Quick start

Ten minutes from opening the app to a set you can practise today and play at your next session. You don't need an account, and it works offline.

We'll take three jigs that go well together, for example The Kesh, Out on the Ocean and The Lilting Banshee. Use any three tunes you like.

1. Find a tune

   Tap BROWSE at the bottom of the screen and type at least three letters of the tune's name in Search The Session. Other names the tune goes by are searched too. Tap the tune to open its page with the sheet music.

2. Save it to your tunebook

   Tap the bookmark at the top of the tune page (Add to tunebook). The tune is saved as Learning. Tap the bookmark again any time to change it to Later or Known.

3. Pick your setting

   Most tunes on The Session have several settings: different people's versions of the same tune. The line under the name says which one you're looking at, e.g. Setting 1 of 9.

   • Step through them with the arrows on that line, and press play to hear each one.
   • Or tap the line to see them all in a list.

4. Lock it as yours

   When you've found the version you play, tap the padlock at the end of the setting line. It closes, and in the list that setting is marked YOUR SETTING. The tune now always opens on it, in sets too.

   You can still try other settings. The line then offers back to yours, and the lock stays where it was.

5. Do the same for the other two tunes

   Back to BROWSE and repeat steps 1 to 4. All three are now in your TUNEBOOK.

6. Make a set

   Tap TUNEBOOK, then SETS, then New set (top right, or NEW SET if you have no sets yet).

   • Tap the three tunes in the order you play them. They're numbered as you go.
   • Tap DONE (3), give the set a name (or SKIP), and the set opens.

   On the set page you can play the whole set straight through, each tune in your locked setting.

7. Add it to a session list

   A session list holds the sets you start at one session, ready to glance at when it's your turn.

   • On the set page, tap ⋮ (More), then Add to session list…
   • Tap New session list…, name it, e.g. Tuesday at Hughes's, and tap SAVE. The set is in it.

   Find your lists under TUNEBOOK › LISTS. At the session, Open session list shows it on a dim, black screen you can glance at without lighting up the room.

8. Add it to today's practice

   Still on the set page, tap ⋮ (More), then Add set to today's plan. You'll see Set added to today's plan.

   Tap PRACTICE: the set is in today's plan, ready to go. Use Add set to another day… to plan ahead instead.

Next

• Learn mode: on a tune page, learn it a phrase at a time, with the notes lit up on a banjo, mandolin or fiddle neck.
• Record yourself: record a tune or a set and listen back.
• Sign in with Google (Settings › Account) to keep your tunebook, sets, lists and practice the same on all your devices.

Stuck, or something doesn't match what you see? Write to hello@mychoonz.app.