ABRSM Violin Practice Partner vs AccompaU

The OFFICIAL ABRSM Violin Practice Partner is a simple way to make practising pieces for your exams more musical, enjoyable and fun. It is useful for anyone learning or teaching pieces from the NEW ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024. Selected Violin Exam Pieces from the 2020-2023 and 2016–2019 syllabus are also available to purchase in-app. Use Violin Practice Partner to practise with the piano accompaniment, the violin part in isolation, or the duo ensemble recording. The app will help you to: • Become familiar with the accompaniment and understand how the solo line fits with the piano part for more secure performances. • Make practice more musical and enjoyable by having a virtual violin partner to play along with. • Slow down or speed up the music to a tempo that suits you, for slow careful practice. • Listen closely to the violin in isolation to hear every detail of the expert performance. • Repeat tricky passages by setting loops around them. You can also: • Personalise the app – choose from nine different virtual partners to practise with! Violin Practice Partner comes with an example piece from Grade 4 and Grade 8 of the NEW ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024, allowing you to experience the app before purchasing any piece. In app you can purchase: Individual pieces and Grade selections from: • All accompanied pieces from the ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024 books for Initial Grade – Grade 8 • All accompanied pieces from the ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces 2020–2023 books for Grades 1–8 • All accompanied pieces from the ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces 2016–2019 books for Grades 1–7 Notes: • Please test the app using the sample piece to ensure it is working effectively on your device before making any in app purchases. • Solo (unaccompanied) pieces are not available in-app. • Practice Partner does not support the upload of external audio files.

Tap, for a perfect performance - AccompaU (a coined name from ""accompany you"") is a novel app dedicated to string players (Violin and Cello in current trialversion /Viola and Bass in coming updated version) that offers a variety of 1) music scores, 2) tutorial videos and 3) semi-auto accompaniments, and help all ""aspiring"" string players improve music performance. —————————— 1) Music Scores Tired of having to lug around printed music sheets? Having trouble in finding music scores you are looking for? AccompaU offers digital music scores that you can see in your smartphone and are easily searchable and printable. In addition, many music scores on AccompaU are offered for free! Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven... new music scores are always being added to the AccompaU score library. —————————— 2) Tutorial Videos After getting your favorite music scores, why don't you practice while referencing AccompaU music videos? AccompaU provides you with two types of complimentary videos that will lead you to a better performance. PRACTICE VERSION videos focus mainly on how to place and work with your fingers correctly. In addition, RECITAL VERSION videos will surely give you more tips on posture, holding the instrument and bow, vibrato movements, and many other facets of playing. —————————— 3) Accompaniments If you are interested in new experience during practice, or need to prepare for a recital, would you like to play with AccompaU accompaniments? For each music, AccompaU accompanists offer up to 6 types of accompaniments with distinct musical characteristics. Ryosuke (average and neutral), Yulia (powerful and aggressive), Franz (analytical and calm), Chenxi (melodious and meditative), Philippe (soloistic and improvised), Beatrice (harpsichordist)... Choose your favorite accompanist! Furthermore, in AccompaU accompaniments, you can adjust the tempo as you like, without distortion or pitch changes while setting “custom loops” to practice challenging section. —————————— You can contact us at: info@accompa-u.com For more information, please see: AccompaU Website - https://accompa-u.com/ Privacy policy - https://accompa-u.com/privacy-policy/ AccompaU Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/AccompaU/featured