MTI RehearScore

I’ve used this app many, many times and it works well enough. 2 improvements that would make it instantly better are these: 1. It should keep your phone awake while it is playing a song. 2. There need to be a button to move to individual measures forward and backwards. The drag bar is too insensitive. For example if there is a Grand Pause. You should be able to jump to the next measure without having to type it in.

Our school used this app to rehearse for Beauty and the Beast. Our music director cut lots of small things throughout the show, which is a feature not possible while just listening to the Broadway versions of the songs and therefore is helpful. However, everything else is very terrible. More MIDI instruments instead of the same annoying piano sound for every part would work wonders (even if the digital instruments sound awful)! Vamps don’t work right and it always sounds like something broke every time somebody has to frantically rush over to their phone to move on. Also, why does the software stop when your phone turns off? This in combination with the vamps issue means that somebody has to always sit by the phone connected to the speaker in order for everything to work right. Your ringer also needs to be on for some reason. Receiving a text means the music completely stops for a good two seconds. Rhythm always sounds off; it feels clunky and low effort and really throws off the more musically inclined members of the cast. Finally, why is there no good way to see the lyrics while playing the music? I feel like that’s a given. TL:DR - In theory, this app could be really good, but is extremely low effort and misses many features that should be no-brainers for an app of this kind. Doesn’t have much going for it.

My schools doing Mamma Mia and the app let me use it before and there was a bug and so I had to delete it and redownload and then it wouldn’t let me join the class anymore.

I’m using this app for a community theatre production, and BOTH times I’ve downloaded it on two separate devices it just….stops playing sound. Everything looks like it’s working except no sound is being played which is the whole point of the app. Very frustrating. You can definitely see the lack of care.

First of all, I’d just like to state that I LOVE this app. It’s been a life saver in my high school’s production of Legally Blonde: The Musical. As the grateful actor portraying Warner Huntington III, I’ve returned time and time again to this app because all the songs are in the right key and it includes numbers you wouldn’t find on Spotify, YouTube, etc. But, I do have one main fly in the ointment that annoys me. It doesn’t allow you to listen to the music in the background. Allow me to elaborate. Say I’m practicing my part in Gay or European, and I get a text from my mom saying she’s leaving from the store. The second I tap on that notification, the music stops and and can’t keep practicing. Also, my phone shuts off from time to time from me setting it down or even not looking at it. If my phone shuts off, the music stops unlike on music streaming platforms like Spotify or Apple Music. It shouldn’t have to be hard to use this app. Hopefully the devs see this and try to make this change. Best wishes, Micah Hamel

Let me leave the app and have the sound play in the background. Also, why do a I have to have my phone not be on mute (silences typing sounds) for the backing track to be heard? Also, the vocals for Mean Girls are all empty. Also, the midi sound is really bad.

Not sure how this works, but it’s muted if I have my notifications off. Everything else that has audio works but not this app. So, I’ll turn off my notifications alarm and then be interrupted by notifications while rehearsing. Fix it, MTI.

Ty gilbeezer

The app will not work if your phone is set to vibrate (iPhone user here), even if the volume is turned up everywhere else.

Oh, I would love to be able to give this app more than one star, but I’ll jump in to the reason for the one: the app does not prevent the device from going to sleep, so as you are rehearsing, the music stops. Now one could just adjust device settings or turn off the screen save mode, but really? Maybe for a 2008 user experience but 2023? Hire some devs and get this feature/bug implemented.