Amanda Wolfgram
Here's a great list of Music Apps for your iPad or iPhone!
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A fun game that puts your rhythm skills to the test!
This game is highly entertaining with a great soundtrack to play along to and has the added benefit of teaching you to read the most commonly used music rhythm notation.
This game has been developed in collaboration with professional musicians and educators.
"This is an excellent app to recommend to your students/parents, or to use as part of your music lab if you have one. Students will learn to look ahead more as they tap these rhythms, and will learn the important skill of listening to themselves and others."
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Test yourself to help improve reading of music in a fun way!!!
Name That Note is a note spelling quiz for all ages. Whether you’re a novice at reading music or a virtuoso this app offers a challenge at any level.
Similarly to how we learn to recognise the individual letters of the alphabet, Name That Note can help you learn the note names on a staff (stave).
Select from treble, bass or both clefs.
There are three levels difficulty:-
Beginner Level - Answer 10 questions with 6 seconds allowed per question. Note positions are restricted to 1 ledger line above and below the staff. There are no accidentals or key signatures.
Intermediate Level - Answer 20 questions with 3 seconds allowed per question. Note positions are restricted to 2 ledger lines above and below the staff. Accidentals are introduced but without key signatures.
Advanced Level - Answer 30 questions with 2 seconds allowed per question. Note positions can extend as far as 4 ledger spaces either side of the staff. Key signatures are introduced to really test your note reading skills!
Fluent note reading requires a certain amount of memorising positions on a staff, recognising accidentals and knowing key signatures.
Name That Note uses a ‘flash card style’ way of displaying the question along with four answers, one correct and three incorrect, to choose from.
Just 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 to the next question.
Once there are no more questions a total score is given.
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This app listens to you playing your instrument!
Watch the notes fly off the screen when you play them correctly!
'My Note Games!' comprises a suite of simple games to teach music theory and instrument mastery.
All games are free to try. You can upgrade to the premium versions within the app.
Games can be purchased individually or in bundles.
Music practice will never be the same!
Minimum spec: iPod3, iPhone3GS or iPad
HEAR IT, NOTE IT!
Listen to the music.
Write what you hear using our simple drag-and-drop interface.
TAP THAT NOTE!
Tap on the buttons to name the notes.
48 levels each for Treble, Bass, Tenor and Alto Clefs.
The first 4 notes of each clef are free.
The Premium version includes all the rest.
PLAY THAT NOTE!
Recognises the notes you play on your instrument*.
Unlock 18 levels and master your first Octave.
How well can you play the whole octave in-tune?
The first 3 notes of all instruments are free.
The Premium version includes the rest of the notes for ALL instruments PLUS ‘Tap That Note’.
PLAY-A-DAY!
Choose a lesson to play with your instrument**.
Play the eight phrases and get the best score you can.
Come back the next day and try and beat your score.
See how your sight reading has improved over the last month.
Lessons: Crotchets, Minims, 3/4 Time, Quavers, Various Key Signatures.
‘Play-A-Day!’ uses an almost limitless supply of computer generated phrases.
The Crotchets lessons are free.
The Premium version includes the rest of the lessons for ALL instruments.
PLAY-A-CAROL!
Play, sing and whistle carols. Get a score for accuracy. Try and beat it tomorrow.
TOONR THE TUNER
See the note you are playing displayed on the screen.
Watch what happens to Toonr as you play higher and lower notes.
Use Toonr to tune your Guitar or even tune MyNoteGames to your out-of-tune Piano.
Toonr is Free.
Instruments supported by ‘Play That Note!’: Saxophone, Piano, Guitar, Recorders, Woodwind, Bb Trumpet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Vocals and Whistling.
** Instruments supported by ‘Play-A-Day!’: Saxophone, Piano, Guitar, Descant/Soprano Recorder, Treble Recorder, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Vocals and Whistling.
Designed to be used under the supervision of a parent or music teacher, ‘My Note Games!’ uses note recognition technology.
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Note: TuneTrain supports the iPad 2 and higher. TuneTrain does not support the 1st gen iPad.
TuneTrain is a music creation app, where kids can quickly create and edit melodies through a fun line-drawing mechanic.
In the world of TuneTrain, people live at various heights in colorful vertical buildings. To help these people get around, the user can draw a train line to connect them to each other. The magic is that the people represent musical notes and the train line represents a musical melody that kids can create and hear.
The universe of TuneTrain is completely governed by musical rules. The various heights that people live at represent different pitches; the distance between people represent note lengths; and even the buildings show the underlying chord structure that best accompanies a melody. By learning to play in a world governed by musical rules, kids will also learn about the fundamental structure of music.
Our goal is not only to make people feel confident in their ability to make music, but also to plant seeds of interest for a lifelong musical journey.
NOT a Free app - $4.99
GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play a piano, organ, guitar, and drums. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use a Touch Instrument, a built-in microphone, or a guitar and instantly record a performance with support for up of 32 tracks*. Record performances from third-party music and effect apps directly into GarageBand using Inter-App Audio in iOS 8. And share your song using email, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, or AirDrop for iOS.
Play your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch like a musical instrument
• Play musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard
• Tap out beats with acoustic and electronic drum kits
• Record your voice using the built-in microphone and apply fun sound effects
• Recreate legendary guitar rigs with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects
• Use the Sampler to create new instruments from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard
• Record compatible third-party music apps right into GarageBand using Inter-App Audio
Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments
• Conduct an entire string orchestra with just one finger using Smart Strings
• Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard
• Strum chords on an acoustic and electric Smart Guitar, trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords, or switch to Notes view to try your hand at the real thing
• Groove with a variety of Smart Basses using upright, electric, and synth sounds
• Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with Smart Drums
Start a Jam Session with your friends
• Use your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to play or record live over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with up to three of your friends
• Tempo, key, time signature, and chords automatically sync to the bandleader
• Jam with any Touch Instrument or live instruments like electric guitar or voice
• The bandleader automatically collects everyone's recordings so they can be mixed as a song and shared
Create a song anywhere you go
• Arrange and mix your song with up to 32 tracks* using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops
• Use the Note Editor to adjust or fine-tune any Touch Instrument recording
• Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play
• Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume —solo or mute any track or adjust pan, reverb, and echo
• Choose from over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song
Share your songs
• Keep your GarageBand songs up to date across all your iOS devices with iCloud Drive
• Create custom ringtones and alerts for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch
• Share your songs directly to Facebook, YouTube, and SoundCloud
• Email songs right from GarageBand
• Export your song and add it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC
• Share GarageBand projects directly between iOS devices using AirDrop for iOS
* 32 tracks available on iOS devices with the A7 chip or higher. 16 tracks available on iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPad (4th generation), iPad (3rd generation), iPad 2, iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation).
Part puzzle, part game, part drum machine! Have fun with rhythm and learn to read core elements of standard notation fluently. Also useful for young learners of English as a foreign language, as it provides examples of stress patterns in UK English, improving accent.
This app introduces 7 common rhythm patterns that can be 'read and recognized'. When we read ordinary text, we group the individual letters into words, and quickly become much more fluent than if we spelled out each letter. We can do this with rhythms too - and read common patterns much more quickly than if we worked out each beat.
Young children are very open to visual associations, and can learn to recognize standard notation by looking at the patterns as whole chunks. Complete beginners can have fun with rhythm patterns, reading from real notation, without any confusion.
Our website has more info, and links to educator resources, including free rhythm font, worksheets and graphics:
http://woodchuck-rhythm.moonfruit.com
This educational game is already used in thousands of schools to introduce children to pitch and improve their musical ear for notes. Each of the blobs in the chorus sing a note then king blob sings his note. The aim of the game is to identify the blob that sang the same note as king blob. It’s more difficult than it sounds but if things do get too easy for your child you can increase the size of the choir.
Train your musical ear with this wonderful game! This resource will improve your child’s ability to pick out a note from a sequence.
NOT a free app - 99 cents. StaffWars is a game designed to help beginning and intermediate musicians learn, practice and woodshed the note names of the treble, alto and bass clefs. THE APP for anyone who wants to master these clefs.
