Rhythmist vs ForteDeck

Rhythmist™ resembles one of the rhythm training activities found in Musica Touch™ for the iPad - also some of those in Practica Musica - but it's more gamelike and of course is intended for the iPhone. Rhythmist creates melody examples and asks you to tap their rhythms correctly. You don't have to read the pitches; just the rhythm - but you will hear the correct pitches of the melody, plus chord accompaniment to make it more interesting. The free download includes the first 10 random melodies of 4 measures each; you can get many thousands more with an in-app purchase. You can even earn some free melodies by getting a series of these "right" on your first try. Tapping is done on a pair of keys like piano keys - having two makes the tapping easier because you can alternate fingers. You can keep trying a melody until you get it right and earn a gold star. You can slow down or speed up the tempo if you want to. Each time you fill in the gold star for a melody your score goes up a point and you move on to the next one. If you get expert at the Level 1 melodies, try Level 2. If you think you're really getting good try the melodies of Level 3. If you want to get competitive your scores can be posted to the Game Center; otherwise just try to meet the challenges yourself: can you get 5 melodies in a row correct on the first try? Can you get 10 of them without hearing them first? Can you get through the first 100? If you've paid for the extra melodies any of them can be shared as music files readable by Musica Touch for the iPad and Ars Nova's desktop Songworks software, or as midi files or printable pdf files.

Master ABRSM music theory vocabulary the smart way. ForteDeck is a flashcard app built for the Italian, French, and German musical terms that appear on every ABRSM grade theory exam. With native audio pronunciation for every term and a Leitner spaced-repetition system, it gets vocabulary out of your textbook and into your long-term memory. WHO IT'S FOR • Piano, voice, string, and wind students prepping ABRSM Grade 1–5 theory exams • Music teachers building a vocabulary curriculum for their students • Anyone reading Italian-marked scores who wants to hear the words said correctly HOW IT WORKS Each card shows a term — crescendo, con fuoco, à demi-voix — on one side and the definition on the other. Tap the speaker icon to hear it spoken. Mark whether you got it right, and the Leitner box system schedules when you'll see it again: known terms move up and surface less often; missed terms come back tomorrow. No grinding through cards you already know. FEATURES • 185 ABRSM Grade 1–5 terms covering Italian, French, and German • Audio pronunciation for every term, every grade • Leitner box progression with five levels and automatic scheduling • Per-grade study sessions and progress tracking • Per-grade reset for re-studying from scratch • Works fully offline after first download • No account, no signup, no personalized tracking • Optional one-time $2.99 unlock to remove banner ads (Restore Purchases supported) PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics SDKs. No personalized advertising. The only data leaving your device is what AdMob needs to serve a non-personalized banner ad — and only if you grant the App Tracking Transparency prompt. ABOUT Built for daily 5-minute practice sessions that actually stick. Designed by a developer who got tired of forgetting poco a poco crescendo halfway through a Bach prelude.