Guitar Sight Reading Trainer App yorumlar

Great for guitar sightreading and fretboard memorization

This app was perfect for an intermediate guitar player looking to perfect sightreading. You’ll want to dive in to the options to set the keys that you want to learn and, if you’re like me, to set the mirrored view so that the low E string is on top. Easy to configure speed of testing.

Love this APP! How about making one for ukulele?

Perfect for mastering guitar fretboard!! Please make one just like this for ukulele!!!

Great updates! Very useful

I bought an earlier version and found it really was not useful... But now, I dig it! I’m a jazz guitar player and this app is just what you need to gain some reading skills! Keep up the good work!

Great Trainer

This is a great help at both learning to sight read and also learning the fretboard. When I am away from the guitar this is my go to practice tool.

Good for pounding the fretboard into your brain!

Excellent way to get your fretboard memorization down. Being able to view the fretboard as though playing is helpful for visualization. This is the only app that makes me wish for a bigger phone!

Awesome sight reading trainer for guitar!

This is perfect for practicing sight reading on the guitar. There's only one feature that is missing: please add the ability to choose any range of the fretboard you want to be tested on. For example with the predefined fret ranges, you aren't able to test on frets 1 to 7.

It's a good app, but needs a couple other features

This app is great for learning how the notes on the staff translate to the fretboard, but it only shows you a single note at a time. For it to really be effective as a sight reading tutor, it should have multiple note problems (and possibly even take rhythm into account as well). The functionality and design of the app is great though, so if you just need to learn the basics, it works.

Best app ever

Got this when i was learning how to read notes and its really nice!

Exactly what I needed

Perfect app for learning the notes and fret board. Endlessly customizable.

Not bad but...

The fretboard should be upside down and horizontal like it is when you're playing it The current vertical board is confusing. The twelfth fret should have double markings like on an actual guitar. That will help a lot as well

Real good, learning a lot

Very cool for practicing sight reading and learning the guitar fretboard. Nice and customizable to focus in on particular things I might want to work on, like certain strings or identifying notes on the staff versus by note name. Quizzing and practice is such a great way to learn. Sorry if some of the writing in this review is funky, I broke my wrist, hence my interest in apps for working on guitar now. This is one my favorites I've found.

High quality sound?

I have not had an opportunity to use this app much but one glaring difference between the claims of the app and what the app actually does is the "high quality nylon sting guitar sound. It actually sounds like a $20 synthesizer. I would never mistake it for a nylon string guitar. I am sure that this app will help me learn the fret board more quickly and easily. What I don't like is the misrepresentation of the writer of this app.

Like app, but it could be better

This app could be better if you could actually plug your guitar in like Amp Tube, so you could train your fingers to find the notes along with your ears to hear them. I was looking at the different tuning you have in the app. Because I want to play a pedal steel and I thought if u could add the C6 and E9 tuning and add more string it would be nice because it is little bit harder to find stuff on the pedal steel !!!!

Great App

I've been using tab for 20 years, with this app I'm starting to learn my way around the fretboard. Yea! Can we get the same for a Ukulele as well? Keep up the good work.

practical

finally, an app that delivers in connecting sheet note to the fret board... thanks for a nice job!!! read about the app on gibsons learn and master guitar forum .

Stop here. Get this. Really.

UPDATE: As a result of sending email to the dev as suggested in review by dpukala, and Rolf's honestly surprising openness, thoughtfulness, speed in replying and craftsmanlike work in response, I have deleted my previous cranky review. Not to spare myself the embarrassment, I'd own that, but because anyone that works as meticulously and with as much care as this guy does doesn't deserve any of it. Honestly, the only time I've seen an equal investment and responsiveness has been with Jesse @ Thumbjam/Drumjam. It's inspiring to see people care. Current review (great updates are coming): - The app is very attractive, the interface is clean, well thought out, and presented in such a way as to be most effective to speed and depth of learning, and therefore actual musicianship. - There are a lot of options, and as a result a lot of ways to approach training. It's worth the time spent digging through the setting and experimenting. Some approaches will be appropriate for some folks, some for others, but if there isn't something useful and directed to your purpose in here then you're either a wizard or aren't really looking to learn to read fluently. (Or even just learn the note names by direct "feel" ifvthat's all you want, though with a tool like this available it would be a waste and an self-imposed limitation to stop there.) - I have forwarded the following requests to the dev: - A clarified set of fret range options along with the ability to set custom fret ranges. He's gone several steps better and changes are forthcoming. - That unselected strings not respond to input, since when strings are set to OFF intentionally one obviously doesn't intend to hit them during testing. Again, a change is forthcoming. - That the string spacing be slightly larger, decreasing the number of incorrect answers due to slightly misplaced touches, and to some degree reducing the amount of looking up and down to see the notation while keeping track of the fretboard. Yet again, change is on the way. - Altogether this app stands out (or virtually alone) among its competitors. And you can be sure if there's a problem or a reasonable need for update, AND the dev is informed, he'll be on it. It's rare to see this level of investment, responsiveness and care. - Easily worth the money in terms of quality, comparison to "similar" apps, and potential for gains in proficiency on the instrument.

Really Good App

I am an intermediate guitar player and I find this app very useful. The developer responds within an hour or so to all my email questions and requests for changes to the app and is genuinely interested in fixing any problems. The folks writing the negative reviews--and several reviews contained good points--really should send him an email to discuss the changes. I did it and he's already submitted a update based on my idea to Apple for release. Btw, I am not affiliated with the developer. I'm just giving an honest review based on my experience.

A must buy

Awesome app, worth ever penny. It has improved my site reading incredibly in just a few days. Highly recommended! Check out their other apps too: Read Rhythm and Guitar Interval; equally awesome!! Now if u could please remake a better version of the Berkley Music Scale Variator I would certainly buy it. Read the reviews for improvements, implement and release! Please!

Teacher Review

I have taught guitar for years now and this is a wonderful tool for my students! Thank you!

almost perfect

if you could do chords or double stops this app would be perfect, it only quizzes you on one note but its worth the price and very fun to use.

Very Very Great!

Very great app! Already learning and it's only been 30 minutes. A plus. Very good. Must buy for guitarists.

Yep. Use it almost daily!

This app is very easy to use and adaptable to my progress. I am just learning to play guitar and have no experience in reading music but have improved quickly from using it. I've not had any problem making the jump from the flat fret UI to the 3D real thing. It's fun, like a game.

Nice app

This is a great way to work on my sight reading scales when I'm away from my guitar. Good number of options.

Keep it up

I downloaded version 1.0 and this has come a long way. You've shown that you are improving! Love it! I still agree with a "game type" version, and still am hoping for a way to plug my guitar in or use the mic to play the note on my guitar with this. I have high hopes!! Thank you!

Solid

Solid app Only cripe would be that you can only test yourself in treble clef, if you could switch to bass clef that would be handy

Room for improvement

This will certainly help me learn the notes on the guitar, but it could be a lot better. Areas I would like to see improved: 1) Needs better UI. Looks pretty low budget right now. 2) Needs better guitar sound(s). 3) Really needs to add more of a game like element to keep users interested.

String/ note name, note on the staff (sheet music

What I was looking for. I know how to play the piano. Received 5 yrs of class . Trying now the guitar and I am having a real hard time with the location of the notes in the fretboard along with the staff. This is what I was looking for. Plus it has the sound. High five

The fret board is not realistic

Guitar player never looks at the fret board the way it is presented in this app. unless the guitar is hanging on the wall or lying on guitarist knees as a horizontal slide guitar. That is why visually the perception of the fret board is confusing and essentially not helping to develop the right skill. Other apps have more realistic presentation of the fret board in "perspective". Please make an option to change the fret board presentation. In new version I like tapered guitar better, I would advice developer to keep working on the fret board presentation. Fret grouping is a little awkward. Should be 0-5, 5-7, 7-10, 10-12. Four stars for now.

Must Have Skill Set

I'm in the process of going back and cleaning up some neglected skills. About a month with this $3.00 app, and I'll be closer to where I'm trying to go.I figure that"s quite a bargain for $.10 a day. I even spent 2 years going to Berkleemusic online; I know my fretboard in every way, know my scales, can hold my own in any mix, yet I managed to get behind in my reading ability thanks to the crutches that are better known as tabs. Enough!!! Schools out. Great app. Lots of room for growth for the beginner to the person just looking to sharpen their skills. Incorporate chords next please. The basic ones are easy to figure out in notation; need help with the tensions. Lol.

Best appp

I cant live without it

Great for beginning guitarists

Does exactly what it says it will. For beginning guitarists (like me) it's a great tool for learning your way around the fret board. Even for seasoned guitarists it can serve as a good refresher course. Totally worth it if you really want to learn note positions on the guitar.

Very good, but a little monotonous

The app does what it is supposed to do and quite well. I'm a little astonished actually. My guitar sight reading has improved 150% in less than 24hrs! I went from 30% accuracy to 75% in less than a day. In all fairness, I was warmed up with an app called NoteBrainer though. Like that app, this app could use a game and scoring option. So you can at least compete against yourself for a predefined set of time. Check out Notebainer to see what I'm talking about. Other improvements: better sound quality and is there an option to learn scales? Other than that i cant believe I'm site reading guitar! Fantastic job. Keep up the good work.

Helpful app

This app is great for learning and all you need instead of a ten dollar guitar book! Great app but should include chords too

Quite An Amazing Start

I used this app for 5 seconds, and have seen quick improvement already. Keep working on this! Features maybe like a melody trainer would make this perfect. Also, please make it easier to touch the open string options; it can be a pain at the moment.

Great Learning Tool

I love this app. Been trying to learn guitar for years. I know the value of being able t sightread music and this app ties it together. The app is a bit of a no-frills app, as there is not much customizing you can do. For example I would like an option to leave the sharps and flats off. Also if it had a "review" type lesson that would show you the notes on certain strings. Practice mode is close but you just pick what note you want to see. Still if you want to learn music and the notes on the guitar I reccomend this. If you can't sightread at all you might check out another app to learn that first. I suggest iReadMusic app it rocks. But then get this app too.

Good practice tool

I have played guitar for many years, and always used TABS and chords to figure them out. Now I am ready to advance to sight reading and wish I had done this when I first began. This little tool is very handy for drilling the notes on the fret board. In a few minutes, I had improved my knowledge noticeably. It's easy to understand, and, given the constraints on my iPod (small screen and big clumsy fingers), is well designed. Only dificulty is that when designating a note, you must touch the close to the fret rather than area behind the fret where my finger would actually land when playing the note. The point where the app decides which fret you are designating seems to be halfway between frets and when I touch where my finger would really land, it could select the fret above or below. This isn't too dificult to get the hang of . . . . and not a deal killer for me deciding to buy this. It's not loaded down with fancy features and does what it's supposed to do. It's a great application to hone skills while waiting at the dentist, airport, or on a break at the office. Others my argue that it might not be worth the 2.99 that I paid, but for me, it is a bargain. Heck, I would have thrown in another penny to make it an even $3.00. The only reason that I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is that it is just a tool and I don't want to mislead others into thinking this is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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