Name: tonestro - Music Lessons
Rating: 4.28 (108 reviews)

Meggan Wall

4 years ago

This review only covers the learning section up to the 1st exam, from the perspective of an intermediate flute player. (GooglePlay needs to make reviews longer, I ran out of characters) Overall a good app! The rest of this is mostly for the devs. Use the finger chart to explain how to hold a flute. It'll make things a lot simpler. Please add/mention semibreve, minum, crotchet and quaver as alternate names, maybe a UK/US language option? Abdominal breathing and posture should be mentioned.

Kiran Tiwari

1 year ago

This app is so nice very easy to understand but it's very expensive and I can do another lesson with out giving money

A Google user

5 years ago

Brilliant app for an amateur cornet player like myself to keep motivated practicing with new challenges and to improve my scores on the four component categories through older completed songs in the campaign. Highly recommend for all levels!

Fizzarolli (Kat)

1 year ago

it's good but expensive I really want a free music app but I swear that's impossible

Peter Spak

1 year ago

No customer support, paid money, couldn't get back into the account and absolute silence from the customer support. Do not buy, do not download, do not support.

A Google user

6 years ago

Please do not bother with this app. Go out, buy your etude books and take private lessons and record yourself while playing etudes and excersices. It cannot pick up notes and says they are consistently wrong (even when playing the correct notes transposed on a piano). Trumpet version only allows B-flat trumpet and no others, transposing will not work because it still doesn't recognize notes. Says you can adjust the tempo however I never could figure it out. I wouldn't give these to a beginner.

A Google user

5 years ago

It's a good app for a beginner trumpet player. But one thing about this app that I find the best feature is it has many songs for sight reading unlike Arbans book where it's just exercises. I reccomend this for people looking to increase their sight reading skills. For more advanced trumpet player I'd get an Arbans book and practice the exercises such as double toughing exercise to build strength with your tongue. If you want better tone do a long tone exercise. Even if it's super duper boring!!

Chris D

3 years ago

The free material is extremely limited. The annual subscription fee would be fair enough for a one-time purchase but not recurring. Also it seems that many songs have been deleted recently from the medieval, etude, classical, and traditional sections. They are not premium only now but apparently just removed from the app entirely. Why? You expect customers to pay the annual subscription fee when the content is actually decreasing?

A Google user

5 years ago

I love it I really do, and I completely understand that you the developers need to make money of it with a premium mode. And I respect that. But I'm rating this as low as I am because of the energy factor. "Out of free play time for today" it bugs me it really does but once again I understand you need money of of this. And this is a super long coment and I only have 107 letters left so bye.

A Google user

6 years ago

I am a jazz trumpet player wanting to improve my technique/tone and have found it difficult to work on technical exercises alone, outside of a structured program and without feedback. This app solves all those problems and forces me to play every note like I am taking an exam. Ten out of ten for a brilliant app.

Davrielle Wattpad

4 years ago

Overall it's fine, but I feel that the app doesn't really take vibrato into consideration for pitches. I compared my playing with straight tone and then compared to playing with heavy vibrato and my pitch was all over the place according to the app. It's true that vibrato does change the pitch slightly but it's an expression of music and my fear is that this app may encourage a habit of straight tone playing which can be damaging to developing players. Perhaps add a vibrato setting?

Isaac Hupp

3 years ago

About 2 years ago this app was amazing there were many great songs that I enjoyed playing. Premium was just for lessons. Now all those songs that I used to enjoy are all premium. I got paying for lessons but for songs. I just don't see the point of paying for songs that used to be free. Those are the reasons why I am giving this app two stars.

Karolína Vyskočilová

4 years ago

Great app, but I'm really missing out to check which songs I've played recently, favourite them or even sort them to my categories. I would really love to see the complete list of songs. And the level categories doesn't contain ALL songs available from selected categories. It would be awesome if you make a desktop site, the mobile phone is kind of small and inconvenient

A Google user

5 years ago

Exceptional app! It motivates you to practise and succeed. Challenging friends in pursuit of a high score makes it highly entertaining. Practising is no longer a chore as it engages you by correcting your technical difficulties. I suggest that the player still follows a set practise routine in warming up, playing scales, working through technical exercises and main repertoire etc. The app makes this all possible as it includes long tones, etudes, scales and challenging works. Highly recommended!

Steph

4 years ago

I made a review of 4 stars earlier, but after reading about & trying other features I missed, I gave it 5 instead. This app is extremely useful for beginners & advanced players who may want to work on minor skills. The songs are too easy for advanced players, but I still find it very helpful. I will be using this to help teach my students when I can't be available. I may even consider creating a paid subscription in the future. I only wish it had more songs & songs with greater difficulty.

haya fatima

1 year ago

An exceptional app! It motivates you to practice and succeed. Challenging your friends to get a high score is a lot of fun. Exercising is no longer a chore as it engages you by fixing technical difficulties. I recommend that the player still follows a set practice routine of warming up, playing scales, going through technical exercises and main repertoire, etc. The app makes it all possible as it includes long notes, etudes, scales and challenging works. Highly recommended!.

A Google user

5 years ago

Hey Alex, I am replying to your reply. I said your app didn't teach but after thinking a bit, maybe it shouldn't teach. I think the revised campaign is not a good idea. You can only learn so much in an app, which has only pictures and words. This could lead to confusion or slight differences in technique. Only a trumpet tutor can help with this. So I think you should stick to just adding songs as they are pretty fun, preferably add harder pieces (like trumpet concerto 1st and 3rd movements)

Marc Khanna

1 year ago

Please do not install this app. It is a complete waste of your phone storage. You barely get get finish one lesson while being bombarded with adds and offers. And to make things worse, you have to pay to do other lessons. There are much better apps to learn musical instruments so please do not get this app and make the some mistake I did!!

Alexander Raed Panaligan

10 months ago

I was tuning the violin and suddenly, the tuner exited to my home screen. I was frustrated. I tried to open the tuner again, but it exited. I hate this bug.

Randi A. F.

3 years ago

I installed this app several months ago. It's OK. However, there is a frustrating disconnect between the scoring on the lessons versus the scoring on the songs. I score in the 95% and above on all lessons, yet I score 0% on all songs. This makes it extremely difficult to continue with the songs. What is the issue? I do not have access to a trumpet player or teacher to consult with.