![]() ![]() No melody lines or lyrics are included, which I suspect is how the app’s developers get around any copyright issues-after all, if you could copyright chord progressions, the Blues bin at the local record store would hold exactly one album. Click one of these links and the charts are automatically added to iReal Pro and gathered in a playlist. For example, choose the Jazz forum, and you’ll find links to a load of jazz standards. And you should, because it’s within those forums that you’ll find links to the tunes you really want to play. However, when you first install the app, you’re cleverly asked if you’d like to visit the iReal Pro forums. This isn’t much to start with, and it certainly doesn’t reflect the content of the real Real Book. Pick a tune on the left, and you can read the chart for that track on the right.īy default, you’re supplied with 50 exercise charts. When you press the Play button you hear clicks (the count-off) that indicates the song’s tempo the highlight moves through the chart as the song plays, so you know which chords to accompany. By default, the currently playing measure is highlighted in yellow (though you can change the highlight color as well as the color of the background “paper”). And on the far right are the chords and arrangement for the selected song. Just to the right of that is a list of songs in the selected library or playlist. Along the left side of the window is a Library pane where you choose from among libraries and playlists of tunes. I wish Jeff Bezos would spend a day filling orders at one of his Amazon warehouses and see if he likes it.The interface is straightforward. Isn't that Captitalism in a microcosm? Workers get paid small amounts to do work that benefits the owners of the company. They all seem to think we practice our craft so they can make money from it, not us. Toss in ASCAP and BMI and you have a free-for-all claiming payments.which mostly only gets to the original composer, and sometimes arranger, in pitiful amounts. The music business and copyrights are a really messed area. Distribution electronically or on paper of transcriptions is another gray area. Sound tracks on recordings can be copyrighted, but there is no copyright that prevents transcription. The publishing company of the original tune will have granted rights to the paper publisher to use the tune, and distribute arrangements. Check with Harry Fox Agency or US Copyright laws, You'll see.Īlso arrangements can only be copyrighted for resale, paper or electric. That said, I am a little surprised they haven't added the ability to copy a pdf and associate it with a track.įYI: you can't copyright cord changes. somewhere) the Hal Leonard books on something like the Kindle store and have one screen up or swap screens if you want the melody. A tablet version would be nice but on both Android and iOS, you can have background apps or side-by-side applications depending on your screen size. I don't know how useful it would even be to have it on a phone screen anyway. The reason that the application doesn't have melodies is that it is purely a chord chart application exclusively. ![]() ![]() Adobe would be out of business immediately! Or even more pertinent, if you had to charge copyright if your application could view copywritten materials. That application likewise includes nothing 'out of the box' (if you'll excuse the pun), but there are ample community generated files that have melodies and chord changes to most of the realbooks. Band-in-a-box has a similar product but it includes the ability to perform melodies. The reason for that is the publication companies sent a cease and desist because they had titles of their songs built into the app.Now, the changes themselves have to be downloaded from a community maintained list as pointed out by others here. It isn't a copyright issue as the application itself doesn't provide even chord changes (as it did when it first started a long, long time ago) for anything other than the blues and a few sample exercises. ![]()
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