Description: For musicians from pros to beginners, whether you sing, play a brass, woodwind or stringed instrument or any type of guitar, this app provides a set of feature-rich practice tools that gives fun and rewarding feedback. It’s much more than just a tuner!
Description: Tempo is the bestselling and most accurate metronome on the App Store. Features include different time signatures, different rhythms patterns for simple and compound meters, visual feedback with pulsing LEDs, customizable accent patterns, tempo tap function (tap along to see how fast/slow something is going), and a HUGE range of tempos (from 10 to 400 beats per minute). Free and paid versions available (the free one works fine!).
Description: The NinGenius Music Ultimate app is available for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire on phones, tablets, and chromebooks. Learn ALL the essentials of music theory and watch your students quickly master their notes, fingerings, rhythm and theory in your band, orchestra or general music classroom! This is slightly different from the one we often use during lessons, but it allows all platforms to be used and is more specific to the development of the individual student.
Description: StaffWars is a game designed to help beginning and intermediate musicians learn, practice and woodshed the note names on the grand staff, treble, alto and bass clefs. It is highly customizable. You can set which notes you want to work on and spend time with only those notes.
Description: Built on the success of the original 'StaffWars', StaffWars Live offers game play designed to aid students in instrumental practice. Choose your instrument, key signature, scale and note range, then play the notes that appear on the staff with your instrument to destroy them before they damage you clef. Notes get faster with every ten correct and you get three lives.
There are lots of great apps out there, but not everyone has a smartphone. This is a great alternative.
There are lots of great apps out there, but not everyone has a smartphone. This is a great alternative.
Free lessons and customizable exercises to help you with note reading, ear training, and more!
This is a great (free!) way to make recordings on your own at home. You can even save them directly to Google and share them with friends and family!
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