Beta testers needed / Play with my app! It's fun!
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Well, the overview video ended up still being almost 4 minutes. There’s a LOT to cover, and I only briefly touched on each item. The good news is I managed to shrink my video production time from 14 hours to 3. LOL! Maybe I need to stop being so picky about the edits. 
Honestly, I think everyone using Jam Trainer would benefit from watching this video, especially if you’ve only been using it to play along with the existing songs in the library.
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This is an excellent video, in my opinion. I believe you nailed it. The pacing is great and voice descriptions are crisp, concise, and clear. And it tells the user exactly what Jam Trainer is and what it can do for the user. And it is great you have the comment that it is real instruments playing.
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Thanks! It really came together nicely. Working on other tutorial videos now. Who knew this was such a chore? Well, I bet Ben knows pretty darn well.
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I feel like I might be pestering you guys about the tutorial videos, so I’m just going to post this link to my YouTube channel and leave it at that. Two more videos there since my last update here.
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The two new tutorial videos are excellent.
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Thanks! I’m getting the flow down now. 1.5 hours to make that last one. By tomorrow afternoon, I figure I should be traveling back in time when I make a video. 
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I’m a little behind and reading all this. If you need a page Turner device for testing , I can bring you one.
Videos look great and really close the gap for showing all the features you’ve made.
Man, getting one of those pedals in my hands would be awesome! I’ll take you up on that offer. Are we jamming Thursday? If so, bring it with you.
Thanks for the video comments. I had no idea what I was getting myself in to when I signed up for video tutorials. It’s so tedious! Now that they exist, I wonder if I should put little links around the site for people to use.
Not this week. vacation bible school at the church so we’re kicked out. Back next week. Tell where I can bring it to you.
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New feature added last night. Guitar licks! Choose from 12 different licks. When I get home from work today, I’m going to work on adding buttons on each of the licks so you can hear what the lick sounds like before adding it to your chart.
This was a fun one to build, and I think really sets Jam Trainer apart from its competition.
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Y’all, I feel like this thing is getting really close to a production ready app. I’d love it if you’d get as picky as possible with it. Knit pick the heck out of it… and I mean down to things like "Hey, I noticed that this line is thicker than the others:
I’m combing through it several hours a day (even spent a few 18 hour days on it) but I’m only 2 eyeballs, and I’m already seeing that other people are using it in ways I couldn’t have even imagined.
If I feel like you have been providing valuable information that has improved the app, you will be rewarded.
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Password reset was not successful for me. It didn’t provide further information. Thus, I couldn’t log in fresh so the following may or may not be accurate.
The swinging isn’t right to my ear. I am hearing some rhythmic variation, but it is not what I feel it can be. I would suggest for 4/4 full swing, give every note that is on the up beat a location in time equivalent to where the third note of a triplet would be. In other words, the “ah” of one-and-ah. The 1/8 note upbeats are the only notes that will be where you would hear the swing. I haven’t critically listened to the 6/8 swing, but that’s a whole different beast.
All that said, it is going well!
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I’ve had to do the password reset a couple of times and each time it went to my spam folder.
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That’s actually what I’ve been working on this morning. It’s a real bear because of all the moving parts. 3 different entities involved in it.
On a separate note, today marks 1 month since the first iteration of this app. In just a month, we’ve gone from this:
To this:
Which includes all of this:
What a ride!
Digging in to the email issue a little more and here’s what I’m finding.
“Mail providers like Yahoo and Gmail use engagement history to score senders. A domain that just started sending email has zero positive history. This typically takes 2–4 weeks of legitimate sending to improve organically. Nothing you can do to shortcut it.”
And there’s actually something you guys can do to help.
" The fastest way to build inbox reputation is engagement. When someone finds an email in spam, ask them to:
- Mark it Not Spam / Not Junk
- Move it to their inbox
- Add
info@jamtrainer.comto their contacts
Each of those actions is a positive signal to Yahoo/Gmail.
The reputation timeline is real — even with perfect DNS and List-Unsubscribe headers, new domains typically take 2–4 weeks of consistent, legitimate sending before inbox placement improves noticeably. There’s no technical shortcut for that part."
In my case it isn’t sending the email. I get a message “Could not send reset email. Please try again.”
I think I got it, Mike. Do a browser refresh and try again. Let me know!
Same results. I am using the url
https://cqsys-ares.com/mark_sandbox/app.html
is that still the desired place for testing?
That’s the problem. Try using the production link. All of this email stuff depends on users being in production. Otherwise I have to code it for 2 different URLs for every change.