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Description

Sight reading rhythms can be very confusing, especially with syncopations and rests. This app gives you a solid basis for a good rhythmic feel.

By tapping the presented exercises separately from your instrument, you will develop rhythmic skills much faster.

Complete all the exercises and you will find it easier to get the rhythm right in any piece of music!

F e a t u r e s

Exercises in 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 7/8 , 9/8 time.

Each exercise can be played by the device at different speeds so that you can hear how it should sound and get the right rhythmic feel. Rhythms are played with slight subaccents to emphasize note groups.

Practice mode: you can tap along while the device is playing the rhythm and you get visual/audio feedback of the rhythmic performance. Repeat an exercise before testing until you get your timing exactly right!

More than 200 fixed exercises; the more difficult ones include rests, ties, syncopations, duplets, triplets, quadruplets and swing eighths (on iPad 100 longer exercises, because two iPhone-exercises are combined into one due to the larger screen, see screenshots).

Extra exercises for 4/4 (incl swing eights), 6/8, 2/2 and 4/2 time via a random generator (thousands of exercises). 22 difficulty levels, including a level for absolute beginners and a level to get experience with written music that violates the imaginary barline rule .

Ear training function to help advanced students in rhythmic dictation. Listen to the rhythm and figure out how the written rhythm should look like.

Classical (but accurate) metronome with speed of 20 - 240 beats per minute & optional upbeat sound.

No latency, tap delay < 0.01 seconds.

Accuracy of the metronome not affected by taps.

Nr of intro beats can be set to the number of bar beats; useful for faster tempos.

Optional beat numbers in the staff to clarify the relationship between the rhythm and the beat.

Progress indicators for each exercise. A level is completed if a 100% score is attained, i.e. all notes tapped on time, no redundant taps, and tapped at a prescribed speed.

The tap accuracy is also measured in secs (as the deviation from the "perfect" tap) and the best time is stored for each exercise.

Expert mode sets a higher default tempo for the exercises plus you have to be more accurate for a tap to be approved. Expert mode has its own set of best times per exercise, making the completion of the exercises a new challenge.

The best times for random exercises are not saved. However, you can improve yourself as long as the random exercise is on the screen.

Your tapped notes are shown in the staff after a test.
Colors: red = too early, blue = too late, green = accurate within 0.01 secs.

Train yourself to hold tied notes and to play legato by setting the "Note duration" option. Set a bass/piano sound to actually hear a longer note while holding the tap button.

The sounds of the player, metronome and taps can be chosen from several percussive sounds.

Optional beat-counting voice function.

Use of the microphone for tapping. E.g. "tap" the rhythm with hand claps or finger-snaps.

Optional stereo sound. You will hear your taps in the right ear and the metronome & player sounds in the left ear.

Optional reverb suppression for tap sounds. This helps to get the tap sounds more percussive and make the app feel more responsive.

The sound volume of the metronome and player can be set as a % of the tap sound volume.

Optional second tap button. The buttons are positioned such that you can use alternating fingers of one hand in portrait mode and two alternating hands in landscape mode.

Left handed tapping support.

Mail function: you can mail your 100% score or list of completed exercises .

Four orientation options: automatic, locked portrait/landscape left & landscape right.

Function to reset all options to their default settings.

iPhone4 Retina HD display & multitasking support.

Universal app, iOS 5.0.1 tested.

What's New in Version 4.5

-Tapping the BPM number of the metronome pops up a numeric keypad to enter a new number.
-Option for setting the microphone sensitivity.
-URL scheme support for use in app launchers: rolfsapps.readrhythm://
-iOS 5.1.1 tested.

Customer Reviews

Great App! (5 stars)
The amount of features in this app are what makes it so great. Everything works the way it should with perfected accuracy. The only two requests I have are the same as previous reviewer. Please add a scrolling mode for the random exercises so as to practice sight reading more continuously and more exotic timings. Thanks!

very good i just have one thing (5 stars)
this is a very useful app for me. the only thing i suggest for an update would be a display option to take away the counts at the bottom of the music score. I feel like I sometimes rely on it too much. it could provide as an extra challenge as well

fantastic (5 stars)
incredible app - well thought out and very helpful.. love it!!

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