Sight Reading Machine User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience61.5% of reviews
Neutral7.7% of reviews
Negative experience30.8% of reviews

~ Based on 26 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Sight Reading Machine - Practice Music Reading Skill for Guitar, Saxophone and 20 More Instruments appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Sight Reading Machine is 83/100.

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Not working

The metronome plays only one beat then it skips a whole range on notes. Totally unusable!

5 Stars if you fix the Metronome

I just purchased this, and you guys have got to fix this metronome! It literally clicks once, which is not setting a tempo. Two beats are essential to set a tempo, and four counts (or however many would indicate the time signature) is standard practice.
Also, I’d like to set the note choices to just a few notes at a time. One full octave as the smallest range is too much for teaching beginner students.

I really like the layout, and would recommend this to my students, if the metronome is fixed and fewer notes could be selected.
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Metronome not working

Every time I start a new round begin, the metronome ticks only once.

메트로놈랑 음정

재생하면 메트로놈 안들리고 음정 들렸다가 안들렸다가 이상합니다
빠른시일내에 수정부탁드립니다

다운받았는데,,,,

다른분들 말씀처럼 메트로놈이 안되네요
유용할것 같은데 ,,
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Drums & Percussion exercises

Hope you add drums exercises for us to practice, I move this app

Metronome not working

After the latest apple update the metronome isn’t working. It starts with one click then stops. Please fix, I use this app daily and really like to practice with it, but I need that metronome. Thank you

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메트로놈 소리가 없어졌어요

Really Good!!

Hello,

I’m a cruise ship guitarist and the app “sight reading machine” helps me a lot! I practice a lot with it! I recommend the app to my musician friends.

I want to kindly ask you if you would add some updates, maybe it will be helpful to improve what is already amazing for me.

1 Can you please increase or put an option to increase the amount of bars in the exercises?

2 I, as a guitar player, often have to sight read written chords.

Can you please put an option to read written chords with an option to choose the amount of notes in the chords? It would be perfect to have.

3 Can you please add swing sixteenths notes? I’ve got a bunch of jazz and funk stuff to sight read.

4 I can’t take out the quarter notes when I get to the place to choose the notes I want. Can you please make it possible?

5 It gets really complicated to set a specific tempo with the way the controls are made. Can you put something like a plus and a minus button to change the tempo easily?

I want to thank you for this amazing app again! It helps me get my sight reading in shape before and during every contract on ships with bunch of sight reading shows! It’s amazing! Thank you thank you thank you.
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Metronome not working after update

Apple sent out a software update recently, and after applying it to my iPad, the metronome only gives one click. This is a fabulous app and I hope someone is out there reading this that can and will fix it! I’ve been using it for years and would even pay for it to work again!

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최근에 잘 사용하고 있다가 어느 날 갑자기 재생을 하는데 메트로놈 소리가 안 나오기 시작했습니다

Doesn’t work anymore in new i0s update

Help. There is no click anymore. It clicks once and then no click. I0s 14

This is a Godsend!

What a great practice too;! Perhaps one of the most brilliant apps of this century!
Please update it so it works in ios14.

LOVE This App

This is a phenomenal app that does exactly what I envisioned I would need when I started to research sight reading apps.

I learned to read music as a teenager for clarinet, but, in college, learned to play guitar by ear, so I never developed the associations between notes on a page and muscle memory for a stringed instrument. Lately, I’ve taken up mandolin, and again, my training focusing on Irish music and bluegrass has been ear based as well. However, I want to play classical pieces with my wife and friends, and I realized I need to build up the same associations between notes on a page and mandolin fingerings that I once had for clarinet fingerings.

The app presents you with randomized notes, which you have to play. It plays with you, so you get instant feedback. You can adjust the key, the tempo, the time signature, the complexity of the rhythms, add accidentals, add ties, and decide whether you wish to automatically reshuffle the notes after every playing or replay the measures until you get the pitches and the note values correct for that particular exercise. And it covers a wide range of instruments across multiple clefs. No mandolin setting, but since a mandolin is tuned like a violin, it’s not a problem.

Will it ever replace sight reading exercise books? Heck no, it’s an inexpensive app. But what it does for developing basic sight reading is wonderful, even if you’re sitting on a bus away from your instrument. I love the fact that it randomized the exercises so you can’t cheat by using your ear training to get to the fingerings.

I’d give this app 10 stars, but 5 is the limit, so there you go. BTW, this is not a shill, nor do I know the developer. I don’t often review apps, and when I do, it’s usually to complain about being underwhelmed by something pricey. But this is great for any musician who want to build or exercise a basic music skill. Highly recommended.
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Good

I like it

Great app with a serious shortcoming

There's a lot that I love about this app, but as a bassist, I need to practice reading notes well above the staff. The note stems are too short and obscure the ledger lines above the staff - especially when reading 16th notes. I'd give this app 5 stars if this bug didn't exist.

Must get for winds

Especially since I can't carry around my Arbans and numerous sight reading books everywhere I go, definitely helpful for long rides to gigs. If you are a Wind, I would definitely recommend this app

구매 삭제 부탁드립니다^^

구매 삭제 부탁드립니다^^

No piano!

There is no Granstaff for piano practice. What is up with that?

Great tool!

Use it on breaks to build up rhythm reading skills. Awesome purchase, needs some development though.