Musicman20
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Sophomore at Cornell, alto player. Built this jazz tool myself over the last few months. It's free, no account, no ads, and I'm posting here because this is the only place I know where everyone already thinks hard about chord charts.
Not trying to replace iReal Pro. I use it. The playback engine on mine is nowhere near it, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
What's on it:
Charts you can transpose to any horn and play along with. Nothing revolutionary. It's free and it's in a browser, so it works on whatever's already on the stand.
A chat you can actually ask things. This is the part I think is most useful and I've been bad at explaining. It's an AI assistant, but pointed at the specific chart in front of you rather than answering in general. You can ask why a bar is what it is, what a reharmonization is doing, what to think about over a particular four bars, and it answers about that tune. iReal Pro plays the changes. This tells you what's going on inside them.
41 jazz solos I transcribed by hand, aligned bar by bar to the changes. On the B♭ blues tunes there's a thing that assembles a chorus out of phrases from those solos. Every phrase is credited to the player and the record it came from, and a phrase can only be placed at the bar of the form where it was originally played, so nothing gets moved somewhere it never actually happened.
That last one half works. The phrases connect but nothing develops, so it comes out sounding like someone with a lot of vocabulary and nothing to say. That's the part I'd most want opinions on.
reharmonize.app
Two questions if anyone's willing:
Does a chorus assembled out of real transcribed phrases have any practice value, or is it just a novelty?
Is there anything you'd want from a chord chart site that iReal Pro doesn't already do? Asking seriously, because I don't want to rebuild something that already exists and works.
Not trying to replace iReal Pro. I use it. The playback engine on mine is nowhere near it, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
What's on it:
Charts you can transpose to any horn and play along with. Nothing revolutionary. It's free and it's in a browser, so it works on whatever's already on the stand.
A chat you can actually ask things. This is the part I think is most useful and I've been bad at explaining. It's an AI assistant, but pointed at the specific chart in front of you rather than answering in general. You can ask why a bar is what it is, what a reharmonization is doing, what to think about over a particular four bars, and it answers about that tune. iReal Pro plays the changes. This tells you what's going on inside them.
41 jazz solos I transcribed by hand, aligned bar by bar to the changes. On the B♭ blues tunes there's a thing that assembles a chorus out of phrases from those solos. Every phrase is credited to the player and the record it came from, and a phrase can only be placed at the bar of the form where it was originally played, so nothing gets moved somewhere it never actually happened.
That last one half works. The phrases connect but nothing develops, so it comes out sounding like someone with a lot of vocabulary and nothing to say. That's the part I'd most want opinions on.
reharmonize.app
Two questions if anyone's willing:
Does a chorus assembled out of real transcribed phrases have any practice value, or is it just a novelty?
Is there anything you'd want from a chord chart site that iReal Pro doesn't already do? Asking seriously, because I don't want to rebuild something that already exists and works.
)BOB
