What Note Is This? at Mac App Store analyse

What We Liked: This tightly focused app is very simple, but incredibly powerful. The self-correcting mechanism of displaying the note just played when an incorrect note is selected is incredible for providing valuable learning feedback. It helped me to rapidly correct my incorrect selections and helped me to perform much better on future attempts. The combination of note name, note displayed on the flashcard, and the sound of the keyboard when a note is tapped creates wonderfully effective feedback for the beginning music student and really helps to cut down on learning time. With the built-in electric keyboard and the flashcard displayed in the position of sheet music on a piano, I can easily see how mastering reading and playing single notes in this app will provide a smooth entrance into playing from sheet music. What We Didn’t Like: Not a dislike necessarily, but a small suggestion. In practice mode I’d love it if a correct note selection on the keyboard would automatically advance the flashcard instead of requiring a finger flick to move on, it would be a bit speedier that way – maybe as an option in a future update? Overall: What Note Is This? is an ingenious app. After only a few sessions I have regained much of my long-lost music reading skills from my formal music lessons as a child. If you have a child who is learning to read music in your homeschool (or even yourself), this app will exponentially increase the ease with which the connections between written music, physical keys, and tones are made.

A quick and engaging way for my students to practice and quiz themselves on notation. The stickers are a great way for students to compete. Nice job.

This is a more thorough app than others Ive been able to find. Even as an adult this is helping me relearn my notes. Love the choices of treble or bass clef or both. Great easy to use app.

The design is very well-done, and the program is exactly what I was looking for in a note learning app. There are a few occasional bugs that can interfere with its usability (one required a forced quit). It would be nice if the keyboard could be locked, rather than scrolling horizontally to show 3+ octaves. That would help those of us with fat finges.

It would be perfect if you could set up more than one student. I have a son who has played for 2.5 years and just needs review and 2 sons that have been playing less than a year. It would be nice to be able to track individual progress.

The app has an elegant interface and lots of flexibility. I especially appreciate that you can scroll and access all parts of the keyboard and that more than one octave shows at a time. This helps spatial learners like me reinforce the keyboard position as well as the note name.

Im disappointed that this app contains some glaring bugs right off the bat. Its initially confusing because youre directed to begin by an arrow that points to nothing on the screen. By pressing buttons on opposite side of screen can you actually begin the game. The notes begin to appear well enough but after about ten notes the game sporadically hangs and more than one note appears (If its quizzing chords that early in the first quiz it should be clearer; but its not--its a glitch).