Genius Jamtracks

Antonis Tsikandilakis

About this app

The New Way to Practice Jazz!
Genius Jamtracks is the play-along app for jazz musicians that thinks and plays like a real trio. With impressively realistic sound and feel, it helps you expand your repertoire, develop jazz vocabulary, and master polyrhythms.

We’re thrilled to introduce New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers—a monumental effort led by Terri Lyne Carrington, founder and artistic director of Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.

What musicians are saying:
“Genius Jamtracks is easily the best play-along app out there! The piano voicings are logical and realistic, and the bass and drums use actual jazz language instead of simple repetitive patterns. It’s as close as you can get to playing with a real group. Highly recommended!”
~ Paul Bollenback

“It’s like a jazz musician wrote it! The drums and piano play just like a real jazz drummer and pianist. It couldn’t have been easy to create this!”
~ Steve Beskrone

Why It Sounds Great:
- A Real Swing Feel: Unlike other play-alongs, Genius Jamtracks changes the swing feel naturally with tempo adjustments. The app swings because it’s based on real transcriptions from jazz masters.
- Dynamics, Space, and Feel: The Genius Jamtracks trio pays close attention to dynamics, note durations, and feel to make practicing as authentic as playing with a real band.
- Actual Voice Leading: No matter the settings, the pianist maintains excellent voice leading, and the bassist creates beautiful, flowing lines to accompany you.

Features You’ll Love:
- Create Your Own Songs: Use the intuitive interface to compose or edit charts for your favorite jazz standards.
- Custom Playlists: Organize your songs and practice sessions with custom playlists.
- Beautiful Chord Charts: Enjoy easy-to-read chord charts with custom fonts designed for clarity.

Advanced Tools to Elevate Your Practice:
- Rhythm Department: Start with simple comping and progress to mastering advanced polyrhythms, groupings, ratios, and displacements. Customize the trio’s rhythmic phrasing to focus on specific skills while sharpening your reflexes.
- Harmonic Level Selector: Move from basic triads to advanced reharmonization and substitutions to challenge your harmonic understanding.
- Voicing Selector: Choose your preferred voicing style from the new, easy-to-use selector.
- Time Placement: Set the trio’s feel—from relaxed ballads to powerful straight-ahead swing.

Ready to Take Your Jazz Skills to the Next Level?
Happy practicing!
The Genius Jamtracks Team

Ratings and reviews

Works great on my Pixel 4a5g! This is a jazz oriented, blues capable, and worth some learning, probably other gerne supporting app. The sound quality is quite good for practicing but the loops repeat verbatim, without variants, so it would get boring in a live situation without at least a second or third instrument, or am I missed it? That said, the poly timings are great if you're into complex timings. There aren't any other apps I know of that do this. For the price, it's a bargain, IMO.

A bit rigid and lack of some basic functionality such as playlist etc.. I tried to set up the transportation to Bb in the settings but I still have to it for each song. I personally find it uncomfortable to play with. If I had to buy it again I wouldn't.

This app is very buggy, has a thoroughly average interface, is not particularly user friendly, lacks support and community, and generally just has its issues. Conceptually however it's still strong. It really is a logical extension of iRealPro and I'd recommend it to any serious jazz musician. Just a shame the product is so poor. Hopefully it will get ongoing quality of life upgrades in the future.

What’s new

We’ve expanded the sound options! Try Rhodes, Electric Bass and Upright Bass, Organ, and more.