ABRSM Cello Practice Partner vs Music Aptitude Practice

The OFFICIAL ABRSM Cello 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 ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces from 2024. Use Cello Practice Partner to practise with the piano accompaniment, the cello 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 cello 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 Cello in isolation to hear every detail of the expert performance. • Repeat tricky passages by setting loops around them. Perfect for helping you develop confidence and fluency in your playing! Cello Practice Partner comes with one example piece from Grade 4 of the NEW ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces book from 2024.. In app you can purchase: Individual pieces and Grade selections from: • The ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces from 2024 books for Initial Grade – Grade 5. • The 2020–2023 ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces books for Grades 1–5. 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.

This app offers practice for various Musical Aptitude tests (also known as the MAT or Bentley test) commonly used in school entrance exams in the UK, and in particular the 4-part standard Musical Aptitude Test as used in the admissions to some UK schools for the 2018 academic year. We have built this app to be a realistic simulation of the tests we have encountered in 2017 and 2018, but clearly we cannot predict the content of all such tests accurately. Tests may vary from school to school, and from year to year. Some schools do an enhanced 7-part test which we do not simulate. The musical aptitude test is a listening test - you hear a range of musical tones, phrases or rhythms and need to answer questions on them. We simulate the 4 types of question found in the Standard Musical Aptitude Test. 1) Higher / Lower; two tones, answer which one is highest or lowest. Sometimes the difference is slight (less than a semitone) so you need to listen carefully. 2) Texture; you hear a chord. Answer whether you think the chord has 2, 3 or 4 notes making it up. This is the hardest part of the test. 3) Melody; two five note phrases. Answer in which note you think there was a difference. 4) Rhythm; two 4 beat rhythms. Answer in which beat you think there was a difference. It's all about practice, and this app generates random tests from a pool of around 400 questions.