Saving backing tracks on ipad…

[George H]

Any of you iPad users know how to do this?
Is it possible? Would be great as the website is pretty limiting.
Thank, george harris

[Richard G]

Hi George, the easiest way to save backing tracks when using an iPad is to save the the file to your Dropbox Account, if you have one. The process is straightforward.

* Click the ‘DOWNLOAD MP3’ on Brians lesson page.
* On the screen which automatically opens and plays the sound track, click the action button (top right, square with arrow pointing upwards)
* You will be prompted as to where you want to save the file, choose/click Dropbox. The file will then download to that destination.
* Click/open Dropbox icon on one of your home screens, and you will find the MP3 file resident and permanently there.

Hope that helps,
Richard

[sunjamr]

You can’t download backing tracks from a web site directly onto your iPad. But I have all my backing tracks on all my devices – computer, iPad, and iPhone. Here’s how I do it:

(1) Download the backing tracks onto my computer.
(2) Drag and drop backing tracks into a Playlist I created in iTunes (I named it “Jamtracks”).
(3) Plug iPad (or iPhone) into computer using USB cable.
(4) Open iTunes, click on the iPad icon near the upper right corner, which gets you into a window for the iPad.
(5) Scroll down the window and choose “Manually Manage Music and Videos”.
(6) Go to the Music tab, and select my “Jamtrack” playlist.
(7) Click “Apply” or “Sync”.

After this, the jamtracks have been loaded into the iTunes library on your iPad, and you can play them through the Music (= iTunes) app on your iPad. But how do you loop them, or slow them down for practice? Answer: You go to the App Store and download the most important app that a musician can have: Anytune. Anytune automatically accesses your iTunes library. Anytune is a fairly simple app, but there are a few tricks to using it. Just go to Youtube and search for “Anytune”, then watch a couple of the tutorials.

BTW, the Rokit studio monitors have a stereo mini-jack input, so I just plug my iPad straight into my monitors and get awesome sound. Also, many guitar amps have an Aux input (which often says MP3 on it).

Sunjamr Steve

[sunjamr]

Further to getting backing tracks onto an iPad: There are backing tracks for sale in the iTunes Store. I bought some for some songs by David Gilmour, Dire Straits, etc. If you access the iTunes Store from your iPad, then buy some backing tracks, they will download directly onto your iPad and show up in the Music (= iTunes) app.

So here’s an idea: If Brian would sell his backing tracks in the iTunes Store, anyone could easily download them straight onto their iPads. And Brian would make more money. And more people would learn about Active Melody. Of course, Brian uses the free backing tracks as an incentive to become a Premium Member, but I think the incentive would still be there, since as a Premium Member, you can download over 300 backing tracks for free vs paying over $1.00 for each of them on the iTunes Store.

Sunjamr Steve

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