Melodics for iPad

The new update is absolutely terrible. Their are so many new, flashy, uncalled for things in this update that distract from playing. The new grading scale is incomprehensible. There are now numbers in the thousands and you can never get a perfect score on the lesson. You can’t scroll through the lesson or song that you are playing just to see a part or a fill that you just want to look at and not play. I recommend to add more songs from famous bands like Nirvana or AC/DC. It is beyond me how a drum app with 100+ songs has not one song from famous bands other than the Beatles and Queen and even then the songs from those bands were bad. I would also like to recommend a video that could help drummers learn how to do that specific move or groove because all it is right now is saying what hand to hit it with and you have to figure out the rest of thing by your self. I am terribly disappointed in this new update and wish that I never have updated the app.

Gotta say I’m extremely pleased with this app and the support these folks have given me! When I added a second crash cymbal to my kit they modified my confit for me so the cymbal would be recognized - Rhys and team are always there to answer any questions and issues I have. In a nutshell, this app is what you want to use if learning how to play!

Melodics is a remarkable app. I do not write many reviews, and I do have a few minor criticisms. I’m giving it 5 stars because it is the most fun I’ve had on any kind of iPad app regardless of genre. ****** It is exactly what it claims to be, a skill enhancer. With a little instruction on the side, melodics will help you improve rapidly. (I’ve spent much more time on the drums but recently I’ve been working on the piano as well) My issues: Melodics does not work well when you use a Bluetooth connection and I’m not talking about the instrument. I connect the instruments directly to the iPad, and I connect the iPad to a speaker so I can try to hear the back tracks over the drums, and it just doesn’t work. For some reason the Bluetooth and midi interrupt each other. That really needs to be improved, I need to turn the drum volume very low to be able to hear the backtrack and drum over it. In each lesson it has an option to listen to section before you play it. It doesn’t play, the samples do not work. They did at one time they haven’t for a while. Now you get the desktop app also which is the better version. Still it’s so much fun, I’m improving while teaching my daughters. It needs some patching , but I spend hours on melodics!