Breakthrough With Technology! Enhancing Your Jazz Pedagogy Through Technology

By: Dr. Andrew Stonerock, Utah State University

APPS

  • iReal Pro

    • 1300 jazz standards

    • Easily change keys

    • Create your own charts

    • Export charts/midi/audio for students

    • Practice techniques

  • Drum Genius

    • Real drum sounds, references specific recordings to match drum patterns

    • Adjust tempo slightly

    • Many, many styles

    • No harmony, just drums

  • Tonaly

    • Amazing scale repository

    • Display in multiple clefs with note names or scale degrees

    • Plays given scale to allow students to hear the sound of different scales

  • Time Guru

    • Excellent for practicing time without relying on a metronome

    • Randomly removes beats based on user settings

    • Develops time independence

  • Tonal Energy Tuner

    • Excellent for intonation

    • Plays sounds to create drones

    • Monitors pitch over time

  • In Tune

    • Develops intonation

    • Useful for individual practice

  • Transcribe+

    • Great for transcribing solos

    • Isolates specific parts of recordings

    • Change tempo/pitch

    • Syncs with Apple Music

  • Amazing Slow Downer

    • Transcription software

    • Available as both an app and on computer

    • Adjust mix

    • Change tempo/pitch

  • Moises

    • Guitar chord finder

    • Vocal stems isolation

    • Separate, mute, or download any instrument

    • Audio speed changer, key detector, BPM finder, chord finder

WEB BASED PROGRAMS

  • Teoria.com

    • Music theory tutorials

    • Ear training exercises

    • Jazz chord progressions

  • Jazzbooks.com

    • Jazz handbook

    • Digital audio tracks

  • Stream Jazz

    • Subscription service to stream entire Aebersold playalong library

  • MusicFirst

    • Practice First

      • Gives students feedback on performance

      • Standard of Excellence Jazz Ensemble Method available

    • Sight Reading Factory

      • Creates unlimited sightreading exercises for students

      • Can create full ensemble sight reading exercises

WEBSITES

  • Learnjazzstandards.com

    • Chord charts for C, B-flat, E-flat

    • Playlist for standards

    • Playalongs (youtube videos)

  • Jazzstandards.com

    • Great information on jazz standards

    • Includes 1000 standards

    • Musical/lyrical analysis

    • Excellent resource for history

  • Jazz At Lincoln Center

    • Specific jazz playlists

    • Instruments, styles, “cities,” major jazz figures, ensemble examples

  • Smalls Jazz Club

    • Live and archived performances

    • Modern New York jazz musicians/performances

    • Cross-referenced by musician and instrument

  • Musicmap.info

    • Information on multiple genres of music

    • Jazz music has great information on sub-genres

    • Playlists – YouTube and Spotify

    • Great historical information