Bass Sight Reading Trainer app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Rolfs Apps
First release : 18 Aug 2011
App size: 16.65 Mb
Sight-reading skills open the door to reading written music and familiarizing yourself with various music styles. Sight-reading is not a daunting task, and with sufficient practice, anyone can develop this valuable skill.
Our app is designed to help you quickly identify notes across every part of the fretboard, with a special focus on positional playing.
By enhancing your sight-reading abilities, youll find it easier to focus on other musical aspects like harmony and rhythm.
Features:
PRACTICE & TEST MODE
- Four different modes of use:
1. Locate notes on the fretboard based on the notes in staff.
2. Locate notes on the fretboard based on note name and pitch.
3. Find the names of notes on the staff (without the fretboard)
4. Identify the names of notes presented on the fretboard.
- Automatic detection of problematic notes.
KEY SIGNATURES & SCALES
- Key signature support, from 1 to 6 sharps or 1 to 6 flats.
- Automatic selection of the enharmonic notes for each scale to prevent double sharps or double flats in the key signature.
- Scales include major, minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor, blues, pentatonic, and all modal scales.
FRETS, STRINGS & NOTE SELECTION
- Support for 4, 5 and 6 string bass guitars.
- Frets are grouped to limit the number of notes to practice and test.
- Predefined fret groups, e.g., 0-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 0-12, 13-17, etc.
- You can define custom fret groups.
- The highlighted fret group is displayed on the fretboard.
- Your sight-reading progress is tracked per fret group.
- The longest streak record per fret group measures your sight-reading accuracy.
- You can select specific strings for the highlighted area.
- Test notes can be limited to naturals or notes from a selected scale.
READ AHEAD
- Reading ahead is a crucial skill for effective sight-reading.
- You can adjust the number of notes to read ahead.
OTHER
- Several alternate tunings are available for 4, 5, and 6-string bass guitars.
- Optional extra treble clef for iPad.
- Support for left-handed bass guitars.
- Option to display the fretboard in perspective (in landscape mode).
- A universal app compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
- Supports all screen sizes.
- No ads or in-app purchases.
- Dark mode support (iOS 13+).
- Tested on iOS and iPadOS 17.
Latest reviews of Bass Sight Reading Trainer app for iPhone and iPad
The app is simple enough to use, if you have just picked up the bass and a great way to learn your scales. A great addition that would be awesome to see, if I could plug in my bass, using an iRig or whatever other way, and answer the test, by playing the note, I understand that would require writing in a tuner, and would require a set up process, as not all basses have perfect pitch once you start moving up the fret board, but then i could also practice my finger work as well as theory. thank you guys for making this.
Ive been wanting to learn how to read bass clef for a long time. This app was the perfect thing. Shows the staff as I play notes and has a test mode which is really nice. The test mode is "like" guitar hero and it makes the learning / practicing really fun and exciting. Buy it!
This app is awesome! Im learning the translation between my eye/brain/hand from sheet music to pressing the right fret. As soon as you press a fret, you see the note on the bass clef, which really helps the eye/hand coordination training. When you get really good at playing a musical instrument, you dont think A-D-G-D whatever, you see a note in a certain place and you put your hand on a fret (or a key). Its a reflex and an emotion rather than a mechanical thought process. At least for me, anyway. Thoughts for improvement: When I tap a note on the bass clef, it would be nice to see the fret(s) that correspond to that note. This is the reverse of what it is now (press a fret and see the note on the bass clef). Heres a cool idea… probably a totally separate app, but read in a power tab and show which frets are being played. Anyway, Ive got about 3 other apps that are supposed to be similar in nature. This one is "the one".
I had been playing bass for years having poor notation reading skills and slowly counting frets. This app trains you on bass clef notation, learning the notes on the fingerboard (up to the 12th fret), and drilling you in different training modes to identify, locate and match up notes and frets quickly. It tracks your progress in different fret groups. Recommended.
Very nice. Defiantly what I was looking for.