Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
Something else I use on my tablet (mine's Android) is iRealPro, which is now also available for iPad.

It works a bit like a very basicl BIAB, in that you type chords into a chord-sheet, together with a key and a tempo, select a style and it plays an accompaniment. It does a surprisingly good job, IHMO, for an app on a tablet. Using it and knowing friends also used BIAB, was why I tried BIAB, which definitely does do a better job and allows melody (iRealPro has no melody capability). There are times with BIAB, that I'm temped to go back to iRealPro, just for the ease of use. I rarely have to fight it to get something useful, it just works. I've even built lead-sheets like this during a jam session ... someone reads out the chords and I enter them, then find a style later to practice.


Ireal pro is an important tool in 2 or 3 jazz jams I attend. If someone calls a chart and someone doesn’t know it, we all refer to ireal. If we get into an argument about the changes ireal is the final arbiter.

At home I often use it for shedding.
On my iPad of course

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