MIDITrainer vs Jazz Catalog

Train your ear with real melodies from jazz standards and pop classics. MIDI Trainer plays a short melody, then challenges you to play it back on your MIDI keyboard. Unlike other ear training apps that use random notes, MIDI Trainer uses real musical phrases from professional transcriptions, helping you develop practical musicianship. KEY FEATURES: - Real Melodies: Practice with phrases extracted from the Weimar Jazz Database (jazz solos) and McGill Billboard Dataset (pop hits) - MIDI Integration: Connect any MIDI keyboard via USB or Bluetooth - Adaptive Practice: The app focuses on intervals and patterns you find challenging - Multiple Scales: Practice in major, minor, and modal scales - Detailed Statistics: Track your progress and identify weak spots HOW IT WORKS: 1. Connect your MIDI keyboard 2. Choose your scale and difficulty settings 3. Listen to the melody 4. Play it back - the app waits for you to match each note 5. Review your accuracy and learn from mistakes Perfect for musicians, music students, and anyone wanting to improve their ear and sight-reading skills.

The jazz canon, organized. JazzCatalog is a chart reader built for working musicians. Browse thousands of standards across every canonical fake book, drop in your own charts, build setlists for the night, and practice with a built-in metronome, MIDI chord recognition, annotations, and YouTube playback — all on your iPad or iPhone. WHAT'S INSIDE • 3,500+ standards. Search the entire jazz canon by title or book. Filter to playable tunes or your bookmarked favorites. • Add your own charts. Drop in any single-song PDF and it joins the catalog right alongside the standards. Or override a tune's book version with your own arrangement — the app will use your PDF for that song while keeping the book for everything else. • Setlists. Build the night in your own order. Tap Next on the bandstand and you move to the next tune in the list, not the next page in the book. • Practice metronome. Visual click with time signatures and accents. Per-song BPM is saved automatically the moment you change it. • MIDI chord display. Plug in a keyboard and the chord you're holding shows on screen — inversions, slashes, and extensions resolved correctly. • Annotations. Mark up charts with pen, marker, or pencil. Use a finger or Apple Pencil. Annotations stay locked to each tune across launches. • YouTube reference tracks. Listen to a canonical recording of any tune while reading the chart. The player floats — drag it anywhere that doesn't cover the staff. • Your library, your way. Import legally-acquired PDFs of full fake books, or drop in single-song charts. Everything stays on your device — no cloud, no account, no subscription. BUILT FOR THE BANDSTAND JazzCatalog isn't a beginner app or a notation editor. It's a tool for the working musician who already plays the music and needs the chart, the chord reference, the click, and the recording all in one place. PRIVACY Your library, bookmarks, custom charts, and setlists stay on your device. There's no account to create. There's nothing to sync.