SessionBand Blues 1 4+
Create studio-quality music
UK Music Apps Ltd
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- £8.99
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Description
Create professional Blues tracks to your own chords in minutes with the award-winning SessionBand app - the world’s only chord-based loop app.
For Blues musicians and songwriters, this unique app is the ultimate tool for jamming and writing, with full and complete Blues tracks just minutes away! It's also simple enough for non-musicians to create their own great-sounding, royalty-free music with.
“Remarkably polished“ Forbes
“Extraordinarily useful“ Jamie Cullum
“Create like a master“ Engadget
With over 16,000 stunning, chord-based Blues loops (included) individually recorded by 4 of the world's very best session musicians, SessionBand Blues instantly converts the chords you select into great sounding audio – wherever you are and whatever your ability.
There are 15 different classic Blues styles included. Every single loop carefully engineered so you can instantly create your own tracks in those styles: from a slow Bonamassa 12/8 and a Muddy Waters shuffle, through various ballads, Texas and Blue Line shuffles all the way to uptempo Delta blues and Bluegrass.
And there's a host of pro features like auto-transpose, automated mixing, one-touch live recording, and Audiobus compatibility - allowing you to seamlessly export our unique content into other top music apps like Garageband. It has never been easier or quicker to create your own studio quality music even if you can't play a note!
If you love Blues – you will love SessionBand Blues! A Top 10 paid music app in 66 countries since launch.
Hear exactly how SessionBand Blues sounds by watching the video at sessionbandapp.com
The fastest way to create studio-quality Blues music...
• Simply pick one of 15 awesome Blues styles
• Choose your chords
• Stretch or shorten loops in seconds
• Build up a full track in minutes
• Instantly hear your track across the other playing 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
• Share with the world!
Get 4 of the world's top session musicians playing on your tracks...
• Drums – Geoff Dugmore (Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Taj Mahal, Newton Faulkner, Richard Ashcroft, Leona Lewis, Jimmy Page, Robbie Williams, Dido, Natalie Imbruglia, Steve Winwood...)
• Guitars – Adam Goldsmith (Brian May, Meat Loaf, Robbie Williams, Elton John, Will Young, Ronan Keating, Beverley Knight, Gloria Estefan...)
• Bass – Geoff Gascoyne (Sting, Georgie Fame, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Gloria Estefan, Jamie Cullum...)
• Keyboards – Tom Cawley (Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Watts, Stacey Kent, Andrea Bocelli, Peter Gabriel...)
Anyone can create and release professional Blues tracks with SessionBand...
• No musical experience required
• Simple, intuitive interface allows easy chord/loop selection and manipulation
• Audition loops as you go
• Build a full track in minutes with all-new 'Track Builder'
• Highly educational and great fun
Create great sounding real Blues music on the move...
• All loops reside within the downloaded app
• No internet access required once the app is downloaded
• Create studio-quality music absolutely anywhere!
Detailed Product Information
• 15 Blues styles in tempo order: Slow 12/8; Slow Shuffle; Slow Blues Rock; Medium Shuffle; Blues Rock Ballad; Slow 6/4; 70s Medium Blues Rock; Texas Shuffle; Funky Blues; Medium 6/4; Blues Line Shuffle; Rock n Roll; Fast Shuffle; Mississippi Blues; Bluegrass
• Tempos from 60bpm to 180bpm
• 10 chord variations for every root note in all 15 styles: 6; 7; 7(b9); 9; 7(#9); maj7; m7(b5); m9; m7; maj 'stop'
• Each of the 15 styles includes 15 alternative drum grooves and drum fills in addition to the 'main' drum pattern for that style
• 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
What’s New
Version 2.9
Fixes crashing experienced with older iOS versions (12-14)
Ratings and Reviews
Utterly impossible to work with
This may be a good idea- certainly, if you’re happy with the hundred or so tracks available at purchase it IS a pretty neat idea. However, it is completely, totally, utterly impossible to create one’s own track. The chord selection method is clunky and very hit-and-miss, and woe betide the user if s/he wishes to resize the chord blocks- it’s two bars or nothing. If that were not enough, the app is very fond of introducing random chord blocks of its own, and even changing the very nature of the two-chord blocks already created with much labour, so the the initial G7 has somehow morphed into an Ebm9 without being touched. I spent an entire hour wrestling with what should have been a very simple 12-bar chug without ever getting to the V chord before giving up. Tbh, I could have done what I had wanted to do with just a guitar in fifteen minutes in Garageband, and had more fun in the process. At least it was only £1.99...
Sound quality ok but otherwise limited.
Contrary to SessionBand’s claim theirs is not the "world’s first chord-based loop app". There is another on the market, Chordbot, which is way more versatile, but let down by poor sound quality and some of the riffs and rhythms in the loops. I find Sessionband to be useful sometimes but uninspiring; for actual experimentation and composing I would use the the original ‘chord-based loop app.
Poor to average.
Band in a box it is definitely not ...
.... because you have to buy a separate app for each musical genre - and even then you don't get a full compliment of chords. Therefore its usefulness and versatility is really quite limited when compared to similar apps.
Surprisingly for a premium app that is claimed to be "pro quality" there is 'bleed' on some guitar tracks meaning that it is impossible to completely mute tracks without audio leakage. Pro quality - don't think so.
On a practical side, creating even a basic 12 bar in G using simple major triads is not quick, easy or straightforward - in fact, it's simply not possible!
I'm beginning to think that the developers of this range of apps are more interested in demonstrating their (undoubted) musical prowess than making practical usable musicians tools.
For what it's worth, I'd advise them to take a good hard look at Chordbot and then review their efforts.
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Information
- Provider
- UK Music Apps Ltd
- Size
- 934.8 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 UK Music Apps Ltd
- Price
- £8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.