Rhythm Lab

This is an excellent little app for developing rhythm skills. It has many examples from very easy to very advanced rhythms. I find that my students are happy to work at perfecting the exercises as they can see for themselves where they go wrong and they strive to gain 100%. There are still some bugs to be fixed in this app. For example, it closes itself down for no apparent reason. The tempo setting changes by itself even though I set a default tempo and sometimes the sound turns off. If these problems can be solved, I would be more than happy to recommend this app to students and teachers.

This is a seriously wonderful app. I am using it to improve my sightreading, by isolating the rhythm component. The work that has gone into this is incredible. There are a range of different levels, patterns and styles, for one and two hands. Most valuable resource I've come across. Agree with the previous reviewer – I hardly ever write reviews, but feel compelled to write one for this, because it's great! Looking forward to future apps from this developer – his website has some great resources, too.

Although the original purpose for this app was probably for pianists it now has sections for tapping rhythms using a snare, hi-hat and kick drums as well as snare drum rudiments. I've been looking for something like this for a while to improve my timing for drumming with fingers on the iPad, though it would be useful for any finger drumming hardware. Very useful app, 4 stars (as there's always room for improvement :) )

Like some of the other reviewers, this is app is SOOO underrated. It’s the only app I have ever found - and I use a lot of apps as a music teacher - that has a both hand rhythm option. I bought this app many years ago but still come back to it time and again. It’s also a very solid and stable app.

I am a piano and voice teacher and one of the things students struggle with most is reading rhythm. This app allows you to create whatever 8 measure rhythm pattern you want and then test if you can tap it correctly! It’s great for assessing student literacy!! Also, big shout out to the developer/creator Jon! He took the time to meet with me on zoom to address some problems I was having with importing rhythms I had created in Finale. Super nice and responsive to users! So happy to have this app in my tool box for teaching!!

The editor affordance gives no feedback as to where the cursor is or how the notes are being input. The difference between insert, edit and measure modes seems inconsistent. Beams and triple groupings are incorrect (a triple 16th in 4/4 doesn’t work and constantly resets to an eighth note). After half an hour of struggling to enter a single measure of rythmn dictation, I gave up. It’s easier to do it by hand. Maybe this app is better at showing example rhythm, seems geared towards British music curriculum. I didn’t look at that very much because I just wanted a quick tool to check rythmn dictation.

I love this app. It’s so underrated. Perfect to learn basic music and rhythms. The one thing that I think should be clarified is that when creating your own pattern, you need to click on the white space below the scale. I use it to practice patterns with a steel tongue drum.

THIS GAME IS JUST HORRIBLE ITS SOOO BAD

I have been using RhythmLab for the last three or four months, and I must say I am very impressed with it. I am a professional musician and private music instructor, and this excellent application has perfectly filled a need I had for an interactive and fun rhythm instruction application to use with my students. The app comes with many pre-designed patterns which can be used immediately, but what I especially like is having the ability to create and save my own custom patterns from scratch to fit the needs of my students. Once you get used to the way the interface works (which doesn’t take very long) you can start creating rhythmic patterns and categories for them specifically for what your needs are. I am equally impressed by the very quick and responsive support I have gotten from Jon since I have started using this program. Some of the YouTube videos for RL are a bit outdated, so there were three times I requested help when I was unable to figure out how to do certain functions. Jon very cordially responded to me quickly each time, not only with written instructions but also with screenshots to make it crystal clear what I needed to do. He really stands behind his product, which is to say the least very impressive in this day and age when so many other app creators aren’t doing the same. Rhythm Lab has become an indispensable tool for my private teaching. If you are a teacher your students will love it because it’s like playing a video game, but they are learning and improving their rhythms by doing so! If you are a music student you can benefit and improve your rhythm reading as you tap the rhythms and get immediate feedback as to whether or not you were tapping them correctly. It’s exactly what I needed, and I recommend it highly.

App is very buggy on iPad Air II. Tapping not sounding/registering both in self-testing runs, and also - in auditioning playback (using the ear icon) the rhythm notes are not all sounding consistently with the patterns. As a result, can only use the app without audio. This iPad Air II is under 2 years old, and app should work, according to the app specs, it simply can't execute the patterns in normal tempos when they are being tapped on the iPad (and even when not being tapped they don't always sound). Hope it gets fixed. Could be such a useful tool.