Strum Machine - Backing Tracks

🇺🇸 United States
Luke Abbott, LLC  | 
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4.1
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147
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App Age
5y 6m
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Last Update
Sep 18, 2025
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$4.99 - 4.99

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4.07
4.57
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
146
593.4K
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5y 6m
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$5
$42
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51MB
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Strum Machine - Backing Tracks
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For bluegrass, fiddling, etc.
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Elevate your music practice with customizable backing tracks generated with audio from real instruments (guitar, mandolin, and standup bass). Strum Machine can play any chord progression, in any key, at any speed. It's the only backing-track app built specifically for players of bluegrass, old-time, fiddle tunes, and other such genres. (Although it works pretty good for some jazz/swing now, too!) Why musicians of all levels love Strum Machine: • Realistic Sound: Backing tracks are assembled in real time from studio-quality instrument recordings. • Quick Adjustments: Instantly adjust the speed/tempo, change the key, loop part of a song, etc. • Auto-Speedup: Gradually increase the BPM at the end of every repetition for training purposes. • Chord Reference: Clean, beautiful chord charts, which can be displayed in letters or numbers (i.e. "1-4-5"). • Extensive Library: Over 1,400 songs (mostly from bluegrass and old-time) ready to go, with thousands more posted on the community forum. • Simple Song Editor: Add your own songs (or edit existing ones) in minutes. Almost every chord you can play on a guitar is available for use. • Customize the Band: Choose from a variety of built-in band styles, then optionally customize each instrument individually – adjust the strumming pattern, add automatic bass runs, and more. • Organize & Share: Create song lists for practicing or even performing, and share them with your friends or on the community forum. • Cross-Platform: Sync your custom songs, lists, and preferences with any device you use Strum Machine on: phone, tablet, or computer. (It works offline, too!) • Responsive Support: If you run into any problems or have questions, write us an email or post a message on the forum and someone will get back to you within a few days! Strum Machine is under active development and we're always working on ways to make the app even more useful to our users... while keeping it uncluttered and intuitive first and foremost. Discover how Strum Machine can improve your music practice today, for free! Download Strum Machine and play a handful of demo songs instantly, without signing up. For the full experience, including access to all built-in songs and the ability to create your own, start a free trial. Terms of Use: https://strummachine.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://strummachine.com/privacy Audio powered by the FMOD Engine, © Firelight Technologies Pty Ltd.}
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Rating
4.1
147 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Dave Rosenfeld
02 Dec, 2025
5
What a joy! The adjustments you can make to the instruments is remarkable, like the amount of swing, anticipating or dragging the beat, types of walking bass; great for jamming and also for teaching and demonstrating these musical subtleties. Thank you!
grassgirl 2
06 Oct, 2025
5
I use this every day. It is simple to use. It was recommended by a friend. We have spread the news. Luke answers any questions one might have, almost instantly. My music teacher is so pleased that I constantly make use of such a great tool.
NAFlute
19 Sep, 2025
5
I was an early user, and Luke is absolutely the best developer that I’ve ever experienced. He’s a bluegrass musician, so he knows how the app should function from the users perspective. Always squashing bugs quickly and delivering timely feature enhancements. You won’t be disappointed.
Angry picker
16 Sep, 2025
1
Seriously, why can’t they just offer a one time fee and be done with it. Haven’t used this app in a couple of years, but they kept charging me even though I thought I’d cancelled. Be wary.
Jeff987654321
07 Sep, 2025
5
I hate subscriptions, but I’ve made an exception with Strum Machine. I’m working on my mandolin chops, and Strum Machine has been really helpful getting up (lol) to speed!
earlemelodies
19 Jul, 2025
5
Love this strum machine…it has spoiled me rotten. Been playing Banjo for two years n it adds a whole new dimension to my picking. Easy to navigate. Any questions n Luke gets right back to me. Sounds like a band backing me up. Thankyou Jim Panky for mentioning it on you tube. I will never leave home without it. Well done, Luke!
Grampa Paul
13 Jul, 2025
5
This is a must have app if you are learning new tunes, or even polishing up your old tunes.
Mastazi
28 Apr, 2025
5
TL;DR - for the bluegrass or folk/old time musician, Strum Machine is much better than iReal Pro I recently came to bluegrass from a jazz background. As you can imagine I had iReal Pro and, since I already paid for that app, I tried to use it for bluegrass as well, but the experience wasn’t great. Then I heard about Strum Machine and that it is made specifically for bluegrass so I decided to get the free trial and… I was instantly hooked! For folk, old time and Bluegrass there is absolutely no comparison, Strum Machine is 100X better than iReal.
JES_________________
09 Apr, 2025
5
This app is literally amazing. It's a perfect backing track app but not only is it a backing track app! It has so many songs that other sites find difficult to get the correct chords/rhythm. And then you can adjust the rhythm, adjust the tempo, take out instruments, add instruments, adjust volumes of instruments, adjust the pan from left to right of certain instruments, change the strumming style of instruments, update songs to suit your own playability (or in my case how the family played it wrong for many years but still sounded OK haha), change chords within an existing song or create your own for backing tracks. The owner is constantly updating things and is actually reachable by email which is unheard of!!! This is worth the monthly subscription people... seriously.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.06
Voted: 147
App Store Link:
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Categories: Music, Education
Size: 51MB
iAP: 4.99 - 4.99 $
App Age: 5 years 6 months
Release Date: Jul 08, 2020
Last Update: Sep 18, 2025
Version: 1.425.0
Version history
1.425.0
Sep 18, 2025
Uses a new default audio engine, custom-built just for Strum Machine, with improved reliability and slightly lower battery usage.
1.424.5
Sep 10, 2025
This version includes a newly-rebuilt audio engine (opt-in for now) that should be more reliable. If you've had any issues with audio playback recently, please go to the top-left menu > Advanced Settings and enable the new September 2025 audio engine.
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