Music Apps!

04/14/2020

Check out these music apps! Heaps of different apps to help with a range of music learning activities:

MuseScore app is there to help aspiring musicians in their journey to master the music they love. It offers free, powerful, and easy-to-use music notation software to create high-quality sheet music, with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful.

Using this music notation software, you can create musical scores for piano as well as guitar tablature and percussion sheet music. Beyond notation and tablature, you can also add chord names and lyrics to your sheet music. MuseScore also has a good variety of export options.

Music Tutor (Sight-reading)

Learn to read sheet music and improve your sight-reading skills with Music Tutor app. Develop your speed and accuracy in reading sheet music by identifying music notes in timed sessions. Choose to practice between treble, bass and/or alto clefs for a duration of 1, 5 or 10-minute sessions. Music Tutor helps with ear training and practicing your listening (aural) skills. During the practice session, every note is displayed along with the sound of the note.

Flowkey is one of the easy and best way to learn piano. The app allows you to learn piano with the songs you love. The application flowkey is a series of courses to help people from the very beginnings to the more able develop their piano skills. It is aimed towards any student wanting to develop their understanding and keyboard skills, and covers not only the skills to play the keyboard, but also the theory behind this, development of this as a musician, and a range of songs to work through. The display is very simple to navigate and understand, and the course is really interesting and versatile.

Yousician - Learn Guitar, Piano, Bass & Ukulele

Yousician will help you learn to play the piano, guitar, bass or ukulele. Yousician is an interactive music app that's designed to really provide a fully-formed experience for just about everyone to better their instrument playing.

One of the features that make Yousician stand out is its exhaustive choice of learning options. Use Practice Mode to slow songs down. This will help you build the coordination you need to play songs up to speed. You can also learn songs in parts; then once you've mastered each part you can try the whole song.

The app is designed to give the player a chance to improve through practice and competition. When you're starting, you can tackle the standard lesson structure, and as I mentioned, the lessons ramp up at a very comfortable pace.

Simply Piano by JoyTunes is one of the widely used and most popular Piano learning application available on both iOS and Android platforms. Here you can learn from basics, like understanding the sheet music, to advanced level, like playing from both hands. This app is perfect for beginners as well as advanced players. You can personalize your workout as well as try your hand at tons of popular songs available in its library.

GuitarTuna: Guitar, Bass tuner

Guitar Tuna app is built by guitarists for guitarists and justifiably referred to as the "easiest, fastest and most accurate free guitar-tuning app out there", GuitarTuna turns pro as it introduces highly practical, informative and user-friendly add-ons- no matter what your musical expertise. Equipped for bass, 12-string guitar, mandolin, ukulele and banjo, as well as guitar, its outstanding tuner and comprehensive chord library - games to help you learn them - make this a must-have addition to any guitar player's repertoire.

Chord!

Chord app is tailored to help you master the various chords. Chord! is no doubt the best source of information on various guitar, bass, and banjo chords. You just need to drag and drop your preferred chords to write a song on this app. In addition, you can come up with unique fingerings by tuning the chords as well as generate beautiful print-ready PDF document to share with friends and colleagues in seconds.

The key feature of the app is its chord fingering engine. Instead of having a list bundled with it, the app generates the fingerings on the fly, just for you and as you wish: number of fingers, bars chords, capo, alternative tuning.

GarageBand is a digital audio workstation (DAW) and music sequencer that can record and play back multiple tracks of audio. Built-in audio filters that use the AU (audio unit) standard allow the user to enhance the audio track with various effects, including reverb, echo, and distortion amongst others

NoteBrainer is an iOS app for learning to sight read. Great for kids and adults trying to learn how to read sheet music by sight. Just play for a minute or two each.

Free online piano for students who don't own their own at home.

Beat Snap is the ultimate drum pad controller and drum machine app. Make beats in a snap and music on the go.Create sounds, mix them on Launchpad and record your performance to share with others music lovers and musicians. Give it a try and you'll make amazing beats before you know it!

Learn violin online with Trala, the #1 violin app. Trala teaches you how to play violin using instant feedback and video lessons from. Learn posture, string crossings, scales, tone quality, vibrato, sheet music, and scores of classical songs.

https://www.music-for-music-teachers.com/note-naming-worksheets.html -sheet music for students to continue performance practice

https://www.sphinxkids.org/mm_instruments.html - music match game for students to reinforce the families of music

Tone Matrix by Andre Michelle

Add (or remove) sounds by clicking on a box on the grid

Press the spacebar to clear the whole grid and start again

Based on the pentatonic scale

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Turn your computer keyboard into a musical keyboard

Play along with your choice of Youtube videos

Select your scale type, mode, and root, and have hours of fun!

AudioTool

The big brother of the Tone Matrix

Add drum patterns, other sounds and change the tempo

Produce music online

Online Instruments

The next few online "instruments" are a bit of fun and would work really well with an interactive whiteboard. Many don't allow you to record or export your songs, so don't go composing your masterpiece using these apps unless you're notating it as you go! The better ones allow you to play notes using your computer keyboard in addition to clicking on keys or buttons with your mouse.