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Better Ears: A music theory and ear training app for Mac

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 10th, 2013)

Better Ears (US$24.99) is a new Mac app that teaches you music theory while enhancing your hearing through training exercises. Do you know your intervals? Your minor second, fifth or major seventh from a given root note? Or a major harmonic scale from a mixolydian chordal mode? Not only can you ...

Weezic for iPad, an augmented sheet music app for classical musicians

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 28th, 2013)

Weezic, an iPad app for classical musicians, is a relatively new sheet music app. In essence, Weezic displays sheet music, but with some interesting pedagogic features to help you learn and grow in your music reading and playing. As is customary with most apps that display sheet music, Weezic ...

A closer look at Capo, the app that helps musicians learn music

by Matt Tinsley (Mar 9th, 2011)

The tag line that follows Capo reads, "reverse engineering rock and roll." And that's exactly what Capo does. Capo is an app (Mac OS X or iOS) specifically designed to help musicians learn how to play music in an environment that makes it easier to hear what's going on in the music -- by ...