Join a public jam session
The gist in 10 seconds
- Jam sessions, in the menu: three tabs, Sessions, Proposals and Open studios. Open to all, free.
- Open studios: rooms by style, always open. One click on Enter and you play with whoever is there.
- Sessions: jams on a set date, run by Jamodio. You sign up with your instrument; the room opens an hour before.
- Want to play on a set date? Suggest a jam: with 2 musicians in, it’s confirmed; if nobody has joined you by the day before, it’s called off.
- Before entering, you see who is playing and the trip to the room's server, measured from where you are. 6 musicians at most per room; no camera, no recording, no Library: you play.
- The Audio Engine is required, as everywhere. On Free, a jam does not use up your 30 minutes of the day.
Open studios: come in whenever you like
The Open studios tab — style, city, who is playing, trip from where you are
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Open the Open studios tab
In Jam sessions. Each card is a room: its style, its city (“Paris”), and who is playing right now, by name, or “Open — come in whenever you like” if nobody is there. When musicians are playing, the tab says so (“2 playing”).
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Look at the trip from where you are
Jamodio measures the trip to each room's server: “measuring…” then “Trip ≈ 4 ms”, for example. That is the time the network takes, on its own: once inside, your bubble gives the real latency, from the others' sound to your ear. If you're far from all our servers, a box at the top of the page tells you and offers to request one in your region; you can still enter.
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Filter, choose
Filter by Style; the rooms closest to you, with the shortest trip, come first. A “full” room waits for a seat to free up.
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Enter
Enter: the studio door checks that your Audio Engine is running, then you enter the console, with your MY SEND strip and one strip per musician. Set your send as usual → First settings of your strip.
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Talk, listen, play
The ON AIR talkback to say hello and suggest a song; the chat for the chart. The others hear you as you hear them, with everyone's bubble to know where each millisecond comes from.
Sessions: a jam on a set date
The Sessions tab lists the jams run by Jamodio, week by week: the style, the day, the time, often the key, tempo and form, and who is coming. The chart is provided (View the chart): everyone plays the same thing.
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Sign up with your instrument
Sign up — Guitar (your profile’s instrument), or “Pick your instrument:” if you play several that still have a free spot. You see who is coming and what is missing (“Still needed: Bass”). Your name is visible to other musicians. Once signed up: “Registered — Guitar”, with Change instrument and Cancel my registration. Places are reserved for musicians close to the jam’s server: if you’re far from it, the jam tells you so (“Places reserved for musicians close to Paris”) instead of signing you up. Sign up from the computer you play on: that’s where the trip is measured from.
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The room opens an hour before
Time to set up your sound. Before that, the unfolded session shows the opening time (“The room opens at 20:00”). Then, Enter the room: it is reserved for registered musicians. Once the room is open, you can no longer cancel your registration.
What a jam does not have, on purpose.
No camera (audio first), no recording, no Library, and nothing is saved at the end: a jam is the moment. To record a take or present a chart, that is a private studio. The rooms and the sessions are run by Jamodio; to play on a set day and time, suggest a jam (below). Servers are in France for now; a server opens where musicians ask for one.
No camera (audio first), no recording, no Library, and nothing is saved at the end: a jam is the moment. To record a take or present a chart, that is a private studio. The rooms and the sessions are run by Jamodio; to play on a set day and time, suggest a jam (below). Servers are in France for now; a server opens where musicians ask for one.
Suggested jams: play on a set date
In Jam sessions, jams on a set date are split across two tabs:
- Sessions: the jams run by Jamodio, plus the musicians’ jams once confirmed, marked “Suggested by the community”.
- Proposals: the jams suggested by musicians, still “to confirm”. Each line gives the style (“Blues jam”), the date, the time, and where it stands: “1 of 2 musicians in · 1 more needed”.
The Proposals tab — the form, then the jams to confirm
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Suggest a jam
Suggest a jam, at the top of the Proposals tab. You complete a sentence: “I’m suggesting a jam: Rock at 21:00, I play Guitar”, then you pick the date, from the day after tomorrow to four weeks from now, one week at a time. The time runs from 10:00 to 23:30, on the half hour, in your own time zone. The button repeats your choice: “Suggest the jam on Monday 9 November, 21:00”. Your jam is played on our server closest to you; if you’re far from all our servers, the form tells you so.
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You’re the first one in
Your spot is saved, with your instrument. Before you confirm, the form sums up “What happens next” in three lines. You can have 3 suggested jams pending at most, until they’re confirmed or called off.
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The others say “Me too”
Each musician picks a spot, with their instrument: six musicians at most, as in every jam. Changed your mind? Cancel my registration. Until it’s confirmed, a jam with nobody left in disappears; once confirmed, it stays on the schedule.
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With 2 musicians in, it’s confirmed
As soon as one musician joins you, the jam moves to the Sessions tab, marked “Suggested by the community”, and becomes a session like any other: the room opens an hour before, for registered musicians. You’re both told in the bell, at the top, and by an email “It’s on!”. A reminder follows when the room opens.
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Nobody joined you? It’s called off the day before
Still on your own 24 hours before the start: the jam is called off, so you don’t end up alone in an empty room. You’re told in the bell and by an email “… is off”, whose Suggest another date button opens the form straight away.
You choose how you get these updates in My account → Notifications → My jams, on the “Updates on my jams” line: in the app, by email, both, or neither.
“There’s already a jam that day”? Join it.
If a jam of the same style already exists that day, suggested or planned, the form shows it to you (“There’s already a Blues jam on Tuesday 28 October at 21:00 — 1 of 2 musicians in”) with a Join it button: one jam that fills up beats two half-empty ones.
If a jam of the same style already exists that day, suggested or planned, the form shows it to you (“There’s already a Blues jam on Tuesday 28 October at 21:00 — 1 of 2 musicians in”) with a Join it button: one jam that fills up beats two half-empty ones.
Where you come across suggested jams
- My studios: the last tile, “Feel like jamming?”, offers Suggest a jam or See suggested jams.
- The top bar: upcoming jams rotate there. Suggested jams in your profile’s styles, over the next seven days, show up there too, marked “Suggested jam · to confirm”, with Me too.
- The Sessions tab: none of the sessions suit you? The Suggest a jam link, at the bottom of the list, opens the form.
If it does not work
- “You're far from our servers” at the top of the page: the trip to our nearest server adds time to every note. You can still enter the open studios. The Request a server in my region button records your request: the more of you ask in a region, the sooner we open a server there. An Ethernet cable doesn't shorten the distance, but it stabilises.
- “Places reserved for musicians close to Paris”: the trip from your place to this jam’s server would be added to every note, for you and for those listening to you; its places go to musicians close to that server. The open studios stay open to everyone. Far from all our servers, the Let me know when there's a jam near me button records your server request. “Couldn't check your distance”: Retry measures again.
- “full”: six musicians is the maximum. Come back a little later, or pick another room.
- “Room reserved for registered musicians”: it is a session’s room. Sign up in the Sessions tab if a spot is left, then enter.
- The door asks for the Audio Engine: as in a private studio. Install it or launch it → Install the Audio Engine.
- “This place was just taken”: someone picked the spot for your instrument just before you; take another one if your profile has another instrument, or pick another jam.
- “All rooms are taken at that time”: other jams are already planned at that moment; pick another time.
- “You already have 3 suggested jams pending”: wait until one of your suggestions is confirmed or called off, or join another musician’s.
- “This jam can’t be joined any more”: a suggested jam is decided the day before; after that, it takes no more musicians.
- You want to keep a trace: not in a jam. Invite the musicians you met into your studio, through the Community → Find musicians.
Still stuck? Write to support@jamodio.com: we reply within 24 hours.