Scale Master 2.0 vs Play Fast Notes

Train your ears. Strengthen your intonation. Play with greater confidence. Scale Master helps musicians develop a more reliable sense of pitch by turning intonation into something you can clearly hear, feel, and practice. Whether you sing, play a wind or string instrument, rehearse an ensemble, or teach music, Scale Master provides a steady tonal reference that makes focused listening easier. Practice with a sustained root and justly tuned interval to hear when two notes truly resonate. As your pitch settles into place, beating is reduced and the sound becomes clearer—helping you learn the sensation of playing in tune, not merely watching a tuner. Switch to scale practice to build dependable pitch placement across keys. Hear each scale ascend and descend while following its pattern on screen, then work at your own pace with adjustable tempo, note length, repetition, and metronome support. Scale Master can help you: • Recognize and correct intonation more quickly • Hear the resonance of well-tuned intervals • Develop stronger interval and scale awareness • Improve ensemble balance and harmonic listening • Practice confidently with a stable tonal center • Demonstrate pitch relationships clearly to students Choose your concert root, octave, transposing instrument, enharmonic spelling, and pitch calibration to create a practice environment that fits your music. Use Scale mode for consistent equal-tempered pitch placement, or Drone mode to explore the resonance of just intonation. Included scales cover essential material such as major, natural minor, harmonic minor, blues, whole tone, chromatic, and pentatonic scales. An optional Jazz Modes upgrade adds Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian modes. Designed by a professional musician and educator, Scale Master is a practical ear-training companion for students, teachers, ensemble directors, and experienced performers who want to hear more deeply—and play more beautifully in tune.

Play Fast Notes helps musicians turn the hard passages into the easy ones, using practice techniques backed by how the brain actually learns. Snap a photo of your sheet music or import a PDF, box the exact passage you're drilling, and run it through focused, guided practice tools instead of mindless repetition: • Tempo Ladder: start slow and climb, working for consistency, until you reach performance speed. • Repetition inside an ever-changing context, so the passage holds up under pressure instead of only working in the practice room (Interleaved Click-Up). • Cycle through several spots in random order so your brain works to recall each one, the way a performance demands (Rep Rotator). • Rhythmic Variations: drill a run in many different rhythms to even out your fingers. You apply the rhythms, or the app writes your passage in the rhythms for you. Tools travel with every practice screen: • A real metronome with subdivisions, custom meters, accents, and drum-machine grooves. • A recorder that captures a take and plays it back slowed down and pitch-corrected, so you hear what really happened. • Apple Pencil support, so you can mark up your music right on the page. • Smart timers that nudge you to rotate passages, take micro-breaks, and stand up. Everything you do is saved to a practice log so you can watch your progress over time. No ads. Just focused practice. Your first 30 days are free with everything unlocked. After that you can keep going on the free plan with up to three photo passages, or unlock the whole app, PDF parts included, for one payment of $19.99. No subscription. No renewals. Works on iPhone and iPad. A free account keeps your library backed up and in sync between them.