Tools to practice, tune, and rehearse music.
Application for practicing with sheet music synchronized to a real recorded performance. It highlights the measures being played, previews the material ahead of a page turn, lets you slow down playback while keeping it in sync with the score, and subdivides multi-measure rests to make them easier to follow. Especially useful for studying your own part in ensembles with several instruments. Includes the tools for synchronizing and preprocessing the scores.
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Web app to practice and evaluate your tuning and tone without watching the tuner, aiming to build ear-based self-regulation. Record or upload clips and get an analysis with deviation in cents, intensity, score, and per-note charts. Add a real-time tuner and harmonic analyzer, and challenge yourself to play back a sound by ear — or its 5th or 3rd — without knowing the reference pitch, using whatever micro-tuning your instrument allows.
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Web tool to train your tempo, aiming to internalize it instead of relying exclusively on the metronome. It uses multiple alternative ways to represent both the proposed tempos and the user's own: a conductor's baton (with a starting tempo), a ball, a traditional metronome, a tape that plays out the spacing of the beats, and so on. You pick a pattern (manual or by level) and, guided by these graded cues, tap it back on the keyboard, a screen tap, a clap, or your instrument. It includes tempo and time-signature changes with a scrolling staff that anticipates the changes, like real sight-reading. When you finish, it shows you an accuracy report and keeps a history of your sessions.
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Desktop app to explore and compare musical tuning systems —equal temperament, just intonation, Pythagorean, meantone, Werckmeister, and the harmonic series— on a virtual piano, with charts for each scale and sound to compare tunings against each other. It's played with an on-screen keyboard via the mouse or with the computer keyboard, with octave changes and sampled sounds from different instruments. It supports polyphony —especially useful for hearing interval effects—, lets you load MIDI files to play them back, and shows the waveform of whatever you're hearing.
Desktop program for Windows — not a mobile or web app.
Web game to practice dynamic control (from ppp to fff) while playing an instrument. After calibrating your loudest note, you steer a character —a diver, a bird, or a digging robot— whose movement depends on how loud or soft you play.
Music practice management platform for students, teachers, and administrators. Lets you build practice sessions with activities and teacher instructions, record clips during practice, and keep a history of sessions and classes. Sessions are built flexibly, based on the weight given to each category of exercises, and automatically adapt to different amounts of available time. During practice, performers get support for pacing their time, an optional metronome, a view of previous performances, sample clip recording, and note-taking. Teachers can prepare practices for their students and supervise them, and create new exercises by adding resources such as audio, video, or sheet music. It makes it easy to track progress by comparing practices over time.
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