Play Fast Notes vs ScaleDice

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.

Tired of practicing the same scales in the same order? ScaleDice picks your major scales at random, so every practice session starts fresh. Tap Roll Dice and get a new set of major scales. Practice them in order, quizz yourself, or use them to test student knowledge. HOW MANY, AND HOW HARD • Roll anywhere from 1 to all 12 major scales at once. • Choose Easy, Medium, or Hard. Easy includes 2 scales from the friendly band keys (F, Bb, Eb, Ab at concert pitch), Medium includes 1, and Hard includes none. MADE FOR YOUR INSTRUMENT • Pick your instrument and every scale is written the way you read it. Clarinet, trumpet, and tenor sax players see their own keys, and alto sax, bari sax, and horn players do too. • Supports flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, bari sax, trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, percussion, and a generic "Other" setting. LOCK AND RE-ROLL • Tap a scale to lock it, then roll again to shuffle only the rest. Keep the one you need to work on and swap out the others. SEE THE KEY SIGNATURE • Press and hold any scale to see its key signature on a staff, with the right clef for your instrument, plus the notes of the scale from tonic to tonic. GREAT FOR MUSIC TEACHERS • Mock auditions: roll a fresh set of scales for each student, just like an audition where you never know which keys you will get. • Classroom playing tests: choose the difficulty for your group, set the instrument, and roll. Lock a scale everyone should play, then roll the rest. • Switch instruments in a tap and the same roll is rewritten in each player's keys, so a mixed band can be tested on the same set of scales. DESIGNED TO BE QUICK • Set your options on the Home screen and roll. Change them any time from Settings. • Your choices are remembered between sessions. • Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with a layout that grows to fill the window. • No account needed. Whether you are a student looking for a different warm-up, a teacher running mock auditions and playing tests, or a player who wants to stop picking the same keys, Scale Dice gives you a new set every time you roll.