Now you too can

"find compatible musicians across the world, plug in your instruments into a computer, and collaborate in real time, anytime and anywhere "

well almost, but for the adventurous and tech savvy air guitars will soon have a new connotation.

With independent artist it is necessary to go where the jobs are. This I am sure makes scheduling sessions difficult for musicians. A recent conversation prompted me to  pull up some  files on  software that allowed virtual jamming. In fact recent upgrades are even more promising allowing musicians to jam with friends over the Internet as if thet were in the same room, without sound quality being sacrificed and ultra-low to real time affects. They can sing, play a real piano, play a real sax, guitar with whatever effects and guitar amplifier they want with other musicians across the world.. “If your computer can record it, then you can jam with it.”  So claims a growing segment of new media applications now on th e market

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NINJAM is a program that allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X and Windows. Apparently there is a slight (time) delay with this program.

Newcomer  Ejammin ejammin download free trial!  
is set to introduce another alternative. Unlike Ninjam however EJamming is said to synchronize the musicians’ sessions. Ejamming will be a subscriotion based program but are now offering 30 day  trials.

Ialso recently became aware of Musigy 

Imagine the impact this could have also in exposing youth and musicians to other cultures and opportunities for collaboration.