Note Rush: Music Reading Game 4+
Learn notes on your instrument
Thomas Grayston
Designed for iPad
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- $14.99
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Description
Learn to Read Music with Note Rush! Note Rush boosts your note reading speed and accuracy, building a strong mental model of where each written note is on your instrument. Now even better with Note Rush: 2nd Edition!
How it Works
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Note Rush is like a virtual flash card deck for all ages that listens to you play each note, giving instant feedback and awarding stars based on speed and accuracy of note identification.
Race against the clock to improve your performance or hide the timer to gently engage those just starting out with the staff.
Includes built-in levels for piano and a range of other instruments as well as custom level design.
What makes Note Rush Different?
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- Play On Your Instrument
Note reading is best learnt in the context of how you identify and play each note - on your acoustic or MIDI instrument.
- Designed for Teachers
...and not as a replacement for them! Create fully customizable note sets and easily send them home to students.
- Fun Themes
Engage with fun themes that don't get in the way of learning, or opt for traditional notation.
Landmarks: The best way to learn your notes
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Note Rush fits with all teaching methods, whether you favor a purely intervallic approach or use traditional mnemonics! We promote learning key landmark notes then reading adjacent notes intervallically for the best results in learning to read piano notation.
Note Rush features a unique landmarks-based hints system (optional) that highlights nearby landmark notes to read intervallically from. Over time students naturally move from reliance on landmarks to a more intrinsic staff-to-keyboard association.
Preset and Custom Levels
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Use preset note ranges or create your own set of levels to suit your teaching style. Create a personalized level to target a particular student’s needs.
- Individual Note Selections
- Sharps and Flats
- Treble, Bass or Grand Staff (alto and tenor coming soon)
- Up to Six Ledger Lines
- Send custom note reading drills using App Links or QR Codes
What’s New
Version 2.01.2
Lots of improvements/fixes in this update:
- Improvements to the Audio Recognition Engine.
- Level Designer has now been given its own dedicated tab at the top of the level selection screen, as it has proven difficult to find in the instrument list!
- Fixed: Note not blinking on incorrect note input.
- Fixed: Total time on level completion sometimes shows 1 second more than the correct time due to a rounding error. (Thanks Michael Cuthbert)
- Fixed: MIDI input not handling NoteOn(velocity=0) as a NoteOff event, which could be causing issues with MIDI behaviour more broadly. (Thanks Peter Ludbey)
- Decreased how long you have to play a non-concert pitch note to calibrate to it.
- Increased sensitivity to incorrect notes (you had to play it for a long time before it registered before).
- Increase tuning requirements to help reduce misidentified semitone-adjacent notes.
Ratings and Reviews
Great App with room for improvement
I love how this app can listen for your instrument to see if you have played the correct notes. This is a great improvement over apps that utilise only MIDI input as now one can use any instrument for his/her practise! I can now practise my saxophone sight reading! Yay!
Two more functional addition would make it even better and a more complete and powerful practicing tool:
1) Key Signatures in various keys:
A lot of us struggle with remembering which notes are to be sharped or flatted in the different keys, and being able to practise in different keys would be great. I was surprised that this has not been incorporated as one of its core settings as many other sight reading apps do have it.
2) More ledger lines Notes:
Another area that musicians may be struggling with and need practising on.
I would not mind paying for IAP should these functions be added!
Music
This is a great game and I recommend it to everyone who is struggling to learn their notes! It’s kid friendly and is easy to use. However sometimes I find all the different backgrounds distracting when trying to learn. Overall this is an amazing app for everyone to use and have fun
Great App But A Bit Overpriced
I got this app recommended to me by my piano teacher and I love the app. The only gripe that I have with it is that I think the app is a bit too expensive for what it has to offer. I know this app has no adds and you need money somehow, and I’m not saying to make it free or anything. Just make it a bit cheaper the $8.00, like around $5.00. But that aside. If you want to learn note reading I say this app is perfect as well as other apps like a great one called Staff Wars. Anyway, thank you for your time, bye!
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- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Thomas Grayston
- Size
- 292.6 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+, Made for Ages 9 to 11
- Copyright
- © 2016 Thomas Grayston
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.