@farplayapp.bsky.social
FarPlay is a cutting-edge app that allows you to play music with others over the internet as if you were in the same room
3/3 Want to start your own Open Sessions? Sign up to join the FarPlay Meet beta: farplay.io/b/meet2511
dantepfer.com
benpiano.com
2/3 This is just one of many serendipitous musical moments from Ben Lewis's Open Sessions on FarPlay Meet, our new platform that let's you connect with the wider community of FarPlay users, free to all subscribers.
01.11.2025 21:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/3 My Funny Valentine, 6700 km apart
Our own Dan Tepfer on vocals in Paris, France and Ben Lewis on piano in Chicago, improvise on Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine" 6700 km apart.
3/3 Check out our tips for using FarPlay for teaching: farplay.io/b/ls25
stephanniemoorevoice.com
2/3 With FarPlay, Stephannie and Reagan can effortlessly talk and sing over each other without playing the game of "no, no, you go ahead." Reagan is studying musical theatre as a BFA undergraduate in Lynn University’s Department of Drama.
20.10.2025 03:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/3 Talk and sing with each other naturally in voice lessons with FarPlay
Vocal coach Dr. Stephannie Moore writes, "This video was from one of Reagan’s voice lessons last year and I loved revisiting it! Wait until you hear how she sounds this year!"
3/3 Sign up to test FarPlay Meet: farplay.io/b/bmsu
Check out Ben's post on our blog, where you can listen to more clips from his Open Sessions: farplay.io/b/bfj
benpiano.com
2/3 They met in one of Ben's Tuesday Open Sessions, which you can join using FarPlay Meet beta, our platform that lets you connect with the wider FarPlay community, free to all subscribers.
13.10.2025 02:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/3 Join Ben Lewis's Open Sessions on FarPlay Meet!
Ben Lewis (piano in Chicago) and Jean-Luc Landry (electric bass in Montreal) play Paul McCartney's "Blackbird" in this excerpt, about 860 miles (1400 km) apart.
2/2 Marco plays in the Gomalan Brass Quintet and is a professor of trumpet at Bolzano Conservatory in Italy. Stefano is principal trumpet of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
Tips for teaching with FarPlay: farplay.io/b/mpsf25
Side-by-side images of Marco Pierobon and Stefano Flaibani playing trumpet on FarPlay Text: Teaching live across 9000 km with FarPlay Partial image of stylized globe showing path across Eurasia connecting Parma, Italy to Shanghai, China.
1/2 Teaching live across 9000 km with FarPlay
Marco Pierobon writes, “Great lesson today with Stefano Flaibani on @farplayapp.bsky.social some 9.000 km apart, between Parma, Italy and Shanghai, China!”
2/2 Learn more: farplay.io/b/plc-b
FarPlay users learned about this feature at our support session Sunday, June 29th, 2025. Monthly support sessions are available free to subscribers and students of teachers with FarPlay For Teachers subscriptions. Sign up at farplay.io/b/lsms.
1/2 Share clickable file links in FarPlay Chat
Need to share a new chart quickly with your student or band? Just paste the link to your shared folder of PDFs (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) into FarPlay Chat, which makes your link clickable for other musicians in the session!
2/3 Get started with FarPlay for free: farplay.io/b/sc25
07.09.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02/3 Corinne writes, "David Liao at FarPlay has been instrumental in making this a total win for everyone, moving beyond Zoom into this incredible platform made with musicians in mind!"
@davidliao.com
FarPlay wordmark Screenshot of FarPlay Video window showing Corinne and 7 masterclass participants Text: Singing together online in a masterclass with FarPlay
1/3 Corinne Bach uses FarPlay to teach masterclasses online in her "Singing Circle" program
07.09.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 02/2 Stephannie writes, “Ben and I have never met in person. He found out that I was using FarPlay and he was looking for some fun collaboration. This was a live, synchronous run through that we did. ... it’s a pretty amazing thing to be able to do this together”.
stephanniemoore.com
benpiano.com
1/2 Stephannie Moore & Ben Lewis rehearse Sara Bareilles’s “She Used To Be Mine” 1400 miles apart
Stephannie Moore on vocals in Florida and Ben Lewis on piano in Chicago met through FarPlay.
2/2 For more information, including a link to the instructions for turning Signal Enhancements off in Windows, visit farplay.io/b/nr.
Sign up for our next monthly support session: farplay.io/b/mmo
1/2 Instruments cutting out? Turn noise reduction off!
Does the sound from instruments cut out even though speech sounds great? Attendees at our monthly support session Saturday, July 19th, 2025 learned how to fix this with the Mic Mode setting on Macs.
2/2 Being thousands of miles apart doesn’t mean you have to stick to ballads. Pianists Dan Tepfer (Brooklyn, NY) and Thomas Enhco (Paris, France) team up 6000 km apart to deliver their rhythmically charged take on Chuck Wayne’s jazz standard "Solar" — in real time using FarPlay.
21.08.2025 03:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1/2 Transatlantic rhythm: Dan Tepfer & Thomas Enhco perform “Solar” between Paris & New York
21.08.2025 03:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thenthpowermusic.com
www.musicmasterscollective.org
www.fullmoonresort.com
"A very sincere, personal shoutout and THANK YOU to our friends at @farplayapp - this app, paired with their TOP DRAWER tech support, made this concept a reality. We are so grateful for the insight and passion you put into making a real-time communication platform that is accessible to everyone."
03.08.2025 04:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Retreat to Music is a nonprofit that was part of the team that made the magic happen. Here's what they had to say:
03.08.2025 04:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Two-time Grammy-winning bassist Oteil Burbridge is playing in Dead and Company's concerts this weekend in San Francisco — but that didn't stop him from jamming and teaching at the "Roots Rock Revival" camp this week in upstate New York, 2900 miles away.
03.08.2025 04:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2900 miles can’t stop Oteil Burbridge from jamming with Roots Rock Revival
03.08.2025 04:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 03/3 If that doesn't fix the problem, make sure everyone has turned VPN off, as attendees of our monthly support session Sunday, June 29th, 2025 found out.
Learn more: farplay.io/b/vpn
Sign up for our next monthly support session: farplay.io/b/vmo
2/3 Make sure everyone's using an Ethernet cable to connect their computer to the router that receives the internet signal where it first enters their home, with their computer's Wi-Fi turned off.
18.07.2025 21:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/3 Turn VPN off to fix blurry video and high latency
Getting murky or blocky video, possibly with unusually high latency?
