Trumpet Studio vs ScalePlay

Trumpet Studio is a complete practice room for trumpet players: a library of method books and etudes, an animated fingering chart, a metronome, a practice timer, blues play-alongs, and a way to record yourself and listen back — on iPhone, iPad and Mac. THE MUSIC LIBRARY 44 full-resolution books, crisp at any zoom, to read, print and share. • Core methods: the Complete Arban, St. Jacome, Clodomir, and Charlier's 36 Etudes Transcendantes • Etudes and studies: Kopprasch, Clarke's Technical, Characteristic and Elementary Studies, Gallay, Wurm, Bohme, Brandt and Kosleck • Concertos and solos: Bach's Brandenburg, Fasch, Neruda, Telemann, Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets, and Clarke's solos • Duets for two trumpets by Shuebruk and Wurm • Herbert L. Clarke's own story, How I Became a Cornetist • Michael Droste's warm-ups, high-note studies, scales, charts and practice sheets, including samples of The Ultimate Warm Up Book, The Ultimate Technical Study and The Ultimate Wedding Book for Trumpet THE PRACTICE BAR Open any book and the Practice Bar sits under the music: start a practice timer, run the metronome and record a quick take without leaving the page. Flip it to the top when the music you're reading is at the bottom. ANIMATED FINGERING CHART 38 notes, from low to high G. See the valves move, see the note on the staff, and hear how it should sound. PRACTICE ROOM • Metronome — 30 to 300 beats per minute, eight time signatures from 2/4 to 12/8, eighth-note and triplet subdivisions, tap tempo, and a voice that counts the beats out loud • Practice Timer — sessions from 30 minutes to 2 hours, ending with a gentle chime • Practice Schedule — your week at a glance, logged automatically when a timer session ends, with confetti for every day and fireworks for a perfect week • Blues Play-Along — 37 backing tracks in 13 styles. Slow them down or speed them up without changing the pitch, loop them, and record yourself over the band • Record Yourself — capture your playing and listen back, slower or faster without changing the pitch • My Recordings — rename, share and replay your takes; they're ordinary audio files, also in the Files app on iPhone and iPad and in Finder on Mac LEARN • Video Lessons — eight lessons, including a complete Play the Blues tutorial • Essential Articles — on high notes, practice, mouthpieces, warm-ups and more • Latest Podcasts — new episodes, with lock screen, AirPods and CarPlay controls on iPhone • Studio Notes — the latest articles from TrumpetStudio.com No account and no ads. Trumpet Studio is published by Windy Town, continuing a web publishing tradition since 1996.

ScalePlay is a generative music app capable of producing the most intricate ostinatos and sequences by applying complex scale patterns over user defined songforms and chord changes. It can be used in music production and is also a fantastic tool for music education. It includes scale references for hundreds of scales, nine virtual instruments and 128 instrument sounds. Its unique set of features allows the musician to visualize scale relations and to play along with generated patterns. Modern musicians often practice playing scales according to organizing principles like thirds. What is meant by that is to play a scale tone, then its third, then the second scale tone, the third on top of that one and so forth. The exercise would result in the scale tones 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, etc. Not an easy feat at first, because before even getting started, one has to know the base scale. Playing patterns through different keys and scale types finally is a demanding task even for advanced musicians. ScalePlay constructs patterns like these and much more complicated ones by using two simple grids. Grids have been around in music apps for years, but they are based on half-tone steps and include all available notes of the spectrum. That leaves one difficulty on the table, namely that of correctly identifying the notes of a scale. These grids also don’t easily allow for patterning as in our scale in thirds. So a different solution is called for and ScalePlay provides just that and so much more. In the application songs are used as metaphor to organize different scale types into a harmonic context. They are constructed with chords which in turn determine what scale types are available at a given time. During playback the app then cycles through these virtual chords or as with TouchPlay allows to call them up at will. This architecture is very helpful for superimposing ScalePlay patterns over existing pieces and even practicing improvising over changes. For practicing ScalePlay shows a pattern's progression on the built-in instrument and also provides a music notation reference. One can slow things down to need and play along. With the pattern lock feature all patterns can be kept in the same general vicinity. So instead of raising all scale tones when a base chord moves from C to G for example, patterns stay in place. This allows guitarists to practice scale patterns over changes while remaining in the same position. ScalePlay is also a fabulous generative music app. That is because of the magic that happens when these self-repeating scale structures are put in motion. Fantastic music occurs. Since ScalePlay supports virtual MIDI and can be recorded into any iOS based DAW. It also features TouchPlay for advanced looping. With TouchPlay scale structures can be looped endlessly and out of order. The TouchPlay environment is superimposed over ScalePlay's main interface and allows live switching between different scale types with the tap of a finger in continuous or full pattern mode. Of course ScalePlay supports multi-app multitasking as well as split-view and split-screen to make this feature even more useful. Instruments • Banjo, Bass, Cello, Double Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Viola, Violin Some other Features: • 211 scale types • Virtual MIDI • Advanced looping with TouchPlay • Full general MIDI instrument library