This document provides a list and descriptions of various apps that can be used for music transcription, practice, and performance. It includes metronome apps, tuner apps, ear training apps, sheet music scanner and manager apps, recording apps, and other useful apps for musicians. YouTube and podcasts are also mentioned as resources for finding music transcriptions and learning.

2. TRANSCRIBING – AMAZING SLOW DOWNER
(ASD)
Amazing Slow Downer – APS Lite - $14.99

3. TRANSCRIBING - ROBICK
Robick - $2.99 – allows you to adjust by cents, nice aesthetic interface

4. TRANSCRIBING - ANYTUNE
Anytune – Free / $14.99 Pro – lots of
options, looping, EQ, raise and
lower pitch and tempo

5. TRANSCRIBING - MIMI COPY
mimiCopy - $4.99 – best for setting loops

6. TRANSCRIBE! SOFTWARE (DESKTOP APP)
This software is amazing! $39 well spent
The software will tell you which notes are being played with a visual representation
on the keyboard. Green and Red dots on the keyboard indicate notes in tune or
out of tune.

7. METRONOME – FROZEN APE
Frozen Ape - $1.99 – you can easily create playlists and set emphasis on
certain beats
Goes by Tempo or Metronome

8. METRONOME – METRO TIMER
MetroTimer – free, includes light

9. ALL-AROUND MARCHING BAND DIRECTOR
HELPER APP:
A.P.S. MUSIC MASTER BY BARNHOUSE
$2.99
Tuner
Metronome
View Scores as PDF and mark them up
Glossaries
Record Audio (wave file, so very large)

10. TUNER – TE TUNER (TONAL ENERGY TUNER)
$3.99
You can select the instrument, and it will tell you how many cents
sharp/flat.
Tone Generator
Analysis of waveform (you can see all the harmonics)

11. Cleartune – 3.99 Pano Tuner - free
TUNERS

12. EAR TRAINING – A.P.S. TRAINING TUNER
$2.99
This app will play two tones and you have to guess if the second is sharp,
flat, or the same
Made by Barnhouse publishing company

13. EAR TRAINING – EARMASTER PRO 6 (DESKTOP
APP) – 59.99

14. SCALES LEXICON
$4.99
http://patrickqkelly.com/index.php/iphone-a-ipod-touch/scales-lexicon-for-
iphone.html

15. FINGERINGS APP
$7.99
Fingering App is by Patrick Q. Kelly
Interactive fingering charts for woodwinds and brass

16. IREAL B
$7.99
Displays and plays chord progressions.
Download songs from website
Irealb.com/forums

17. IGIGBOOK – MOBILE SHEET READER
$14.99
Mobile sheet music manager (allows you to see the melody/lyrics/chords)
This app is basically an index of all the real books. Import your real book
PDFs and they can be easily searched and viewed.
Playlist features
Auto turn pages with another synced device

18. FORSCORE – IPAD SHEET MUSIC MANAGER
$6.99
Ever wanted to get rid of those heavy big band books?
Auto turn pages with a foot pedal (purchased separately)
Pay for sheet music through the app
Create links to hand repeats

19. AIR TURN BT-105 BLUETOOTH PAGE TURNER
$119.95

20. SCANNING APPS (TO SCAN SHEET MUSIC)
CamScanner - free TurboScan - $1.99

21. FINALE SONGBOOK FOR IPAD
Free
View, play, print any finale file
View and print PDF files
Use AirTurn Page turner

22. CD METRONOME
This isn’t an app, it’s just CDs of audio files you can purchase from:
http://www.paulcarman.com/store/home.php?cat=248
Practice with your own personal live drummer. Why use a metronome when
you can infinitely adjust your own drummer?
$22 per CD

23. ITABLA PANDIT
Indian drone
Use this app to warm up, play with scales, experiment
Ingred Jensen’s favorite app

24. RECORDING APPS
GarageBand
$4.99
TinyVox Pro
$9.99

25. SOUNDCLOUD
Free
Music social networking site
Discover new music
Record rehearsals and concerts
Post private or public
Record to MP3
www.soundcloud.com

26. OTHER COOL APPS
Shazam or SoundHound – app will identify any song
iBone
SoundGecko – take the text from any website and turn it into an audio file
Cloud storage – SkyDrive, Google Drive, iCloud
Mercury – slow to load but it’s the fastest internet browser
Evernote – organize your life, record to very small files (low quality)
BlogPress – use for updating your wordpress site or blog
Waze – crowd source your traffic info
Virtuoso Piano
GrooveShark – currently in litigation, this app is like Napster, android/jailbroken iphone only
Mog, Rdio, Spotify – subscribe to listen to 9 mil songs
Movie Pro – best video recorder
Instagram – pics and videos (new!)
Animoto – make slide shows very easily

27. YOUTUBE – MORE THAN A VIDEO SITE
YouTube is the second most used search engine, just behind Google
New trend: posting videos of transcriptions matched to music
Rob Egerton – hundreds of trombone transcriptions
McKenzieBone – The Eminent Vol.2 JJ Johnson Solo Transcriptions as a
playlist!

28. TRANSCRIPTION-HUB.COM

29. MY FAVORITE LEARNING APP - STITCHER
Stitcher – you can find a podcast on anything.
Example:
Soundcheck Podcast –
Colin Stetson
http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/2013/may/06/colin-stetson-ends-warfare/