Tenuto Reviews

Tenuto is decent for ear training and maybe discovering new chords (as a beginner). That said, as many others have pointed out in the reviews for an actual decade, it does not provide explanations for anything. It really doesn’t teach except to be able to recognize intervals and chords etc. It’s like having an encyclopedia but with only images. There’s no explanation or details saying why that image is there, and what it’s used for.

Additionally, why are there no 9th or 11th chords? And it would be very nice to add inversions as well.

Please, considering this is $5, make some improvements to this because it has so much potential!

No doubt, Tenuto is well laid out and super helpful. Wether you are just brushing up sight reading or pushing your theory brain a little there’s plenty good.

I would love to be able to have the same app with SRS learning built into it’s quizing. Essentially the stuff you get right you see less often, the stuff you get wrong comes up more frequent. Just that little tweak to the next-in-queue selection process would really be helpful.

Tenuto has not only helped me, an experienced piano player, but I have used it with my piano students for ear training and reading and it has helped them a lot. The only thing I think could improve Tenuto was that if there was a teaching mode. For example, if someone doesn’t know what the Aeolian scale is, there could be a place in Tenuto where they can go for a reference. Other than that, Tenuto is simply a blessing. Thank you

Probably, the best of its kind. Improvements? Key change customization in the Keyboard Chord Identification exercise. Nice dark theme, but the exercise staffs, clefs, notes, etc., should be white on dark grey or black. Because the dark mode as it is, defeats the purpose: one’s eyes adjust to a dark room, you launch Tenuto in dark mode and your eyes are fine, but once the exercise is presented your shocked with bright white light and the entire dark mode thing is moot.

This is a great app - one of the best sight-reading/ear-training apps on the market. However, it REALLY needs an autoplay function. Having to press buttons on the screen makes Tenuto impractical for sight-reading practice with an instrument. If the user had the option of an ‘autoplay’ function, in which notes/intervals/chords were flashed at a rate of say, one per second, without having to touch the screen, Tenuto ’s usefulness as a practice aid would be hugely improved. Please consider!

I’m not new to this app as I purchased Tenuto shortly after its original release years ago in order to keep practicing the skills I gained during my undergrad music studies. As a professional musician and guitar teacher now, I thought I’d finally leave a review for this magnificent app that is simply invaluable to anyone who is striving to become a well-rounded musician.

If you are a musician, fledgling artist, music student at any level, get Tenuto! The training you can put yourself through by adding a few minutes of ear training or sightreading training to your practice routine will be invaluable - you’ll really be on top of your game in theoretical knowledge, when playing with others, etc. It’s the real deal!

As I continue using it in my routine, I always find it useful and recommend it to all of my students. It’s an app truly worthy to stay on your phone, unlike many other throwaway apps.

I have dozens of music apps on my phone. By far, this is the one I open and use the most. It offers so many things and the look, layout and design is wonderful! It’s Easy to use and intuitive. I’m a guitar player and the hours I’ve spent doing fretboard exercises alone has made Tenuto priceless to me. I credit Tenuto with helping me finally memorize the notes on the fretboard. Thanks to the developers. Keep up the great work!

It’s the perfect way to reinforce what I’m learning while I’m away from the keyboard.

I went from functionally illiterate to having a fluid ability to read within a couple weeks. I’m getting key signatures down, and reinforcing my understanding of modes along the way!

But MOST importantly, Tenuto didn’t spam me for a review ONCE!

I got Tenuto because the online version had so many features, I thought Tenuto would have more than I could imagine. It was very close, I would like it to have a rhythm transcriber with a metronome in the calculator section. Other than that, it’s a great app, worthy of every star.

First thing you'll notice is the simplicity of the menu. No frills. Gets you right in the action. So much stuff to do without feeling overwhelming. Exercises for keyboard and fretboard. Very fast response, no slow down what so ever. Every exercise I've tried so far has a practice mode and challenge mode. Ear training is fun to use. No complaints whatsoever. Well worth $3.99

Idk why I’m just now writing a review for Tenuto as I’ve had it for years lol but this is the only thing that kept me going in my music degree. It helped me immensely with music theory and ear training classes. I even double checked my work in Tenuto using the calculators. I recommend Tenuto to anyone I come across who is a musician or music major. Best app ever, I don’t know if I could live without it!!

Hi, Love Tenuto so much, it’s taught me a bunch. I like how for example in sheet music interval identification the treble and bass are lined up by middle C so it gives you a sense of that link between them, but it would also be wonderful to have a setting making them farther apart, as they usually are in sheet music, and practice naming those intervals between clefs even with that extra distance.

Also, more specific chord ear training would be nice - with a reference note, play the exact chord on the little keyboard. As of now you can only practice naming the quality of the chord, which is useful too but not in the same way.

Tenuto is highly sophisticated, allowing you to customize each exercise for difficulty and many other parameters. It performs flawlessly ( the developer worked for Apple ), and the graphics are stunning. Each exercise is realistic and as demanding as you wish... you can go to advanced levels if you wish. Everything that is important and relevant to music theory is here. I grade Tenuto A++, and I am very happy that I found it, I’m using it every day.

I have been using Tenuto to gamify my learning and get good at piano relatively quickly. I use it to practice on the go and at the keyboard. It has helped me rapidly become fluent at reading sheet music. Now I am learning to identify intervals and other important aspects of learning to play jazz. And since, to me, there is nothing cooler than learning to play music, I think this is maybe the impactful to my life, as well as my favorite, app on Tenuto Store.

This is an awesome tool if you want to practice many events of music theory on the go - certainly worth the price of Tenuto .

The only feedback I could give would be in the “interval identification” section. It would be cool to be able to spread the notes more horizontally as they appear in real sheet music. In the current version the notes appear right on top of each other in a vertical line. Adding some horizontal space would be more applicable to reading music out in the wild.

I love Tenuto, it’s extremely useful! I really like how customizable all the exercises are. I just have minor suggestions for new content. I wish it had rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic dictation exercises. It’d also be cool to have learning and interactive part writing exercises, like writing a piece and being able to play it with a play button to see how it sounds. Also, maybe some exercises regarding form like periods, cadences, etc. More music theory 2 & 3 stuff basically. Teoría has dictation exercises but I have to go on their website and I like this app’s style for personalization a lot better.

Tenuto by far is the best one there is. I think I paid $4 for it but I can use it forever. You can adjust the activity to a few things or everything. For example if you want to identify certain scales or chords you can select a few you want to practice on or practice all of them. One thing I wish they would add is an analysis activity. They have the analysis calculator (which helps a lot) but it’d be cool to add the analysis activity so we can practice on that instead of going to the calculator. Other than that everything is perfect. Will update in a few months if anything changes!

I’ve always had a passion for music and over the last year I‘ve been trying to learn Piano, Guitar and Bass guitar.

I struggled with reading Grand Staff, fretboard identification and chord/scale identification on frets and piano. But Tenuto’s customizable exercises let me practice all these things at ANY time.

Waiting for lunch? Practice time. Long Uber ride? Practice time. Hiding from my boss in the bathroom? Practice time.

After a few months I could read music and I could identify notes on the fretboard. Now I’m working on chord and scale identifications on the fretboard and my music theory has progressed substantially.

I told my teacher about Tenuto and he was excited that you even had the option to learn in Solfege. His only request from the this app team is to update the Solfege to use di, ra, ri etc instead of Do#, Re#, Reb etc.

My teacher has sold Tenuto to 4 of his students so far and they have reported substantial improvement in sight reading.

Must have app. Worth every penny.

I love Tenuto and the note identification ear training helps me a lot. I just wish there was a mode where it plays a chord and you have to choose exactly what chord it is, kind of like the note identification. There is a mode where you pick what type of chord (major, minor, etc) but there isn’t a mode where you chose what chord it actually is (c major, d# minor). For now I just have to close my eyes and press there random notes on the piano for that, so I hope that is something they add in Tenuto later. But even without that Tenuto is amazing and was 100% worth the purchase.

Tenuto is simply awesome. I had tried the web version and was very impressed by all the possibilities. However, in order to be the ultimate app for music learning for all levels, it should enable the use of instruments through MIDI, so that the users can learn to sightread. In addition, some rhythm exercises would be a great addition to Tenuto . Looking forward to future updates!!!