SessionBand Blues 12.9 - App Store

Create professional Blues tracks to your own chords in minutes with the award-winning SessionBand app - the world’s only chord-based loop app.

For Blues musicians and songwriters, this unique app is the ultimate tool for jamming and writing, with full and complete Blues tracks just minutes away! It's also simple enough for non-musicians to create their own great-sounding, royalty-free music with.

“Remarkably polished“ Forbes

“Extraordinarily useful“ Jamie Cullum

“Create like a master“ Engadget

With over 16,000 stunning, chord-based Blues loops (included) individually recorded by 4 of the world's very best session musicians, SessionBand Blues instantly converts the chords you select into great sounding audio - wherever you are and whatever your ability.

There are 15 different classic Blues styles included. Every single loop carefully engineered so you can instantly create your own tracks in those styles: from a slow Bonamassa 12/8 and a Muddy Waters shuffle, through various ballads, Texas and Blue Line shuffles all the way to uptempo Delta blues and Bluegrass.

And there's a host of pro features like auto-transpose, automated mixing, one-touch live recording, and Audiobus compatibility - allowing you to seamlessly export our unique content into other top music apps like Garageband. It has never been easier or quicker to create your own studio quality music even if you can't play a note!

If you love Blues - you will love SessionBand Blues! A Top 10 paid music app in 66 countries since launch.

Hear exactly how SessionBand Blues sounds by watching the video at sessionbandapp.com
The fastest way to create studio-quality Blues music...

. Simply pick one of 15 awesome Blues styles
. Choose your chords
. Stretch or shorten loops in seconds
. Build up a full track in minutes
. Instantly hear your track across the other playing styles and tempos
. Auto-transpose your entire track (not electronic pitch shift!)
. Mix your track (manual or automated)
. Adjust track tempo (+/- 15%)
. Record direct to audio
. Copy straight to other music apps
. Share with the world!
Get 4 of the world's top session musicians playing on your tracks...

. Drums - Geoff Dugmore (Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Taj Mahal, Newton Faulkner, Richard Ashcroft, Leona Lewis, Jimmy Page, Robbie Williams, Dido, Natalie Imbruglia, Steve Winwood...)

. Guitars - Adam Goldsmith (Brian May, Meat Loaf, Robbie Williams, Elton John, Will Young, Ronan Keating, Beverley Knight, Gloria Estefan...)

. Bass - Geoff Gascoyne (Sting, Georgie Fame, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Gloria Estefan, Jamie Cullum...)

. Keyboards - Tom Cawley (Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Watts, Stacey Kent, Andrea Bocelli, Peter Gabriel...)
Anyone can create and release professional Blues tracks with SessionBand...

. No musical experience required
. Simple, intuitive interface allows easy chord/loop selection and manipulation
. Audition loops as you go
. Build a full track in minutes with all-new 'Track Builder'
. Highly educational and great fun
Create great sounding real Blues music on the move...

. All loops reside within the downloaded app
. No internet access required once the app is downloaded
. Create studio-quality music absolutely anywhere!
Detailed Product Information

. 15 Blues styles in tempo order: Slow 12/8; Slow Shuffle; Slow Blues Rock; Medium Shuffle; Blues Rock Ballad; Slow 6/4; 70s Medium Blues Rock; Texas Shuffle; Funky Blues; Medium 6/4; Blues Line Shuffle; Rock n Roll; Fast Shuffle; Mississippi Blues; Bluegrass
. Tempos from 60bpm to 180bpm
. 10 chord variations for every root note in all 15 styles: 6; 7; 7(b9); 9; 7(#9); maj7; m7(b5); m9; m7; maj 'stop'
. Each of the 15 styles includes 15 alternative drum grooves and drum fills in addition to the 'main' drum pattern for that style
. The exclusive musical content in this app is not duplicated in any of the other SessionBand apps
. All loops are offered royalty-free and can be used freely in your own works

Version History Fixes crashing experienced with older iOS versions (12-14) 2.9 03/15/2023 Dramatic improvement in tempo shift/BPM adjust function. 2.8 03/01/2023 Full-screen mode for iPhone fixes drum selector wheel issue. 2.7 01/06/2023 Various bug fixes for iOS 16. Fixes recording and export audio issues. 2.5 12/09/2022 Fix for audio issues with older iOS versions 2.4.3 04/21/2020 Major update

• New 'Track Builder' feature for rapid creation of full tracks
• Audition feature allows instant loop preview within edit screen
• New 2-bar count-in option
• Comprehensive online help accessible from all screens
• Number of stability issues now fixed 2.4.2 04/09/2020 iOS 13 bug fixes (stops freezing-up issues) and also improved export features and file sharing. 2.4.1 10/25/2019 - SessionBand now supports Audiobus 3
- Updated binary to use the latest compiler
- Minor bug fixes 2.4 06/19/2019 • Improved export/backup of SessionBand track files
• Metronome count-in can be recorded
• Fix for A-Z track listing bug 2.3 05/24/2018 iOS 11 improvements and bug fixes 2.2 11/22/2017 • Updated AudioCopy and Audiobus libraries
• Improved Copy/Paste/Cut
• Save loop marker positions
• Option to delete saved tracks and recordings
• Fix audio/video sync issue on later iPhones
• Improved opening of SessionBand tracks from email attachments
• Fix iPad Pro display scaling issue
• Other bug fixes 2.1 08/11/2017 Introducing SessionBand Blues - Volume 1 completely re-built using the latest iOS8 Audio Engine, bringing you even better performance and a number of significant new features including:

* Audiobus iOS8 compatibility (iPhone users please note: due to compatibility issues with Audiobus 2.1.9, we strongly recommend the use of headphones while connecting to Audiobus for best experience).

* All new tempo-shift allowing seamless, real-time tempo change to +/- 50%!

* New transposition feature caters for Bb and Eb instrumentalists looking for the ultimate play along.

* Improved touch responsiveness and faster chord block manipulation means song creation just got even quicker!

* AudioCopy 2.0 compatibility. 2.0 02/18/2015 1.2 12/17/2013