# Play Fast Notes — Master your hardest passages

> Master your hardest passages (iPhone/iPad app by Ralph Skiano.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-fast-notes/id6777245595 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ralph Skiano](https://appshunter.io/developer/6777245597)
- Category: Education, Music
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 51 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-26
- Data updated: 2026-09-21
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-fast-notes/id6777245595/reviews.md

## What is Play Fast Notes?

Play Fast Notes helps musicians turn the hard passages into the easy ones, using practice techniques backed by how the brain actually learns.

Snap a photo of your sheet music or import a PDF, box the exact passage you're drilling, and run it through focused, guided practice tools instead of mindless repetition:

• Tempo Ladder: start slow and climb, working for consistency, until you reach performance speed.
• Repetition inside an ever-changing context, so the passage holds up under pressure instead of only working in the practice room (Interleaved Click-Up).
• Cycle through several spots in random order so your brain works to recall each one, the way a performance demands (Rep Rotator).
• Rhythmic Variations: drill a run in many different rhythms to even out your fingers. You apply the rhythms, or the app writes your passage in the rhythms for you.

Tools travel with every practice screen:
• A real metronome with subdivisions, custom meters, accents, and drum-machine grooves.
• A recorder that captures a take and plays it back slowed down and pitch-corrected, so you hear what really happened.
• Apple Pencil support, so you can mark up your music right on the page.
• Smart timers that nudge you to rotate passages, take micro-breaks, and stand up.

Everything you do is saved to a practice log so you can watch your progress over time.

No ads. Just focused practice.

Your first 30 days are free with everything unlocked. After that you can keep going on the free plan with up to three photo passages, or unlock the whole app, PDF parts included, for one payment of $19.99. No subscription. No renewals.

Works on iPhone and iPad. A free account keeps your library backed up and in sync between them.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Practice Pro | $19.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-15

You can now send a PDF to Play Fast from other apps. Open a PDF in Google Drive, Dropbox, forScore, or Mail, tap Share, and choose Play Fast. The app opens right on the naming step and the part lands in your library.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-09-07

A big batch of improvements from three weeks of daily practice testing:

NEW: The Prompt timer. Load it with the reminders you always need to hear ("relax your throat", "support!") and one appears at the top of the screen every few minutes, then fades away on its own. Works on any practice screen.

NEW: Batch PDF upload. Adding a full part now lets you select several PDFs at once, so you can fill a whole concert folder in one trip.

NEW: Step together mode in Interleaved Click-Up 2, so all your passages climb the tempo ladder as a group.

Also: a major battery fix for long practice sessions, the metronome now remembers each piece's tempo, the drone remembers your pitch for each passage, the recorder can collapse out of the way of your music, recordings survive until you close the app, and dozens of smaller fixes.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-27

No release notes.

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