Music Practice Coach

Music Practice Coach turns a vague "go practice" into a plan you can follow. A plan is a sequence of steps. Each one does a single job: a timed instruction, a metronome at a set tempo, a passage of sheet music to read, or a loop of a recording slowed down until it is playable. You work through them in order, and the app keeps time. WHAT A STEP CAN BE • Instruction — text to read, with an optional tuner for tuning up • Timed — a countdown, with a metronome if you want one • Tempo ramp — the metronome steps up from a starting tempo to a target, cycle by cycle • Score — sheet music on screen with a countdown, and a metronome or a tempo ramp • Audio, video, or MIDI loop — set A and B points and repeat that passage, at any speed • Loop plus score — the recording and the sheet music side by side • YouTube — practice along with a video, with speed control and loop points THE MUSIC SCROLLS ITSELF Set a scrolling speed and the score moves while your hands stay on the instrument. It works on an ordinary PDF, page after page. Or turn on Prima Vista, which reflows the score into one continuous ribbon of systems, so a page turn never lands in the middle of a phrase. Go full screen, and if a page is read wrongly, say how many systems it has — the correction is kept. SLOW IT DOWN, KEEP THE PITCH Audio loops play from 30% to 200% speed without the pitch shifting, so a fast passage stays in tune while you learn it. Pitch shifts separately, in semitones or five-cent steps, which is fine enough for quarter tones and for matching an instrument tuned to something other than A440. A SPEED RAMP THAT DOES THE WORK Set a starting speed and a target and the plan advances through the stages as you play, which is the part people skip when practising alone. METRONOME AND TUNER, ALWAYS THERE A full metronome — any meter, per-beat accents, adjustable subdivisions — and a chromatic tuner with an adjustable A4 reference and a drone. Both work on their own, without a plan. MARK UP THE MUSIC Write on a score with an Apple Pencil — fingerings, bowings, the bar you keep missing. The markings belong to the file rather than the plan, so they are there again the next time any plan uses that score. FOR TEACHERS Build a plan, and share it as a package with everything it needs: the plan, the recordings, the scores. Students open it and practise exactly what you set. You can publish a catalog of plans your students install in one tap, and lock the media with a code if the recordings are not yours to give away. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Everything lives in a folder you choose. No account, no sign-in, no subscription, no ads, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. The Mac and iPad apps read the same folder, and there is a web version for everything else. Free, with no in-app purchases.