Leave a Review ABRSM Music Theory Trainer
Good but not great
My son has used this for a few years but a lot more recently in preparation for his grade 5 exam to help with revision. He hasn’t used the information itself- just the questions which have been fine. It would have been helpful to have the sections in the app to reflect the sections of the exam- like 1) Rhythm 2) Pitch 3) keys and scales so you can revise the appropriate section. Also may be to reflect the kind of questions in the online exam.Show lesscxashdb
Potential to be great
This has the potential to be very very good but from a teachers point of view it’s useless. We need to be able to pic any topic on any grade to practice those topics and bits with students there and then. Not having to work through each section to get to to it. Introduce a teacher unlock all function and I’ll change the rating to 5 star.Show lessGhawkins1984
Useful tool, needs updating
I’ve found this really helpful, I bought it last year when I was learning grade 1, thinking that it would see me through to grade 5, however abrsm have since updated the syllabus and the app has not been updated to reflect the changes. Still useful, but do not rely on it for revision purposes.BuggOfBuggs
Excellent but missing...
This is really helpful in learning music theory and testing understanding - I would recommend purchasing it - apart from its missing explanations of ‘terms and signs’ in the knowledge and learning section... it just assumes you know all of these rather than gives an explanation which would make the app more comprehensive without having to look things up.Show lessCJCJ01
Convenient and useful
Great experience. Please recode such that we can save our progress in each individual exercise and section. It’s frustrating having to redo a section every time I need to exit the app.
Thank you :)The sushi one
Good app, very useful teaching aid
Good app, works well. How about now including an "unlock all levels" mode for teachers? I heartily endorse not letting pupils on to the next level until they have mastered the current one. But we teachers often demo the app, and we also encounter pupils who have come to us in order to address one specific theory problem. We're often too busy with teaching to play through all the levels ourselves!Show lesspianistandprivateteacher
Areas that need improving to make it 5*
This app is good to test your base knowledge but has areas for improvement.
If you make a true/false mistake, the app merely tells you that the correct answer is the opposite of what you chose.
It would be a much more useful tool if the app showed the actual answer to the question so you could learn and improve, not just telling you that you should have chosen true/false.
After all, this is surely the whole point of the app.
On the whole though the app is a good place to enhance your theory knowledge.Show lessBadgersPurse
A Wonderful Resource!
This is my favorite app from ABRSM, and my favorite method of studying for the dreaded Grade 5 theory exam. It’s very well designed and easy to use. It divides up the material into truly bite sized portions and reinforces learning. I am now confident that I can and will pass my Grade 5 Theory Exam with no problem. I am currently preparing for my Grade 3 practical exam, and have not yet sat for a theory exam. I am very confident that with the help of this handy and amusing app I will pass the Grade 5 theory exam with no problem. One still must learn the material, and there is a lot to learn, so I am starting to prepare two years ahead of the theory exam, and I recommend everyone else do the same. As wonderful as the app is, one must still actually leave enough time to really absorb the material. One thing I love most about this app is that I can use it for a minute here and a minute there... I use it in waiting rooms, in line at the grocery store, while waiting in my car to pick up my son from school, while I am on hold on the phone. It’s that easy and that convenient. I don’t have to actually set time aside, I just make my study time fit whatever odd moments that come up here and there.Show lessWaitlossgyrl
This is a great app
I’ve been playing this for a while now and it’s fantastic it improve my theory a lot I started of not knowing much but soon after some practise I managed to do great. I would recommend this app to everyone who isn’t really got at theory 😊😆😃😀😄😁☺️😉Sasaxin
Good attempt, work needed
This is a fresh release so I’m willing to put up with a few bugs and display issues. So far nothing has been a show stopper, with the biggest problem on my iPhone 7 being some of the items, the scales in particular, are very small and quite difficult to see as a result. There are also some display issues, such as text on the screen at the end of a quiz being in a container too big for the space allowed, so you only see part of the text and can just about work out what it says.
One annoying issue is a Grade 1 quiz where I can’t get past a yellow “reasonable” effort, despite getting every question correct each time I try it!
On the whole, this is a very positive app design and I may revise my rating from 4 to 5 stars over time if development goes in the right direction. I definitely recommend it despite minor problems, but would suggest it’s better suited to a tablet than a phone... at this point in time at least.Show lessDrulum
