Steve Reich’s Clapping Music

Claps are out of sync if using AirPods.

I love it. It’s so hard but so fun. My band director suggested it and I’m having a blast. 10/10 would recommend.

This app used to work and was fun, but now it lags, making it impossible to play. I’m on a brand new iPhone. It should work better than with my 2020 phone. Is there a setting I need to change to prevent the lag?

This app is so frustrating. The authors developed a made-up form of music notation instead of just using standard music notation. I assume it’s to get around copyright law, which is also lame—just pay the publisher. Also, I’m pretty sure it’s incorrect in places—it’s hard to tell, for sure.

My late, brilliant music theory teacher Seán Diebler introduced us to Clapping Music in 1995. He would be delighted with this app, and probably have a few suggestions.

I’m bad

Super fun if you’re practicing your rhythm and tempo.

There is a heavy sound and tapping delay when using AirPods that make this basically unusable. Please fix

The visual cues on screen don’t match what I hear, which makes it pretty difficult to play. It would be awesome if there was an option to view the patterns written out in notation while playing the game. It would also make the rhythm practice done in the game more practically applicable for musicians (seeing rhythms you play in the game written in notation will make it easy to recognize them immediately in a piece you’re sight reading or whatever). Just my two cents I hope a dev sees this. :)

Too much fun