Learn to Read Music with Note Rush! Note Rush boosts your note reading speed and accuracy, building a strong mental model of where each written note is on your instrument. Now even better with Note Rush: 2nd Edition!
How it Works
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Note Rush is like a virtual flash card deck for all ages that listens to you play each note, giving instant feedback and awarding stars based on speed and accuracy of note identification.
Race against the clock to improve your performance or hide the timer to gently engage those just starting out with the staff.
Includes built-in levels for piano and a range of other instruments as well as custom level design.
What makes Note Rush Different?
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- Play On Your Instrument
Note reading is best learnt in the context of how you identify and play each note - on your acoustic or MIDI instrument.
- Designed for Teachers
...and not as a replacement for them! Create fully customizable note sets and easily send them home to students.
- Fun Themes
Engage with fun themes that don't get in the way of learning, or opt for traditional notation.
Landmarks: The best way to learn your notes
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Note Rush fits with all teaching methods, whether you favor a purely intervallic approach or use traditional mnemonics! We promote learning key landmark notes then reading adjacent notes intervallically for the best results in learning to read piano notation.
Note Rush features a unique landmarks-based hints system (optional) that highlights nearby landmark notes to read intervallically from. Over time students naturally move from reliance on landmarks to a more intrinsic staff-to-keyboard association.
Preset and Custom Levels
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Use preset note ranges or create your own set of levels to suit your teaching style. Create a personalized level to target a particular student’s needs.
- Individual Note Selections
- Sharps and Flats
- Treble, Bass or Grand Staff (alto and tenor coming soon)
- Up to Six Ledger Lines
- Send custom note reading drills using App Links or QR Codes
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Really good app for learning notes
This app is really good for learning notes before this app i was struggling to learn the notes without it. My teacher was trying to help me, but it didn’t work. This app is really good for learning notes. If you’re struggling with notes use this app it’s really good.
Double bass?
Bass guitar?
2nd edition broke note detection for bass
Short version: updated to 2nd edition and now it can’t detect notes in the correct octave for bass.
Long version: I teach bass guitar at a public high school and I hadn’t updated this app in years, so I was on 1st edition. It worked flawlessly on that version (was build 155): just play middle C on bass and everything was great, very accurate even in slightly noisy classrooms.
Read about 2nd edition and figured it was worth the upgrade. Now the app asks you to play F instead (4th line Bass clef), but the app won’t detect it (I’ve tried at home in a silent house out in the woods…nothing, and yes the microphone is enabled, you can see the meter moving as I play).
Only when I play F an octave higher does it “work”, but now you have to play everything up an octave from written pitch, which obviously makes it useless for teaching kids. Can you PLEASE restore pitch detection for those lower frequencies, either permanently or as an option in settings?
This app is 5 stars when it works…but until it starts to work again for us, I can’t rate it higher than a 2.
Helped me so much learn notes
Irs helped me so much and that you can change the difficulty realy helps me❤️❤️❤️❤️
Too hard
I have it a 1 star .it is making me scream it’s too hard !