Exciting new way for my students to learn their notes!
This app is an exciting new way for piano students to learn their stave notes.
I do use flash cards (and other apps) but I think this app gives a motivation to learn even more quickly.
Starting at an easy level, this matures the student (both younger and older) from just five notes (C to G) for each hand, through to notes on up to three ledger lines on both treble and bass clef.
I have a studio with over 50 students and they love to see if they can beat their scores.
I do use flash cards (and other apps) but I think this app gives a motivation to learn even more quickly.
Starting at an easy level, this matures the student (both younger and older) from just five notes (C to G) for each hand, through to notes on up to three ledger lines on both treble and bass clef.
I have a studio with over 50 students and they love to see if they can beat their scores.
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Clever and cool app for piano students—and as the teacher, I like its features!
I downloaded the Studio Version and selected piano as my instrument. As stated before, with a Studio Version, one must declare which instrument at set-up. Not a problem for my piano studio! I think they have a quality product here, and I first learned about it from a review by Jennifer Foxx. She is also a piano teacher, and I subscribe to her blog and Facebook page. I took a look because she reviewed it, but now I want to help spread the word! A lot of my students are on summer break now, so I’m not seeing them regularly, but I will be building this into my plans for the new school year. Of course I love that it calculates their accuracy %, but the thing I can’t wait for my students to see (besides the fact that it’s FUN), is that their average time spent answering each question is also calculated. This will be hard for them to ignore (how slow they can be), and hopefully students will care enough to slash those response times and even have some friendly competition among others their age in the studio. That “uh” lag in response time has a price, and speed in answering has perks, such as Speed Bonus Points AND improved sight-reading in the real world. High scores board, too, for each level of difficulty, so someone could be a star on Easy, even though he/she is not ready to be a speed demon on the most advanced level. One other cool thing--the instructor has a password to get into the player history, so no little shyster can go in and erase his scores or change names around. A teacher (actually band director) was part of the development team on this one, and it shows. For piano, students either name notes or they select the “fingering” option, which in our case means to match up the note shown to one of 3 keyboard graphics shown at the bottom of the page. There is one key marked on each keyboard. Students must not only choose the correct key on the keyboard that matches the note above, but they must sort and eliminate the 2 incorrect choices of the 3 possibilities shown. One final caveat: I have an older iPad 2 that had the bare minimum version of iOS 7.0, and at first I had some difficulty. Upgrading my iOS took care of my problems right away. :)
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Response from developer
Thank you for providing such a favorable and informative review! I hope you will be able to update the app to the new version 1.2 (a free update), which provides even more instructor features, the most requested of which is the ability to create custom test levels. Best wishes to you and your students!
Fantastic!!! 👍👍
I have the studio version.
It's so fun & a great exercise for note recognition. I like that students don't only have to recognize the note name but also must locate it on the keyboard. The ninja theme is perfect for boys & girls.
It's so fun & a great exercise for note recognition. I like that students don't only have to recognize the note name but also must locate it on the keyboard. The ninja theme is perfect for boys & girls.
Great for teaching fundamentals
This is a fantastic app for helping students with the basics of note names and fingerings. A must for any studio teacher. This only allows for one instrument, so all your students have to use the same instrument. If you need more get the school version. I love how students use this to solidify their knowledge of the basics. Also, the levels work great to help the student work their way up, not just expecting them to already know it all like some other apps. Fantastic!
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Response from developer
Thank you for your favorable review. I hope you have noticed that in the new updates (1.1 and 1.2) you can purchase additional instruments for only $0.99 each, which should make the app even more useful for studio teachers, many of which teach more than one instrument. Best wishes to you and your students!
