Jam
Jam
Pick a loop, light the scale, play over it. The backing stays out of your way.
Key? The loop's home note. Every chord and the lit scale move with it. C Db D Eb E F Gb G Ab A Bb B Loop? The chord progression that repeats underneath you. Each one suggests the scale that fits. 12-bar blues I–IV–V rock i–bVII–bVI i–bVII–bVI–V7 Two-chord Dorian Scale? What lights up on the board. It follows the loop's suggestion until you change it yourself. Minor Pentatonic Major Pentatonic Dominant Pentatonic Minor Blues Major Blues Ionian (Major) Dorian Phrygian Lydian Mixolydian Aeolian (Natural Minor) Locrian Harmonic Minor Locrian natural 6 Ionian #5 (Augmented Major) Dorian #4 (Ukrainian Dorian) Phrygian Dominant Lydian #2 Ultralocrian (Altered bb7) Melodic Minor (Jazz Minor) Dorian b2 (Phrygian natural 6) Lydian Augmented Lydian Dominant (Acoustic) Mixolydian b6 (Hindu) Locrian natural 2 (Half-Diminished) Altered (Super Locrian) Harmonic Major Dorian b5 Phrygian b4 Lydian b3 (Lydian Diminished) Mixolydian b2 Lydian Augmented #2 Locrian bb7 (Diminished) Double Harmonic (Byzantine) Lydian #2 #6 Ultraphrygian Hungarian Minor Oriental Ionian #2 #5 Locrian bb3 bb7 Whole Tone Diminished (Half-Whole) Diminished (Whole-Half) Augmented Tuning? Your instrument. Seeded from your practice tuning; the board and the backing follow it. Standard E · 6-string guitar Drop D · 6-string guitar Double Drop D · 6-string guitar Eb Standard · 6-string guitar Drop C# · 6-string guitar D Standard · 6-string guitar Drop C · 6-string guitar C# Standard · 6-string guitar Drop B · 6-string guitar DADGAD · 6-string guitar Open G · 6-string guitar Open D · 6-string guitar Open E · 6-string guitar Open C · 6-string guitar Standard B · 7-string guitar Drop A · 7-string guitar A Standard · 7-string guitar Drop G · 7-string guitar Drop C (low G) · 7-string guitar Standard F# · 8-string guitar Drop E · 8-string guitar Standard E · 4-string bass Drop D · 4-string bass D Standard · 4-string bass Drop C · 4-string bass Standard B · 5-string bass Drop A · 5-string bass A Standard · 5-string bass Drop C (low G) · 5-string bass Standard B · 6-string bass Groove? The synth kit under the loop. Turn it on with the Drums button in the player. Straight rock Half-time D-beat Gallop lock Blast beat Funk sixteenths Train beat Play? Backing is the full chord loop to solo over. Walking bass is the playable quarter-note bass line of the same progression. Strummed plays each chord with a right-hand pattern, the rhythm-guitar part. Backing loop Walking bass Strummed
Reference tones? Each button plays that string's target pitch. Match each string by ear: low string first, then work upward. E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4
Backing loop · A vamp — 12-bar blues? Deterministic: the same key, loop, and tuning always build the same backing. Roots on 1 and 3, stabs on 2 and 4.
Backing loop: roots on 1 and 3, chord stabs on 2 and 4 · one chord per bar in 4/4
Reset ♩ Click Drums − 100 bpm+ ↓ MIDI A7 I7 D7 IV7 A7 I7 A7 I7 D7 IV7 D7 IV7 A7 I7 A7 I7 E7 V7 D7 IV7 A7 I7 E7 V7
The minor blues scale works over all three chords: that is the trick of the form. Target each bar's root as it lands; over the I7, lean the b3 into the 3 when you want the major-blues sound.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 5 b7 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 R R 3 b7 R 3 R R 3 b7 R Current note: A, degree R, fret 5
The lit notes are Minor Blues in A: the loop's suggested palette. Wrong notes a fret away are how you find the right ones.
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