MKG Musical Instruments vs rapDo!

The free multi-media catalog app "MKG Musical Instruments" presents 100 highlights of the world-famous collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. All instruments are shown in high-resolution photos. The instruments are described and the historical development of individual instrument types as well as the cultural-historical context are presented. In over 50 film clips, which were produced with students and graduates of the University of Music and Theater Hamburg, a large part of the instruments can also be experienced musically. Many of the collection pieces are documented here for the first time in music films, including historically unique objects such as the keyboard instruments of the collection Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Beurmann, a seven-string viola da gamba and a Hamburg Cithrinchen by Joachim Tielke and the famous dual-manual harpsichord by Christian Zell.

rapDo! is your digital rhythm coach. You don’t need an instrument and can learn and practice anytime, anywhere. You’ll learn rhythm like a language, using just five syllables. You start with simple rhythm "words" and progress to rhythm "sentences." This approach covers all possible rhythms found in classical music, pop, dance music, and jazz. rapDo! adapts to your progress: mastered rhythms are set aside, while challenging rhythms are repeated until you perfect them. At the same time, you’ll see how the spoken rhythms look in standard notation, allowing you to learn rhythm and sight-reading simultaneously. Learning with tonal syllables is a proven and globally recognized method. It is much faster and more effective than calculating with note values (quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc.). The rapDo! method is scientifically grounded. Its foundation is based on the groundbreaking teaching work Learning Sequences in Music by Edwin Gordon. For more information, visit www.herbertschiffels.de