Piano Tree

I am self-taught, at intermediate level. My sight reading of individual notes is pretty good, but I need more practice and familiarity with chords, especially inversions and ones with deep ledger lines. I saw this ap mentioned by Dennis Zhdanov on one of his videos so thought I’d check it out. The ap is fun, sort of like a music video game, as I prefer to just pull up something new and go without worrying about pace with the first run through. Which you can do by just playing keys when a new piece is brought up. It does take some time to figure this and some of the buttons out, but I might have missed a ‘training level’ as I just dove in. My feedback was that on the starter chord levels the chord names are listed with the chords, which defeats the purpose of a sight reading ap. I’m weak with chords using deep ledger lines and I found myself unable to ignore the big written letter sitting there. This seemed less an issue on the later more advanced levels or when the chords are with a note in the other hand. Keep it up, I plan to use this for my sight reading exercises a few times a week, and as noted is a fun exercise for those moments when repertoire work gets stale.

This app has very high quality music and a good library that is continuing to be expanded. My previous review had concerns about a gap in the levels of the sight reading tests, but the developer proactively reached out to try to fix the issue. He then added additional test levels and adjusted the difficulty of the test pieces to more accurately assess skill levels. This has been my best experience ever with help from an app developer. I highly recommend this app and encourage users to talk with the developer if they have any concerns or suggestions.

Great curated library of songs to learn sight reading with easy tools to customize difficulty. I was having performance issues, but the developer reached out and helped resolve.