I wish Jeff Bezos would spend a day filling orders at one of his Amazon warehouses and see if he likes it. Isn't that Captitalism in a microcosm? Workers get paid small amounts to do work that benefits the owners of the company. They all seem to think we practice our craft so they can make money from it, not us.

Toss in ASCAP and BMI and you have a free-for-all claiming payments.which mostly only gets to the original composer, and sometimes arranger, in pitiful amounts. The music business and copyrights are a really messed area. Distribution electronically or on paper of transcriptions is another gray area. Sound tracks on recordings can be copyrighted, but there is no copyright that prevents transcription. iReal Pro is not yet available in a Windows format but will run with an emulator. The publishing company of the original tune will have granted rights to the paper publisher to use the tune, and distribute arrangements. Check with Harry Fox Agency or US Copyright laws, You'll see.Īlso arrangements can only be copyrighted for resale, paper or electric. That said, I am a little surprised they haven't added the ability to copy a pdf and associate it with a track.įYI: you can't copyright cord changes. somewhere) the Hal Leonard books on something like the Kindle store and have one screen up or swap screens if you want the melody. A tablet version would be nice but on both Android and iOS, you can have background apps or side-by-side applications depending on your screen size. iOS: - Mail App or Files (your iCloud storage): - Dropbox: open the iReal Pro file, tap on the 3 dots on the top right, select Save to device and choose iReal Pro or Open in. I don't know how useful it would even be to have it on a phone screen anyway. The reason that the application doesn't have melodies is that it is purely a chord chart application exclusively. Adobe would be out of business immediately! Or even more pertinent, if you had to charge copyright if your application could view copywritten materials. That application likewise includes nothing 'out of the box' (if you'll excuse the pun), but there are ample community generated files that have melodies and chord changes to most of the realbooks. Band-in-a-box has a similar product but it includes the ability to perform melodies.

The reason for that is the publication companies sent a cease and desist because they had titles of their songs built into the app.Now, the changes themselves have to be downloaded from a community maintained list as pointed out by others here.

This is a fantastic app for providing backing for you to play along with there are thousands of chord. It isn't a copyright issue as the application itself doesn't provide even chord changes (as it did when it first started a long, long time ago) for anything other than the blues and a few sample exercises. Also, I use the app on phone/tablet and amplify it through a bluetooth speaker. This is my review on the iReal Pro backing track app.

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