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This week's app is the Pink Piano app:
Pink Piano (http://bilkontechnology.com/) Learn to play musical instruments with wonderful songs; explore different sounds and develop musical skills; interface is colorful and bright; learn music while playing exciting games; improve musical skills, develop memory, concentration, imagination, and creativity as well as motor skills, intellect, sensory, and speech; whole family can develop their musical talent and compose songs together; instruments include piano, xylophone, drums, flute, and organ; each instrument has real sounds and representation; compose melodies with the different instruments; record while playing the piano; record mode; show/hide notes on keys; show/hide bubble animation; show/hide flying notes; (iOS 8.0 or later; Android 4.1 and up).
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This week's app is the NoteRacer app:
NoteRacer (http://noteracer.com/) Tool for beginners and experts alike to learn and improve musical skills; practice reading musical notes; customize which notes to practice and learn; play game to advance through many levels while musical notes scroll faster and faster across the screen; climb the global leader-boards while tracking stats along the way; multi-player mode allows user to play against other users; users may toggle the view between piano keys and note names; for pianists as well as other musicians; (iOS 9.0 or later; Android 5.0 and up). This week's app is the Note Flash app:
Note Flash (Pranoy Chowdhury) Improve sight reading skills for sheet music; listens via the microphone to make sure user plays the correct note in the correct octave; accidentals (sharp and flat notes) along with ledger lines for advanced players; shows graphs on progress in recognizing notes more quickly; play the note shown on the screen on the piano and the app will listen via the microphone; user must play in the correct octave; if played correctly app shows a new note on the screen; built for practice; makes note reading into a game; can select which hand to practice or do both randomly; variety of themes or use own picture for theme; no ads; needs microphone access to listen to piano; does not connect to the Internet and microphone data is safe; (iOS 10.0 or later). This week's app is the Piano Technical Work app:
Piano Technical Work (http://www.bamsworld.com.au/?page_id=252) Piano scale practice partner; scale player with adjustable tempo; hear the selected scale played at the desired speed; playback starts one second after play is pressed allowing user to get hands in position if playing along; improve timing by practicing with the built-in metronome; because a scale should be even in timing and also of a controlled dynamic, the metronome provides a simple tick tock to assist in not accenting on certain beats; view the correct note spelling of the selected scale along with the scale structure and breakdown of upper and lower tetrachords; see the correct fingering; fingertips are highlighted on the hands selected as the scale player plays the scale; improves identifying the correct finger number with the correct finger for both left and right hands; show or hide certain parts of the display to help maintain focus; see and hear the scale; as each note is played by the scale player see the note highlighted in the notation and on the keyboard in the interface; for both students and teachers; tool for teachers to clearly explain both theoretical and practical concepts; designed to be read from the music stand of a piano; clear and accurate manuscript quality notation; view the keys to play on a fully scaled 88 key piano keyboard; includes Major, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor, Natural Minor, and Jazz Minor scales; (iOS 8.3 or later). This week's app is the Piano Scale Book app:
Piano Scale Book (http://www.bamsworld.com.au/?page_id=266) Contains common scales to learn and practice for pianists of all levels; interface includes music notation and a keyboard overview along with fingering for both left and right hands; includes major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, jazz minor, and natural minor scales; direction button to view ascending or descending component of a melodic minor scale; graphics for clefs where notation is displayed; handy pocket reference; includes common scale types; fast key selection; (iOS 8.3 or later). This week's app is the Chord Magic app:
Chord Magic (http://www.bamsworld.com.au/?page_id=406) Translates different chord symbols commonly found in music to their actual note representations with correct spelling; manipulate the inversion and position the chord anywhere on the full eighty-eight key piano keyboard; add the selected chord to a custom collection to hear chords in context with other chords making it easy to see and hear chord changes along with music notation on a grand staff; chord picker; full size eighty-eight key piano keyboard; tap anywhere on the keyboard to play the selected chord; notation display with swipe interaction for voicing/inversion manipulation; swipe up or down to change the selected chord’s inversion or swipe left or right to move the chord down or up an octave; preset and custom collections; auto correction; (iOS 8.3 or later). This week's app is the Name That Note app:
Name That Note (http://www.bamsworld.com.au/?page_id=272) Improve reading of music in a fun way; note spelling quiz for all ages; offers a challenge at any level; learn the note names on the staff; select from treble, bass, or both clefs; includes three levels of difficulty: 1. Beginner Level - Answer ten questions with six seconds allowed per question; note positions are restricted to one ledger line above and below the staff; no accidentals or key signatures; 2. Intermediate Level - Answer twenty questions with three seconds allowed per question; note positions are restricted to two ledger lines above and below the staff; accidentals are introduced but without key signatures; 3. Advanced Level - Answer thirty questions with two seconds allowed per question; note positions can extend as far as four ledger spaces either side of the staff; key signatures are introduced to test note reading skills; fluent note reading requires a certain amount of memorizing positions on the staff, recognizing accidentals, and knowing key signatures; uses a flash card style way of displaying the question along with four answers, one correct and three incorrect, to choose from; like a multiple choice question, only one answer is the correct one; after an answer is selected, or the time limit for that question runs out, the correct answer is displayed briefly before going on to the next question; once there are no more questions, a total score is given; turn the timer off to enable practice mode and take time when learning; for more of a challenge can enable continuous mode; when in both continuous mode and practice mode the questions never end and a percentage of correctness is displayed; when the timer is turned on and continuous mode is enabled, the game will go on indefinitely until an incorrect answer is given; when this occurs a score is given for the total number of questions answered consecutively; supports both portrait and landscape orientations; supports split screen for devices that have that feature; native support for 32 and 64 bit devices; (iOS 9.2 or later). This week's app is the MusiQuest: Personalized Music app:
MusiQuest: Personalized Music (https://www.musiquest.com/) Composition app; teachers can assign projects to students, give feedback, and share students’ songs with parents and administrators; Compose Music Simply: Tap or draw to create melody, harmony, chord, bass, and drum parts; slide notes left or right to change duration; drag them up or down to change pitch; choose from over 20 real sampled instruments from a variety of musical styles; Teach Notation Step-By-Step: toggle Staff Notation on to see where notes fall on the bass and treble clef staves; toggle Notehead Notation on to see eighth, quarter, half, and whole note rhythms; combine Staff and Notehead notation to display a complete score; Track and Share Progress Over Time: track each student’s growth over time with individualized student portfolios; give students feedback on their projects during music classes or in between; export songs as audio files to share them with parents and administrators; students can login themselves when enabled in the dashboard; teachers can logout from school using RDA code; (iOS 9.0 or later). This week's app is the MusiQuest: A Musical Adventure app:
MusiQuest: A Musical Adventure (https://www.musiquest.com/) Makes creating and learning about music more accessible, rewarding, and personal; inventive experience intended to turn device time into a musical adventure; write songs with 40+ real instruments using block or standard notation; over 250 guided lessons; play with more than 500 pre-built song grooves; syncs across devices, backs up automatically, and can be used on iPads or the Web; for educators and administrators, the dashboard makes it easy to track students’ progress and manage multiple accounts at once; for parents, hearing their child’s songs is like seeing them bring their art home from school; preserves musical tradition and provides a modern, creative learning experience; (iOS 9.0 or later). This week's app is the Musicnotes Decks: Music Flash Cards app:
Musicnotes Decks: Music Flash Cards (http://www.musicnotes.com) Learn the basics of music theory; music notation flash card app; three full decks included; Music Symbols including 50 basic musical notation symbols along with definitions and audio pronunciations; Treble Clef Notes including two full octaves of notes with notation, name, and audio; Bass Clef Notes including two full octaves of notes with notation, name, and audio; view cards in two modes: Flash card mode where the symbols are shown but titles and definitions are hidden and List Mode which allows user to flip through the symbols in an easy-to-browse list for use as a music notation resource; includes both British and American English terms and pronunciations; optimized retina graphics; designed by professional arrangers and composers; (iOS 5.1.1 or later). |
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