Wheelhouse Beats vs Genius Jamtracks Usage & Stats

Virtuoso guitarist Charlie Hunter has assembled a world-class set of drummers for you: • JT Bates (Bonny Light Horseman, Anaïs Mitchell, Big Red Machine, Taylor Swift) • Jeremy “Bean” Clemons (Burning Spear, Harry Connick Jr., Mavis Swan Poole) • Corey Fonville (Butcher Brown, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Elling) • Chris Gelb (Megg Farrell, Vince Giordano, Café Society) • Brevan Hampden (Phil Cook, Charlie Hunter, Ani DiFranco, Al Strong, Hiss Golden Messenger) • Terence Higgins (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Widespread Panic, John Scofield, Allen Toussaint, Ani DiFranco) • Derrek Phillips (Brett Eldredge, LeAnn Rimes, Hank Williams Jr., Charlie Hunter, Mike Farris, Gloria Gaynor) • Bobby Previte (Guggenheim Fellow, Greenfield Prize in Music, NEA Fellow, Creator/Director of The Improvisation Workshop) • Carter McLean (Roy Ayers, Bernie Worrell, Fred Wesley, Victor Wooten, Jamie McLean, Lion King on Broadway) • George Sluppick (Albert King, Charlie Hunter, JJ Grey & Mofro, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Morgan James, Sha Na Na) Each drummer recorded a special set of beats for Wheelhouse, and played those beats all the way from stone-cold slow to smoking fast. Wheelhouse stitches these together so you can play any tempo in between. As well as this huge range of tempos, most beats have an options of 1, 2, 4, or 8 measure phrases or loops. We've worked hard to make each one of these make musical sense. Like a metronome, Wheelhouse is a great tool for playing time, but even more, it‘s for helping develop your feel. For any kind of instrumentalist — playing with Wheelhouse will help you become a better musician, better listener, and better collaborator. For drummers — take a deep dive into how these pro‘s use subtle sounds and dynamics to elevate a groove. And some of our biggest fans are songwriters, who use it to work out new material. It‘s more fun and more musical! Don‘t miss Brevan‘s Latin section, with four different percussion parts you can mix. And if you need a little inspiration, try rolling the dice for something new. Ten days after you install, Wheelhouse will require you to subscribe. Wheelhouse is an independently made app, and your subscription directly supports our musicians and the app.

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Genius Jamtracks

The new way to practice jazz! Genius Jamtracks, the play-along app for jazz musicians that thinks and plays like an actual trio. With an impressively realistic sound and feel, it helps you build your repertoire, your jazz vocabulary and master polyrhythms. Genius Jamtracks introduces "New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers" - a monumental publication and effort led by Terri Lyne Carrington, founder and artistic director of Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. “Genius Jamtracks is easily the best play along app out there! Particularly the piano voicings are more logical and realistic than other play-along apps. The bass and drums are not just a simple repetitive pattern, but actually use some jazz language. And it’s nice that you can make the band busy in unpredictable ways. As much like playing with a real group as you can get from an algorithm. Highly recommended!“ ~ Paul Bollenback “It’s like a jazz musician wrote it. The drums and piano are just like how a jazz drummer and pianist would play. Couldn’t be an easy task to create that!” ~ Steve Beskrone - Why it sounds great: It’s all in the dynamics, note durations, space and feel. The Genius Jamtracks trio pays close attention to each of these elements to make the practice experience as close to the real thing as possible. - A real swing feel! Forget the robotic triplets of other play-alongs. When changing the tempo, the app doesn’t simply play faster or slower, the swing feel changes as well. The app learned how to swing by internalising jazz vocabulary and playing based on real transcriptions from the masters. - Actual voice leading! No matter what your settings are, just press play and you’ll always have the same attention to voice leading from the pianist and the same effort in creating beautiful lines from the bassist to accompany you. - Create your own songs with Genius Jamtracks using an easy and intuitive interface. - Edit the charts for your favourite jazz standards however you like. - Option to create your own playlists of songs. - Custom fonts make for beautiful, easy to read chord charts. - Rhythm Department: Start with simple comping and work your way up to mastering superhuman polyrhythms! Focus on a specific grouping, ratio, polyrhythm or rhythmic displacement. Ask the trio – or an individual instrument – to include only what you’ve requested when they introduce polyrhythmic phrasing. As you won’t know when or how it will be used though, this feature also helps sharpen your reflexes as well as mastering that rhythm! - Harmonic Level Selector: Start with triads and work your way up to advanced substitutions and reharmonisation of the song. - Voicing Selector: Select your preferred voicing type directly from the new selector. - Link Button: When a song is opened, the app automatically selects the best voicings based on the song style. If the link is off, your chosen voicing type will be saved as the default. - Time Placement Fancy a ballad, or a straight-ahead swing? Give the trio a more powerful or loose feel. Ready to take your skills to the next level?