Perfect Pitch Piano
© 2011 Brad Jasper
Music teachers take note. Now you can turn your non-glitzy iPad into a small set of ear training exercises. Perfect Pitch Piano (PPPiano) is designed to teach you to play piano by ear, by playing a copy-cat style game with your iPad. Your screen displays a large, responsive keyboard that is just over an octave in size (17 keys) and sounds exactly like a piano. The app starts easy, playing a one or two note phrase and then waits for you to answer. The lessons get progressively harder; wrong answers give you another chance, depending on the settings. You can adjust the activity so that you can make as many as six mistakes. You can also change the pitch and tempo. One thing about this app that isn't obvious, is that additional levels and songs cost $.99 each. All things considered, this is a great use of the iPad that music teachers will want to know about.
$0.99, iPad, iPhone
Teaches: music, playing piano
CTR Rating: 80%