Complete Music Reading Trainer

Really useful, along with a MIDI keyboard. It's really improving my poor sight reading one level at a time. I wish it could tell me the recommended finger position for each drill, since I have to figure them out myself, and I'm never sure to be using the right fingers... but still, this is an excellent app. And absolutely worth the 3.99 of the full version.

All this and MIDI, too! I have a Galaxy Note 9 running Android 10. My review reflects my experience running this app on this phone and this OS version. Your experience might be very different. I've had an Android phone since the beginning of Android phones. I've never written a review before because none of the apps have really impressed me except perhaps those of Google and Microsoft and I don't think those relentless giants need any help from me. It turns out, Complete Music Reading Trainer is not only the perfect app for my needs at this point in my self-teach process of learning to play the piano, I discovered it to be WAY better than I'd hoped. For me, it has just the right characteristics necessary to pound the basic ability to read sheet music into my thick skull which is highly learning-resistant. The app has its own methodology for progressive teaching. It gives you something new like a note on a staff or an accidental or a key (like F major for example) and off you go with the app to beat your memorization of this musical tidbit into submission. EXACTLY what I was looking for because I am of the opinion that the beginning of learning piano is basically rote memorization for a couple of hundred hours and only THEN are you ready for any refinement. Like learning the alphabet in first grade. Keep your eye on the statistics and you can tell how accurate and fast you're becoming. Progress you can SEE with hard numbers. I'm doing great with the treble clef. I get 100% accuracy and less than one second average reaction time already. That's more progress in sight reading then I made in the previous forty years. FACE and Every Good Boy Does Fine can go straight to… well, YOU know. I started to get a little disappointed because the phone screen just wasn't really big enough to represent the notes AND a keyboard to play them with enough octaves. NOT the software's fault, of course. Just not enough acreage. Then I found out that Complete Music Reading Trainer does MIDI. I bought a 5 pound, 61 key, USB bus powered keyboard for less than a hundred dollars, turned on MIDI in the app, connected the phone and keyboard together, and everything worked instantly right out-of-the-box. My jaw about hit the floor. My phone powers the keyboard, and the app runs me through drills (ON MY FULL-SIZE KEYBOARD) until I've gone blue in the mouth. I turn on my Bluetooth headphones and nobody hears me banging away. I've got a complete sight reading training system, keyboard and all, that goes with me anywhere, works perfectly, and I am in heaven. And all for right at $100 counting cable and everything. I LOVE Complete Music Reading Trainer! I'm not a Mac person so I don't know what's available there, but I can tell you I've had no luck finding an app as good as this one on Windows. And at this point, I don't care!

the free program is good enough for you to understand if this one is for you, and the paid one is very reasonably priced. Ivpersonally found it very useful. I'd be careful of paying too much attention to the speed factor of the app tho. Especially at the beginning, it's a lot more important to play each note correctly and in a steady rythem, rather than quickly.

Huge improvement to my sight reading after just a few hours of practice with this app! One suggestion I have though, is an option to have the note circle shuffle around randomly after each note, as I find I'm starting to fly through training sessions without really looking or thinking. This option would require you to actively search for the correct note each time rather than reacting autonomously.

As a broke college student that can't afford lessons or services like "Playground Sessions" (which seems to be the best reading-oriented piano program), this app is a miracle. I've tried working through lesson books and all kinds of cheaper alternatives, but my reading ability has never improved at all for the amount of time I put into it. Another reason I think it's so great for me is that it demands my attention in the way my attention has learned to be used with video games, apps, etc. It's like happening in real time for my eyes, and I have to react for it to keep moving. It literally forces me to be focused on it the same way a video game demands me to focus in order to react to it in order to be any good. There's something about the way it moves on a screen that my brain understands better than reading stagnant sheets of paper. I can lose focus and there are no visual cues to bring it back in on a piece of paper. That means I could drift off and be totally unaware I've stopped thinking about, and often playing, the song in front of me. But if my focus wanders with the app, I have a visual cue of the motion halting to realize I'm losing it. If the devs are reading this, you guys are are being ROBBED by essentially giving this away. This is more helpful for reading than any method books I've tried. I hate that your brilliant idea isn't reaching the audience that it could be. I mean, especially with the arcade mode? You've literally blended the past and the future with this. It gives people that have grown up in the digital age a way to learn reading in a way my brain is already familiar with. It's so incredible. You devs deserve so much more than what you're asking for. Although, I appreciate having been able to pay for it. I'd pay way more if I could

As a complete beginner, I can now read music. The app breaks down each element of music theory into bite size chunks with exercises that test and challenge your memory and reaction time to key change. The none payment allows you enough access to test it out however the paid version is more than worth it. This is clearly a well thought out and tested professionally built app that has the potential to be a main resource for all musicians at any level.