Appmuse

Love this !! Very helpful!!

I am studying to be a music teacher right now and play a wind instrument. Downloaded it to see how useful it could be for teaching. For beginners it starts having you read rhythms with no verbal explanation of what to do and very quickly you must automatically know to repeat it back without being told to. An annoying voice is counting the rhythms and you must repeat rhythms you get wrong over and over. Then I tried the placement test which assessed my rhythmic skills well and gave me some challenging ones I wasn’t used to. I then realized that the only way to use this app is tapping your finger and I was thinking, “How well can this really apply to instrument playing or singing? Maybe it could be good for percussion players but no one plays with just one finger.” People play music in different ways, so they should practice rhythms in different ways to get better. TL;DR This app is not a good tool for learning music, there’s no variety to it, but may be a way to pass the time if you don’t mind the monotony or the robot voice. Show more

I’m really bad with rhythm, but this app really improved the basic counting and rhythm and learning how to sight rhythm something I thought I couldn’t learn ! Try it out it really helps ! Show more

My main issues are that it is stricter, like harder to score as “correct” if you tap slightly before the beat vs slightly after. That can get annoying It ironically gets harder the more you mess up, slowing down a lot makes it harder to get the rhythm down, especially cause of the reason I gave above about it being stricter if you tap slightly Too fast. Also the whole verbal counting with the robotic voice confuses/throws me off more than helps me Show more

I don’t usually have “gamer rage”, but sometimes this app brings me close to it. I am improving my rhythm little by little with it, but it is really stressful like a strict ballet teacher. For roughly half of the exercises you repeat after its rhythm pattern, and it jumps right to your turn after—sometimes within an eight beat. This is hard to time perfectly. Even being slightly off can mark it wrong. The app takes charge a lot, slowing down the BPM when it thinks you’re doing poorly, telling you to take breaks which ruins the flow of the exercise, and giving you tips you are often already doing like counting out loud. The other exercise is sight reading, and you jump from line to line with no warm-up. If you miss even one beat over several lines, your entire progress for that exercise will start back at zero. There is a slight forgiveness to when you tap, but not much. Now for the most frustrating aspect in my opinion—if the app decides you are doing too poorly at sight reading, it might take you back a level you already completed. This has caused me to spend a session redoing something I already passed, and having it revert again on the next session. TLDR this app will help you if you want near perfect rhythm, but if you’re like me it will frustrate you and not feel worth the subscription. It is a great idea but with a very demanding and unforgiving design. Show more

As a newbie to playing music and keeping a beat, I love this app because I am learning proper time signatures. This has me tapping my foot in time as I practice piano with JoyTunes app. At age 56 I decided to learn to play piano. I bought a keyboard but I knew my timing was off. I stop playing for awhile because I knew timing was my weak spot. Now I am coming back to regular practice and more confidence because of this app. Mahalo. Show more

The application determines the tempo for you. There is no way to set a tempo for yourself and practice at your own pace. App will force you to work at the very edge of your capabilities and then it will suggest that you take a break because you are failing perform well enough at the tempo it determined for you. I dont know if this is a teaching technique or not but it doesn’t seem to work very well for me. I won’t be renewing my subscription. Show more

I did 1 star because sometimes I miss the beat, and I also sent them a feedback

Hello!! This is a wonderful app! I use it to help with my piano and I recommended it to my students that I teach! Let me just say that this app really helps students with their eight notes and counting rests and eighth rests…so far! I just started and it’s going great! Thank you! And also, just a quick consideration, it might be nice to include a part with longer rhythms that are multiple measures long? It would make me want to use it more and more, the longer you make each practice! I really appreciate the fact that this app is free too. Thank you so much. Show more

Truthfully I’ve always looked at good musical timing as a requirement but playing live or in practice with fellow musicians can be on time but not always so exacting; playing straight up and down on a note. Rhythm trainer is good to work on timing pure and simple. Show more