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Sight Reader - Complete Music Notation Learning Tool app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 7888 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: byte3 LLC
Free
Current version: 2.1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 24 Oct 2012
App size: 87.32 Mb

Sight Reader is the most complete training program for learning to read music. Students of over 20 instruments can focus on specific categories to isolate weaknesses, train on never before seen exercises, and get detailed performance results on their pitch and rhythm.

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"Absolutely THE best app to learn to read music. I downloaded many, and all do their bit, but this app trumps them all. By a long shot. I have made amazing progress in one month of using the app. Well done developers!"

"For anyone who wants to learn how to read music, this app is a challenging and fun step-by-step which engages all different levels...just chose your instrument and start the lessons...loving it!"

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Music Teachers and Music Students Rejoice! We now support 21 instruments, each with hundreds of static, random, and customizable exercises.

Sight Reader is an incredibly powerful tool to help you aggressively challenge yourself and push you towards becoming a better sight reader. With Sight Reader, you not only get tons of non-repeating material, (thus preventing you from memorization) but will also LISTEN TO YOU PLAY and give you feedback on your performance! No extra equipment is needed - just open the app and start playing YOUR INSTRUMENT!

Sight Reader contains several categories of music exercises to drill you on specific aspects of music notation.

Categories include...

Lessons
-Beginning interactive lessons for each instrument teaching you the notes on your instrument and on the staff.
-Listen to every exercise.
-Challenges (non repeating material) to test you on each lesson.


Flashcards
-Tailored to each instrument.
-Broken down into small subsets of notes for beginners up to fully chromatic instrument specific ranges.
-Timed gameplay, with automatic card switching when it hears the correct note.

Pitch Matching (Voice Category)
-Hear a note, then sing it back.
-Replay the note with the touch of a button.
-Automatically changes when you sing it correctly.

Rhythm Only
-The pitch never changes so you focus only on rhythms.
-Broken down into levels that get progressively add more subdivisions.
-Non repeating, so you get a new exercise each time.

Notes Only
-Choose from one of many fixed rhythms (quarters, or 8th triplets etc) so you practice only your pitches.
-Tailored for each instrument.
-Non repeating, so you get a new exercise each time.
-Play in key or atonally


Beginner Songs
-Easy songs to get you started with your reading.
-Playable in all 12 keys.


Intervals
-Exercises that allow you to familiarize yourself with seeing and playing specific intervals.
-Two ways to practice: Same interval (e.g. major 3rd) anywhere in range, and fixed note where you play all intervals from the same starting note.
-Non repeating, so you get a new exercise each time.

-Arpeggios
New category with several triad and 7th chord arpeggios. Choose either a Diatonic or Chromatic exercise, then choose your range. The exercise will loop each arpeggio while going up the scale, or chromatically for the range you selected.

Scales
-Huge library of scales formatted for your instrument.
-Playable in all 12 keys

Currently Sight Reader supports the following instruments.
-Voice (S/A/T/B)
-Guitar
-Piano
-Bass
-Percussion
-Flute
-Trumpet
-Violin
-Viola
-Cello
-Clarinet
-Soprano Sax
-Alto Sax
-Tenor Sax
-Baritone Sax
-Oboe
-English Horn
-French Horn
-Bassoon
-Trombone
-Tuba

…and more instruments and content to be added.

Teachers - incorporate Sight Reader into your private lessons! Students - make Sight Reader a part of your daily practice routine. Other features include:

-Play in all 12 keys
-Listen to an example of each exercise
-Listen back to your performance
-Customize your exercise Length, Tempo and Key
-Live Tuner
-Visual and Audio Metronome.