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PianoHead app for iPhone and iPad


4.3 ( 3483 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: Spinapse, Inc.
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 04 Jan 2011
App size: 9.1 Mb

PianoHead is now available for both the iPhone and the iPad! This popular program has helped thousands of students learn to read music. PianoHead is a simple, elegant solution for mastering the fundamentals of music theory -- and having fun while you do it.

Whether youre a new student or more advanced, PianoHead will help you improve your skills. PianoHead is not an instructional program, its a set of modular drill-and-practice games designed to build automaticity for note recognition, scales, intervals, and key signatures.

This fun, game-like format is both addicting and effective. Youll see your scores increase as you play. Learn at your own pace, and when youre ready, take the PianoHead Challenge and compete for a spot on the worldwide scoreboard. There are 9 levels in this highly interactive game.

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NOTES - Learn note recognition for bass and treble clefs, including flats and sharps.
SCALES - Learn the Major, Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor, and Melodic Minor scales.
INTERVALS - Learn to recognize and hear different intervals.
KEY SIGNATURES - Learn to recognize Major and Minor key signatures.
PIANOHEAD CHALLENGE - Show off all of your skills in the PianoHead Challenge.

FEATURES
- Clean and intuitive interface
- Easy to learn
- Highly addictive and replayable
- Modular areas to focus your practice
- Worldwide Scoreboard
- Local Scoreboard

Latest reviews of PianoHead app for iPhone and iPad

Not Worth It
This is not worth the money. It is very simplified and does not progress at all. You need to be taught what the things are before you can understand what to do. You do the same thing and when you mess up it just starts over.
The best so far
Ive tried a bunch of music apps and some of them are okay. But this is by far the best. Its easy to understand and more fun than the other ones. And Im definitely learning the notes. Totally worth it.
Its good for drills
I used to play and hated the drills. This is a good and simple app to use with my kids to not repeat my suffering.
Great training tool!
Weve been working on a real keyboard for awhile and this is still really useful. The kids are excited to "play" on the iPad and the process with this app makes the learning fun and very clear. Great to have a portable practice method!
Doing what other classes, books, and apps havent
Oh my goodness! I know my major scales now, and I can do them quickly too. I am throughly surprised about this - I am terrible at memorization, but turning it into edutainment. It took me 5 days of 15 minute sessions of games and I mastered the level getting the high score of 1400! This has made basic music fun to me and you have no idea how grateful I am now. I do have a request, after a certain point I started to want to turn off the random selection of scales so I could practice in sequence to reinforce what I learned and to help with ear training. I hope you update with a few more exotic scales too as time goes on. Pentatonic and blues would be on the top of my list. I would rebuy this app if it had an extensive list of scales to learn.
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