Little Session: Irish Tunes
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Description
Little Session — your Irish traditional music companion.
23,000+ tunes from TheSession.org, sheet music, chords and real-time fingerings for 17 instruments. Everything works offline. One purchase, no subscription, no account.
TUNES & SHEET MUSIC
23,000+ tunes bundled in the app — reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, slides, slip jigs, slow airs and more
Search by name, filter by type, switch between the community settings (versions) of a tune
Notation rendered from ABC, with zoom, tap-a-note to hear it, and a built-in ABC editor
Identify a tune by ear: play 8–10 clear seconds and the app searches the catalogue
Export to PDF (staff or tablature) and MusicXML
PLAYBACK BUILT FOR LEARNING
Speed slider from Learning pace to full Session pace
Loop the tune, a single part (A, B…) or a selection, with an optional gradual speed-up on each pass
Lilt control to swing the beat — or set it dead straight
Metronome, bodhrán groove and drone under the tune; mute to read the staff in silence
17 INSTRUMENTS, LIVE FINGERINGS
Winds — tin whistle, low whistle, Boehm flute, uilleann pipes, bombarde, biniou kozh
Strings — fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, cittern, plus capo and custom tunings
Keys & reeds — piano, diatonic accordion (B/C, C#/D), chromatic accordion, Anglo concertina
Notes light up on the instrument as the tune plays; fretted instruments switch to tablature
Picking suggestions (∏ / V) for plectrum players
CHORDS & ACCOMPANIMENT
Automatic chord suggestions from a modal analysis of the melody, editable on any note
Chord diagrams under every chord name: DADGAD guitar and GDAD/GDAE bouzouki necks, piano bass staff, accordion button charts, uilleann regulator keys
Tap a shape to edit it, hear it, and apply it to that bar, the whole tune, or as your default
SETS, REPERTOIRE, SESSIONS
Build sets like at a real session — reorder, tag, play them end to end, with suggestions of tunes commonly played together
Session mode: a large, high-contrast display you can read at arm's length
Love tunes, tag them, add a note and attachments; tag folders keep your repertoire in order
Import a TheSession.org member's tunebook and sets
Sessions map — 3,600+ traditional sessions worldwide, with venue, schedule and importable repertoire
TUNER, METRONOME, COMPOSER
Chromatic tuner with cents gauge, adjustable A4 (415 / 440 / 442 Hz) and a reference A you can play
Standalone metronome with lilt and speed trainer
Composer: write a tune note by note, or play into the mic and let the app write it down — never auto-corrected. Two-staff piano mode, automatic chords, import and export as ABC, MusicXML or a share link
PRACTICE & PROGRESS
Play-along trainer, three methods: with the score, over a backing through headphones, or melody-first phrase by phrase — the app listens and scores your timing and notes
Daily streak, mastery per tune, milestones and 12 Irish ranks from Promeneur to Samildánach
"Find the note" game to learn your instrument's layout
SOUND
Bundled soundfont for instant playback, or download MuseScore General and free CC0 high-quality packs — plucked strings, fiddle, piano, accordion
BRETON TUNES TOO
Gavotte, an dro, hanter dro, plinn, fisel, laridé and ridée are properly typed in the catalogue, with bombarde and biniou kozh fingerings.
PRIVACY & PRICING
No account, no analytics, no data collected — everything stays on your device and works offline. Favourites, sets, tags and compositions export to a backup file you can import elsewhere.
Free: the whole 23,000-tune catalogue, sheet music, playback and 5 instruments (tin whistle, fiddle, flute, guitar, piano), up to 5 sets.
Premium — one-time purchase, no subscription — unlocks all 17 instruments, unlimited sets, tune recognition, chords and accompaniment, the full composer and unlimited games.
Tune data from TheSession.org, shared by musicians worldwide.