ReadAhead: Piano Sight-Reading Trainer
Detailed App Info:
Application Description
ReadAhead provides short and enjoyable 5-10 minute daily practice sessions which help pianists quickly develop their skill in sight-reading. Innovative training exercises are incorporated in a carefully designed curriculum built around high quality music. ReadAhead is designed to help piano students build the right habits and develop the skills necessary to easily read music at their skill level.
Features:
-Designed to be integrated into a weekly practice schedule.
-Fun for students to practice daily.
-Easy for busy teachers to incorporate into lessons. A special assessment day which takes less than 5 minutes of lesson time allows the teacher to observe the student's
progress each week.
Daily lesson plans consists of:
-Warm-up exercises to train memory, vision and touch.
-ReadAhead exercises to train students to read ahead of where they are playing.
-Sight-reading music from a fixed score to pull it all together.
This version of Read Ahead includes the first two weeks of level 1 (Early Beginner level) and asks the user to provide feedback that will help us to improve and further development of the app. The next version of Read Ahead will have six levels of difficulty, from beginning to advanced, with four weeks of exercises and repertoire at each level.
Read Ahead is being developed with a grant from the Maryland Innovation Initiative by professors Travis Hardaway and Ken Johansen at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.
Features:
-Designed to be integrated into a weekly practice schedule.
-Fun for students to practice daily.
-Easy for busy teachers to incorporate into lessons. A special assessment day which takes less than 5 minutes of lesson time allows the teacher to observe the student's
progress each week.
Daily lesson plans consists of:
-Warm-up exercises to train memory, vision and touch.
-ReadAhead exercises to train students to read ahead of where they are playing.
-Sight-reading music from a fixed score to pull it all together.
This version of Read Ahead includes the first two weeks of level 1 (Early Beginner level) and asks the user to provide feedback that will help us to improve and further development of the app. The next version of Read Ahead will have six levels of difficulty, from beginning to advanced, with four weeks of exercises and repertoire at each level.
Read Ahead is being developed with a grant from the Maryland Innovation Initiative by professors Travis Hardaway and Ken Johansen at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.
Requirements
Your mobile device must have at least 64.76 MB of space to download and install ReadAhead: Piano Sight-Reading Trainer app. ReadAhead: Piano Sight-Reading Trainer is available on iTunes for $0.00
If you have any problems with installation or in-app purchase, found bugs, questions, comments about this application, you can visit the official website of Johns Hopkins Mobile medicine Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer at http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/musictheory/ReadAhead.
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