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A Useful App, But …

This is a very useful app. But it would be a “great” app if it included some scale arpeggios for each scale. Now that would make it the ultimate scale practice tool!

Wow!

Really cool app - really good to explore with.
One small request: the slide down tool has all scales; could you only have say just the jazz scales at your finger tips rather than having to trawl through everything to find what you want?
I.e, could you be given the choice of which group of scales you want to explore via a simple set-up ?

Thanks again for the great work.
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Only shows one octave,Author can’t be contacted

The description is misleading. It says you can choose a range, but the app only ever displays one octave. This would be fine for piano, but for brass instruments the fingering is different up the octave so it’s next to useless unless you stop playing halfway through and select the next octave, which is fiddly, then you have to do the same coming down. I didn’t want to write a negative review, but the authors contact section on his website is faulty - it won’t let you send a message without completing a captcha, which isn’t displayed. I tried on two different platforms. So for me, a waste of money and no support.
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Very helpful!

This app is helping me learn better intonation in my upright bass studies. Thanks so much!!!!!

Nice app for learning scales

Returning to trumpet using app to learn scales and transposing also.

Great app!

Really helpful for learning scales. It would be great if arpeggios could be included in the next update.

Superb!

Finally! The perfect scale app! Very thoughtfully and simply organized user interface. Not loaded with special features. But hard to imagine finding a better delivery system. i will use this to workout on both, piano and bass.

So SO

Lots of scales - yes. Problems too. The staff display shows only one scale up in range and no scale down. When a greater range is selected the display still only shows one scale. It would be nice to see the notes above or below the staff. Also the choice between sharps and flats sometimes seems a little arbitrary. As a bass clef player, I am used to seeing flats rather than sharps. In some of the modes where the root is in flats, the program chooses to use sharps. An optional choice would be nice.
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Great app!

I use it to practice bass scales too!

Great app! Key Signatures?

This is a very nice app. I see this as a great tool for teaching as well as personal practicing. I think adding a key signature feature to the scales that have conventional ones would make this app fantastic!

A unique and incredible teaching tool!

I lecture in music, recording and composition at a large institution (dBs Music, Plymouth, UK) in both FE and HE sectors and Patrick's apps are just incredible for teaching with. There are plenty of coders writing music apps in the App Store but his show the unique musical insights only an expert and practicing musician would have. Amazing stuff. Amazing value. You will turn to these apps time and time again. Buy.
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I'll go 5 stars when the update comes...

All it needs to make me happy is help for transposing instruments! Nicely done!

An enjoyable way to learn the scales

Very nice presentation of the scales. Good to practice an instrument with the tuning and play with the scales. The sound of the piano is very good.
It is a good list of scales, but, I am missing the main scales of the classical Indian music, ragas. I really could need it to practice the sitar. It is only about 10 more scales, as the basics. Please bring those on the next update to complete, and I gladly put 5 stars for this nice app.
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Very Cool!

Wow! Another cool app.........Thanks!