Free Apps For Piano Students on Google Play

Here are free apps for piano students to supplement their learning, available from Google Play. Here’s a list of six that I have personally on my Android tablet.  (Sorry Apple people–you’ll have to let me know what your favourites are!)  Click on the picture to go directly to the app in the google play store.

Useful free app #1:  Metronomerous – pro metronome by Knoedelbart

Timekeeping

Every piano student, no matter what level, needs a time-keeping device.  If you want to play well with others, you need to be able to keep a steady beat.  Practising with a metronome gets you used to playing rhythms accurately.   This version of an online metronome has many cool features.  You can change the speed quickly and easily by tapping beside the tempo and a popup tab will allow you to enter the tempo you want. Or you can swipe left or right to adjust the tempo slowly. A ‘tap’ feature allows you to tap along to a beat so that the metronome can find your tempo.  You can change the time signature, the beat subdivision and even the sound pack.  Really easy to use!

 

Useful free app #2: Perfect Ear by EDuckAppsSV

Ear Training

How do you practice ear training on your own?  Usually, you need a musical partner or a teacher to work with you.  It used to be pretty hard to do ear training by yourself, but now there’s apps for that!!  This ear training app helps you to develop basic skills in the following categories: Interval Exercises, Rhythm exercises, and Staff and Pitch training. Since I’ve had this app, they’ve continually improved and upgraded the exercises to keep them challenging.  It’s probably one of the best all-round ear training programs that I’ve tried.

 

Useful free app #3: MyEarTraining – ear training for musicians by myrApps s.r.o. 

Ear Training

This is another good app for practising Ear Training. Like the previous app, you have different exercises for ear training. Categories are divided into Standard (intervals, chords, scales, melodies, chord progressions), Rhythm dictation, Solfege, and Singing intervals.

 

 

 

Useful free app #4: Sight Reading Trainer by Timothy Dijamco

Reading notes (grand staff) treble clef and bass clef

If you are trying to get better at sightreading, this is a good app for learning your notes in a game-like setting.  It tests your reading of treble clef and bass clef notes in four levels. The cool thing about this app is that you play the notes at the piano and the app detects the note that you are playing. It gives you hints like “too high” or “too low” and you can adjust accordingly. I sometimes use this app to test my singing as well!

 

 

Useful free app #5: Drum metronome by Joe Average

Time keeping

This is another metronome that I use for fun. Instead of the standard click metronome, it provides different drum tracks that your students can play along with. I find the jazz settings to be extremely useful, especially when a student is having a hard time feeling ‘swing eighths’.

 

 

 

Useful free app #6: Perfect Pianist by Perfect Pianist Developer

Teaching at home

This is a nice little app that my students use for practice at home. The app divides piano learning into Lessons, Games, Learn a Song, and Daily Challenges. In Lessons, you have the choice of taking short little lessons on Understanding, Reading, Listening, and Timing. Games reinforce concepts that have been taught in the lessons. My students have shown an improvement in their lessons from doing short daily activities with this app.

 

 

I hope that you find this list of 6 free apps for piano students to be useful.  I love that there are constant improvements and new developments in apps that can be used by students and teachers.  When used properly in lessons and practice time, you can have fun improving your piano and music skills, even without a piano nearby!

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