SessionBand Jazz 2 vs iPracticePro

Create studio-quality Jazz tracks to your own chords in minutes with Volume 2 of the award-winning SessionBand Jazz app - the world’s only chord-based loop app. It's the ultimate Jazz play-along and the perfect tool for Jazz songwriters – wherever you are and whatever your level of ability. “A supremely versatile music app... the future of jazz play-alongs“ Jazzwise “Remarkably polished“ Forbes “Extraordinarily useful“ Jamie Cullum With another 16,000 precision-cut, chord-based loops (included in the download) performed and produced for SessionBand by 5 of the world's leading Jazz musicians, SessionBand Jazz Volume 2 instantly converts the chords you select into great-sounding Jazz audio - wherever you are and whatever your ability. Volume 2 includes 15 totally new and diverse Jazz styles (compared to Volumes 1 & 3), from Boogaloo, ECM, New Orleans and Cool Swing through uptempo 5/4, 7/4, Jazz Funk and many more. And with a host of pro features like automated mixing, auto-transpose, one-touch live recording, real-time tempo shift plus Audiobus compatibility, it has never been easier or quicker to create your own studio quality Jazz - even if you can't play a note! SessionBand Jazz – Volume 2 is a professional Jazz app - essential for anyone studying music and perfect for the Jazz musician looking for the ultimate jam session – but equally, it's simple enough for non-musicians who love Jazz to create their own great-sounding, copyright-free music. SessionBand Jazz Volume 2 has reached Top 10 in the paid music app charts in no fewer than 64 countries since launch including USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France, Spain and Canada. Watch the video at sessionbandapp.com The fastest way to create real studio-quality Jazz... • Simply pick one of 15 Jazz styles • Choose your chords • Stretch or shorten loops in seconds • Build up your track in minutes • Instantly hear your track across different Jazz styles and tempos • Auto-transpose your entire track (not electronic pitch shift!) • Mix your track (manual or automated) • Adjust track tempo (+/- 15%) • Record direct to audio • Copy straight to other music apps (if you want to) • Share with the world! Get 5 of the world's top Jazz musicians playing on your tracks... Drums – Ralph Salmins (Wynton Marsalis, Burt Bacharach, Elton John, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Quincy Jones, Michael Bublé...) Saxes – Andy Panayi (Peter Erskine, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney...) Basses - Geoff Gascoyne (Georgie Fame, Michel Legrand, Sting, Van Morrison, Benny Golson, Jamie Cullum...) Pianos – Tom Cawley (Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Watts, Jane Monheit, Stacey Kent, Yaron Herman, Guy Barker, Peter Gabriel...) Trumpet/Flugel – Martin Shaw (John Dankworth, Michel Legrand, Tim Garland, Sting, Jamiroquai...) The ultimate mobile practice tool... • Practice with your very own world-class Jazz quartet • Loop markers let you focus on specific sections • Mute / solo instrument channels (manual and automated) • Transpose your whole track instantly You don't have to be a musician to make great-sounding Jazz tracks and release them royalty-free... • Simple, intuitive interface • Audition loops as you go • 'Track Builder' makes building a full track quick and easy • Intuitive mixing and record functions • Hugely educational Detailed Product Information • 15 more popular Jazz styles in tempo order: Slow Latin; Slow Funk; Poinciana; New Orleans; Pop Rock; ECM; Cool Swing; Jazz Funk; 6/4; Motown; Reggae; Swing; Boogaloo; 5/4; 7/4 • Tempos from 80bpm to 220bpm • 10 chord variations for every root note in all 15 styles: maj7(9); maj7(#11); 7(13); 7(b9); 7(#5,#9); 7sus(13); m7(9); m7(b5); m(maj7); dim • The exclusive musical content in this app is not duplicated in any of the other SessionBand apps • All loops are offered royalty-free and can be used freely in your own works

•Drones• The first part of the app allows you to play all chromatic notes in tunings from 432Hz to 444Hz in many different sounds. The notes sound continuously and it´s a perfect way to practice intervals, chords and scales. You also have the possibility to play the notes randomly in an adjustable period of time. The app supports quarter tones if you´ve chosen expert mode. Sounds: organ, piano, electric piano, strings, guitar, double bass, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, flute and sine •Chords• The chord section contains 5 chords in standard mode more than 45 chords in expert mode. The metronome allows you to practice in tempos from 30bpm up to 300bpm. It can be set to different time signatures like 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, 13/4. You can also select or deselect the downbeats and offbeats separately. You can listen and play to all chords in all twelve keys, see which notes are the chord notes and scale notes and read information about the chord and the corresponding scale. In addition to that, all chords can also be played randomly. You can choose to just randomly change the root or the root and the chord type. The app lets you filter the chords, which allows you to only randomly play the chords of for example the modes of melodic minor or harmonic minor. 45+ Chords: ▵7, 7, -7, ø7, o7, 5 69, ▵7#11, ▵7#5, ▵7#5(11), ▵7#9, ▵7#9b13 7sus4, 7susb9, 7#11, 7#5, 7b913, 7b9b13, 7b13, 7alt -6, -▵7, -▵7b13, -7b13, -7b9, -7#11, -∆7#11, phryg, ø713, o7b2b11 major, major/3, major/5, major/b9, major/9, major/b3, major/11, major/#11, major/b13, major/13, major/7, major/▵7 minor, minor/b3, minor/5 augmented, diminished Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Progressions• In this section you can practice more than 50 chord progressions in all twelve keys. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. The volume of the root note, third and septime or rather the tensions is adjustable. If you press one of the two random buttons, the app picks a random root or a random progression and root. 50+ progressions: II-7 V7 I▵7, II-7 V7alt I▵7, II-7 bII7#11 I▵7, II-7 V7b913 I▵7, II-7 V7b9b13 I▵7, II-7 V7susb9 I▵7 IIø7 V7 I-, Coltrane Changes and so on…see full list on my website. Sounds: electric piano, piano, organ and strings •Pad• Using the pad you can put together your own intervals and chords. You have four octaves and five sounds to choose from, with which you can select up to five tones. The tones can sound both simultaneously and one after the other. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section. You can choose out of these sounds: electric piano, piano, organ, strings and sine •Fingerings for saxophone and reed adjustment for saxophone and clarinet• There are fingering charts about standard fingerings, false fingerings, altissimo and quarter tones and information about reed adjustment of sides, table, tip, shoulder and heart. If you don´t play the saxophone, you can hide this part of the app. •Features• * Stealth Mode (Ear Training Mode). You can use stealth mode in drones, chords and progressions. This will hide the currently played chords and display them afterwards. * A practice timer that informs you when your set practice time has expired. * Landscape mode. * Light- and dark appearance (Night Shift). * You can set if you play a C, Bb, oder Eb Instrument. * Are you an advanced player? The expert mode offers you additional information which could be confusing to unexperienced musicians. If you have no idea what C▵7#5 means or if you have never heard of quarter tones you probably should choose the standard mode. * All sounds can be played from 432Hz to 444Hz.