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by Music Teacher In Training

I am studying to be a music teacher right now and play a wind instrument. Downloaded it to see how useful it could be for teaching. For beginners it starts having you read rhythms with no verbal explanation of what to do and very quickly you must automatically know to repeat it back without being told to. An annoying voice is counting the rhythms and you must repeat rhythms you get wrong over and over.
Then I tried the placement test which assessed my rhythmic skills well and gave me some challenging ones I wasn’t used to. I then realized that the only way to use this app is tapping your finger and I was thinking, “How well can this really apply to instrument playing or singing? Maybe it could be good for percussion players but no one plays with just one finger.” People play music in different ways, so they should practice rhythms in different ways to get better.
TL;DR
This app is not a good tool for learning music, there’s no variety to it, but may be a way to pass the time if you don’t mind the monotony or the robot voice.

by Ootkaman5

I don’t usually have “gamer rage”, but sometimes this app brings me close to it. I am improving my rhythm little by little with it, but it is really stressful like a strict ballet teacher. For roughly half of the exercises you repeat after its rhythm pattern, and it jumps right to your turn after—sometimes within an eight beat. This is hard to time perfectly. Even being slightly off can mark it wrong.

The app takes charge a lot, slowing down the BPM when it thinks you’re doing poorly, telling you to take breaks which ruins the flow of the exercise, and giving you tips you are often already doing like counting out loud.

The other exercise is sight reading, and you jump from line to line with no warm-up. If you miss even one beat over several lines, your entire progress for that exercise will start back at zero. There is a slight forgiveness to when you tap, but not much. Now for the most frustrating aspect in my opinion—if the app decides you are doing too poorly at sight reading, it might take you back a level you already completed. This has caused me to spend a session redoing something I already passed, and having it revert again on the next session.

TLDR this app will help you if you want near perfect rhythm, but if you’re like me it will frustrate you and not feel worth the subscription. It is a great idea but with a very demanding and unforgiving design.

by Alkennis11

This is a very useful app for people who are staring out new to music rhythms, but I already play two instruments, double bass and bassoon. So I am already pretty good at rhythms. Then I had a rhythm in one of my music pieces that I was practicing and I just couldn’t quite figure it out. When I went to the AppStore I found this app. It had about a 4.5 star rating, so I thought it would be okay. Then I go into the app and it starts me off with easy quarter notes and eighth note stuff. I wanted to get to the section where it had sixteenth and eighth notes in one beat. If I really wanted to get there, I would have to play every level before that. I did not have time for it, plus I already knew most everything. I would only recommend this app to beginners at rhythms. Again, this seems like a very useful app, but for someone that has been playing an instrument for a couple years or more, it’s not very useful.