ACME Play-A-Longs

The chart moves.
You play.

Professional play-along videos for working jazz musicians. Moving chord charts that follow every change in real time. Every standard. Every key. Every instrument.


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The chart moves with you
No static chord sheet on the stand. The active bar lights up in real time as you play. You always know exactly where you are — chorus, section, chord, beat.
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Every instrument, every key
Concert pitch, Bâ™­ instruments, Eâ™­ instruments. Piano, guitar, tenor sax, trumpet, alto sax, bari sax. Every song comes in the key you actually read.
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Built for serious players
Straight-ahead jazz audio. Professional rhythm sections. No loops, no shortcuts. The kind of track you'd actually bring to a practice session or a lesson.

200+ Jazz Standards

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Free Player's Guide

The Hardest Easy Tune in Jazz

Erroll Garner wrote Misty on a propeller flight from San Francisco to Chicago, fingers moving on his knees before he ever sat down at a piano. He couldn't read a single note of music.

This guide gives you everything you need to navigate the form, the bridge, and the four-chorus arc — written the way liner notes used to be written. By a musician, for musicians.

Tension & release framework — the lens that unlocks the whole tune
Live notation — switch between Concert, B♭, and E♭ instantly
The Ray Brown story — and why it changes how you play the bridge
2-week practice protocol — 20 minutes a day, one problem at a time
QR codes to the audio — scan from your stand and play along
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ACME Play-A-Longs  Â·  Free Guide
The Hardest Easy Tune in Jazz
MISTY
A complete guide to the form,
the bridge, and the four-chorus arc
Erroll Garner  Â·  1954  Â·  Eâ™­ Major  Â·  65 BPM
Live Notation — 3 Instrument Keys
QR Codes → Audio
Tension & Release Framework

ACME Blues Pak Vol. 1

Five walls every jazz player eventually hits. Five songs in F blues that break right through them. One key, five completely different worlds — straight-ahead, bebop, hard bop minor, funk, and motivic.

Bags' Groove Billie's Bounce Work Song Watermelon Man + One More

Get the free Misty guide above — Blues Pak subscribers get first access at launch.

What's in the Pak
Per song · All 5 songs · $20
Deep HOW TO SOLO guide — the form, the problem, the vocabulary
Original notated etudes — Concert, B♭, and E♭
Chord charts — all 3 transpositions
Listening guide — specific recordings, specific timestamps
2-week practice protocol — specific, time-bound, at the instrument
QR codes to ACME YouTube videos — free audio, no download needed
Launching June 2026  Â·  $20  Â·  acmeplayalongs.com