Jam
A full-band backing track — drums, bass, and keys generated live rather than looped from a file — that starts the second you press play, so you can solo or strum without a song in front of you.
Jam is what you open when you want to play without a plan. There's no song to pick, no chords to read — just a groove, a key, and a band underneath you. It opens from Home's Just jam card rather than living in the tab bar, because it isn't somewhere you browse. It's something you drop into.
Picking a groove
Jam opens already playing. There's no countdown, no "get ready" screen — press play and the band is there immediately.
A row of genre grooves sits above the drums: Rock, Blues, Jazz, Funk, Shuffle, and more, each one swapping the whole feel the moment you tap it. Below that, the drum pattern itself is editable — a live 16-step grid across kick, snare, and hi-hat. Tap a cell and it toggles on or off in real time, while the band keeps playing underneath your changes. The presets are a starting point, not a limit.
There's no count-in when you first open Jam, but there is one — optional — when you record. A count-in earns its keep when you need to land cleanly on beat one for a recording. It's just friction when you opened the app to noodle for five minutes between other things.
Key and scale
Pick a key and a mode — major or minor — and the band transposes to match. Next to it, a fretboard diagram draws the scale that goes with what's playing: the recommended scale for the key and mode you picked, plus a pentatonic alternative if you'd rather keep it simpler. You know what to solo with before you've played a note.
The band editor
Open the band editor and you get a tabbed sheet with each part controlled on its own: mute the drums outright, choose the bass style and feel, pick a keys instrument and pattern. None of it's locked together — run bass and keys with the drums off, or strip it down to one instrument, however the moment calls for it.
Recording a take
One tap records the mic — your guitar plus whatever the backing is playing through the speaker — into a saved Jam Take. Turn on the optional 3-2-1 count-in first if you want a clean run-up instead of starting mid-thought. Takes are listed afterward, playable right there, and exportable or shareable like any recording in the app.
Exporting the band
Separately from recording yourself, you can capture the backing track on its own — drums, bass, and keys, no mic involved — to a shareable audio file. Useful for practicing over the same backing outside the app, or handing a groove to someone else without your playing baked into it.
Saving a setup
Once a groove, key, tempo, and band combination is worth keeping — including any edits you made to the drum pattern — save the whole thing as a named setup. Recall it later and you're back exactly where you left off, without rebuilding it from scratch.
Performance Mode
Turn the device sideways and Jam switches to a wide, hands-free layout: a big BPM readout and the transport on the left, groove pills, the drum sequencer, and the key/scale diagram on the right. It's built for propping the phone or iPad on a music stand and playing without touching the screen — everything you'd need to glance at is sized to read from a few feet back.
