Strum Machine - Backing Tracks 4+
For bluegrass, fiddling, etc.
Luke Abbott LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Elevate your music practice with customizable backing tracks generated with audio from real instruments (guitar, mandolin, and standup bass).
Strum Machine can play any chord progression, in any key, at any speed. It's the only backing-track app built specifically for players of bluegrass, old-time, fiddle tunes, and other such genres. (Although it works pretty good for some jazz/swing now, too!)
Why musicians of all levels love Strum Machine:
• Realistic Sound: Backing tracks are assembled in real time from studio-quality instrument recordings.
• Quick Adjustments: Instantly adjust the speed/tempo, change the key, loop part of a song, etc.
• Auto-Speedup: Gradually increase the BPM at the end of every repetition for training purposes.
• Chord Reference: Clean, beautiful chord charts, which can be displayed in letters or numbers (i.e. "1-4-5").
• Extensive Library: Over 1,400 songs (mostly from bluegrass and old-time) ready to go, with thousands more posted on the community forum.
• Simple Song Editor: Add your own songs (or edit existing ones) in minutes. Almost every chord you can play on a guitar is available for use.
• Customize the Band: Choose from a variety of built-in band styles, then optionally customize each instrument individually – adjust the strumming pattern, add automatic bass runs, and more.
• Organize & Share: Create song lists for practicing or even performing, and share them with your friends or on the community forum.
• Cross-Platform: Sync your custom songs, lists, and preferences with any device you use Strum Machine on: phone, tablet, or computer. (It works offline, too!)
• Responsive Support: If you run into any problems or have questions, write us an email or post a message on the forum and someone will get back to you within a few days!
Strum Machine is under active development and we're always working on ways to make the app even more useful to our users... while keeping it uncluttered and intuitive first and foremost.
Discover how Strum Machine can improve your music practice today, for free!
Download Strum Machine and play a handful of demo songs instantly, without signing up. For the full experience, including access to all built-in songs and the ability to create your own, start a free trial.
Terms of Use: https://strummachine.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://strummachine.com/privacy
Audio powered by the FMOD Engine, © Firelight Technologies Pty Ltd.
What’s New
Version 1.408.0
Band Settings 3.0 update! Expanded preset library, improvements to the interface, new abilities for the mandolin (chop dryness and rhythm accents) and standup bass (four-notes-per-bar walking bass lines), plus bug fixes and improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Great program and getting better !
This is a must for rehearsal or jamming, real acoustic instruments with a variety of alternative styles and time signatures.
I am even making my own tracks in minutes with intro and ending or sets of 3 or 4 jigs or reels. My plan is to save the downloaded tunes into audacity and convert to wav to end up in my boss RC3
For a nights worth of material. The quality is sharp and clear and distinct, in fact a better balanced sound than any 3 piece would achieve.
It’s me and my guitar and a fiddle player playing live,
plus the accompaniment of 3 or more instruments from strum machine.
This is perfect when you need to keep personell costs to a minimum and venues a only have set budgets, so better save on the bass, guitar and mandolin, they’re here.
There is a massive included database and as I said, you can alter every aspect of those tracks and add your own.
Luke, the developer is very helpful and he will reply quickly to sort out any problems. He is also constantly adding new features and more flexibility to the program too and emails updates regularly.
I have the program on tho other devices on different platforms with no conflict or problems and your material is always saved.
Long time user
I have been using this app for over 3 years and up till then I was using different backing tracks of varying degrees of quality. I still use Steve Kaufmans workout tracks but mostly it is strum machine.
The flexibility of this app is amazing, the control over tempo and volume control for all the instruments is perfect.
Luke seems to have a keen eye as to what the average player wants or needs. The ability to record your backing tracks for off line practice is great, the different rhythms have allowed me to add jigs and reels and even the odd polka to my practice routine. If I was asked what has helped me the most in my playing it would be strum machine, it really is one of the most useful apps on here.
Great idea well implemented
What a brilliant app! I have been hoping for something like this to come asking for a while now, and I’m very impressed with how easy this is to use. It is well suited to folk music, with a system for creating backings that is clearly built by someone who understands how traditional fiddle tunes are structured. For future updates I’d love to see more time signatures- for example 3/2 timing for old English and Scottish music, more instruments including more drone type sounds, ability to share backings.
App Privacy
The developer, Luke Abbott LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
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- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
- Luke Abbott, LLC
- Size
- 51.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.4 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Luke Abbott LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Subscription £4.99