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"Carolina in the Morning" is song with music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn. It was introduced by William Frawley (see below) in "The Passing Show of 1922" and subsequently became a standard. It has an unusual AAB structure (not indicated by the section marks in the chord chart)...

Hi Jer, Your arrangement is the best solution that I've heard! It does the job, more or less, of simulating the old fashoned playing "in two" that I needed. However, you had to do a lot maneuvering to get there (which I appreciate). The developers need to create a style that can directly...

Thanks for the very quick reply! Your solution is the best I've found. Unfortunately, the drums play on 1 and 2 rather than on the "ands" of 1 and 2. I edited the following chart to force iRP to play alternate bass notes (root and fifth). Here's my take on "Give My Regards To Broadway." It's...

(Copied from: https://forums.irealpro.com/threads/How-do-I-set-up-IReal-Pro-to-play-old-fashioned-tunes-in-quot-two-quot.14588/ ) Thanks for the very quick reply! Your solution is the best I've found. Unfortunately, the drums play on 1 and 2 rather than on the "ands" of 1 and 2. I edited the...

I need some quick help! I'm playing a gig on New Year's Eve and several tunes have been requested that require my playing in "two." Examples are: "Give My Regards To Broadway," "Oklahoma," "and "California Here I Come." I haven't found an appropriate style to use on these tunes. Please note that...

I agree, Bob. Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow musicians and the developers of iRP.

Thanks for the comprehensive explanation. I'm so used to playing from lead sheets with simple chords in them and adding my own extensions on the fly that I didn't catch the differences between the embellishment feature on or off. For "my kind" of music, chords with four to six different notes in...

I use iRP with the piano muted in the mixer (I'm a pianist myself) but I noticed a new feature: Embellished Chords, and tried it out with the piano sound turned on. I don't hear much of a difference between renderings with the embellished chord feature turned on or off. Maybe I'm missing...

Johan, it depends of the context. Shell voicings (http://www.thejazzresource.com/shell_voicings.html for example) in the left hand are useful when you are playing by yourself. They provide the harmonic foundation for the melody played by the right hand, and eventually, for improvisations. Being...

Johand, you might look at a copy of The Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine. The early chapters go over chord voicing. I think you would benefit from this book. Later chapters cover jazz theory and lots of other jazz piano topics. When I was beginning my jazz piano journey, I found this book to be a...

At present, there are three combination styles available, including Ballad Double Time Feel Latin/Swing Swing Two/Four I have requested several others in the past but am reposting in this new thread to elicit comments from other users. I think that the following would be of use to iRP users...

Actually, it would be great if there were two kinds of tacets. One simply produces silence; the other would produce a rim shot on the beat with silence from the other instruments.

There have been other requests for a tacet that would silence all instruments from chord chart playback; I found a thread about this topic from 2011. From my point of view, the ability to force a beat-by-beat tacet (similar to the beat-by-beat NC symbol) is the most pressing omission that needs...

There have been other requests for a tacet that would silence all instruments from chord chart playback; I found a thread about this topic from 2011. From my point of view, the ability to force a beat-by-beat tacet (similar to the beat-by-beat NC symbol) is the most pressing omission that needs...

That's the way I use it on my solo gigs, Ray: iReal Pro + iPad + small amp (Roland CM-30) with an acoustic piano.

You're welcome! I'm a Victor Young fan and I'm glad that you find the chord chart useful.

I smiled when I saw this request this morning. "I Married An Angel" is a sweet old tune I learned from a favorite fakebook over 50 years ago when I was in high school. I never played it on a gig (the other guys had never heard of it) and have never heard it performed until now. "I Married An...

This is my edit of ryancorbitt's chord chart. Played once through, it mimics the original Sinatra version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ZGKALMMuc. The tempo is about 136 bpm. Way You Look Tonight (Sinatra version), The - Jerome Kern

You obviously put a lot of effort into the chord chart, but it needs to be edited because there are mistakes: You need to insert a coda sign at the end of the bridge, you need to put a double bar in front of the first measure of the coda, and a measure repeat sign in the last measure of the tune...

"Summer Love" is another unjustly forgotten song from the 1950s. Composed by Victor Young, it comes from the score of the 1952 film "The Star" starring Bette Davis and Sterling Hayden. Victor Young (1900–1956) was a child prodigy on the violin who was born in Chicago but spent most of his early...