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Helpful Apps


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​​BAND
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Group Communication
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Organize your group on BAND! It’s the perfect group communication app, with features like the Community Board, Shared Calendar, Polls, To-Do Lists, Private Chat & much more!

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Bandmate Chromatic Tuner
Display Performed Pitch on Staff

Bandmate is the only chromatic tuner that displays the note you play on a music staff. Designed by music educators, for music educators and students. 

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Canva App
Graphic Design

​Canva makes design amazingly simple (and fun)! Create stunning designs with your photos and videos—even if you’re not a design expert!

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Cleartune App
Chromatic Tuner

With support for custom temperaments, transposition, notations such as solfège, and adjustable calibration, Cleartune packs more power than most pro tuners, yet is simple enough for everyone to use.

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Forscore App
Scan Sheet Music

Go paperless. Get organized. Download and play something new in seconds.
With forScore, your sheet music has never been better—it’s everything you can do with paper and so much more.

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IMSLP App
Public Domain Music

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​Browse the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library and view scores from the comfort of your iOS device.

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InTune App
Ear Training Practice

Improve your musical intonation. Leverage 25 years of academic research on how to train intonation. Track your progress and compete on Game Center. Add on beautiful instrument sounds, including piano, guitar, violin, cello, clarinet, banjo, flute, French horn, trombone, and trumpet.

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iStroboSoft App
Peterson Strobe Tuner

Peterson Strobe Tuners' popular StroboSoft tuning application for the iPod touch® and iPhone™. iStroboSoft™ offers the unmatched accuracy of a mechanical strobe tuner for the highest degree of precision available in a software tuning application.

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Loopz App
Drum Loops
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​Loopz is a powerful and easy to use drum machine and metronome. It plays drum loops and you can jam along! An intelligently designed drum engine let's you change the speed / BPM of each groove. This makes practicing even more fun.

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The Monster Musician Reader App 
Interactive Sight Reading Game

Interactive musical notation practicing game that uses the iPhone's mic to pick up live instrumental or vocal input. ​


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Musico
Scheduling, Private Lessons

Musico saves you from frustration over your messy teaching schedule. You can instantly update and keep track of your daily teaching schedule, students’ absences and replacements all with the convenience of a push of a button.

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Piascore App
Digital Score Viewer

​Piascore is an iPad/iPhone application for browsing digital musical scores. Piascore's concept is Viewing musical scores from everywhere - anywhere, anytime.

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PlayTunes
Note Naming, Playing Assessment
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Get personalized feedback on Gamified long tones make the warm-up fun! Clap rhythms, play tunes on one note, every day's practice is well-designed for fun and improvement.

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Remind App
Group Communication

​Remind is a communication platform that helps educators reach students and parents where they are. Fast: Messages are sent in real time to an entire class, a small group, or just a single person. You can also schedule announcements ahead of time and attach photos and other files.

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Rubric Scorer App
Rubrics and Feedback

Rubric Scorer makes it grading rubrics fast and easy. Teachers can easily add custom comments as well as set up a list of common comments that can be easily accessed. If you are an art or music teacher, you can also attach a photo or record an audio file to a student's rubric, so you have a record of their work.

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Tenuto App 
Mobile Version of MusicTheory.Net


Tenuto is a collection of 24 highly-customizable exercises designed to enhance your musicality. From recognizing chords on a keyboard to identifying intervals by ear, it has an exercise for you. Tenuto also includes six musical calculators for accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices.

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Todoist App
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Task Organization, Communication

Ranked as "the best to do list right now" by The Verge, ToDoist is used by 25 million people to organize, plan, and collaborate on projects, both big and small.

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Tonal Energy App
Metronome, Tuner, and more

For musicians from pros to beginners, whether you sing, play a brass, woodwind or stringed instrument or any type of guitar, this app provides a set of feature-rich practice tools that gives fun and rewarding feedback. It’s much more than just a tuner!

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Tunable App
Metronome, Tuner (shows vibrato)

​More than a chromatic tuner, tone & chord generator, metronome, and recorder, Tunable is a music practice coach that can help you play steadily, in tune, and on beat anywhere you go. Jam-packed with features to help with ear training, breath support, rhythm, timing, and dynamics, Tunable is easy to use yet feature-rich.

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Typorama App
Social Media PostCreator

Typorama lets you create amazing visuals by "automagically" transforming your text and photos into beautiful typographic designs. No design skills needed!

  • Home
  • About
    • Executive Team
    • Regional Team
    • College Team
    • Members
  • How to Join
  • Calendar
  • Advisor Program
  • Resources
    • The Band Hall - A YBDT Podcast
    • Recommended Reads
    • Podcasts
    • Helpful Links
    • Helpful Apps