![]() ![]() It has a more traditional sheet music-style graphic. With a solid 4.5-star rating base and installs between 100,000 – 500,000, it’s worth checking out. Note Teacher is geared towards guitar players and seems to only be available on android, so sorry Apple-users. If you need to get a young musician to practice sight reading, this is the app that can do it. As with most games, the better you do, the higher level you can access for more difficult exercises and challenges. With fun underwater graphics and notes in the guise of various sea creatures, it could make a nice break from the more studious apps while still providing some worthwhile exercises. Music Crab (iOS version here) takes gamification to improve sight-reading skills to whole a new level. Here are some other great choices to round out our 2018 list: Both versions include a seven-day free trial. Otherwise, you can still get the “Student” package (without the live tutoring) for $19 a month. It also provides live, personalized tutor sessions from music teacher if you purchase its “Musician” level package for $29 a month. It also includes sight reading exercises based on actual compositions and audio playback of the correct notes so you can improve all your musical senses. So no matter your instrument or your experience, this piece of software can help you improve your music sight reading. Sight Reading Mastery provides sight reading exercises and games for a wide variety of instruments, as well as voice, and at a wide choice of grade levels. The android version enables a multiplayer format that lets you compare your scores against others and have multiplayer sessions that will really push you! It’s available now on android too, not just iOS. It lets you review your test results so you can see exactly what you got right (and wrong), and measure your progress over time. ![]() It includes timed exercises and games to really keep you on your toes. A 4.5-star rating on the most recent version shows a remarkably consistency with its 4.5-star rating based on all its 5000+ ratings. Music Tutor Free (Sight Reading Improver) is still free with an ad-free paid version (still $1.99). There are two apps from our original list that merit getting re-listed two years later. You can check out our initial list, along with some notes on what to look for in a sight-reading app, here. That’s why we thought it was a good time to revisit the issue and share with you the best apps and games to up your own music sight-reading skills in 2018. No budding musician is going to be able to move forward without getting the sight-reading thing figured out. Otherwise, dust off that old ax, because now is the time to shred.It’s been over a year since we took a look at what apps and games can help beginning music students to master sight reading. If you are interested in laying out some cash, check out our other guide on the Best Music Gear for Learning an Instrument. The best part? Most of these materials cost nothing. ![]() I polled friends, colleagues, and fellow music nerds for some of their favorite apps, sites, and videos. After two decades of formal lessons and a four-year conservatory degree, I'm convinced a good portion of my education could have been substituted with a decent tablet, YouTube, and a caffeine drip. I'm beginning to feel similar tinges of envy for people starting to learn instruments in the iPad era. My generation could easily loop tough sections on our favorite System of a Down fills with our iPods. When sweaty, teenage Marty learned to play in the 1970s, he wore out 10-second increments on his vinyl records as he struggled to master various rolls, cymbal splashes, and fills alongside his idols. Two decades ago, my drum teacher Marty told me he was jealous of the millennial generation. ![]()
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