JAMORI Open Jamori

Learn

Learn by making.

Every lesson starts from something that sounds good and ends with something you made. They run inside Jamori, beside you, pointing at what to tap next. 171 lessons in all.

The course11 lessons

From your first beat and your first loop to layers, the song, playing live, your voice, chords, melody, motif, variation, and call and answer.

Bars and song length4 lessons

Steps, beats and bars, phrases of 8, how bars and tempo turn into minutes, and planning a song in blocks.

Harmony and hooks5 lessons

Keys and lead together: chords on keys, stabs or pads, arpeggios, giving each part its own range, and taking turns.

Genres38 styles, 111 lessons

Grouped in families. Club: house, deep house, techno, acid, hypnotic techno, dub techno, minimal, deep minimal, modular techno, hard groove, trance, psytrance, melodic techno. Hip-hop and trap: trap, boom-bap, phonk. Chill: lo-fi, ambient, new age. Bass: drum & bass, dubstep, UK garage. Global: reggae, reggaeton, dancehall, afrobeats, afro house, amapiano. Indian: raga, tala, raga meets the club, Bollywood, bhangra, garba. Pop, funk and disco: pop, funk, disco, synthwave.

Remix the classics10 tunes

Für Elise as trap, Canon in D as house, Swan Lake as trance, Korobeiniki as afrobeats, Sakura Sakura as ambient, and more. Old tunes, new styles.

How the hits work5 lessons

How a drop works, four chords behind a hundred hits, French house filters, the spy line, the two-note hook.

Hand drums5 lessons

Conga strokes and the tumbao, leaving room for the kick, rolls and fills, djembe, and tabla on a house beat.

Mix the groove5 lessons

Level, pan, EQ, reverb, pump and swing, on an Afro house groove.

Make your own sounds2 lessons

Build a clap from bursts of noise and a kick from a falling sine wave, in the Drum maker.

Transitions5 lessons

Riser, sweep and downlifter, reverse, impact, cut and silence, and making your own in the FX maker.

Challenges3

The 60-Second Song, Beatbox Battle and Remix Relay. Each one ends in a finished piece.

Recipes5, below

Short guides that start from a full arrangement and end with your version.

Open Jamori and tap Lessons

Recipes

Five recipes, a few minutes each.

The Start button opens Jamori with the recipe beside you.

A techno track in five minutes

128 BPM · load an arrangement, then make it yours

Start this recipe
  1. Load the Techno starter and press play. It plays as a whole song.
  2. Open Song and watch the energy line move as the parts change.
  3. Tap C to take that layer out of the mix, then tap it again to bring it back. That is how DJs build and release tension.
  4. Pick BASS, then press Generate in Beat until you like the line. Undo goes back.
  5. In Jam, press Build and tap a letter during the build. It comes in on the drop.
  6. In Mix, use Record performance or Share as video to keep it.

Hum a melody into a song

Your voice · your tune becomes the lead line

Start this recipe
  1. Load the House starter. The beat lives in pattern A.
  2. Tap B. Now B plays on top of A, and you are editing B.
  3. In the Voice tab, tap Record and hum 4 to 8 notes, one note at a time (or import a voice memo).
  4. Tap A tune. Listen with ▶ Notes, then send it to Lead melody and tap Write it in.
  5. Now pick Chords that fit it and tap Write it in again. Keys now plays chords under your tune.
  6. Open Song and tap Fill a club layout to turn it into a full track.

Rap a verse over a boom-bap beat

90 BPM · lyrics in time, then your vocal on top

Start this recipe
  1. Load the Boom-bap starter. It swings hard, at 90 BPM.
  2. In the Voice tab, write your verse under Lyrics, one line per bar.
  3. Press play. The current line lights up, so you can rehearse in time.
  4. Record the verse with your phone's recorder, then Import a vocal.
  5. Tap Make it sound like a record and Double it, then place the slices on the VOX track in Beat.

A raga ambient piece

Bhupali · tanpura, bansuri and tabla, played by you

Start this recipe
  1. Load Raga ambient. It is in raga Bhupali, with the tanpura drone on.
  2. In Jam, choose Tabla. Tap the dayan and bayan along with the theka, and slide on the bayan to bend it.
  3. Choose Instrument and pick the sitar. Its frets are only the raga's notes. Pull a note sideways for meend.
  4. Switch on Evolve so the melody keeps changing by itself every four bars.
  5. Turn Rec on while you play. Your strokes and notes land on the grid.

Build to a drop

Lead-ins · why drops hit, and how to make one

Start this recipe
  1. A drop hits because of what comes just before it: rising tension, then a moment of space.
  2. Open Song and find a part where the energy line jumps up.
  3. On the part before the jump, choose Lead-in 8 bars. Keep Riser, Roll, Cut and Impact on.
  4. Make that earlier part thinner by taking the kick out of it, so the drop has something to bring back.
  5. Playing live instead? In Jam, press Build: eight bars of tension, then the drop.