Comparison

Tuba Fingering & Tuning vs Harmonics Practice

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tuba Fingering & Tuning

This app provides a comprehensive interactive fingering chart for the tuba, offering standard and alternate fingerings with tuning suggestions. It helps musicians understand pitch tendencies and adjust notes for equal or just tuning.

Highlights
  • Interactive fingering chart
  • Alternate fingerings
  • Tuning suggestions
  • Pitch tendency identification
  • Color-coded fingerings
  • Key chart with zoom
Features
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The most COMPLETE intonation resource for students, private music instructors, and band directors! Fingerings, alternate fingerings, and tuning suggestions are compiled from years of research from the best in the profession. Tuba Fingering & Tuning Chart is an interactive, color-coded fingering chart for the full-range of tuba. Tap or scroll through notes on the staff to see its corresponding fingering as well as its inherent pitch tendency. In addition, each figure will display suggestions for alternative fingerings in order to play each note in equal tuning and/or adjust each note for just tuning. Black-color indicates regular fingerings; Green-color indicates suggested fingerings to add; and Red-color indicates suggested fingerings to delete. The app also identifies the best tuning notes for tuba, and the information-button provides helpful tips on tuning the tuba in relation to dynamics, air speed and direction, and embouchure. A detailed Key Chart allows you to zoom in on particular fingerings and note names. Some notes will display up to three suggested alternate fingerings.

About

Harmonics Practice

Features
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Harmonics Practice helps brass players and other wind instrumentalists develop control, intonation, and awareness of the harmonic series. It plays a fundamental tone and harmonics which relative volume you can adjust. Play against the drone and check your tuning so that you are in perfect match with the harmonics. For best result use speakers or headphones. With the built-in sound engine, you can: - select the relative strength of each harmonic of the reference tone - make harmonics' volume undulate automatically and move in panning (left to right) - add small 'bumps' to give rhythmic diversity for the reference drone - select reference note, its octave and tuning Ideal for developing perfect intonation in chords. Designed for students, teachers, and professionals who want a focused way to practicing your tone and intonation.

Screenshots

Tuba Fingering & Tuning4 screens
Harmonics Practice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Harmonics Practice at Free against Tuba Fingering & Tuning's $3.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Harmonics Practice is free to download; Tuba Fingering & Tuning costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tuba Fingering & Tuning versus Harmonics Practice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTuba Fingering & TuningHarmonics Practice
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 43 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShelley JagowTarmo Johannes

In-app purchases

None

Tuba Fingering & Tuning

No in-app purchases

None

Harmonics Practice

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tuba Fingering & Tuning free?
Tuba Fingering & Tuning costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Harmonics Practice free?
Harmonics Practice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tuba Fingering & Tuning or Harmonics Practice have ads?
Neither Tuba Fingering & Tuning nor Harmonics Practice shows ads.

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