Rhythm Sight Reading Trainer vs Beethoven Walks

Accelerate your sight reading skills with instant feedback on timing accuracy. Our carefully graduated levels, from beginner to professional, allow you to start at your optimal skill level and progress at your own pace. You'll improve more rapidly than practicing solely on your instrument. Practice anytime and anywhere. Many advanced features. KEY FEATURES DIVERSE EXERCISES - Explore common and rare rhythms from 2 to 12 beats per bar (2/2, 3/2, 4/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, 12/8). - More than 200 fixed exercises (100 (longer ones) on iPad). - Thousands of random exercises. - Suitable for absolute beginners as well as professionals. - Challenge yourself with exercises involving rests, ties, syncopations, duplets, triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets. - Add swing to quarter note meter exercises with varying degrees of swing intensity. - Automatic count-off with one or two bars. - Longer (random) exercises in landscape orientation. PRACTICE & TEST MODE - Practice mode: listen or tap along while the rhythm is played. - Test mode: hear the metronome and read/tap the rhythm. - Visual feedback instantly displays accuracy with each tap (color and position). - Easily adjust metronome tempo by sliding or keypad. - Two tap buttons for higher tempos or tapping with alternating fingers. RHYTHM EDITOR - Edit any exercise to suit your preferences. - Intuitive editor with minimal taps. - Includes an editor for ties. - Unlimited undo. - Add your exercises to favorites. - Share exercises with others. EXTRA CHALLENGES - Expert mode: higher default tempo and more accuracy required. - Endurance test (continuous reading). - Speeding-up tests. - Left- and right-hand independence: tap the beat and rhythm with two buttons. - Note duration test. - Count 6/8 in two (dotted quarter as the beat). - Ear training function for rhythmic dictation. - Maintain rhythm focus while notes from a chord progression are played. REPORTING - View a frequency chart of your tap results. - Access progress reports for fixed and random exercises. - Share your results, such as a 100% score graphic or progress reports, via email. SOUNDS - Choose from various percussive instruments for app player, metronome, and taps. - Play chord progressions with guitar, e-piano, marimba, or bass. - Optional stereo sound with taps in the right ear and metronome/player in the left ear. - Optional beat-counting voice function. MICROPHONE - Utilize the microphone for an alternative to tap buttons. - Play rhythms with hand claps, finger-snaps, or an instrument. - Adjust sensitivity settings. - Supports external microphones. MIDI - Receive taps from a Midi device connected via Apple USB camera adapter or USB-C (e.g., keyboard, guitar, drum kit). - Automatic device detection. - Touch-sensitivity support. - Export any exercise as a MIDI file. OTHER FEATURES - Experience very low latency with instant response. - Support for left-handed tapping. - Choose between classical and flat interface themes. - Support for dark mode (iOS13+). - Universal app (iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad). - Supports all screen sizes. - Tested on iOS and iPadOS 27.

Beethoven Walks turns a walk in the woods into a concert hall. Created by Yellow Barn and opened in honor of Beethoven's 250th birthday, Beethoven Walks pairs the music and manuscripts of Ludwig van Beethoven with two trails in Putney, Vermont. Along each trail, Music Posts display reproductions of Beethoven's sketches and autograph manuscripts — the same pages he filled while drawing inspiration from his own walks in nature. At each post, this app plays the work that those pages became. Between the posts are Listening Places: quieter spots that invite a longer pause, where the music and the surrounding landscape can be heard together. Two trails to choose from • Greenwood Trail — 1.3 miles, about 60–70 minutes, with 50 minutes of music across five Music Posts. Hosted by the Greenwood School at 14 Greenwood Lane, Putney VT. • Hannum Trail — 2.5 miles round trip, about 2.5–3 hours, with 90 minutes of music across nine Music Posts. Trailhead at 442 Holland Hill Road, Putney VT. The music Works include the Archduke Trio, the Emperor Concerto, the Pastoral Symphony, the Heiliger Dankgesang from Op. 132, the Kyrie from the Missa Solemnis, An die ferne Geliebte, the Piano Sonatas Op. 79 and Op. 110, and a late Bagatelle. How to use the app Pick a trail and the app guides you through it post by post. Tap a Music Post to start the corresponding work. The screen stays awake while you walk, and the app remembers where you left off so you can return to the same trail next time. We suggest listening without earphones — the music of the woods is part of the performance. Driving directions to each trailhead are included. "It is indeed, as if every tree in the countryside spoke to me, saying 'Holy! Holy!' In the forest enchantment! Who can express it all?" — from Beethoven's sketchbook, 1815 or 1816 A project of Yellow Barn. Special thanks to the Greenwood School for hosting the Greenwood Trail.