Hello
Practice session
Today’s plan
Big goals
Coming up
To do
Rewards
This week
Long-term goals
Goals for this week
Lesson notes
Tap the minutes on any day to change how much time you have. The plan spreads your goals across the week, giving focus goals more time, and keeps anything you’ve already ticked off.
Use without internet
“Add music” opens Files, where OneDrive and Google Drive appear if their apps are on this iPad. Photos you choose together become one piece, in the order you pick them.
Theory
Exam preparation
Terms, signs and my pieces
Edit any meaning so it matches exactly what needs to be learnt for the exam, then star it to add it to the exam list. “Word for word” checks the wording exactly, ignoring capitals and punctuation.
Andante
No sound? Turn the volume up and check no Bluetooth speaker or headphones are connected. Press the space bar to start and stop on a keyboard.
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The green bar shows the microphone is hearing you.
Play one long, steady note close to the iPad. B♭ suits clarinet, trumpet and tenor sax, E♭ suits alto and baritone sax, and F suits horn. Bass guitar, piano, violin and bassoon use Concert.
Drone note
A steady note to tune and play long tones against.
The drone keeps playing while you switch to the metronome or your music. It uses the same A setting as the tuner.
Tempo ladder
Start slow, play it cleanly several times in a row, and the tempo steps up. The surest way to get a tricky passage up to speed.
Tricky spots
Backing from chords
Separate bars with |. Two chords in one bar: | C G |. Repeat a bar with %. Examples: Am, F♯m, B♭7, Gmaj7, Dsus4, C/E.
Play along with recordings
Add an accompaniment recording to any piece from its ⋯ menu in Music, then open the piece and tap Accompaniment.
Bass players can turn off Bass and play the bass line themselves. Turn off Piano to practise comping or improvising over drums and bass.
Record and listen back
Saved recordings
Recordings are saved to Google Drive with everything else. Hearing yourself back is one of the fastest ways to improve tone and timing.
Reed log
Rotate between three or four good reeds so none wears out too quickly. Rate each one after playing it and retire reeds that have lost their spark.
