Jamn Player: App Reviews

If you play piano, guitar, or ukulele (yeah, ukulele), this app should be immediately downloaded and put under UTILITIES. Absolutely amazing app. Easy to use (even for beginners!) my friend has never touched a piano before and all the sudden is playing like a pro. Well done. *slow clapping it out*

Might be useful if it showed the right chords, let alone voicings and inversions

It only analysis 1-2 chords of the actual song.The chords to the "song" are not even close to the song.This app has serious issues with picking up the right Chords to a song.down right awful.until this app fixes its issues stay away from this

I like what this app is going for but quite honestly it doesnt seem to work at all. It runs and everything but when I select a song to see the chords theyre just simply not right at all. If this gets fixed Id love to use this app, but until then theres no purpose in having it. Please fix!

I think this app is amazing. I really didnt expect it to actually analyze songs regardless of genre. A great way to get chord progressions for songs that are not available on tab sites that generally stock to mainstream rock. Ill happily support this app monetarily and its developers future endeavors.

This app would be great if you added a transpose feature

Simply and beatiful app, and the utility its awesome

My rating is just by my opinion. One * for idea Second for desing and the last one just for music category But because its so slow and doesnt include all music and all geners

The only songs I have downloaded on my phone are from Spotify Premium, so I cant find the songs in my library even though it is downloaded onto my phone so I can use it offline. Would be cool if there was a way to connect with that.

I like to toy around on the piano. This app plays a song you have saved in your library and then converts it to sheet music and fingerings (it also does this for guitar chords). The conversion isnt usually perfect but it helps me find the basic sound. Ive found the simpler the song (less overlays) the better the conversion. I usually like to learn pop style songs with simple piano riffs anyway and this app does well with that type of music. You can also slow the music so its easier to learn. Its a free app so you have nothing to lose by trying it.

This is an amazing app it does an excellent job of transcribing songs in a matter of seconds and its free! Im very impressed by this app. The downside is that it doesnt show what position the chord is played in but any decent guitar player can figure that out by ear. Its an amazing app for getting the feel of a song for covers and is great for adding your person twist to songs because the information provided isnt the entire song its the harmonic framework. Well done guys.

Im giving four stars to this app to underscore that the underlying technology is doing more than you think it is. There are negative reviews in that the app is not perfectly identifying all chords and cant handle jazz chords. Well, Ill play you single tone for the key ("do"), play the audio for you, and ask you to aurally identify and write down the chords of that jazz piece. This is traditional ear training and it isnt easy not even for the trained musician. And jazz is exponentially more difficult. I cant do it. If you play along with a current song on iTunes and follow the supplied guitar chords, they will not always match the actual song. Sometimes they may be off a lot. It depends on the recording, the complexity of the music and who knows what else. However, consider this a starting point--a learning device to get your musical ear and guitar playing to a higher level. I dont play guitar. I am using Jamn to see the chords easily. I can easily transcribe my pieces by listening and writing them down but why not give it a headstart. As for the technology that may be used in Jamn? Not long ago, MIDI transcription could barely identify a single solo melody line and transcribe it into readable music notation. It still cant do that well. Play an AUDIO file that is a COMPLEX ARRANGEMENT and analyze and transcribe the audio into chords? I give credit to this app that it does as well as it does -- and sometimes comes close. At the minimum, it is at least a start to figuring out the chords. To test this app, I played several songs that I wrote and recorded (home only) 20 and 30 years ago. Singing, drums, horn lines, lots of filler. Jamn Player did a nice job. Not perfect but a good start--ok, they werent complicated jazz pieces. However, I never wrote these pieces down. I improvised into my MIDI software and just layered tracks. I never wrote the chord progressions down and layered tracks by ear as I played. There were mistakes. Sometimes I couldnt remember what I played and what was coming next. The chords often had leading tone activity and were playing rhythms -- and Jamn often correctly identified the basic progression. For the future, it would be nice to save a Jamn file as a MIDI or text file where I could then copy the chords if I wanted to transcribe or rerecord the pieces. It would be nice if it also did this for iTunes songs--but the copyrights are probably the legal reason for not doing this. So, play, get your musical ears going, and use Jamn Player for getting those basic progressions down.

App was great until the last update, now its pretty much unusable. I dont know why you guys decided to mess with something that worked perfectly to begin with, but I wish you didnt

By far the best way over found to learn how to play the guitar and discover new music.

Im starting back to guitar after years of not playing. This app has allowed me to jam along with a cavalcade of favorites from my iTunes collection. Right away I found it intuitive and incredibly easy. You just cant go wrong for the price! If you are transitioning from early beginner to intermediate, this app is for you.

Its pretty good. Its a little quirky, but over all, its mostly right. I guess sometimes it shows the chords as the inversion of another or a chord based in the root of what the bass is playing, but usually, if its a repeating progression, itll show the correct chord down the line. Just make a mental note of it. I guess you can correct it with the editor, Ive never done that as usually Im only needing one chord that I was struggling with. I digress. Its a good a app. Nice UI. Aesthetically pleasing. FREE. Alright.

This app does a fairly decent job of finding the right chords, however you will need to rely on your own ear as well. My main issue is that it crashes every single time I open it. It will last about 30 minutes each time, at most, before crashing or freezing on me. Great tool for a beginner, but it needs some work.

I love this app so much! It helps me learn piano and guitar. But, as the title says, was this update necessary? The last version was fine. The only thing that I hate with this version is when it starts by itself. It use to allow you to pick your instrument and then start the song, but now it starts the song right away and you will miss a few notes since you have to select your instrument (in my case piano). Please remove that feature.

This app is so cool I try to find tabs for my music and this is a real help Ill use this app for years

Great for charting songs I want to play from my library and practice some on bass. I just wish it would play along with the songs in realtime but nonetheless impressive apps so far! Dont stop where you are. Its amazing what youve done so far!