Student Resources

Tuning Apps

Bandmate Tuner (free)

This app tells you what note you're playing AS YOU'RE PLAYING IT! A must have for any middle school musician.

Get it here: iOS and Android

Instrument Bible (free)

The coolest feature in Instrument Bible is the fingering chart! Play a note on your instrument or the keyboard - it will tell you the name of the note and provide the fingering for you!

It is available on every platform!

Tonal Energy ($3.99)

This app does it all - it has a metronome, tunes you, plays drones, and even graphs your sounds!

Get it here: iOS and Android

Metronome Apps

Metronome Ϟ (free)

The best basic metronome you could ask for.

Get it here: iOS only

Tonal Energy ($3.99)

This app does it all - it has a metronome, plays drones, and even graphs your sounds!

Get it here: iOS and Android

Metronome by Soundbrenner (free)

This app by itself is incredible - I use it everyday. It can be paired with a Soundbrenner Pulse to have a vibrating metronome-watch!

Get it here: iOS and Android

Music Theory Apps and sites

Perfect Ear (free)

This helps train your ear to hear notes more accurately, understand rhythms better, and play some games along the way.

Get it here: Android only

Theory Lessons ($2.99)

Made by musictheory.net, this app delivers music lessons about reading notes to analyzing music.

Get it here: iOS only

Rhythm Sight Reading Trainer ($2.99)

The best app to improve on reading rhythms. Worth the money!

Get it here: iOS only

musictheory.net - A free website with lessons and exercises on everything from reading notes and rhythms to Neapolitan chords - and no, they're not like the ice cream. Each lesson has step-by-step instructions to keep anyone from getting lost!

teoria.com - Another free website that tackles many of the same lessons and exercises as musictheory.net - teoria has articles and a reference dictionary that can help you in any situation!

Dave Conservatoire - This free website is set apart by having video lessons and exercises to teach anyone about music theory. It's like having a private teacher, but with videos instead of physical beings!

Rhythm Ruler - A free website that makes rhythms super easy by displaying each measure as a ruler. A quarter note takes 1/4 of the measure, an eighth note takes 1/8 of the measure, etc. Can clap and count your part with/for you!