Sight Reading Trainer

Timothy Dijamco

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About this app

Sight Reading Trainer allows you to learn to read sheet music quickly. Using pitch-detection technology, Sight Reading Trainer allows you to train your music reading skills with your physical piano. Just place your device on your piano's music rack and play along! Because you're training your sight reading skills directly on a real piano, you're directly training your muscle memory and learning the physical location of each note.

GAMEPLAY
In each exercise, Sight Reading Trainer will ask you to play a note on your piano. If you play it too low or too high, it will let you know so you can correct yourself. If you play it correctly, your score increases and you move on to the next note. In each exercise, the goal is to play as many notes as you can in one minute.

There are multiple difficulty levels, from Beginner to Hard, so Sight Reading Trainer helps whether you're a complete piano beginner or an advanced player.

FEATURES
* Works for all types of devices (tablets or phones)
* Left Hand mode or Right Hand mode (bass clef or treble clef)
* 4 difficulty levels for each hand mode
* 3+ octave key range (C2 to A5) overall
* Exercises with key signatures
* Fast pitch detection
* No internet connection required
* Statistics such as speed and seconds/note to gauge your performance

Sight Reading Trainer requires that you have access to a physical piano and that your device has a microphone (for the pitch detector).

Ratings and reviews

Great app! I'd much rather play the notes on a physical keyboard than tap buttons on a screen. Not having ads is also great. My one issue is that the lowest Cb note always shows up as too high, no matter what I play. Also, if there are two consecutive notes an octave apart, playing the first note will also register as correct for the second note.

I love this app! It's been a tremendous help. Some suggestions for further improvement: custom time settings, learning mode with no timer, statistics that identify weak points, such as hit/miss ratios for each note. And I don't know if it's just me, but on beginner level, the F note is severely underrepresented compared to the other four. Thank you for releasing this free, and with minimum(and, as far as I can tell, even optional) ads!

Doesn't work with transposing instruments like saxophones. An Eb and Bb option in settings would be very useful. Kind of useless for sax, trumpet, clarinet etc.. Correct notes played blur into the next note displayed and show as incorrect. I'll keep my eye on this in case Eb instrument recognition is added but no use to me until it is.

What's new

New in Version 1.8:
+ The screen should now stay awake when you're doing an exercise
+ Screen orientation is now consistently portrait throughout the app