Listening/Music History Carnival of the Animals series Classical Masters' Collection vol. 1 and 2 Free- $2.99 Free/ $4.99 Adorable interactive storybooks teach young (preschool) children about music through animals and Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. Collection of the most famous classical masterpieces, free to try. Links to Wikipedia and YouTube within app. Disney s Animated $9.99 Gorgeous app explores animation through decades of Disney films. Includes a section on sound and music, with movie scenes and rare clips of scoring sessions. History of Jazz $9.99 Explore jazz through timelines, extensive sound clips, and articles. Learn the Orchestra $1.99 A cartoon orchestra plays several classics. Tap on a section to turn it on or off, play along on a keyboard, or learn about the instruments in a virtual book. Pandora Radio Free The original Internet radio, create a personalized channel and discover new music with similar characteristics. Premium accounts available. SoundHound Free Can't remember what that song is? Whether the song is on the radio or hummed into the mic, SoundHound will quickly identify it, provide lyrics in realtime, and more.
Spotify Music Theory/Ear Training: Free/ $9.99 per month Literally a world of music at your fingertips. A subscription allows you to listen to any of the millions of tracks in the Spotify library and download playlists for offline use on any device or computer. Free to use as a radio app. Includes music of all genres. The Orchestra $13.99 Stunning visual and audio tour of the orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen. Beat the Melody $2.99 Unique, polished ear-training game improves rhythm, recognition of melodic contours, and memory by touch, without music notation or instruments. Blob Chorus Free Cute pitch-matching game with musical blobs. Suffers a bit from having blobs sing only in a narrow, low male vocal range. Flashnote Derby $0.99 Note-reading drill game. Correct answers make your horse go faster to win the race. InTune $0.99 Simple game for improving intonation. Determine whether increasingly close pitches are higher or lower than the reference pitch. Jellybean Tunes $2.99 "Learn" teaches notation basics, "Play" records through the mic as simple treble clef songs scroll by, and "create" is a simple treble-clef notation tool. Geared at elementary students.
Line Space $4.99 Space-themed note-reading app is aimed at pianists. Music Cubes Free IWB app port, simple game like musical Simon Music Intervals Free IWB app port, identify intervals on the staff. Music Lab Free/ $4.99 14 animate lessons aimed at early elementary learners teach about pitch and rhythm. Completing lessons unlocks mini-games, and finally an animated melody and rhythm creation tool. Music Theory (Musicroom) $2.99 Music theory "game" app is really an interactive textbook. Learn theory basics with quizzes at the end of each section. Middle school and up. Music Tones Free IWB app port, simple note drill game, can choose treble or bass clef. My Note Games Free Mixed collection of music reading and memory games. Some games teach songs by listening to the student's instrument through the microphone. Note Works $4.99 Arcade-style note drill game allows learner to select any clef or grand staff and a pitch range. Octavian $2.99 Interactive scale and chord dictionary, displaying note names and piano keyboard. A bit confusing, good for advanced theory, composition, or jazz students.
Rhythm Sight Reading Trainer Tenuto (from music theory.net) Wolfram Music Theory course assistant Other Music Games $2.99 Practice rhythms of increasing difficulty with a tap interface. Excellent exercises and feedback, but interface may be challenging for younger students. $3.99 Advanced music theory practice app includes note, chord, key signature, and interval identification, piano key and fretboard identification, ear training exercises, and tools for musical analysis including a 12- tone matrix calculator. $1.99 Advanced music theory app for AP and college students, composers. BeBop Blocks $2.99 Solve puzzles with musical building blocks (young children). Color Band Free Paint music, then play your drawing by moving your hands in front of the camera. Loopseque kids Free Fun looping app for young kids. Turn on and off the sounds as they go around the circle, change from day to night, etc. Loopy Tunes $1.99 Beautiful hand-drawn looping app for young children. My Singing Monsters Free Create music by taking care of cute little musical monsters on your island. The music changes as you add buildings, more monsters, etc. Visit other players' islands for inspiration.
QAstroNotes $0.99 Blast notes into smaller note values, then oblivion in this takeoff on the classic game Asteroids from Quaver Music. QDancer $1.99 Choreograph your dancer to music in either ballet or hip-hop styles in this app port from the Quaver Music website. Seuss Band $0.99 Create and play instruments straight out of Whoville. Sound Shaker $1.99 Primarily for toddlers and preschoolers, create balls with different sounds and pitches, and shake your device to make music. Symphonica Free Follow an anime storyline and conduct the orchestra by tapping the screen. Music Production: GarageBand, isequence, SoundSlate Audiobus $4.99 Magically connect your music apps so that you can use them simultaneously. Compatible with a growing library of apps including Garageband. DM1 $4.99 Full-featured drum machine with audiobus. Everyday Looper $5.99 Nearly all the features of a pricey hardware looper in an easy-to-use interface. GarageBand $4.99 le's own music production app features intuitive controls, gorgeous virtual instruments, audio recording, a sampler, and full comparability with GarageBand for the Mac. Projects can also be opened in Logic Pro.
isequence $9.99 Visual sequencer is great for creating electronic dance music. Good built-in sounds with additional banks available for inapp purchase. Isle of Tune $1.99 This port of a popular web app allows you to create music played by cars as they pass trees, houses, etc. Feels like a game, but teaches visual sequencing and concepts of rhythm and melody. Logic Remote Free This app only works with Logic Pro X. If you have Logic, get it NOW! It is a MIDI controller, remote control, spare monitor, virtual instrument input, and interactive reference manual all in one. MadPad HD $2.99 Make music with everyday sounds in this soundboard/ sampler combo with access to thousands of shared boards. MIDI Studio Varies Turn your ipad into a highly configurable MIDI controller. Music Studio $14.99 Full-featured DAW, GarageBand alternative. Overdub Free Looper. SampleTank $19.99 ios port of the popular desktop app/plug-in. Activate a large library of high-quality sampled instruments. Use the built-in 4- track recorder, export to other apps, or use as a part of your desktop DAW. Audiobus compatible. SampleWiz $9.99 A much more powerful version of your first Casio keyboard's sampler. Turn anything into music!
SoundSlate $7.99 Turn your ipad into a sound effects board. Not the slickest sound board app, but the only affordable one that is able to record directly into the app. Studio Mini XL $9.99 Audio recording studio. StudioTrack $9.99 Songwriting/audio recording studio. Music notation: Noteflight Free I'm cheating a little, because this isn't an ios app, but the excellent cloud-based notation app Noteflight now operates in HTML5 rather than Flash, so it is fully ipad compatible. Access your scores from any device with internet. Notion $14.99 A beautiful notation app with professionally recorded samples for playback. The downside is that it takes up well over a GB of space. Symphony Pro $9.99 The original notation app for ios, Symphony Pro is not as polished as Notion, but it is powerful and much smaller. Practicing: ChordBank Free Slick interactive guitar chord dictionary, including inversions and alternate tunings. ClearTune $3.99 Basic Korg-style tuner for your idevice.
Erol Singers Studio $14.99 Interactive voice lessons. Fingering $11.99 Interactive fingering charts for woodwinds and brass. Indispensable resource for the band director! ForScore $6.99 An electronic home for your music library, ForScore stores scores in PDF format and is chock full of useful features, from smart page-turning to annotations to setlists and songbooks. It can import sheet music in a number of ways, including an in-app browser and directly from your device's camera. Glee Karaoke Free Fun Karaoke game using songs from "Glee." itabla Pro $24.99 For the classical Indian musician, or the curious improviser, itabla replaces expensive electronic tabla and tanpura machines and provides drone and drums in 30 completely configurable taals. Jamn Joytunes Recorder Master $1.99 Your recorder becomes the game controller in this appealing arcade-style game. Play the correct pitches in tune to fly airplanes, catch birds, and defeat bosses. Kids Karaoke Learn Piano Metronome
Miso Music NoteStar Piano Mania Piano Tutor Free to start Progressive piano game that can hear a real piano for input, or use the on -screen piano. SmartMusic Productivity/Teaching Tools SmartMusic's long-awaited ipad port does not include all its desktop features and repertoire, but it is a great start! Tonal Energy Tuner $3.99 Comprehensive visual tuner with extra practice tools such as high-quality reference pitches on varied instruments, plus a Dr. beat-style metronome. Ukulele Companion Free ($1.99 to remov e ads) Interactive ukulele chord dictionary with customizable tuning, metronome, and tuner. Great for the ukulele classroom. Planbook $5.99 Replacement for paper planbooks designed by an experienced teacher. Works best as a companion to the Mac/PC application, but can be used independently. Evernote Free basic, $5/ month premiu m Go paperless and organize your life with this feature-rich cloudbased note app that syncs between all your devices, computer, and secure website. The center of my digital and professional development world.
Splashtop $6.99 Connect to your Mac or PC through wifi. Use your ipad as an extra touchscreen or to control your computer from anywhere in the classroom. Pages $9.99 Beautiful, full-featured word processor with dozens of templates and full compatibility with Pages for Mac. Keynote $9.99 Complete presentation app Non-Music-Specific Creation Tools: Book Creator Free Create storybooks with text, drawings, and audio files that can be exported into ibooks. Drawing Pad Educreations Explain Everything imovie A powerful but kid-friendly drawing app. Record audio along with drawing, text, imported photos, etc. to create a shareable video. Alternative to Educreations. Powerful video editing and moviemaking app, compatible with the Mac version.
Toontastic ibooks Launchpad Learn structured storytelling as you choose scenes and characters, then animate them while you narrate. le's ebook reader, complete with extensive store. Can also open epub and PDF files. Look for Recorder Interactive, my new recorder method, to be released in the ibookstore soon! Virtual Instruments: Accordéon Aeolian Harp Animoog Bebot Celtic Harp This adorable robot provides loads of sonic possibilities, and is a fun way to teach about pitch and intervals. DrumJam Echo String Falling Stars Create ethereal music by drawing ledges and plants to interact with the musical falling stars.
Hulusi iguzheng Experience a unique Chinese free-reed instrument. Mandala Hang Drum Morphwiz $9.99 ProKeys SoundPrism Add the meditative sound of the Hang Drum to your music classroom. One of several excellent, highly configurable virtual pianos. Sunrizer Synth ThumbJam YUMI Synth Expressive, intuitive playing interface is designed as a new instrument, rather than an imitation of a "real" instrument. Includes dozens of excellent sampled instruments.