Android music applications

Iqa'at: Arabic Rhythms

10/19/2018

Great to have access to these rhythms with tempo adjustable tempo to boot and nice for any percussionist to learn something new.

Google Play:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amvi.ikaatalarabiya

The easiest way to access, listen and learn the Iqa'at (Rhythms) of Arabic Music.

- Contains over 50 Iqa'a grouped in categories.
- Contains 5 Rhythms Categories including Sha'abi (Folk), Khaligi, Dabke, Taqsim and Muwashahat.
- Rhythms played on different percussion instruments of the Middle East, like Derbake, Riqq, Bandir and Tabl Baladi, depending on the specific rhythm.
- Each rhythm has auto loop on in order to practice the rhythm.
- Contains a Help page for the users who are not familiar with Staff notation or musical symbols

Note: - All the rhythms are showed and played in skeleton form, as the app goal is to learn the rhythms rather than playing rhythm with another instrument

Created by the 'Arabic Music Virtual Institute'. Visit our Youtube Channel to listen to Traditional & Classical Arabic Music and to learn more about Traditional Arabic Music

Tips for 7pad : playing with scales

10/10/2018

Deconstructing a Classic Dance Track: Kavinsky - Nightcall

9/29/2018

ChordLab - Smart A.I. Universal Chord Finder

9/22/2018

Google Play:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alienai.chordlab

- Have a common or a strange instrument and want to know how to make chords on it?
- Want to be surprised by smart fingering alternatives that you never thought of?
- Want to experiment with tuning your strings differently?

Much more than a chord finder, a universal chord computer that knows the preferences of humans! ChordLab shows you easy and great-sounding fingerings (tabs) for any chord, for any fretted string instrument (chordophone), real or imaginary, and for any tuning you wish.

No matter if it's a Guitar or a Chinese Liuqin... No matter if it's a Mariachi Vihuela, an Italian Chitarra Battente, or even an instrument invented by you! No matter if it's with a standard tuning or any tuning you decide to experiment with. ChordLab is the expert for every situation.

ChordLab Features:
• Choose from many predefined or custom instruments.
• With a few taps, you can change the tuning of any instrument.
• If it's not there yet, create your own instrument in just a few seconds!
• Choose from 288 chord combinations, including anything from basic chords to folk and jazz chords.
• ChordLab instantly shows you the right fingerings (tabs) with lots of smart alternatives that may surprise you!
• On the top you will see the fingerings/tabs that are easiest and will sound better on your instrument.
• You can duplicate, save, and delete instruments.
• Screen layout optimized for phone, small tablet and big tablet (see screenshots or video).
• No ads! No permissions or internet connection required!

Instrument Compatibility:
ChordLab is an intelligent universal (multi-instrument and multi-tuning) chord finder that incorporates human preferences in the process of creating tabs. It works for any (real or imaginary) commonly fretted chordophone (string instrument). Commonly fretted chordophones are characterized by having frets in one semitone intervals that start at a common position (called nut).

The example instruments and tunings already present when app is installed:
• Guitar - Standard, Drop D and Irish DADGAD tunings
• Bass Guitar
• Portuguese Guitar
• Mandolin
• Mandola and Mandocello
• Ukulele and Banjolele - Standard and Ancient tunings
• Trichordo, Tetrachordo and Irish Bouzouki
• Tenor Banjo - Standard and Irish tunings
• Plectrum Banjo
• Banjolin
• Lute (Spanish Laúd) and Bandurria
• Cavaquinho - Standard and Ancient tunings
• Mexican Vihuela
• Balalaika
• Cittern
• Dobro
• Jarana Huasteca

Feel free to email the developer regarding any question or suggestion.

Music Scale Sudoku -Learn Scales Doing Sudoko?

7/16/2018

Interesting concept...
The same developer is also behind a 8-bit game for learning music theory with listening excercises. So big props for thinking outside the box and am curious what will pop out later from his mind...

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.musicscalesudoku.app

Music Scale Sudoku is the first app ever to combine Sudoku and Music Scale Theory. Mastering scales is a fundamental skill in the study of music. A solid understanding of scales makes the study of melody, chords, and harmony easier. It also helps improve your ability to remember and compose music.

Combining Sudoku and music scales is the perfect way to practice your ability to spell scales. The solution method doubles as an exercise in spelling scales.

Music Scale Sudoku features the 11 most common major scales: C, F, G, Bb, D, Eb, A, Ab, E, Db, and B.

There are 6 puzzles for each scale plus a random mode that creates over 600 variations of the existing puzzles.

Each puzzle has been verified to contain no advanced Sudoku techniques. The goal of this app is to teach you scales over advanced Sudoku techniques.

The game also features a tutorial on how to spell major scales.

Buttons double as a keyboard so that you can play along to the background music!

8 Bit Conservatory - A Music Learning Game

7/6/2018

Great idea to combine 8 bit gameplay with learning musical theory in my opinion.
Will play with this tonight as it just got discovered...
There is a free ad version and a two monies version without the ads...

Google Play:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ebcfree.myapp

Enter a musical village designed to teach you some of the most important musical concepts. Games are a mix of old school, retro style play and touchscreen play.

Gameplay will strengthen your musical knowledge and musical ear. Game includes 10 levels of interactive learning and gameplay.

Musical concepts covered:

Melody - Definition and interactive examples,
Scales - Audio recognition and spelling of major and minor scales,
Chords - Audio recognition of major, minor and dominant 7th. Spelling of major, minor, diminished, augmented and dominant 7,
Intervals - Audio recognition of consonant and dissonant intervals. Spelling of diatonic intervals,
Reading notes on the treble and bass clefs, diminished 5th resolution,
Finding notes on a piano,
Key Signatures - recognition of sharp and flat keys with tips for easier recognition,
Note and Rest Rhythmic Values - whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes,
Chord Progressions - Audio examples and roman numeral labeling,
Chord Resolution - dominant 7 and diminished 7 audio examples,

Ear Training - Major scale solfege,
Ear Training - Consonant vs Dissonant,
Ear Training - Major vs Minor,
Ear Training - Chords - Major, Minor, Dominant 7, Diminished 7,
Ear Training - Chord/Scale Relationship,
Ear Training - Diminished 5th resolution,

Free Version contains Ads.

Play demo here: http://www.triadtuning.com/Demo

Game Level Index:
Level #1 - Pitch, Scales, and Intervals, Level #2 - Reading notes on the staff, Level #3 - Finding notes on the piano keyboard, Level #4 - Learn the Key Signatures, Level #5 - Key Signature Recognition Game, Level #6 - Chord Audio Recognition, Level #7 - Note and Rest Rhythmic Value Game, Level #8 - Chord/Scale Relationship Game, Level #9 - Interval, Scale and Chord Spelling Learn and Testing Game, Level #10 - Chord Progression Introduction and interactive audio examples.

Developers Note: My goal with this game is to introduce fundamental music concepts that tend to get ignored because they aren’t as “fun” as playing your instrument. I also want to make music theory more approachable and show that it’s a tool to enhance music, not to label things as right or wrong. No app can be fully comprehensive on the subject and I encourage the user to seek as many sources of musical information as possible.

Intuitive Guitar - Major Scale Modes / New Guitar exersice app for free until Friday...

5/10/2018

The developer have made apps before focused on learning and theory for guitar.
This one being the latest and for free until Friday.
He also made a lot of videos that should be of interest for any guitar player out there.

I did destroy my fingers over-practicing guitar two weeks ago, so have not used this app yet...
Yapps wanted to practice an hour a day but got so excited lately with the guitar that it became around three hours of steel string guitar and now paying the price. It have made me kind of depressed as my guitar playing started to sound real good...
Sad...
But as the fingers recuperate hopefully in a week or so more, want to see if this can help me theory wise.

Google Play:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amparosoft.intuitiveguitar.modes

Why is it that many video courses, guitar lessons, guitarists, apps and tutorials explain the concept of modes for guitar over and over again? Because they are very useful of course, but somewhat fail as one usually ends up with fretboard diagrams filled with dots and patterns and it all seems like a big intellectual challenge to memorize all positions at once, all keys, all strings… so many different combinations, and how to make them sound musical and flow through them without sounding like a robot is going up and down a scale?

We believe the solution is learning through intuition and repetition with carefully designed objective oriented practice routines. Time is important, so optimizing your practice time is essential to make progress and stop wasting time.

This approach to learning the modes of the major scale for guitar is simple and effective, just play along a practice routine for 10 minutes a day and the whole fretboard will start to open up for you. The routines cover all seven modes of the major scale parallel to each other in the key of C. We are approaching guitar fretboard visualization in 3-string shapes that cover only one octave, which makes them easy to manipulate, instead of large 6-string shapes, CAGED, 3 notes per string or other conventional shapes. This process will allow you to always keep in mind the intervallic relationship of the note you're playing against the root. Basic modal theory is included and we focus on the 7 modes of the major scale: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian.

Features:
- New effortless approach to learning music theory and skills
- Fly through the 7 Modes of the Major Scale
- 21 well designed guitar practice routines for daily practice
- 14 Backing tracks/modal loops with advanced audio pitch-shifting, tempo variations, and an equalizer
- Fully featured tab section with zoom, fast scrolling, loops, tempo and tonality change
- Modal Music Theory
- Built-in Metronome

We think that in today's digital world privacy is of the utmost importance. You can read the complete policy here: www.amparosoft.com/privacy

NOTE: If you run into any issues, have questions or suggestions, please email us to amparosoft@gmail.com

All content is property of AmparoSoft
All music is composed and played by Otto Reina

How Koji Kondo Writes Creepy Music

4/3/2018

MobiDic - Guitar Chords

2/6/2018

There is a lot of chord apps for guitar on the Play store but this one is definitively my favorite.
It is straight to the point with a clear interface. Choose root and chordtype to the left and press a picture showing how the fingering to hear the chord being played and having the chords shown on a graphic fretboard in the bottom.
Do not hurt that it is for free and no pesky ads!

If you are a guitar player think that this will be enjoyed and of great help.

Google Play:

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actual.mobidic

MobiDic Guitar Chords is an illustrated chord dictionary for acoustic and electric guitar containing about 5000 chords with realistic sound. All examples are shown along with a picture, which provides the best view for left hand positioning.

Its interface allows quick access to the desired chord through lists with tonic and chord types, and even a search engine. This app, developed by brazilians, was tested and approved by great musicians like Yamandu Costa, Nelson Faria, Daniel Sá, Gustavo Assis-Brasil, among others!

Piano Teacher Interviews Creator of iREAL Pro

2/3/2018

To hear or download a transcript of interview being made with the iREAL Pro creator go here:
https://timtopham.com/cptp097-meet-the-musician-behind-my-favourite-app-ireal-pro/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=timjtopham&utm_content=CPTP097%20-%20Meet%20the%20Musician%20Behind%20my%20Favourite%20App:%20iReal%20Pro

Learning Piano with Yousician: Day 30

11/19/2017

Yousician Review: Full Walkthrough W/ 30 Day Trial Test Results (Product Review by NelsMedia)

11/19/2017

How to Write a Morrissey Song ("Sing The Third")

9/23/2017

iReal Pro - Updated

8/28/2017

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.massimobiolcati.irealb

WHAT'S NEWBlues
- 12 new Blues styles are now available as a one time In-App purchase
- Each Blues style comes with guitar, keyboard, bass and drums tracks
Improvements to audio
- Change tempo during playback
- Change instrument sounds during playback (Except drums)
- Exporting audio is now very fast
- Added two new electric guitars

Modern Rock Fusion - New guitar tutorial app

8/18/2017

New app of developer that have specialized in practice apps for electric guitar players, specially catering for more technically inclined players.

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amparosoft.modernrockfusion

How do guitar giants like Allan Holdsworth, Greg Howe, Guthrie Govan, Brett Garsed, Shawn Lane and others write such exciting rock fusion songs? Why is their phrasing so rich, original and interesting?

This app will introduce you to this amazing world of modern, elegant and catchy guitar phrasing that takes elements from jazz, metal, rock, or any other genre with an original and challenging solo for electric guitar that will help you mold your own unique vocabulary for improvisation. This solo features a variety of modern fusion phrasing approaches divided into 30 challenging bite-sized licks.

Learn this solo with style while learning from this interesting genre with high quality video, audio and tab at three different speeds.

Other guitarists of this genre are Scott Henderson, Marco Sfogli, Martin Miller, Tom Quayle

Features:
- Original modern rock fusion solo for electric guitar
- 30 licks with videos, audios at three different speeds
- 31 backing tracks at three different speeds
- Theory behind each lick
- Included metronome
- Animated tablature
- High quality integrated video with zoom control

Basic knowledge and experience playing the electric guitar is highly recommended.

NOTE: If you run into any issues, have questions or suggestions, please email us to amparosoft@gmail.com or use the website contact: http://www.amparosoft.com/?q=contact

Modern Rock Fusion is also available for Android, PC and Mac in Amazon, Google Play or directly from http://www.amparosoft.com.

All content is property of Amparosoft
All music is composed and played by Otto Reina

7Pad Android music app : PadSets and Songs.

7/1/2017

Helio workstation - Sequencer/compositional workspace

6/6/2017

This is a little bit of old news but never saw it for one reason or another. It is an app for sequencing and composing with a whole lot of functions to help with all kinds theoretical issues. Have not explored it yet but it sure looks interesting. There is also a free PC version that can use VSTi's.
If you try it please leave your impressions in the comments section.

To read more in-depth about it and get the PC version go here:
https://helioworkstation.com/

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.peterrudenko.helio

Helio is a cross-platform lightweight music speed-painting tool. It features linear-based sequencer with clean UI, integrated version control and more.

iReal Pro Presentation

4/27/2017

BACKTRACKIT - Manipulate audio Plus some other features

4/25/2017

For free and with no pubicity this should be a no-brainer for practising musicians...

Google Play info:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.superpowered.backtrackit&hl=en

- Detect and Shift the Key and Tempo of any of your songs!
- Remove the leading instrument in the song. This can be the Vocals so you can sing along or a Guitar solo so you can practice along!
- Guitar/Piano display of 16 musical scales in any key!
- Chords viewer: check the position of more than 140 chords!
- The App gives you control over the Bass/Middle/Treble of the song.
- Save the song as a karaoke track with new tempo, pitch and EQ settings!
- The App will sort all of your songs according to their key or tempo.
- Loop any part of the song! The loop is gapless.
- Overlay Guitar scales over any App! This is great for jamming over a track on YouTube.

Backtrackit gives you the best audio quality when the pitch is shifted or the tempo is changed. When the pitch is changed, the tempo remains the same due to time-stretching technique.

Backtrackit is Superpowered.

The App is still under development. Please report bugs so we can fix them.

Stagelight EDU - Stagelight goes music education

4/23/2017

This is a good iniative and the first I have seen. So Stagelight EDU comes with interactive lessons and more. Here is the short description from the website:

Stagelight EDU in the ClassroomStagelight EDU is the easiest and best way to teach, learn, create, share and play music on Chrome OS, Windows, macOS and Android devices. Stagelight EDU delivers next-generation music education with its in-app lessons and virtual classes – built by teachers for teachers. With royalty-free sounds, customizable lesson plans, state-approved curricula and more, Stagelight EDU brings first-class music education right to your device. Make Stagelight EDU your music app of choice for all fine arts education.

To read more go here:
http://us.openlabs.com/education/