1 April 2014
The app is true to form in helping you recognize tones and such. However, the free play keyboard notes aren't all correct. The black keys are fine, but the white key notes are shifted down by a whole step, so when you touch the b note you get the c tone. C plays d, d plays e, e plays f, etc. If this were fixed, I think this app would be pretty solid for starters.
16 December 2013
Tone Def is too simple, and it's learning technique is insufficient for true musicality. It plays a random note on the piano and expects you to recognize which note it is. True musicality comes with knowing which tone and step in the scale you are in relation to the tonic or "bass note" i.e. "Do" in "Do Re Mi..." Learning to recognize the dominant, subdominant, leading tone, and stable and unstable tones in a scale is more valuable then learning a random note on the piano. Yeah, it plays a scale for you, but it doesn't let you know which scale it is. Knowing which tonic is being used would serve a greater purpose for what music is all about, and that's relationships between notes, not random tones. I give this app two stars only because someone went to the trouble to create it. Two stars for trying!
31 May 2013
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