Piano Sight-Reading Trainer

ABRSM Publishing Ltd

About this app

ABRSM Piano Sight-Reading Trainer contains 155 brand new specially composed pieces of sight-reading for Piano Grades 1 to 5. But, before you can play them you have to unlock them!
 
Each piece is preceded by a series of games designed to improve your ability to spot the features, patterns and characteristics of the music before you play it. Test yourself and see if you can achieve a three-star score in these fun games:

Rhythm Match - hear a rhythm and identify the corresponding notation.
Pitch Patterns, Quick Fire Five, What’s the Difference - study the music and answer a series of questions. Learn how to make the 30 seconds of preparation time you have in your exam really count!

Complete the challenges to unlock the pieces and start a practice streak.

Strong sight-reading skills empower musicians to communicate with one another through the language of music, as well as learn new pieces quickly and accurately. Regular practice with ABRSM Sight-Reading Trainer will help you avoid the pitfalls and achieve sight-reading success!

Hey, phone users! Music notation is complex and phone screens are small. This app is best viewed on an iPad but there's still lots you can learn and enjoy if you’re using the app on a smaller phone. Make sure you check out the preview screenshots in the App Store.

Ratings and reviews

In general the app sounds useful, but the developers should put more effort in polishing it before releasing to the public. The app doesn't handle back button properly, so you can never go back once you enter a screen (if you go to your progress, you will be trapped in that screen until you forcefully kill the app; pressing back will simply exit the app, but you will still be in the same screen next time). It also doesn't fill the screen properly, so the text is cut. Unacceptable for the price.

Still needs work. I find it impossible to get out of an exercise, I have to close the whole app. The items are also not properly positioned on the page, part of some boxes or text are missing (you can tell what it is, is just a bit annoying). Really great idea and I will love to support it as soon as I know that works will be done to improve it.

Quite useful to make progress on sight reading skills. What would make it better is the ability to unlock an audio of the sight reading piece to know if one's attempt was any good. Also it wouldn't hurt to make it more fun for children with virtual awards.

What’s new

More updates for the new ABRSM branding