Music Theory for Beginners App Reviews

Suitable for younger musicians

My kids love this, made learning theory fun. I also helped refresh some of my skills with it as well.

I bought this app for my daughter hoping that it could hold her attention longer than your usual music theory lesson and it worked! Before I knew it she was flying through lessons. And as someone who hasnt practiced music theory in years this was a fun refresher course.

This is a great training tool. I have played guitar and bass in bands for 40 years but never studied music. This app has made me finally take the time to learn to read music. I am also learning why I play what I play. I think this app can teach anyone from young child to an old guy like me music theory . Defiantly worth the price. Get it and enjoy! Its fun!

Ive been waiting for such an app for so long. Being a music theory instructor for years now, this app has changed my life. It made teaching so much easier for me, but more importantly did it make music theory so much fun for the kids. Now I have my lessons all in one place, it is packaged in such a compelling way, and has so many great exercises and quizzes. All without missing pages and the need to dictate tons of information to the students. All it took was this awesome app and all my students are now striving to know more about music theory. Amazing!

Very fun to learn ! Good for children and adults

Many of the keyboards do not sound while testing. The piano and drum exams would be more helpful if there was a button to practice first. It is very difficult to sight read music on an extremely small keyboard, and I was a piano major.

This is one of he best apps I have ever found on iPad. For some one with no idea of western music theory like me, it was an eye opener! Brilliant and magnificent! -Amlan

You have to go in the order they give you, and you cant skip around to use just the lessons you or your student needs. This is unnecessary and such a waste of time. The timed feature on some of the quizzes is way too short. By the time a child has read the question and figured out what to to, time is up and it moves to the next question. So discouraging. Defeats the whole purpose. The ticking sound in the quiz is annoying and distracting. Makes it hard to think. Not very practical.

My 7 year- old son loves playing with this app and doesnt even think about it being lessons and that he is learning! For a student to work alone they should be a very good reader. But with a teacher or parents help you could use it with a less-independent reader. Fun and smart!

Ok my voice teacher uses this app on her I-pad to teach me music theory its fun and your learning music at the same time. Its really good for kids and the owl is HILARIOUS the way he flips when you get an answer right. Its helpful the way it does the treble clef and base clef.

Having the ability to unlock lessons without first playing through them is a great addition to version 2.2. I can now choose what topic I want to cover in class without first having to play through all the previous levels on every students device. I do wish there was a way to stop students from moving on to the next lesson before getting a certain score. As it is now, if they get just one question right they can move on despite not yet understanding the material. It would also be great if Teacher Mode could be expanded to unlock only specific lessons, instead of being all or nothing.

I teach private piano lessons and see about 55 kids a week. Ive been looking an app like this for a while. Its a great addition if youre using any method book. (faber, Alfred, bastian, etc.) A few things Id like to see are a bit more separation on levels. For example, its hard for me to do the treble clef exercises with my younger kids because they might not know notes above treble G yet. Id also like to see the ability to hook up a midi controller in the future. You can already do so with garage band using the camera connection kit. I definitely plan on using this app in my lessons from now on. The kids enjoy it too because it breaks it up. Highly recommended!

Please make this app adult friendly as well. Make an option to turn off all sounds and animations of this stupid owl - it is really distracting, especially when you try to concentrate during the quiz. Place help button instead, and make time to go to next question shorter. Then it becomes a five star app.

My students love this app! The clefs quiz is the best. We have a running contest for the highest score.

Best app ever! Ive learned so Much in the past few weeks!

The app is well constructed as far as music pedagogy and higher order thinking skills are concerned. There are a few things to address before I, as a music educator, can give it 5 stars. 1st some of the piano playing exercises arent working. There are no sounds when you press the keys, and the app does not think you are playing in tempo. 2nd: It needs the ability to speed up the metronome for higher level exercises. 3rd: It needs the ability to turn the subdivided beat. Especially after the lesson addressing beat and pulse. Fix those things, and I give it 5 stars, especially since I paid money for the app. 4th: It needs the ability to choose treble clef or bass clef only exercises. Just as one of the lessons states not every one will have to play the piano. So in order to streamline a lesson for a group of students playing treble clef instruments I would like to be able to focus only on treble clef note reading. At least for the playing exercises that is. That being said, it still gives a good baseline for presenting elementary theory to young students, and I still plan to use it with my beginning band students.

I use this app to supplement things I am teaching in piano lessons. The kids love it and find it way more fun than a theory book. I like that you can do the lessons in any order in teacher mode so I can use the lessons I want instead of having the children work through the whole thing.

I really enjoy this app and use it with my piano students. Its probably the closest to Music Ace as far as an app goes. Covers quite a bit and very interactive. The only negative is sometimes the instructions are a little confusing. But other then that it is great and I would highly recommend it.

Im running 4.2.1, and the app doesnt work.