For me, especially when I’m playing live, if I’m not quite “feeling it” when it comes time to do a lead break, I will almost invariably revert to a 1st position pentatonic in the key that I’m playing. Also, the more experienced and adventurous can use this as a way to explore variations and joining and linking other types of scales. More experienced players may poo-poo this app, but I actually found it to be a very cool way to review the different positions. Pick a key you want to play in and the five pentatonic scale patterns and their respective positions on the fretboard appear on the screen. You get five jam track styles: Acoustic Blues, Humbucker Blues, Jazz, Reggae and Rock in both major and minor styles, so 10 tracks in all.
I was not disappointed in the least.Īt first blush, I found myself saying to myself, “Is this all there is? Just the pentatonic scale in the major keys?” But then I realized that that’s the power of this application. I’m usually pretty leery of being contacted out of the blue, but in this case, I figured it was just an app, and I was willing to check it out. So along comes Ninebuzz wanting to promote their new app, Guitar Jam Tracks. With its integrated web browser, you can search songs on the internet, and you can import them into the app!!! That’s the feature that sold me on the app! It’s so convenient! And inputting music? No problem. But then recently, I discovered LINKSoft SongBook, a wonderful app that has allowed me to put my binder away, and use my iPad to display charts. Such was the case when I was looking for an app that would help me replace my song binder which over the years, had grown to about three inches thick.
That’s to be expected, but it takes a lot of time wading through user reviews to make a decision if you’re looking for a particular type of application and there are several that do the same thing. As a result, there are lots of crappy apps in the app store. Though all apps loaded to the app store are vetted by Apple, they’re only vetted for general functionality, and not on the quality of the user experience or making sure the app doesn’t do anything illegal. The bad thing about the iPad or the iPhone is that there are lots of apps. The great thing about the iPad or iPhone is that there are lots of apps.
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