PitchBop Pro

I described what I wanted, to a music group, and this what I got. Surprised and a little frustrated that what I had been looking for on my own, had never come up in all my searches. Happy to have found it. A couple of concerns: occasionally notes sounds bad/truncated(clanky). Is this on purpose? The second is not knowing *how* far off I am when I get it wrong. I think a meter of some kind or a waveform overlay/ comparison. I’d also prefer to correct my mistakes before moving on.

Great idea so I wish I liked it more. But I find myself constantly wondering why it liked some responses and not others. This really needs some feedback to tell you which note it didn’t like and why (too late, too early, wrong pitch???). Sometimes when I thought I nailed it it I would get a zero score and other times when I messed up I would get 2/2. It seems to like if you rush the beat or if you correct a note better than getting it right away. Also, plug your phone in. This app uses your battery fast.

This app fills an important gap in my ear training that has translated to musically useful results in a very short time! The big difference between this and other ear training programs/recordings I've tried is the focus on imitation rather than interval identification. Interval identification may be important for some musical tasks, but when you're playing live you don't have time to label every interval that comes along. I love that the rhythmic side of the melodies is given the emphasis it deserves- and how the metronome divides the beat in different ways as you progress. I also love that the app automatically progresses to the next level based on your performance. This enables me to play PitchBop hands-free with my voice while working on other tasks. I still have a way to go before I'll have total mastery of the most difficult exercises, but once I reach that point, I'd love to hear some other features: 1. Longer melodies 2. Melodies that pivot from one scale to another. 3. A chord tone mode, possibly over short chord sequences, which could progress in difficulty from 3rds/7ths of chords to chromaticism with addition of other chord tones, scale and nonscale chord tones. Or I could just go transcribe those things from jazz tunes myself, empowered by what I've learned from your already excellent app! :)