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TURN YOUR SHEET MUSIC INTO INTERACTIVE PRACTICE ▶ Scan printed sheet music, photos, and files ▶ Loop sections, adjust tempo, and transpose keys ▶ Export your music as MusicXML, MIDI, or PDF Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned musician, Halbestunde helps you practice smarter, play better, and work with your sheet music more easily. It turns scanned music into an interactive sheet music reader, so you can hear, adjust, repeat, and practice at your own pace. HIGHLIGHTS THAT MUSICIANS LOVE: + ACCURATE SCANNING MADE SIMPLE: Recognize sheet music with high precision, even from old or lower-quality sources. + TRANSPOSITION MADE EASY: Adjust keys to suit your vocal or instrumental range. If a key has too many flats, transpose the piece into a key that is easier for you to practice. + SEAMLESS EXPORT OPTIONS: Export your scanned music as MusicXML for Flat.io, Dorico, MuseScore, and other notation or composition tools. You can also export as MIDI or PDF. + CUSTOMIZED PRACTICE TOOLS: Focus on tricky sections with looping, playback, tempo control, and key changes. + LYRICS AND VOICE SUPPORT: Scan lyrics and practice vocal pieces using Voice as one of the available playback sounds. + USER-FRIENDLY DESIGN: Navigate through features intuitively, save time, and focus on making music. KEY FEATURES TO ELEVATE YOUR PRACTICE: • SMART SHEET SCAN: Transform printed sheet music into a digital, interactive experience with strong scanning accuracy, even for old or worn-out sheets. • MUSIC SYMBOL RECOGNITION: Recognize notes, rhythm, lyrics, and music symbols from staccato to forte. • PLAYBACK AND PRACTICE TOOLS: Listen to your sheet music, slow down difficult parts, loop sections, and practice at your own pace. • SEAMLESS TRANSPOSITION: Adjust keys to suit your vocal or instrumental range. • MULTI-INSTRUMENT SUPPORT: Practice with 24 instrument and voice options, including piano, strings, brass, woodwinds, guitar, ukulele, bass, and voice. WHY MUSICIANS LOVE HALBESTUNDE: ***** “I’m scanning recently all my classical music and export them into music score. This app helped me a lot with that!” ***** “The scanning accuracy is surprisingly precise, saving me an immense amount of time I'd otherwise spend on manual input.” ***** “I feel I’m learning a lot faster than with other methods I tried.” WHO IS IT FOR? • Music students mastering theory and performance. • Teachers looking for advanced tools to support their students. • Professionals and hobbyists seeking to simplify their practice sessions. • Singers and vocalists who want to scan lyrics, hear playback, and practice vocal music. EXPERIENCE BETTER MUSIC PRACTICE Discover how Halbestunde can support your music practice. Start your 7-day free trial and use accurate sheet music scanning, playback, transposition, and export tools in one app.

Practice and perform jazz standards on another level with Quartet. And with a host of brand-new features, the top-selling jazz play along apps just got even better. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Volume 3 includes another 100 stunning jazz standards recorded exclusively by 6 of the world’s best jazz musicians. All ‘live’ studio recordings with intros, endings and top line solos. Whether you play jazz piano, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums…simply mute your instrument from the Quartet for the ultimate jazz play along. And for jazz singers too, each edition of Quartet is an unrivalled collection of jazz backing tracks powerful enough to gig with. Change key on the fly. Speed up or slow down the audio seamlessly. Loop sections and slow them right down for practice. Select the number of repeats. Choose from preset mixes or create your own custom mix using the new onboard mixer. Arrange each song exactly the way you want it with the new automated ‘Arranger’ feature. Add a touch of reverb and you’re good to go. Improve your skills with full screen animated chord diagrams for Piano, Guitar and Ukulele. Search the entire Quartet song library (700 songs) by composer, style, BPM, associated artist and more. Build and share multi-app playlists and easily export PDF chord charts for every song. Export your stereo mix or export the multitrack if you want to develop the high quality separated parts in GarageBand or whatever DAW you use. Either way, all recordings are offered to you royalty-free giving you endless creative possibilities. The 100 jazz standards in Quartet Volume 3 include improvisations in the style of… ‘After You’ve Gone’, ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, ‘At Last’, ‘Baubles, Bangles & Beads’, ‘Blueberry Hill’, ‘Blues’ (in all keys), ‘Breezin’’, ‘Chameleon’, ‘Down by the Riverside’, ‘Freedom Jazz Dance’, ‘How Long Has This Been Going On?’, ‘Ladies in Mercedes’, ‘On the Street Where You Live’, ‘Second Time Around’, ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’, ‘Summer Knows’, ‘Só Danço Samba’, ‘Too Marvelous for Words’, ‘Who Can I Turn To?’, ‘With a Song in My Heart’… and 80 more. Install Quartet on all of your iOS devices plus your Mac devices (M series only) at no extra cost. Ready to take your jazz standards to another level? Hear more at www.quartetapp.com Featured artists on Quartet Volume 3 Guitar Nigel Price Nigel has recorded with many big-name artists, performing on over 50 albums, most recently Van Morrison’s studio album ‘Keep Me Singing’. A former member of The James Taylor Quartet, Nigel was voted the UK’s ‘Best Guitarist’ in the 2016 British Jazz Awards and is “…probably the most dynamic and gifted guitarist on the British jazz scene today” [All About Jazz]. Trumpet Steve Fishwick Steve has performed and recorded with many leading European jazz musicians including Sir John Dankworth, George Mraz, Dado Moroni, Claus Raibler, Tony Lakatos and the WDR big band. In the USA, Steve has performed and recorded with Anita O' Day, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, Peter Erskine, Eric Harland, Scott Hamilton, Herb Geller Saxophones and Flutes Andy Panayi Credits include Shirley Bassey, Jessye Norman, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Patty Austin, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Billy Cobham Piano Graham Harvey Credits include Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, M People, Hamish Stuart, The Jones Girls, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, The BBC Big Band, Madeline Bell, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Sir Cliff Richard Bass Geoff Gascoyne Credits include Jamie Cullum (MD), Sting, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Mari Wilson, Paloma Faith, Georgie Fame, Gloria Estefan, Guy Barker, Charlie Watts, Benny Golson, Jacqui Dankworth, John Martyn, Eartha Kitt Drums Sebastiaan de Krom Credits include Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis