Description
Preschool Music contains four, fun, musical activities including:
1.) Sea Beats:
Explore the beats and rhythm of music with this animated, virtual aquarium featuring 12 unique swimming sea creatures!
2.) Singing Birds:
Learn about music and harmony as children interact with these fun, animated, musical birds.
3.) Note Maker:
Play the keys of a virtual piano and learn how to create and read musical notes with a singing, animated parrot!
4.) Singing Sheep:
Create your very own melodies by "playing" the singing sheep game!
*Music is one of the most important developmental skills for children! Discover how fun and easy it is to make music!
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Please take a look at our other fun and educational children apps (only .99 each):
* Preschool Adventure
* Preschool Arcade
* Suzy Dress Up
* Bumblebee Touchbook
* Make A Martian
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3DAL, LLC
Customer Reviews
Somewhat disappointing
As mentioned in the App Store description, there are four musical activities in this app. That's not entirely clear on the activity selection screen. (Preschool Adventure, the only other 3DAL app I have, is much better in this respect.)
The musical notes are clear, particularly from the piano (and on-key, as far as I can tell). The art is bold and colorful.
Activity 1, the undersea rhythm ensemble (not shown in a screen shot), is an interesting idea, which doesn't produce complicated rhythms, but illustrates a variety of (mostly) percussion sounds. The actual activity didn't interest me, but I'm not a preschooler.
Activity 2, the singing birds, lets the user control three parrots(?) singing a round. In my hands, it didn't sound very musical, but perhaps a preschooler would have better luck.
Activity 3 is the most complicated. It features a piano keyboard with one octave (C to C). The "white" keys are actually rainbow-colored (as shown in the App Store screen shot). You can only play one note at a time. (That's somewhat disappointing.) As you play a note, it appears on the musical staff above the keyboard, on the correct line or space, in the same color as the key you pressed. The note is added after any previous musical notes. At most six notes can be placed on the staff at a time, after which the oldest note scrolls off of the left end as a new one is placed at the right end. (Animating this scrolling would clarify what is happening.)
If you touch the parrot, he will sing the notes displayed on the staff. Each note is removed as it is sung. Though all notes are written as quarter notes, the rate at which they are sung varies quite a bit, according to no rule that I could figure out.
The keyboard also includes the black keys. Unfortunately, the black keys are too narrow for me to hit accurately. Perhaps they should be made a bit wider. (And they may be easier for my 4-year-old niece to hit, with her less-practiced, but narrower fingers.) These keys really are black. Each is marked in white with the letter from an adjacent key, and the appropriate sharp or flat. (See the screen shot.) If a black key is pressed, the colored note whose letter is marked on the key is displayed on the musical staff, in the appropriate color, along with the appropriate sharp or flat.
The black key feature does not seem as successful as the rest of the piano keyboard. The color correspondence is not maintained, and the underlying complexity of the musical notation starts to "leak through". So preschoolers are not going to understand the black keys. But if the intent is just to pique their curiosity, it may succeed.
Activity 4, the singing sheep, allows the preschooler to experiment with harmony, a bit. He can play a musical note by touching a sheep. He can play harmony by touching two sheep at once. And if he touches the bird, the bird and sheep will sing "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep", in one of two modes (harmony, with a flute accompaniment, or solo).
All in all, promising, but it needs work before it will reach the level of Preschool Adventure.
Suggestion
My son loves making music! wish it had more auto play songs. Maybe abc's, row row your boat, monkeys on the bed? Thank you!
Making music fun!
Great app! It really held my kids attention, with all the great shapes and sounds. I love how this app gets the kids interested in music and making music.
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$0.99
- Category: Education
- Released:Apr 27, 2009
- Version:1.0
- 1.0
- 10.2 MB
- Language:English
- Seller:3DAL, LLC
- © 2008 3DAL, LLC
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
