourself with different and common styles of music.
By Cybot2966