Notes - Sight Reading Trainer

This app and the ease of use has introduced a whole new world to me. I never thought I would understand how to play a piano.. My life has been filled with homelessness and bad fortune, so I learned a long time ago that music had a medicinal effect on me.. A personal escape of sorts... I always wanted to understand how to make beautiful sounds with a piano, but I don’t learn so well.. This app made it easy for me to understand the keyboard layout and knowing what each note is from each key.. It seems like this app will help me learn how to write songs and that will make life so happy for me. I’m not trying to be sad here.. I just wanted to explain how much this app can help someone like me. I can’t afford the full version but this version, I appreciate none the less. “Music may have to save the world someday”.

I rarely write reviews, but this app is so beyond amazing I’ll try my best to share my thoughts. First of all, everything is absolutely FREE, NO premium that you have to buy to basically unlock everything, I feel the developers of this app were truly trying to help instead of take all of your money. Secondly, I’ve had this app for one day and I’ve already learned more than I did searching for weeks for a good app that’s free. I’ve started to be able to play simple songs on my keyboard, like Jingle Bells, completely looking at the sheet music. I almost gave up on trying to learn how to read sheet music, but this has given me a great start. Sorry for bad grammar.

This is a great app for learning how to read music and translating that into making your fingers actually press the right keys. The built-in keyboard is nice, but to really get value, I HIGHLY recommend using a real MIDI keyboard. I was going through the app with the built-in keyboard and thought I was doing real well, but it’s a whole different level with a real MIDI keyboard, I ended up just starting over from the beginning and it’s way more beneficial. (Note, there is a small bug where the keys remain red/green after pressing them when using a MIDI keyboard, but it really didn’t impact the experience. Just a small cosmetic thing to fix.)

This app is very simple and to the point. I’ve been playing an instrument for a year but could not read notes. I spent two weeks on this app and have been able to get my average down to under a second per note. The lessons are pretty good but i love the practice with the custom range of notes. To get my number below a second, i started having learn to play a note based on how many spaces away from the last note i played as opposed to thinking about each and every note independently in my head. I have gotten down to 0.50 per note in some runs and looking forward to increasing my consistency.

Started using several other methods to help memorize the notes on the Clefs. When I started this app I immediately started getting better. From September to December I went from just reading the standard notes in the Treble Clef at 3 seconds, 80% Accuracy to reading all the notes from 3 ledger lines below the bass Clef to 3 above the Treble Clef at 1.5 sec, and 98% Accuracy. In January I turned on the sharps & Flats, and slowed to 2.3 sec at 95% Accuracy. I’m now back to 1.5 sec and 99% Accuracy! And I started music class in March and can readily start reading and playing songs. It’s great!