Thank You iReal pro

Today in the US we celebrate our Thanksgiving holiday. For some, part of the tradition includes sharing with others what makes us thankful.

I am especially thankful for iReal pro.

This app has helped me beome a better musician. It has allowed me to play in settings that would not have been previously possible. The positive changes in my playing that came from having thousands of tunes "in my pocket" instantly available in any key has led to un-imagined career opportunities.

However the app is used, in the "pro" setting for easily shared, highly legible ensemble performance charts, as a back-up band for individual performance, as the the BEST practice tool ever alone in the studio, iReal pro is in my opinion, easily the most important advance in music education in my lifetime.

I am thankful for the musician who took the time to show the app to me and I hope those I've introduced to the app are thankful as well and continue to share iRealb with others.

My heartfelt thanks to Massimo, Dflat, Niki and the rest of the iReal pro team for making this possible.

:))BOB

I concur. And let me add my own thanks to Bob and other active members who consistently provide help and lend their experience in this Forum.

Thank you for your thoughts, much appreciated by us all. It is nice to hear from you and thanks for all your help here at the forum too.
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This was going to be my first thread in the new Lounge/Off Topic forum. This thread is confirmation of iRp's amazing support.

[ Congratulations pdxdjazz Moderator )BOB ]

Whenever users need help here on the forums there's a couple of names always there with advice. Yours is always among them.

Congratulations on your Moderator status Bob, well and truly deserved. 8-)

Hey Guys,

Wanted to let you know i think you're iReal Pro app is great. Really good functionality provided at a fraction of the price it would cost to be able to generate these sorts of accompaniments in any another way.

I also did a write up of the app on my site which you can see here:

http://www.guitarorb.com/ireal-pro-d...backing-track/

Keep up the great work guys.

Yes , indeed i thank you all for the hard work in this marvelous musicians tool/guide and for all your help anytime we need it .. God speed ! Paul

thanks to all for your advice. Am now able to submit charts for all to use. Our trio has just given up using paper charts and we're blown away by this App and the helpful forum members
Sincerely....Rengy

Thanks to everyone who shares new song charts here in the forums.
How fortunate we are to have this increasingly wonderful resource.

We all benefit through helping each other along our respective musical paths.

How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng

I remain thankful
http://www.irealb.com/forums/showthr...0620#post20620

Happy Thanksgiving 2015
:))BOB

I agree, Bob. Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow musicians and the developers of iRP.

Thanks for your thoughts; best wishes to all iReal Pro users.
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Today, the 4th of July, the USA is celebrating its Independence Day.

I continue to celebrate my *musical* independence.

Thanks to iReal pro, I'm liberated from:
--Carrying a heavy backpack full of fakebooks around
(and still not being able to find the right chart)
--struggling to transpose unfamiliar charts on the fly.
--having difficulty reading charts on a dark stage.
--boring practice routines.
--problems getting a quick chart for a listener-requested tune.
--even needing a *band* (well, sometimes)
(when there's not enough budget to fairly pay my players)

I can only imagine how different my life would be if this life-changing musical app had been around when I was in high school...

Thank You iReal Pro!
:))BOB

I fully agree. iRP has changed my musical life. I now have a drummer and bassist who will play with me any time I like, at my tempo, in my key, in my style. I use iRP on my solo gigs and sound like a trio. My listeners seem to really enjoy the Keith88 trio and I enjoy playing for them. I will echo Bob's quote

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I can only imagine how different my life would be if this life-changing musical app had been around when I was in high school..

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I suspect I'm not the only one who feels this way.

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Thank you!

A nice interpretation of Thanksgiving...!

I'm very happy with iRealPro. I use it very often, mostly for practice and working out song progressions. I even had a lot of fun cracking the URL obfuscation code ;).

My happiness would go beyond 100% if there were a linux version, or even an Android-intel version so I could run it on my desktop as well.

Musicians, all of us.

We are beginners, wannabes, hobbyists, weekend warriors, amateurs and professionals, full-timers, headliners, Grammy winners, composers and educators.

Each of us with our own individual talents, interests and preferences.

Instrumentalists and vocalists alike, we all use the same 12 tones arranged in infinitely varied orders, timings and combinations.

Our common bond: the chord changes we share that define our lives' sound-tracks.

I am thankful for the iReal pro app. I use it daily. It has, in no small measure, transformed and improved my musical life.

On this Thanksgiving Holiday, I am reminded to also be thankful for all of the musicians who have helped me along my path by sharing their songs, musical knowledge and insights.

The Forums have grown to nearly 100,000 registered members. We live and play music in every corner of our world. At any time, day and night, 24/7 there are always members and guests somewhere using and exploring the Forums.
http://www.irealb.com/forums/online....n&pp=20&page=1

We are all in this together.
Share the joy.

Happy Thanksgiving,

:))BOB

Thank you Bob for all your help in the forum as a musician, as an admin, as a great person who cares for fellow music lovers.

Thanks to everyone in this wonderful iReal Pro community for sharing their music with each other!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Another year. I still use iReal pro every day in my musical life. I continue to discover different ways to connect musical ideas together.

Thank you to all of you who share your musical ideas here as well as through performance.

As I read through this thread, it's clear to me that "thrill" isn't gone.

Thank You iReal pro!

Thanks a million folks��

iReal pro makes it easy to share charts. I see folks AirDrop or email charts across a jam circle all the time.
Vocalists use iReal pro to quickly determine their best performance key for songs.
The many player-styles make experimentation easy.
iReal pro had helped musicians all over the world improve their "chops", skills and knowledge.

I've been reflecting on how fortunate I am to be part of the music community. I am thankful for the wonderful musicians I have played with on my musical journey. The experience of making music with others is difficult to explain to "civillians" but we know when those special moments happen.

iReal pro makes it easier for musicians to play together.

Thank You iReal pro!

Following a change of email account, I no longer had access to the iPhone version of'iReal.
After explanation, iReal provided me with a link to reload it on my new account. I thought the gesture was very nice. Thanks to the whole team!

The Beat goes on!
Now more than 145,000 Forum members along with many more "guests" viewing and downloading iReal pro charts all the time.

iReal pro is all about chart sharing. I am thankful for all who share their charts in the forums. By comparing different versions of the same song I often get new (to me) musical ideas. The iRp player makes it easy.

I am thankful for the the music teachers, instructors and mentors who have incorporated iReal pro into their programs and practice. Using iReal pro chord charts focuses on "the changes", chord progressions that provide the necessary framework for musical notes/melodies. Reading a melody line note by note will play a song. A single chord progression will play many songs (eg. I, vi, IV, V). There are many helpful posts in the forums that help demystify the secret language musicians use.

I believe that most folks, most of the time are doing the best they can. I am thankful for our members whose posts are intended to help others in their musical journeys.

I remain thankful for iReal pro which continues to make my musical life better. I hope you feel the same

:))BOB

Today in the US we again celebrate the annual Thanksgiving holiday.

As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, I am especially thankful to have iReal pro available as my music partner during this painful time of separation and distancing.

I also thank iReal pro for allowing me to be of support to the Forums and the mission of this wonderful app, helping musicians of all levels, worldwide to make music and improve their musicianship.

Music is best when it's a shared experience with others.
iReal pro makes sharing music and song charts easy!

In addition to continuously sanitizing all the Forums' door handles and wiping down the midi instruments after each use, my role here has evolved to include:

Librarian
Hall monitor
Educator
Traffic cop
Mentor
Researcher
Transcriber
Facilitator
Spammer-blocker
Perpetual student
iRp Evangelist and more.

Someone said music is supposed to be FUN.
I'm happy to report, it is! I believe better days are coming!

I haven’t seen advertising for iReal pro anywhere....
We continue to rely entirely on users just like *you* to share this incredible tool with other musicians.
You do your part, we'll keep doing ours.

Enjoy a safe, healthy and musical Thanksgiving

:))BOB

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Originally Posted by pdxdjazz

Today in the US we again celebrate the annual Thanksgiving holiday.

As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, I am especially thankful to have iReal pro available as my music partner during this painful time of separation and distancing...

I also thank iReal pro for allowing me to be of support to the Forums and the mission of this wonderful app, helping musicians of all levels, worldwide to make music and improve their musicianship...

:))BOB

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Thank you Bob for your lovely thoughts. We appreciate your dedicated help here at the forum!

This year has been very difficult for everyone in the world. We have had many contact us, grateful for iReal Pro keeping them company, helping with their practice—and their mental well-being. We have had many previous users of iReal Pro download again to help keep up their fluency and have some fun at the same time while their normal musical lives are on hold.
Hopefully 2021 will be less restricted and we can venture out into the world again.
Thank you to all our iReal Pro users for your support,
- from the iReal Pro team (including Bob!)

Jamming with Jamulus is taking off and all participants having iRealPro with the standard songs preloaded makes virtual playing together fun.

My first time on the forum since buying iRp in 2017. Wow a whole world in here. Been so invaluable to me, as I can be in 5 bands at a time with an endless list of tunes. IRp rocks. Hopefully I’ll get time to share a bunch of charts I’ve written that I haven’t found in searches. Cheers from the land of OZ.

I have to congratulate the whole team on the stellar new update. It’s just looks beautiful and the new layout is fantastic .
I just now discovered as I added a new playlist that it was put at top of all the lists. I probably have 50+ playlists and it is always been a huge pain to try to drag the list up to the top. That’s the kind of little attention to detail that is so greatly appreciated. Again many many thanks to all the iReal pro crew.

Hello! First off, WOW! I’m blown away by the app. This is truly changing my life and opening up a whole new avenue in my songwriting! I am one of those people who has musical ideas constantly rolling around in my head, but unfortunately I do not have the natural ability to play instruments. My music was always trapped in my heart and my head save writing the lyrics down. So THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! This is absolutely a game changer for me.

iReal memudahkan kita untuk mengulik berbagai macam lagu. Thank you iReal.

[iReal makes it easy for us to explore various kinds of songs. Thank you iReal.]

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iReal memudahkan kita untuk mengulik berbagai macam lagu. Thank you iReal.

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(iReal makes it easy for us to explore various kinds of songs. Thank you iReal.J

Most everyone here agrees with you!
:))BOB

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Originally Posted by Rapha

iReal memudahkan kita untuk mengulik berbagai macam lagu. Thank you iReal.

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Thank you for your comment!
If you purchased from the iOS/Mac App Store or Play store, please feel free to post a review about iReal Pro to help others evaluate and understand what iReal Pro can do.
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Thanksgiving 2022

I often view the Forum's “activity stream”. I like seeing who is on the Forums and how many members and guests are using our content.

No matter when I happen to check-in, day or night (you know, musicians’ hours…) there are always a bunch of users searching, browsing, studying and learning from the content shared here by other members.

I am amazed that we have members from all over the world. Anywhere there's internet, there are musicians that use iReal pro. On every continent, in every country.
Each a musical brother or sister who shares our same musical language.

I also like to see when they joined our community. Of course there is a steady stream of new members, each with many of the same how-to questions. As more features have been included and iReal pro continues to have updates, there is always more to learn.

I’m especially happy to see many long-time members using the Forums. Even after a decade or longer, they still find the Forums a valuable resource and relevant in their musical lives.

A reminder: I have not seen any iReal pro advertising.
Each of our members/users (even you) learned about iReal pro from a fellow musician.

My musical life has been changed for the better because another musician took their time to tell me about iReal pro. I remain thankful to them.

In the app's early days, most musicians didn’t own a device on which they could use the app. For many, that was a roadblock to iReal pro (iReal Book, iReal b) Less than 15 years later, nearly *everyone* has a device in their pocket that's compatible with iReal pro!

Please suggest iReal pro to others. They will appreciate it and remember you!

Thank you for using iReal pro and thanks to iReal pro for being useful to my music in so many ways.

:))BOB

Thanksgiving Day 2023

I started this “thank you” thread 10 years ago to acknowledge the extensive contributions iReal pro had made in my musical journey.

As I read through it, I am reminded again how much I appreciate the continuing efforts of the Developer and support team to enhance the universal functionality of this amazing musical app.

iReal pro version history
https://www.irealpro.com/version-history

To have *one* app that is so incredibly useful for musicians at all levels of proficiency is unheard of. The same app is useful for beginners as well as jazz educators and working professionals.

Please take a moment and remember who suggested iReal pro to you. That musician to musician sharing pretty much reflects the process through which we become musicians.

Spread the joy, share the app, help others along their musical path.

Thank you for being part of my musical experience.
:))BOB

This month we are celebrating 15 years of iReal Pro!


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