Category: Song Rhythm Tracks

A “rhythm track” for a “song”, fully arranged from count-in to characteristic ending.

Who are Song Rhythm Tracks for?

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

All Musicians!   New Musicians;    Experienced Musicians;     Great Musicians; Really, any musician including Pianists, Guitarists, Horn Players, Singers and even Drummers. The tracks can be used for practice, jamming, gigging and cutting a release. They cover a wide selection of musical genres with thousands of rhythms available. They are best for musicians who play songs or 'numbers'  and wish to have an inspiring rhythmic accompaniment that fits the song they are playing, both rhythmically and in the musical form. They are particularly useful for music teachers and students</str

More Audio Samples now available on HearThis.At

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

Alive Drumming hosts some sample Song Rhythm Tracks and a user-contributed mixes group at HearThisAt, the audio hosting service providing great user and social facilities.  Please contribute your own mixes to the Song Rhythm Tracks User Group at HearThisAt. Hear this set of sample Jazz and Blues Song Rhythm Tracks at HearThisAt [hearthis]https://hearthis.at/matt-hargreaves/set/jazz-and-blues/[/hearthis] <span style="font-famil

How to practice, then how to jam?

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

Learning Melodies in Private Practice

Here are my views on how to go about practicing and jamming.

This is such an important part of the journey of becoming a musician. I wrote this down for the benefit of a musician just setting out on his journey, wanting to know what the key things were that would determine their success.  I know I certainly did not go about it the right way for many years.  I had not had any musical education as a child

How can I get these Song Rhythm Tracks? Are they available on Amazon or iTunes?

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

illustration LouisArmstrong
illustration Louis Armstrong

The tracks are available via Apple iOS mobile App and will later be available via an Android mobile app.

The huge permutations of song forms and rhythms available means the traditional audio file distribution channels of iTunes and Amazon do not fit this new medium of Song Rhythm Tracks.

In particular, Amazon and iTunes do not accommodate the additional assistance that is required for musician's to select the appropriate track.

<a href="

Which app should I get, Song Rhythm Tracks or one of the Sampler apps?

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

Short answer - Any will do just fine!.

Same Functionality

They all have exactly the same functionality.  Song Rhythm Tracks app tends to be the first when a new release comes out but the Sampler apps follow shortly afterwards.

Everything described on the website, in the videos, tutorials and user guides applies equally to the Song Rhythm Tracks app and the Sampler apps.

Choose your factory tracks

Each of the apps comes with a different set of inbuilt factory tracks.

Song Rhythm Tracks has 5 tracks.  This helps new users immediately get the idea of the app.  They can easily be deleted by swiping each left one at a time and there are only about 5 of them.

Sampler apps have more inbuilt factory track

More Audio Samples now available on HearThis.At

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

Alive Drumming hosts some sample Song Rhythm Tracks and a user-contributed mixes group at HearThisAt, the audio hosting service providing great user and social facilities.  Please contribute your own mixes to the Song Rhythm Tracks User Group at HearThisAt.

Hear this set of sample Jazz and Blues Song Rhythm Tracks at HearThisAt

[hearthis]https://hearthis.at/matt-hargreaves/set/jazz-and-blues/[/hearthis]

<span style="font-famil

What song forms does Alive Drumming support?

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

We support all the popular, essential song forms by name - 12 bar blues, 16 bar tunes, 32-bar A1A2 and 32-bar AABA, and about 30 other less common also by name.    The list is increasing!  We also support identifying these same song forms using stick notation.  This simply specifies section lengths in bars, for example, '8|8/8|8', where 'bridge' sections are preceded by a '/' instead of '|'.

Additionally, we support user-defined song forms using stick notation, repeats, and concatenation of up to four (4) parts</

More Audio Samples now available on HearThis.At

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

Alive Drumming hosts some sample Song Rhythm Tracks and a user-contributed mixes group at HearThisAt, the audio hosting service providing great user and social facilities.  Please contribute your own mixes to the Song Rhythm Tracks User Group at HearThisAt.

Hear this set of sample Jazz and Blues Song Rhythm Tracks at HearThisAt

[hearthis]https://hearthis.at/matt-hargreaves/set/jazz-and-blues/[/hearthis]

<span style="font-famil

Song Rhythm Tracks Goes Unlimited Downloads!

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

It is almost October 2021 and Alive Drumming's premier iOS app, "Song Rhythm Tracks" has changed to the "unlimited downloads" commercial model.

Alive Drumming's journey with Song Rhythm Tracks is almost five years in; starting with a desire to provide an easy-to-use mobile app for creating rhythmic backing tracks, Alive Drumming continues to add more and more usability features with every iteration of the app. This year Alive Drumming takes a new turn with a new commercial model for the app and a new product on the horizon.

Reducing Friction

We feel our backing tracks are the highest quality and most flexible backing tracks available, with usability features in a class of their own. There has always been some f

“Jazz and Blues” Sampler iOS App released by Alive Drumming

Alive DrummingLeave a comment

Check out Alive Drumming's first 'Sampler' edition of the 'Song Rhythm Tracks (SRT)' iOS App, the "Jazz and Blues Sampler".

Jazz and Blues Sampler has the same facilities as the standard App. Still, it comes pre-installed with 20+ Jazz and Blues arrangements and an allocation of 4 downloads for your arrangements (more are available via In-App Purchasing). What an opportunity to sample arrangements of these well-known standards before using the App for your arrangements!   It's the same Song Rhythm Tracks App with the