# Music Practice Coach — Practice plans, step by step

> Practice plans, step by step (iPhone/iPad app by CONSTANTINE M CARAMANIS.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/music-practice-coach/id6775917628 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [CONSTANTINE M CARAMANIS](https://appshunter.io/developer/6775917630)
- Category: Music, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 22 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-15
- Data updated: 2026-10-08
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/music-practice-coach/id6775917628/reviews.md

## What is Music Practice Coach?

Music Practice Coach turns a vague "go practice" into a plan you can follow.

A plan is a sequence of steps. Each one does a single job: a timed instruction, a metronome at a set tempo, a passage of sheet music to read, or a loop of a recording slowed down until it is playable. You work through them in order, and the app keeps time.

WHAT A STEP CAN BE
• Instruction — text to read, with an optional tuner for tuning up
• Timed — a countdown, with a metronome if you want one
• Tempo ramp — the metronome steps up from a starting tempo to a target, cycle by cycle
• Score — sheet music on screen with a countdown, and a metronome or a tempo ramp
• Audio, video, or MIDI loop — set A and B points and repeat that passage, at any speed
• Loop plus score — the recording and the sheet music side by side
• YouTube — practice along with a video, with speed control and loop points

THE MUSIC SCROLLS ITSELF
Set a scrolling speed and the score moves while your hands stay on the instrument. It works on an ordinary PDF, page after page.

Or turn on Prima Vista, which reflows the score into one continuous ribbon of systems, so a page turn never lands in the middle of a phrase. Go full screen, and if a page is read wrongly, say how many systems it has — the correction is kept.

SLOW IT DOWN, KEEP THE PITCH
Audio loops play from 30% to 200% speed without the pitch shifting, so a fast passage stays in tune while you learn it. Pitch shifts separately, in semitones or five-cent steps, which is fine enough for quarter tones and for matching an instrument tuned to something other than A440.

A SPEED RAMP THAT DOES THE WORK
Set a starting speed and a target and the plan advances through the stages as you play, which is the part people skip when practising alone.

METRONOME AND TUNER, ALWAYS THERE
A full metronome — any meter, per-beat accents, adjustable subdivisions — and a chromatic tuner with an adjustable A4 reference and a drone. Both work on their own, without a plan.

MARK UP THE MUSIC
Write on a score with an Apple Pencil — fingerings, bowings, the bar you keep missing. The markings belong to the file rather than the plan, so they are there again the next time any plan uses that score.

FOR TEACHERS
Build a plan, and share it as a package with everything it needs: the plan, the recordings, the scores. Students open it and practise exactly what you set. You can publish a catalog of plans your students install in one tap, and lock the media with a code if the recordings are not yours to give away.

YOUR FILES STAY YOURS
Everything lives in a folder you choose. No account, no sign-in, no subscription, no ads, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. The Mac and iPad apps read the same folder, and there is a web version for everything else.

Free, with no in-app purchases.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-10-05

Prima Vista: read a score as one continuous ribbon of systems that scrolls as you play,
instead of turning pages mid-phrase.

Start a session at any step, not only the beginning. Archive the plans you are not working
on. Type a teacher's catalog name rather than an "access code", and enter a code once for
everything in your library it opens.

Practice logs now record the whole session — every step you practised, with the time
against it. A saved log previously showed a single step and no time.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-18

This release fixes bugs reported after 1.0.

• Pencil markings on a protected score are no longer lost, and stay put when you leave full screen.
• Short pencil strokes no longer vanish, and resting your palm on the screen while you draw is now tolerated.
• The buttons under a plan no longer crowd each other on iPad in portrait, and Start Session no longer gets cut off.
• On a smaller iPad, the step title is no longer hidden behind the End button.
• A metronome step had two buttons that both started it; now it has one — press Play.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-16

No release notes.

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