iPracticePro is an app for iPhone and iPad to practice intonation, chords and chord progressions for all instruments.
Saxophone players get additional information about fingerings and reed adjustment.
•Drones•
The first part of the app allows you to play all chromatic notes in tunings from 438Hz to 444Hz in many different sounds. The notes sound continuously and it´s a perfect way to practice intervals, chords and scales. You also have the possibility to play the notes randomly even in an adjustable period of time. The app supports quarter tones if you´ve chosen expert mode.
You can choose out of these sounds:
organ, piano, electric piano, strings, guitar, double bass, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, flute and sine
•Chords•
The chord section contains 5 chords in standard mode and 45 chords in expert mode. You can change the tempo (30bpm up to 300bpm) and the metronome can be set to different time signatures (3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, 13/4). You can also select the downbeats and offbeats separately. You can listen and play to all chords in all twelve keys, read information about them and see the chord notes and scales. Everything will be transposed for your instrument. In addition to that, all chords can also be played randomly in an adjustable period of time. You can choose to just randomly change the root or the root and the chord type. The app lets you filter the chords, which allows you to only randomly play the chords of for example the modes of melodic minor or harmonic minor.
The complete chord list in standard mode:
▵7, 7, -7, ø7, 5
The complete chord list in expert mode:
▵7, 7, -7, ø7, o7, 5, 69, ▵7#11, ▵7#5, ▵7#5(11), ▵7#9, ▵7#9b13, 7sus4, 7susb9, 7#11, 7#5, 7b913, 7b9b13, 7b13, 7alt, -6, -▵7, -▵7b13, -7b13, -7b9, -7#11, -∆7#11, phryg, ø713, o7b2b11, major, major/3, major/5, major/b9, major/9, major/b3, major/11, major/#11, major/b13, major/13, major/7, Dur/▵7, minor, minor/b3, minor/5
You can choose out of these sounds:
electric piano, piano, organ and strings
•Progressions•
In this section you can practice the most common chord progressions. You can change the tempo (30bpm up to 300bpm) and the metronome can be set to different time signatures (3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 7/4, 9/4, 11/4, 13/4). You can also select the downbeats and offbeats separately. The volume of the bass note, third and septime or rather the tensions are adjustable separately. If you press one of the two random buttons, the app picks a random root or a random progression and root.
The complete chord progression list in standard mode:
II-7 V7 I▵7, IIø7 V7b9 I-7
The complete chord progression list in expert mode:
II-7 V7 I▵7, II-7 V7alt I▵7, II-7 bII7#11 I▵7, II-7 V7b913 I▵7, IIø7 V7b9b13 I-, V7 I▵7, V7b9b13 I-7, I▵7 VI-7 II-7 V7, I▵7 VI7 II-7 V7, III-7 VI7 II-7 V7, I▵7 IV-6 I▵7, IV-7 bVII7 I▵7
You can choose out of these sounds:
electric piano, piano, organ and strings
•Pad•
Using the pad you can put together your own intervals and chords. You have four octaves and five sounds to choose from, with which you can select up to five tones. The tones can sound both simultaneously and one after the other. The metronome, with all its setting options, is also included in this section.
You can choose out of these sounds:
electric piano, piano, organ, strings and sine
•Stealth Mode (Ear Training Mode)•
You can use stealth mode in drones, chords and progressions. This will hide the currently played chords and display them afterwards.
•Fingerings for saxophone and reed adjustment for saxophone and clarinet•
There are fingering charts about standard fingerings, false fingerings, altissimo, quarter tones and also information about reed adjustment.
If you don´t play the saxophone, you can hide this part of the app.