Note Rush: Learn to Read Music

Thomas Grayston Software

About this app

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

Ratings and reviews

Fun, fun, fun! This really helped me with my notes when I was learning piano! A must recommend if you are a beginner and you can't make out your notes. This is the game for you! it is a stopwatch to encourage you to nail down your notes in the nick of time. Plus, the games had different backgrounds so it looks cool, like a jungle with fruit for the notes. It will help you in the future when your songs get more complicated and have faster times!

I like this app, but the developers should set the app not to allow the phone screen to turn off. It constantly goes into dim screen lock mode while I'm in the middle of working on a lesson.

My child and I really enjoy this app! I've seen significant improvement with her in just the last few days. She loves the silly screens and it helps her to want to practice. I love that I can customize which notes we'll practice. One draw back is that there isn't an "infinity" option or any amount of time. You run through the notes one time. I wish I could do something like set it for 5 minutes. Playing through the notes just ones is a bit fiddly and distracts from the actual practicing.

What’s new

Removes the Location permission prompt that was inadvertently being triggered when enabling MIDI devices. (Location permission is required for scanning for bluetooth MIDI devices but not wired ones. Bluetooth scanning has been disabled for now but should be included in the next update!)