JamJar Music vs The Modality

JamJar keeps your whole song collection in one place — sheet music, chords, and lyrics — organized, searchable, and synced across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your own iCloud. As a hobby musician, my music was scattered everywhere: PDF books, tunes from public-domain archives, photos of pages off my shelf and several music apps. Finding a song again was harder than playing it, so I built JamJar to be one shelf for all of it. BRING YOUR OWN MUSIC • Import single songs or whole books as PDFs and images • Scan paper books with the camera on iPhone or iPad • Search online tune collections and import • Open files from the apps you already use: ChordPro, ABC, OnSong, OpenSong, iReal Pro, and MusicXML LESS TYPING, MORE PLAYING • Scan or import a page and JamJar reads the title, composer, and key off it, then files the song for you • Split a scanned book into separate songs automatically • Ask about any song in plain language — what key is this in, how does the form repeat — and get a straight answer • Ask for changes in the same conversation: transpose it, tidy the chords • Powered by Apple Intelligence PLAY TOGETHER • Build set lists for a gig, a rehearsal, or a lesson • Share a set list with your bandmates so everyone's on the same running order • Reorder on the fly when the night goes sideways CREATE AND EDIT • Write and edit songs in ChordPro or ABC notation • Beautifully rendered chord sheets and notation • Transpose to any key • Draw and highlight directly on your sheet music STAY ORGANIZED • Tag, search, and filter your library • Automate with Siri and Shortcuts • Private sync through your own iCloud — no account, no sign-up PRACTICE WITH BACKING BAND • Hear any chart played with the right groove for the tune • Mix each band part with its own fader — pull one out and play it yourself JamJar speaks English and Swedish, with more languages on the way. Whether you're rehearsing, teaching, or on stage, JamJar keeps every song ready to play.

You've heard music from across the world and felt something move in you — without knowing why. The Modality is how you find out. Most apps teach music theory as rules to memorize. The Modality teaches it as something to hear — because every musical tradition is really a different way to turn sound into feeling. We start with two of the most beautiful, and we're adding more. TURKISH MAKAM 29 makams, from Rast to Ferahfeza — each drawn degree by degree, with its microtonal commas marked, its seyir, its mood, the hour it belongs to, and the ney to play it. MODAL JAZZ 14 modes across two scales: the seven modes of the major scale, and the seven of melodic minor — the language of tension and release, from Lydian dominant to the altered sound. WHERE THEY MEET The Crossroads is where the two traditions touch. Hicaz and the Phrygian dominant share one ancient interval — hear them side by side, ney against Rhodes piano. Saba and Locrian reach the same depth of feeling by the same turn. Two musical worlds, one tap apart. THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE MUSIC 64 composers and performers, from Itri and Dede Efendi to Miles Davis and Bill Evans — with portraits, lives, and every place in the app you can hear them. Tap any name on any recording and meet the person. HEAR IT EVERYWHERE - Iconic recordings and taksim improvisations for every major makam - Canonical tunes for every mode — So What, Maiden Voyage, Spain - Songs you already know, mapped to the makam they live in — classical, arabesk, Anatolian rock - Play any scale on the ney or Rhodes, from any root LEARN IT PROPERLY - A guided lesson path in each tradition, from "What is a makam?" up - Quizzes that unlock level by level - A glossary of both traditions' vocabulary — taksim, seyir, voicing, vamp - Usul rhythm patterns with audio For curious listeners, for Western musicians meeting microtones for the first time, and for Turkish speakers rediscovering their own tradition. Two ways of hearing, each one whole. More on the way.