tonebase

I am a professional cellist and have studied with many of the great teachers alive today…including many of the teachers available through this course! I have to say that as someone usually highly skeptical about these kinds of platforms, I am completely impressed. The cost of the course is what you would pay for one lesson with many of the artists available here. The amount of material covered is extensive, and I genuinely see this app as rivaling the traditional thinking about mastering an instrument. I think any instrumentalist should take advantage of this resource regardless your level. As I said, I perform for a profession, and I am still learning lots and getting many new ideas through this app. Classical music has always had ‘gate keepers’, and prohibitive costs—this is a large step to removing those barriers. 10/10!

I thought other reviews were exaggerating the quality of the app. It’s…shocking. I consistently lose video when going from Portrait to Landscape on the iPhone. I have to quit the app to see anything….only for it to blank out again. The iPad app is an iPhone compatibility app. It’s terrible. Both of these issues are fairly foundational and wouldn’t take a competent developer to resolve. So begs the question…how is this possible? The content pages seem okay, perhaps some quick and dirty framework is used like ReactNative, and the developer doesn’t understand the foundational components. Anyway, the app is definitely souring my ability to enjoy the amazing lessons, and content. It’s truly a weird dichotomy to witness such polished talent coming through an unpolished app. I really want to support this app and all of the amazing artists involved. Please fix!

I enjoy in both the portrait and landscape full screen mode on my iPad. However, videos with the score showing below on the website seem to be kissing the score on the app version. I like that feature in the web based versions of lessons on peaces