iPad and piano. Learning to play virtual and real instruments
Yousician
Of course, apps will not replace the lessons of a professional teacher. But if vocational training is not yet available to you, then something can be achieved with the help of applications. Yousician will help you learn the basics of guitar, ukulele, bass guitar and piano in an easy and playful manner.
The learning process is built around the mechanics of Guitar Hero where you have to hit the right notes at the right moment. They will give you a try for free, but you will have to buy a subscription to continue learning.
Reading music and tablature
Music teacher
There is no need to talk about any serious music-making without knowledge of musical notation - it is necessary to know it. Cramming notes is a tedious task, but there is no getting away from it. In the future, this difficult task will serve you.
With the application "Music Teacher" the process will go much easier and more enjoyable. Just guess the notes on the stave, and the application will record the statistics and help consolidate the material covered. IN next lessons the app will suggest the notes that are the worst for you.
Music recording
Garage Band
No matter how primitive your first song is, you will still want to record it and show it to your friends. In this case, the proprietary Apple Garage Band application will come in handy.
You can record sound from a guitar or microphone, and add missing parts using virtual instruments. After that, you just have to bring all the tracks together and export to the desired format. In addition, Garage Band contains many loops, as well as basic piano and guitar lessons.
Music memos
With this app from Apple, you can capture your musical idea anytime, anywhere. You don't even need a musical instrument to do this. You can record not only vocals, but also guitar and piano.
Music Memos will automatically detect the tempo and chords, as well as instantly select the drum and bass parts. The sound of the recording can be changed, assigned a tag, and uploaded to iCloud Drive. You can always continue working on the composition in Garage Band or Logic X later.
Useful Utilities
Cadenza
Only people with perfect pitch. Unfortunately, most people don't have it. The most ordinary will help you develop a sense of rhythm.
The iPhone or iPad can not only play music. Of course, you can listen all day long, but if you play a musical instrument, I want to recommend you some amazing apps that will make it easy and make you more interesting creation music.
Below are the best:
Obviously, GarageBand comes first in my review, as it comes standard with new iPhones and iPads, and if you have a device that was activated or purchased after September 1, 2014, you can.
If you're interested in making music, GarageBand is a must have.
Ever wanted to play the guitar, bass or piano but didn't have the money to study? Or you are self-taught and now you want to get more professional training. Yousician is "your personal music teacher" and has over 1500 lessons and exercises for beginners and advanced musicians looking to brush up on their skills.
Using the microphone of your iPhone or iPad, Yousician listens to you as you play and provides guidance to help you progress and get better after each lesson.
No matter what level of musician you are, Yousician will help you get better. The application is distributed free of charge, but to get full features, you must subscribe for 1490 rubles per month.
If you are constantly downloading and printing sheet music, most likely your entire piano or music stand is littered with sheet music. There are many sheet music on the Internet and often they are free, but if you have an iPad, you should stop printing them.
forScore is a sheet music reader for iPad that is imported as PDF and stored in the e-library. The application can be connected to common storage services, which makes importing and exporting even easier.
forScore can also automatically turn pages, organize your library, and let you edit your music.
Tempo
No matter how good your internal clock is, you can benefit from using a metronome. There are many free metronomes out there, but many of them are in terms of timing or beats per minute, although the tempo seems to be perfect. Not only will you save time with this app, as you can save presets to setlists so you don't have to reprogram everything.
There are 35 different time signatures, including complex meters and time signatures. It is possible to change the accents or turn off the beats to create complex rhythms, the tempo range is 10-800.
There is a lite version, but you definitely won't find all the "sweet" features in it.
GuitarToolkit
If you are a guitarist and are looking for good app all-in-one, try GuitarToolkit as it has tuner, metronome and chords.
The best part is that the application supports not only 6-string guitars, but also 7- and 12-string guitars, in addition, the application can also work with 4-, 5-, and 6-string bass guitars, banjo, mandolin and ukulele .
Using the GuitarToolkit Chord Sheet, you can create and save chord progressions, and you can even create drum patterns to play along with accompaniment. There are also in-app purchases in the application, but in principle, the application's capabilities are enough without in-app purchases.
DM1
If you're not a drummer and need to make some digital beats, then try DM1, the app is considered one of the best drum machines for the iPad. You will be able to create rhythms without having the skills of a drummer, the application will automatically do the quantization for you.
The step sequencer is probably the best feature, as it is possible to turn off some parts of the beat by pressing it, potentially leading to another unexpected result. You can mix drum kits on the fly, add effects, and compose music from your rhythms, laying them out on the timeline. When you're done, you can export to Soundcloud and other cloud services, as well as social media, email, and the iTunes public folder.
If the DM1 digital drums aren't for you, or if you're looking for a more advanced assistant, be sure to check out the synthesizer app. This is an advanced digital synthesizer for the iPad and its price confirms it (2290 rubles), so think seriously before you buy.
Animoog takes sounds from Moog Synthesizer's huge library, the sounds are very high quality, and your music will sound like it's played on a real synthesizer. This is a very serious application for serious people. You can control polyphonic modulations, pitch, timbre, delay and more.
Some interesting and useful iOS apps for musicians…
Music Tutor - learn music notation for iPhone
The Music Tutor application from the developer JSplash Apps iPhone will become your personal music literacy teacher. The program will help you learn the basics of solfeggio and develop your ear. For students music school and for everyone who lives in music, this program will be a great helper. With it, you can easily learn all the notes of the bass and treble clefs.
Despite the fact that the application is in English, it will not be difficult for any user to understand the simple interface. After all, the generally accepted names of notes are the same for all languages.
The Music Trainer consists of clear tasks that are completed within 5 minutes and are based on the correct definition of notes. To complete the task, you can use the standard notation of notes or the virtual keyboard. After completing the workout, you will know the level of your musical ability: The number of points scored depends on the accuracy of the notes. All tasks are accompanied by piano sounds, so you will develop not only musical literacy, but also your ear. The results, if you wish, will be uploaded to the leaderboard in the Game Center. An important function of the application is the ability to perform work on errors.
Music Tutor will be useful both for musicians who are just starting to get acquainted with musical notation, and for those who have been playing music for a long time.
Vio - psychedelic effects in music
Each musician devotes a lot of time to searching for unhackneyed chips that will make his compositions original and memorable. It's hard to come up with an unusual melody or find new sound, but the Vio program will help turn even the banal "Dog Waltz" into a spectacular psychedelic track.
The application interface is presented in a minimalistic style typical of iOS 8. The program itself is extremely easy to manage. You simply record a melody or any other sound using a microphone, and the program converts the received signal and distorts its sound. The result is a very unusual track with a surround alien sound and a blur effect.
The song you sing into the iPhone microphone is processed using bird-correction, complemented by other accompaniment. This creates a wide range sound effects. Sound distortion can be adjusted by moving the circle around the screen. The application offers 3 different types distortions, but if they are not enough to implement musical solutions, you can purchase additional ones.
Another nice feature is that you can choose any visualization color, which is presented in the form of floating crystals.
As additional settings, the program allows you to change the tone and rhythm, as well as select the sound quality. The resulting composition can be sent to Soundcloud, Dropbox, or simply saved to your computer.
It's no exaggeration to call Garage Band the most best app to create music. After all, the possibilities it provides are truly endless. This program has the most big set virtual musical instruments, so using it to create tracks is a delight for any composer. Available to users stringed instruments, all kinds of drums, acoustic and electronic guitars, piano, percussion, as well as several types of synthesizers.
You can edit files on the stave, or using the virtual keyboard. Of course, this program in its functionality may be inferior to its counterparts for personal computers, but creative inspiration can visit at any time. Therefore, it is so important that the mini-studio is always at hand.
If you are new to music but dream of becoming a professional, then this application will also come in handy, because it allows you to download guitar and piano lessons. The most amazing thing is that Sting, Fall Out Boy, John Legend and many other famous performers act as teachers.
Thanks to the piano simulator, everyone can learn musical notation and fulfill popular compositions, well, there are simply no boundaries for improvisation.
Drum Beats+
The ear of some music lovers is much more pleasing to the energetic drum rhythms than the melodic tunes of the violin and piano trills. It is for such music lovers that the Drum Beats + application was created. This program contains both individual drum sounds and whole loops made in different styles. You can improvise, practice, and just play along with any song.
It's not easy to recreate low quality drum sounds electronically. However, all the drums of this application are as close as possible in sound to "live" instruments. And the ability to change the tempo of drum parts expands the boundaries for improvisation and creativity.
Metronome+ by Musicopoulos
No musician, no matter how talented, can do without a metronome.
This is especially true when learning a new piece. After all, without a clear rhythm, any performance will be slurred and sloppy. What functions should a metronome have? “It’s enough for him to tap out the right rhythm,” any musician will tell you. Therefore, among the huge number of metronomes on the App Store, Metronome + by Musicopoulos stands out for its simple functionality that copes perfectly with the most important tasks. A convenient and minimalistic interface will not distract from the main occupation. But at the same time, you can choose the most pleasant metronome sound for you, adjust the tempo, as well as the rhythmic pattern.
All the best! Learn, download, create and create!
Thoughts Positive! Red Nuts / A. Stroganov
There are already devices that take into account interval expansion. Before tuning, a preprogrammed interval extension is selected. larger for piano, smaller for grand piano. With the help of such a device, the tool can only be brought closer to the desired result. But this particular piano-specific tuning is not taken into account and therefore some of the factors are left out. Because of this, the piano will not sound optimal and it will still be necessary to determine the best stretch "by ear".
The classical tuner compares and adjusts the ratio of notes in a large number of intervals, but to do this properly, such a person must have a great deal of experience. The complexity of this method lies in the physical impossibility to set all the intervals perfectly, besides, the degree of purity is different for different intervals. If an interval sounds incorrect, then one of its constituent notes will be adjusted. But this same note is at the same time part of many other intervals, which must also be changed, due to the change of the first. All this presents us with a big puzzle that needs to be solved somehow.
Dirk's Piano Tuner (Piano Tuner) solves this problem for you. In Dirk`s Piano Tuner, all strings will be recorded, playing one at a time, only one string per note, the rest of the strings must be muted. Piano tuning and interval expansion determined by the computer based on the overtones of a given sound recording.To produce a recording, only one string from a note is played, and the adjacent ones are muted.After recording this "single string", the tuner has all the data necessary to calculate the optimal basic tuning of all strings.The tuner then calculates the purity of all possible intervals and aligns them. After that, the strings can now be tuned one by one as a result of the resulting notes in the tuner. Dirk's Piano Tuner (Piano Tuner) automatically recognizes the sounding string and shows its deviation from the required value. Muted strings - are tuned according to previously tuned strings in the same unison. After tuning all the strings, the piano will be tuned with the best interval stretch. Each note only needs to be tuned once and there is no longer a need to finish tuning by ear.
