Elevate your music practice with customizable backing tracks generated with audio from real instruments (guitar, mandolin, and standup bass).
Strum Machine can play any chord progression, in any key, at any speed. It's the only backing-track app built specifically for players of bluegrass, old-time, fiddle tunes, and other such genres. (Although it works pretty good for some jazz/swing now, too!)
Why musicians of all levels love Strum Machine:
• Realistic Sound: Backing tracks are assembled in real time from studio-quality instrument recordings.
• Quick Adjustments: Instantly adjust the speed/tempo, change the key, loop part of a song, etc.
• Auto-Speedup: Gradually increase the BPM at the end of every repetition for training purposes.
• Chord Reference: Clean, beautiful chord charts, which can be displayed in letters or numbers (i.e. "1-4-5").
• Extensive Library: Over 1,400 songs (mostly from bluegrass and old-time) ready to go, with thousands more posted on the community forum.
• Simple Song Editor: Add your own songs (or edit existing ones) in minutes. Almost every chord you can play on a guitar is available for use.
• Customize the Band: Choose from a variety of built-in band styles, then optionally customize each instrument individually – adjust the strumming pattern, add automatic bass runs, and more.
• Organize & Share: Create song lists for practicing or even performing, and share them with your friends or on the community forum.
• Cross-Platform: Sync your custom songs, lists, and preferences with any device you use Strum Machine on: phone, tablet, or computer. (It works offline, too!)
• Responsive Support: If you run into any problems or have questions, write us an email or post a message on the forum and someone will get back to you within a few days!
Strum Machine is under active development and we're always working on ways to make the app even more useful to our users... while keeping it uncluttered and intuitive first and foremost.
Discover how Strum Machine can improve your music practice today, for free!
Download Strum Machine and play a handful of demo songs instantly, without signing up. For the full experience, including access to all built-in songs and the ability to create your own, start a free trial.
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No way to subscribe in the usual way via Apple. No PayPal option, and Strum Machine "sypport" offered no meaningful help in this regard.
Although they were quick to reply, they implied you could just purchase a supscription through the Apple Store, but thats not the case.
As things stand I cannot recommend this app. And as a partner in a music school, recommending useful apps to students via our teaching staff is a thing I do daily...
So for the time being, we continue to recommend iReal Pro as the recommended powerful, versatile and affordable tool to support their lessons.
I hope Strum Machine get this resolved because it has potential.
Great idea well implemented
What a brilliant app! I have been hoping for something like this to come asking for a while now, and I’m very impressed with how easy this is to use. It is well suited to folk music, with a system for creating backings that is clearly built by someone who understands how traditional fiddle tunes are structured. For future updates I’d love to see more time signatures- for example 3/2 timing for old English and Scottish music, more instruments including more drone type sounds, ability to share backings.
Great program and getting better !
This is a must for rehearsal or jamming, real acoustic instruments with a variety of alternative styles and time signatures.
I am even making my own tracks in minutes with intro and ending or sets of 3 or 4 jigs or reels. My plan is to save the downloaded tunes into audacity and convert to wav to end up in my boss RC3
For a nights worth of material. The quality is sharp and clear and distinct, in fact a better balanced sound than any 3 piece would achieve.
It’s me and my guitar and a fiddle player playing live,
plus the accompaniment of 3 or more instruments from strum machine.
This is perfect when you need to keep personell costs to a minimum and venues a only have set budgets, so better save on the bass, guitar and mandolin, they’re here.
There is a massive included database and as I said, you can alter every aspect of those tracks and add your own.
Luke, the developer is very helpful and he will reply quickly to sort out any problems. He is also constantly adding new features and more flexibility to the program too and emails updates regularly.
I have the program on tho other devices on different platforms with no conflict or problems and your material is always saved.
