jammr Forum

Hi!
When I first arrived to this app, my original idea was to practice jazz standards together with other people.
After a bit fiddling around, I realized that most standards are too long; and that it is apparently more interesting/feasible to use this app as a collaborative live lopping environment.

Anyway, I would still would like to try the jazz standards endevour. But now with some aid:

1. A drum backtrack if there is no drummer available.
2. either:
2.1 Broadcast a video (e.g. via talky.io) of my screen with one of the following progression videos playing (no audio) or:
2.2 Agree with everyone which of these chord progression videos to follow and sync that way:

All Blues(120bpm):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyHmu2ogCY

Blue Bossa (120bpm):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikLTmLGrkl4

Autumn Leavs (120bpm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjf2kiDO19Y

Who's in; and when? I am in for most evenings.

PS: This forum feels like old year 2000 tech…. Maybe it would make sense to organize some sort of discord server, that would allow to create chat rooms; audio chats; broadcast chord-prgression videos instead of having to rely on on external services like talky.io or whatever members are currently using to organize things in between themselves.

Edited pedrorolo (March 2, 2021 16:03:10)

PS: Regarding the discord server, I've just found out that there already exists a “Music and Audio” server on discord. I'll try to talk with people about jammr there.

Welcome pedrorolo,
You can connect a drum machine or play loops into jammr. When using software you'll need a way to route audio into jammr. On Windows there is “virtual audio cable” software that can do this, on Mac there is Blackhole (https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole), and on Linux there is JACK.

I recommend posting the chord progression in the chat during the jam session. For more info about posting chord progressions and using jammr successfully, see this guide:
https://forum.jammr.net/topic/1724/

If a full standard is too long, you could pick a shorter section that you like and focus on that.

Hi Pedro,

See my Forum Recording from May 13 2020 (shows last post Jun 9 2020) Blue Bossa, I am on fretless.
Nice, and again the issue you mentioned, having 2 parts (A and B) we rehearsed them separately each part in a loop until satisfactory together, then put them together and simultaneously started playing the A+B formula repeatedly. Bit of a hassle I know, but hey it worked.
Would like to play together, I am in Canada, Alberta, usually playing evenings 6pm-1am :-) my time and weekend even day hours.
Cheers and welcome again,
Hardy

Hardy
having 2 parts (A and B) we rehearsed them separately each part in a loop until satisfactory together, then put them together and simultaneously started playing the A+B formula repeatedly.

Thank you very much for the tip, this is an obvious approach that i haven't tried yet!