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.

Glitchy as hell and very slow to open tunes. It might sound better than ireal when it works smoothly but it's nowhere near as reliable. Going back to ireal. UPDATE ...I don't know if it's the update or because I'm now using it on a different device, but I'm happy to say it now seems to be working much better. I just wish there was an easy way to send a song to a playlist. If it had an option in the hamburger menu next to the songs, it would be perfect 👌🏼

5 stars for the originality, the "feel" is very different and very customizable, lots of styles and variations to choose from can make playing challenging without spending up, the sounds are functional, room for improvement : 1. the chord font is hard to read, I can see the artistic choice of the font, it represents what the app does, but priority should be for readability, or at least give the user the option to choose. 2. The editor can use some features like copy and paste. 3. Auto transpose

What’s new

Fixed a transpose issue and a crash that could occur when editing a song.