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Daily iPad App: Extra Innings Mobile Instructor

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 12th, 2011)

Extra Innings Mobile Instructor is a training app to help you analyze a baseball swing or pitch. It records or imports video and provides you with a set of tools to mock-up the video as you critique the player's movement. You can also use the app to submit the video clip to an expert who'll ...

Count The beats: Training your ear with RelativePitch

by Matt Tinsley (Jan 12th, 2010)

Relative pitch, let alone perfect pitch (some people are born with it, everyone else has to learn!) is an invaluable skill required when it comes to playing an instrument and understanding the music you are hearing. Thankfully, Easy Ear Training has developed a nifty little app to help you along ...

Count the beats: Tuning and more with Guitar Toolkit for iPhone / iPod touch

by Matt Tinsley (Sep 28th, 2009)

Any musician worth his/her credit knows that accurate tuning is a given. It's a crucial starting point to playing any instrument at home, on the job, in the studio, or on the road, and an embarrassment when it isn't. Some time ago I was doing an unplugged acoustic gig when my regular stomp box ...

3G S application that Apple forgot to mention: dog whistle

by Casey Johnston (Jun 22nd, 2009)

Update: The plot thickens: the phone also emits the noise just after recording video, and for a much longer period of time. An Apple discussion thread about the noise is here. Are dogs unusually attentive to, or angry at, your new iPhone 3G S? The folks over at Boy Genius Report have an inkling as ...

Capo gives you play-along tempo controls for $39

by Mike Schramm (Apr 21st, 2009)

Capo is a new app from the makers of TapeDeck, and it's the talk of the town amongst musicians -- it allows you to simply change the speed or pitch of any songs you happen to have laying around your computer, so that you can play or sing along with them at your own pace. We got a chance to try out ...

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