Guitar Jam Tracks App Reviews

Super fun to play with. I’m a beginner but my teacher showed me this app and it’s helping a ton with my fingering and picking. I definitely needed him to explain it to me. Would probably have been hard to figure out without that as I have zero music theory.

Really like the diagrams. I can now easily picture the scales and see how they move around with different keys.

Great tool for beginners and aspiring guitarist!

I am a full time music teacher and was looking for an easy and affordable app for my guitar students to jam along with. For the $4.99 asking price you get pentatonic and blues scales only. Very few styles or backgrounds (blues, jazz ,country) come with the app. All other scales and styles must be purchased. And you cannot control the tempo. Save your money and get iRealB instead. It comes with many styles. You can control the tempo and loop sections as well. On the web forum there are thousands of FREE songs to play along to or you can actually input your own songs/chord changes. It’s cost is much more up front but the content and flexibility are well worth it.

Perfect application to rekindle the love of music. No need to plan a jam, the jam is on demand in the phone or device around. Would love to have a different time signature besides common time. No other jam app has them. Just for us advanced guitarist.

Great backing track for practicing scales & solos! I love the way you can change keys quickly to practice different CAGED pentatonic scale patterns in rhe same position.

Choose a key, work a chord progression, and apply a functional solo...a no brainer for those who want to progress in proper theory and also sound right. Great app!

I feel like I was taken . There is no flexibility in this app whatsoever. Can’t change the chord progression and the scales are fixed too . If it were free I’d still Be disappointed .

Very limited, there are many more free on your computer instead of paying for 4 or 5 and then they want to pay for more again free on computer don’t waste time with this

Does what it’s supposed to do. Very easy to use. Quick and easy.

I love all the different rhythms that you can noodle to. I especially like how all the different positions are shown as well. This app is simple and straight to the point without too many bells and whistles. Who needs bells and whistles when you just want to play guitar? This app gets you from stop to playing as quickly as possible.

Love it, I just want more styles/variations and a tempo slider.

The best guitar lick play along app ever!!

I play this religiously and study with it

This app is great to practice !

Just bought this App to practice my guitar, and when I hit the play button it doesn't play anything besides a loud noise ...don't waste your money 💰

I did not like this app at first - thought to myself how on earth am I supposed to practice scales using this? Came back to it after a month and I love it - makes practicing so much easier as the background tunes are not horrible. It's all driven by you though as there are no lessons or challenges to follow, just background tracks and five scales for every key and it's up to you to practice and improvise on each. Makes it very easy though!

Really helps me practice...

I'll change my review if i can get it to work. But, I can't make it work with my irig. The backing track goes through the amp and sounds fine, but guitar doesn't come through. I didn't really want to travel around with an additional sound system

I like that you can play all tracks in different keys, but there aren't many songs for variety. Sure there are in-app purchases, but they only come with another song or two. I feel there should be more songs for each purchase.

The tracks are good quality, and I’ve been pleased with the variety of the IAPs I’ve bought. However for some reason the tracks are out of tune enough to be distracting so I’ve been trying to find another backing track player I like as much, but haven’t. So I’m hoping that this bug can be fixed or perhaps an option can be added for fine tuning in addition to just changing the key. (Tuning issue happens on both my iPhone and my iPad. Other backing track apps don’t share this issue, so I don’t suspect my hardware)

Easy to use ... great learning tool.. a must have

Fun practice tool

I learned a lot from this, and all it really took was a repeating backing track and some diagrams. Astonished at how effective of a learning tool this can be if used with diligence and some extra reading. Heck, it's a pretty good toy as well, if that's all you want.

Awesome application to practice your licks with, I use this all the time.

I find this app literally useless

It's very fun and it's worth the five dollars.

I'm old - 61 - been playing forever, a strummer, G-D-A all night long. Always wanted to be able to play leads. I have a pretty good ear, wanted to know how to play a lead in a given key. I get together a couple of times a year to play with friends. I took lessons for one year about 2 years ago, didn't learn much. Then I found this app. I know it's trite to say it took my playing to a whole new level but it's true. In 40+ years of playing, this is the single biggest difference-maker in my playing. I got together with my buddies in March to jam and on every song, I'd hit the foot switch on my Marshall and play a lead on my Les Paul. They really were astonished. They kept laughing & giving me c*** - "Who ARE you??" They just couldn't believe it. I ended every song by shouting, "Jam Tracks - $4.99!" 😀 Everyone learns differently, I get that. I call this the chimpanzee method - big dots to show you where to put your fingers. It's so simple. Now I hear a song I like, I just slide up the low E string til I hear the root note & go from there. It has boosted my playing enjoyment by 10,000%. I friggin love this app.

This is a fun way to learn,practice,and improvise scales!

For anyone looking to become familiar with their neck, this app is great! Provides thorough visual aid and tracks with it so you know what scales/chords should sound like. Worth the money!

I am disappointed in this app. I am an intermediate guitar player. There are only 5 modes all pentatonic and no others. There are only 5 grooves to play along with organized by basic style of music. It’s very basic. I should have researched more fully I was done with this app in 3 minutes.

Buuuut, I second the people who say it needs a variable tempo feature and inclusion of a few sub categories. So, five stars at what it does, three stars for content. Average of four. Still, very nice work, team!

This has been a really fun way to learn scales. It's easy to pick up at odd times during the day, and rewards sustained practice too. For the price you can hardly go wrong.

I have been playing guitar for 6 years now this is a great app to practice scales without getting bored...I love it!

Been playing chunky rhythms in punk bands for 20 years. Finally decided to learn scales. Been using this everyday for a month and making huge strides. My band mates are shocked. The backing tracks are pretty corny but it's still great practice.

Been using app for almost a year. Used it last night, charged phone up overnight as usual, was down to less than 50% by 10am. Checked battery usage, this app was at the top of usage list even though it hadn’t been opened since last night. Doing something in background. Fix this and you have 5 stars.

Great jams to practice major, minor, and mixed pentatonic licks. Good for trying variations on a theme and see how well they work in major and minor keys. Intermediate players with working knowledge of above will likely benefit the most from this app.

Useless nothing in this app liessss f!!!!

Always room for improvement, but this is great for basic practice and figuring out solos early on in a playing career.

Thank you for more songs and keeping it real.

App seems good for rock and blues practice. After I launched the app once I noticed my batter died very fast. I went to the batter settings, and discovered that after a single use, and one day in the background, Jam Tracks represented 46% of total battery usage for the last 7 days. No idea what the app is doing, but I hope it is a serious bug rather than nefarious background snooping.

Guitarists: do not download this; there are 5 backing tracks. You have have to pay for any more. Waste of $5x

Fun to learn and play with

I love practicing licks and scales with this app. Well worth the price and highly useful.

Wish I could figure out how to adjust tempo. Otherwise it is fantastic to play along with.

AWESOME!

I have it on my laptop I'm excited to put it on my phone.

Would be much improved if it had a simple tempo slider bar. Seems like an easy program to write. As is, the app user has zero control over tempos. Additionally, the base app is pretty bare bones. Many of the 'additional charges' should be included in the base price. Not a great value. They have my money but I'm going to have to keep looking for what I need.

This product works well, does a good job, and was very reasonably priced. It allows multiple forms of jamming out a fingertip action I enjoy it and recommend it to my guitar playing friends.

Just great for practicing scales and chords play along

Lots of fun and great learning tool. Just get it

What id really like is to slow down the track. Maybe two speeds, 80bpm, 100bpm; something like that. Id also like to see a different progression. It all comes down to options and this app just doesn't have a lot of options. It is fine, but certainly not great.

Just learning to improvise with pentatonic scales and this makes it a blast to practice

Key being ALMOST! I really liked this app as I was getting into improvising a lot of blues. Super useful for that purpose. But a couple things would make this an easy 5 stars.... First, needs to have a variable tempo feature. When learning new stuff it's super beneficial to be able to start slow and speed up as you improve. This app has songs at different tempos but if you want to play a medium tempo Texas blues jam you are out of luck. It's either really fast or really slow. Most of the "styles" are set up the same. Also the are no flats or sharps in regards to key selection. Not that big of a deal but wanted to mention it. I still like the app and recommend for those just looking to practice lead but give me tempo control and I would LOVE this app. Heck I would pay for that feature. As is I'm still on the hunt for the "perfect app".

The Backing tract selection is terrible i feel. Im just going to use the scales to practice as i enjoy the different selections they offer. I’ll use some other form of Backing track as these get on my nerves!!.

Need iOS support update. Add tempo adjustment. Other than that great app for jamming.

This is a very good, useful, and functional app for musicians at every level. I have recommended it to players I help out on guitar and it's working for them as well. If you don't get anything you can use when you open this app, please don't blame the app.

Subject says it all. Keep on paying for programs you're given no reason info about, but "trust us, at some point you may find something tangentially close to what you want to learn." Horrible app!!

Love this app. I got the package deal and would love to see other scales such as the Bebop and Harmonic added. Any chance of these additions in the near future?

Really enjoy jamming to these tracks. Helps improve my playing.

While knowing the scales I was always playing up n down and across the neck after becoming really versed in this I got this app to see how I could improvise along with a backing track and after messing around with this I can really go to town and most importantly change any key I wish... I was thought mostly in "A" minor so getting comfortable with other keys took a bit but I can say I really enjoyed this app but the modal buddy was what I was really going after. Now I change from major to minor AND MODES with real thought and melody. It helped me get rid of note for note playing in scales if you want to play stop wasting time with YouTube and pay some cash and go to the next level even if you are not ready this is something you own and keep going back to it and over time this big block becomes small and you start to use it every day