ScatAbility App Reviews

VERSION
2.11
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
18
PRICE
Free

ScatAbility App Description & Overview

What is scatability app? ScatAbility is a practice app for scat singing. It utilizes the simple method of listening and imitation to get you scatting quickly, and musically. The focus is on singing, not thinking, similar to the immersion process of learning a language. Knowledge of theory, jazz chord types, progressions and scales, though beneficial, are not required to use this product.

ScatAbility is easy to use: sing exercises, call & response and etudes with great jazz singers including Darmon Meader, Rosana Eckert, Greg Jasperse, Kate Reid, Justin Binek, Michele Weir, John Proulx, and more to be added soon. Mute the vocals to practice on your own with the backing tracks, and when ready, record yourself, listen back, then export for other uses!

ScatAbility's creator, Michele Weir (MichMusic) is a renowned teacher who has powerfully influenced the development of jazz education around the world through her workshops, books and other materials. Michele's arrangements have been performed by The Manhattan Transfer, The Swingle Singers and New York Voices, and she currently serves on the faculty at University of Southern California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

www.michmusic.com

FEATURES

• Vocal demos by professional jazz singers.
• User-friendly. No knowledge of jazz theory (chords, scales, progressions) required.
• Ability to record yourself singing with the backing track, listen to it, and export your recording.
• Three different product types: Exercises, Etudes and Call and Response.
• Backing tracks available in a wide variety of rhythmic styles, instrumentation and difficulty levels.
• Loop function allows for repeating any section of a track for targeted practice.
• Use the halfway locate function to optionally begin practice at the 2nd half of the track.
• Countoff on/off button to bypass countoff when desired.
• A synth track (vibes sound) that duplicates the vocal is an optional alternative to practicing with the vocal, allowing for greater flexibility in development of personal style and syllable use.
• The mixer allows for adjusting volume levels or muting any given fader: backing, vocal, or synth.
• The chord progression for each exercise is provided and can be visually tracked in real time.
• Complete In-app glossary.


BENEFITS

• Practice anywhere, anytime.
• Learn to scat sing in different rhythmic styles and tempos.
• Develop a great sense of rhythm feel (groove, pocket, articulation) by modeling the demo vocals.
• Get comfortable with a wide variety of different syllables.
• Develop a superior ear for hearing chord progressions and interesting licks and melodic lines.
• Learn to sound stylistically authentic: jazz inflections, vibrato use, tone colors, articulation, vocal turns, and more.
• Organize jam sessions with small groups of friends, anywhere, anytime.
• Prepare for performance by recording then listening back to evaluate.
• Use the Etude backing tracks for practice at singing jazz standard song melodies and lyrics.
• Transcribe the Etude tracks to improve musicianship.

ScatAbility can be applied to use in the classroom; find specific methods and creative ideas for working with groups in the app INFO pages.

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App Name ScatAbility
Category Music
Published
Updated 04 December 2020, Friday
File Size 298.69 MB

ScatAbility Comments & Reviews 2024

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Best music app for vocalist. You have the 7 of the best jazz educators on your phone, teaching you how to scat whenever you want them to. There's nothing better than to do a call and response with Kate Reid at 5am. Thanks Michele Weir!

Finally, an app for jazz vocalists!. A wonderful app that allows vocalists to have a ball while learning to scat. The app comes with a free pack of swinging background tracks consisting of etudes (great for developing scat vocabulary) as well as call and response exercises. Additional song packs of varying difficulties can be purchased. I'm so impressed with all the thought that went into making this app both useful and user friendly. It's a breeze to operate. As far as features, the singer can sing with the vocalist on a practice track and once he/she feels more competent, the sample voice can be removed for a true solo scat experience. You can also loop a particular section, record yourself, AND you can see the chord notations if you choose. Everything one needs is right here! I use this for myself as well as my students and everyone is loving it. Besides, getting to scat with the heavy hitters that are featured in this app will definitely make your day! As it develops, I'd love to have a way to print out the chord notation...although that may be a possibility I haven't discovered yet. Nevertheless, you need this app!

Download doesn’t work. Downloaded scat pack 1 for $10. Didn’t download goes to an error message. When I contacted support they said it may be a memory issue… nope I have a tonne of free memory. I also have the latest model iPhone. It is definitely a bug with the app.

Great Teaching Potential!. All I can say is WOW! This application has such wonderful potential for teaching vocal jazz. Congratulations on a great idea. I was really blown away at how well thought out this app is! I love the fact that the lead sheets are included, and that you can "mix" the levels of the combo/voice. Congratulations to you and all of the "team" that developed this app. There was a time that you would have to travel to the West Coast or New York to trade fours with these professional singers! Now you can do it in your own house for a very small investment. I have purchased three practice sets, and I am very impressed with these musical mentors to help teach young jazz singers how to scat!

A Jazz Musician's New BFF. I can't believe how well-thought-out this app is. As a jazz pianist and vocalist, I know that quality music apps don't come along every day but this one has pretty much blown me away. If I would have had access to something like this when I was a teenager, I would have learned to improvise so much faster! What a resource! Whether you are a beginner, or an advanced student of jazz, this app will help you. I have been performing professionally for nearly 20 years, and I am even having a blast, utilizing all that it has to offer. There are great play-along tracks. You can listen to other professional singers show you how to scat over a wide variety of jazz styles. With one push of a button, you can mute the singer and have the background track all to yourself. With the push of another button, you can easily record yourself and save it, as well as export it in order to track your progress and maybe even send to your teacher. In the information section, there are ideas about how to teach, using the app in classroom settings, with individuals as well as groups. There are even ideas for games that you can play with your students. There are call and response exercises with wonderful common jazz licks and phrases. It's like a tool box with all the basic tools in it. The developers seem to have thought of everything. You can listen through your phone's external speaker, but there is also an option to use the speaker that you use when you talk on the phone, right against your ear. You can be listening to these tracks in a public place, and no one will ever know. And while you sing along with a particular exercise, it is very easy to look at the lead sheet while you listen. You can see each chord and there is a highlight bar that moves as the music goes along. The exercises are in comfortable keys, both for women and men, and the guest artists that performed on the tracks are on point. I really can't say enough good things about Scatability. Just about everything that you wish the app had, it has. I will be requiring my students to download it, and telling all my musician friends about it for the foreseeable future!

They fixed the app and it works just as they promise.. Amended review. They fixed it! Everything works now just as advertised! [I bought two scat packs, and have repeatedly tried to download them. The program crashes when the first download gets to about fifteen percent. I even I installed and reinstalled to no avail. And I contacted tech support but haven't gotten a single reply. Is this product defunct?]

ScatAbility Rocks!. Try this app!! ScatAbility is fun and easy to use! Great for practice and recreation, and it looks great!

Good concept but horrible UX design. I love Michelle Weir and the *idea* of a scat education app, but unfortunately the clunky design is so bad as to make this almost unusable (instructions are hard to find, buttons use low contrast colors so text is hard to read… I could go on). I wondered if Michelle tried to develop it herself to forego the expense of a professional designer. But then I discovered in the app credits that it was designed by one “Leaf cutter inc” company. Ironically when I clicked on the link to learn more about them, it simply closed the app! Yikes. No QA testing either apparently. Maybe if Michelle can get a real professional to fix this design horror, I’ll pay the $$ to get the demos from all the fantastic singers. Meanwhile I’ll keep going through her other excellent resources.

Fantastic App for jazz vocalists and teachers. What a great app! After spending many years using Aebersold minus tracks for practicing, finally a whole program devoted to vocalists! And I really respect Michele Weir as an educator who knew exactly how to fulfill the needs of both beginning and seasoned jazz singers. BRAVA!

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Disappointed. Only 5 tracks in purchase packs? Overpriced

Simplicity superbly done. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It is also a fundamental way to develop artist skill. I cannot imagine how this app could be done any better. A joy to use

Jazz Singer. Invaluable resource!

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Not priced or packaged properly. Great idea, but practice packs should be by level, not singer. There is no point for a beginner to buy a pack with practice tracks beyond their ability. For the price, there should be more tracks in each practice package.

Disappointing. I’ve been waiting for this app for months, since I teach vocal jazz and thought it would be a great practice tool for my students. However, the in-app purchases of “song packs” are priced so high (7 packs @ $10 each) that I can’t expect my students to purchase it for themselves. The song packs are “canned” Band-in-a-Box tracks, with professionals scatting over the computer-generated track. There’s only 5 tracks per pack, but you already get one from each pack for free in the sampler the app comes with - so really you’re only getting 4 tracks for your money. I would have loved to use the “call-and-response” tracks in my class as warmups, but since each song pack only includes 2 call-and-response tracks, I’d have to spend about $70 in in-app purchases to get a decent and varied selection to work with. Finally, I thought maybe I could use this in the car to scat along with myself on the way to work. Unfortunately, it doesn’t at the moment work correctly with Bluetooth audio. So, I’ve struck out there too. Two stars instead of one, because the pros doing the scatting are really some of the best vocal jazz performers and teachers on the planet. However, the pricing and organization of the song-packs is a deal-breaker. It would be a big improvement if they would a) provide more tracks for the money, b) allow you to purchase individual songs (for a student, buying a couple of tunes they really need would still be more compelling), and c) provide packs organized by track type (Etude, Call & Response, Exercise) rather than by singer. As it currently stands, it’s just not worth it.

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Language English
Price Free
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 2.11
Play Store com.leafcutterstudios.micheleweir.scatability
Compatibility iOS 12.0 or later

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The application ScatAbility was published in the category Music on 11 October 2015, Sunday and was developed by Leafcutter Studios Ltd [Developer ID: 391348774]. This program file size is 298.69 MB. This app has been rated by 18 users and has a rating of 4.5 out of 5. ScatAbility - Music app posted on 04 December 2020, Friday current version is 2.11 and works well on iOS 12.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.leafcutterstudios.micheleweir.scatability. Languages supported by the app:

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This update fixes an issue on iOS14 where downloads fail to install. We've also added the ability to listen to the app over Bluetooth.

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