Try the exercise generator
Pick a scale and a pattern, or a chord progression: the exercise is written on the staff and you can listen to it straight away.
This is a reduced version of the GEN app, with no sign-up. The items with a padlock show what the app adds.
Progression
Key
Material
Chromatic approach
Path
Range
Chords and scales: Dm7 DorianG7 MixolydianCmaj7 Major
Major II V I – C – Ascending arpeggio
Volumes
What the app adds
The demo generates one-octave exercises on six scales and, in one key, on three chord progressions. With the GEN app your practice becomes a path you can save and measure.
Over 30 scales in every key
Modes of the major and harmonic minor scales, melodic minor, pentatonic, bebop, diminished, whole-tone and chromatic scales.
24 patterns
Groups of four, three and five notes, leaps of a third and a fifth, ascending and descending arpeggios to apply to any scale.
18 articulations
Combinations of slurred and detached notes to suit each pattern: two slurred and two detached, three and one, and many more.
Two and three octaves
Longer exercises that cover the whole range you want to work on.
The range of your instrument
The exercise starts on the lowest note and reaches the highest note of the clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, flute, violin, trombone or guitar.
Save your exercises
Every exercise you generate stays in your library, ready to reopen the next time you practise.
Progress chart
Record the metronome speed you reach and watch it grow over time, exercise by exercise.
Download as PDF or image
Print the score or put it on your music stand as a PDF or PNG file.
Practice playlists
Line up several exercises in a single score and build your own practice session.
Octave transposition
Move the exercise an octave up or down with one click.
Chord progressions and turnarounds
Major and minor II V I, blues, Rhythm changes and nine turnarounds, in one key or in all of them, in the standard range or in that of sax, clarinet, flute and trumpet.
Your own chord progressions
Write your chords bar by bar, as on a lead sheet, and generate exercises on them: the scale for each chord is suggested automatically.
Jazz standards
A catalogue of over 1300 standards: search the tune by title or composer and generate exercises on its chords, on the whole tune or on one section, with the same materials as the chord progressions. From the saved exercise you transpose it and save it in the other keys.
Materials, scale patterns and chromatic approach
Roots, guide tones, arpeggios, 1 2 3 5 and 1 3 4 5 cells and scales; plus the patterns of the scale generator played on every chord and the chromatic approach from below, from above or as an enclosure.
Bass, piano and drum accompaniment
Listen to the exercise over double bass, piano and drums, with or without swing; switch off the line and play it yourself.
Tags, notes and search
Organise your archive with coloured tags, write your own notes on each exercise and find it again by searching its title.