ScaleHelper vs PartPlay

Choose an exercise: see the notes and hear them played Play the exercise: get a score, see the notes you played and listen to your performance ScaleHelper is the fast way to improve your playing. With actual feedback based on what you played, ScaleHelper enables you to concentrate on the aspects of your playing that will help the most. ScaleHelper has 3 modes: 1. Play any scale: ScaleHelper determines the exercise you have played and scores your performance. Ideal for impromptu practise sessions. 2. Choose a scale: Choose the exercise you want to play and ScaleHelper listens and gives you a score. Ideal to improve a specific musical exercise. 3. Challenge me: ScaleHelper will ask you to play exercises from your challenge list that is based on your chosen syllabus. ScaleHelper will identify what you need to practise and make sure you get exam ready while having fun on the way. Ideal for practising a range of exercises. ScaleHelper contains everything you need for most of the instruments covered by the ABRSM, Trinity Guildhall, and MTB examining boards all the way from Grade 1 to Grade 8. ScaleHelper will be there for you every step of the way as you grow as a musician. ScaleHelper allows you to create your own syllabus from the exercises it supports: major scales; major arpeggios; harmonic minor scales; melodic minor scales; natural minor scales; minor arpeggios; chromatic scales; dominant sevenths; diminished sevenths; augmented arpeggios; scales in thirds; whole-tone scales; and pentatonic major scales. All exercises are available starting from every tonic over 1 octave, 1 twelfth, 2 octaves, 2.5 octaves and 3 octaves. There is a range of exercise lists for popular music exams available for download. Instruments supported include Violin, Viola, Cello, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Saxophone, Bassoon, Recorder, Trumpet, Cornet, Trombone and Horn. A full list is available at www.ScaleHelper.com along with details of the rich feature set ScaleHelper has to offer. At less than the price of a single music lesson the guidance that ScaleHelper provides between your lessons builds on that teaching. You can dispense with the need to review scales by playing them in your lessons and instead reuse the time you gain to learn technique and perfect your pieces. ScaleHelper supports multiple users, keeping each user's history for each of their instruments. You can save recordings to study later or to show and play to your teacher and friends. You can also email recordings to share them with others. Have fun competing with your friends to see who can get the highest score or who can maintain the highest average.

PartPlay is a superb new resource for classical musicians of all ages and abilities. The unique interface allows users to play along with professional musicians, and learn from their musical performance. Filmed and recorded in high quality, players are able to study both the musical interpretation and the technical demands of a growing library of works. Musicians who record for PartPlay are all part of well-established chamber ensembles and are also recognised for their teaching expertise at the main colleges and conservatories in the UK. Great for music education! Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert - in fact almost all of our great composers wrote prolific amounts of chamber music, and this is often where we find some of their most profound works. The benefits of exposing students to these masterpieces are well documented, as playing chamber music develops musicianship and encourages collaboration, leadership, responsibility and social skills. However, it’s not always possible to get together as an ensemble. Sometimes there is a lack of rehearsal space or students simply live too far away from each other to meet on a regular basis. Practising can also be difficult, especially if you are learning an ‘inner’ part out of context. Of course, sometimes you just want to sight read through pieces and discover new repertoire. With PartPlay you can: And it’s also a lot of fun! Thanks to the generous support of Thomastik-Infeld and clever technology from the people at PartPlay our app enables you to: Mute, solo or loop any combination of instruments in real-time. Record yourself with the professionals. Slow the music down, and loop it, for those tricky passages. Download free sheet music for most pieces. Build your own library of favourites. Watch player interviews and close-ups videos to really find out how it all fits together. PartPlay has something for all ages and abilities Future Repertoire: What shall we record next? Well, perhaps you can help by sending us feedback with your repertoire requests.