Bluegrass Guru 12+

Fantastic

This is a fantastic app to have in your pocket. No more lugging around a songbook so you can remember those few words of a song that never seem to stick. And having unlimited search capabilites for way less than you spend on strings in a year = serious win.

Good start but couldn’t really try it out

I love the idea of this app but I can’t fully endorse it as of this version. I downloaded the free version and tried to search for a few common bluegrass jam songs (using the content preloaded in the app). Each time I search, it miscounted the number of searches I had completed. So, I got to search for three songs rather than the 20 promised.

In the app, nothing is pre-filled except the song list. This means the user must search for the lyrics of each song and will quickly need to pay for a membership to use it.

One a search is completed and the lyrics saved, each song has the lyrics. But the app has no means or mechanism to help you determine the melody or a chord pattern. I can understand why neither of those are included due to copyright restrictions, but you can find this information on other apps and websites. That makes those sites more useful than this app.

I hope the developer will look at the search problem and consider improving it, or offering more free surges to people trying the app. Also, being able to edit the song text files (to add key and chord pattern) would make it more useful.

Kudos to the developer for pre-organizing the content by tempo and time signatures. That is a welcome addition. Bonus kudos for serving the bluegrass music lover at all! With some tweaks, this could become my go-to jam app.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for taking the time to write a review of the app. Sorry if you experienced any problems with it. If you'd like to try out the free searches again, I could send you a promo code. I'd love to hear more of your feedback and exchange some ideas. There's definitely a lot of room for improvement, but I've also got to make sure it's viable for me to keep this app alive (since it costs me $ to keep the search engine going). Send me an email to support [at] bluegrassguru.com

Cool Jam tunes app

This is a great app to get. It helps me to learn new songs. You can even put your own songs in this app. It's great to put this app on your phone during a jam session. It has great search engines to find the song your looking for.