ApproachNote vs Woodshed

Every tune has been played a hundred ways. ApproachNote helps you hear them. When you're learning a standard, the first question is always: how have players come at this before? ApproachNote puts every approach in one place — search a tune and pull up the releases that recorded it, with full track listings, artist credits, cover art, and direct links to stream many recordings, where available. Listen to how a dozen players phrased the same melody. Trace who played on what. Follow the thread from one interpretation to the next until you find the approach that's yours. * Search a tune and find every release that recorded it * Full track listings, credits, and cover art * One-tap streaming links to hear each recording, where available * Explore artists and the players behind them * Built for the woodshed — fast, clean, no clutter Before you decide how you'll play it, hear how it's been played. That's ApproachNote. ApproachNote is free for the next 60 days–try it out!

Woodshed is the practice room in your pocket — for the hours you spend learning jazz away from your instrument. Most apps just slow a song down. Woodshed turns any recording into a regimen: carve a phrase into a tight loop, slow it down without changing the pitch, then drill it — sing it, play it, take it apart — until the music is in your ear, not just under your fingers. PRACTICE ANYWHERE On the train, on a walk, doing the dishes — anywhere you've got headphones. Woodshed is built for the woodshedding you do when the horn is still in its case. IMPORT & LOOP IN SECONDS • Bring in any audio file from Files or iCloud. • Drag two handles to carve the exact phrase you want to work on. • Set loop points on the fly while the music plays. • Subdivide a solo into a run of smaller loops in one move. SLOW IT DOWN — IN KEY • Play from 50% to 100% speed with the pitch locked, so nothing sounds flat. • Seamless A–B looping repeats the phrase for as long as you need. • Drag a "repeat from" point to loop just the tail of a lick and come in from anywhere. A PATH, NOT A PILE Every loop moves through one simple practice pipeline: Sing → Play → Deconstruct → Done. Swipe a card forward when you've got it, back when you don't. Learn to hear it before you ever try to play it. LISTEN MODE Queue your solos — or all your loops — back-to-back and let them run. A hands-free session for the commute. Bookmark any moment you want to come back and loop. WATCH THE WORK ADD UP Woodshed counts only the time the audio is actually playing — pause and the clock stops. See practiced vs. listening minutes chart across the week, month, and year. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY • Tag loops ("ii-V-I," "rootless voicings," "bridge") and filter instantly. • Keep every loop grouped under its song. • Back up and restore your whole library as a single file. MADE FOR HEADPHONES • Full lock-screen and background playback. • Skip between loops with an AirPods double- or triple-tap. • Plays even with the ringer on silent. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Free, with no ads and no account. Everything lives on your device — no sign-up, no cloud, just you and the music. Woodshed won't play the phrase for you. It gives you the room to shed it until it's yours.