Jam Session Ready

Jam Session Ready helps musicians who play together in person figure out what to play. Log the tunes you know, start a session with your jam circle or bandmates, and the app shows you the songs everyone already has in common.

No more going around the circle asking "do you know this one?" The shared repertoire is right there.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Build your repertoire. Add songs from a growing catalog spanning bluegrass, old-time, folk, blues, jazz and swing, or add your own. Mark what you know, what you want to learn, and your favorites. Set the key and capo you play each tune in.

• Find your shared songs. Start a session for your weekly jam, browse the publicly listed ones, or join a private session with a code. The app computes the overlap: the songs everyone in the room knows, so you can get straight to playing.

• Build a setlist. Pull from the overlap, search the catalog, or add your own lines, and mark songs as you play them.

• Practice between sessions. Keep time with a metronome (compound meters, gap trainer, tempo ramp), loop a chord progression to solo over, run scales and arpeggios, and drill your ear.

• Discover other musicians. Turn on discovery to find players near you who share your tunes or already know the songs you want to learn, then connect.

• Host it your way. Run an open session anyone can find and join, or keep it invite-only with a share code. People you invite can preview a session before they even make an account.

• Bring your list with you. Import your songs from a spreadsheet, or paste in your song list from Strum Machine.

WHATEVER YOU PLAY

The catalog is built around the traditional session and jam repertoire, with room for Irish and Celtic tunes, blues, jazz and western swing, gospel and shape-note singing, country, gypsy jazz, Cajun, sea shanties, and singer-songwriter material. Whatever you play, your repertoire is your own.

You can also suggest songs to be added to the catalog for others to find and add to their own repertoires.

HONEST AND FREE

The core of Jam Session Ready is free and stays free: your repertoire, jam sessions, shared songs, and setlists, with no ads and no selling your data. I'm one person who plays mandolin, and I built this for my own repertoire practice and jams.

Log what you play, get in a room together, and find the shared tunes faster.