Clefs: Music Reading Trainer

I love this app. It's easy to use, and makes learning to read so easy and fun. The Stave Writing exercises could use some work. I don't like how it uses A4 and C6 terminology to tell you what note to input. I often get it wrong by just an octave. I wish it could also play the note it wanted you to write, because often when I'm writing in real life, I'm just trying to get down the sounds that are in my head, I don't care about the note names. Still, I love this app. I definitely recommend it.

I'm enjoying this app a lot so far, it's been helpful for keeping my treble and bass reading skills sharp and learning to sight-read tenor clef(bleh!). I do have one big critique, and it's that the random note generation is a little TOO random sometimes. Particularly for lessons, it's silly to me how often I play one that introduces a new sharp or flat and I never have to actually play that new note because of the rng. Lessons should be more focused.

Nice app. It's helping me for sure. My only complaint is having to drag a note to the staff. It's supposed to help you write a note quickly but on my phone, it doesn't akways drop where I want it and it marks it wring, even though I know where the note is supposed to go. It's frustrating that you can't turn this off. I want more exercises that simply show the note and you hit which note it is. That's the only reason I give it 4 stars and not 5. Great app overall.

I absolutely love this app. It lets me make good use of time waiting in lines or in waiting rooms. I can jump into this app in seconds and fly through it. Two major annoyances for me. One the type on the wheel note selector is designed for looks instead of effectiveness. Extremely hard to read. Also, I hate being forced to take exams in order to progress when I only wish to keep my sight reading at top performance. I don't need the exams, I just need to blow through the notes. I highly recommend

Great idea. I've only started with the app, but wanted to suggest to the developers: for the "drag the note" exercises, the staff lines are way too close on a phone. It's too easy to get things wrong because of a miniscule movement. Consider moving the lines further apart. Edit: Love the dynamic zoom in the note writing interface, that completely fixed my issue. 5 stars, and I'm really impressed with how seriously you took my input!

I really like this app as a beginner in music reading. My only complaints so far is that like others, when sliding the note on to the staff, it can be easy for the note to slip on to the wrong space when placing and letting go. I would also love to still be able to still see the required notes when sliding the note up as I tend to sometimes forget while trying to place it. I have bought the full version however. Well worth it.

it's been a great way to refresh some of my sight-reading skills! however, for the activity where you drag and drop notes onto the staff, i wish there was a way to indicate that you got something wrong on accident. sometimes at the last nanosecond your finger slightly moves the note down or up and gets it wrong, especially if you have shaky hands like me -- maybe a little "misclick!" button alongside the continue one. thanks! EDIT: this definitely becomes more frustrating over time..

Awesome except dragging for note writing sucks. I like the exercises and the progression of lessons a lot. The interface is lovely except for the note writing exercises. These require dragging a note to a line. Why not just click on an enlarged note paper? Or multiple choice of drawn notes that are in random order? Especially doing sharps and flats makes is frustrating.

*Update: Came back to this app after a while and wanted to say I enjoy it just as much as I used to! It's great practice for piano, worth every cent. Custom lessons are fantastically useful.* The labels (i.e. "Octave 5") are floating in the middle of each octave. It's not immediately clear where you're looking when you're under a time crunch and jumping all over the staff to identify notes. EDIT: Color coding was added to the octaves, it's easier to see how it works now. Thanks devs!

Ok just got some background I'm a guitarist and not to toot my own horn but I'm pretty good at guitar. But I always felt like my music theory was lacking. I've always wanted to be able to efficiently read sheet music. I feel like this app is the best one out here! Just after a couple minutes I feel like my ability to read music more efficiently has double! I would recommend this is you are a newbie at sheet music. The only issue I have with this app is it only teaches the note names. No timing.

Good app. My only complaint is that during the bass cleft practice/lessons, you can't extend the screen keyboard. You end up using the same key for low A and G that you use for the higher A and G. Not good for creating muscle memory. It would also be nice if you turned your screen to landscape that the note would be at the top of the screen and a wider keyboard at the bottom. They currently have landscape set up for cleft notes are on the left and the keyboard on the right. Not good for Bass

The one thing I would improve is the writing exercises for the key signatures. Currently it just tells you the name of the note such as C# and you drag it on to the staff. It never requires you to add an accidental, so the exercise is essentially the same as learning the staff without the key signature. You are not really learning which notes are sharp or flat in the key signature. It would be better if it sometimes gave you notes to write that are outside the key so you have use accidentals.

Edit: Devs, PLEASE add to iOS!!! Incredible app for those learning to read music or improve their skills reading among clefs. I'm a music student at a university and a long-time user of Perfect Ear, another of this company's apps (also excellent and the perfect companion app to Clefs). Well worth the $1.99 upgrade to premium for extra lessons. You'd be hard-pressed to find a reading app as good as this one on Google Play. Devs, it would be amazing to see a frequency ID/EQ ear training app!

Wow!!! I have been in music programs for more than 20 years yet I have always been poor at overall sight reading. I have tried many different programs, lessons and apps and I still never felt like I have improved. After 1 week, yes, one week, I am the strongest in sight reading I have ever been. This app is amazing! I did not know if I would like the note circle for notation but it has worked miracles. I highly recommend this app!!!

Fantastic app, no ads. I've been using their other app, Perfect Ear, and recently started using this one. Stable, well built (clever way to write notes with the drag n drop, although sometimes I miss a note, but it isn't s big deal at all) and I already can feel the difference on my reading time. Well done.

I am a 62 yr old guy who is taking 1 day at a time who decided to pick up a new hobby ... piano! Since being able to read music/sight read is important, I found this app very helpful doing that. While the app teaches me what I want to learn, I feel it is also strengthening my memory. One must be disciplined & structured to succeed Even if it's 1 day at a time. Great app! Customer Service is great 👍!

I like Clefs & Perfect Ear. Great software. Good options. Good interfacing. Good lessons. Exactly the apps I'm looking for. I still can't connect my Roland fp30x with it however. It pairs and shows in the upper right corner, and the settings all look correct, but doesn't acknowledge key presses in the lesson. Maybe it'll work if i get a cable.

So far the app great to learn quickly and I love the exercises to memorize which music score! But the problem is how the chapters are organized. And most important is that sometimes it's hard to drag the note to the right position to mark the correct answer, even when you are correct sometimes you get the wrong place. Other point is that we can't turn our phone to see at least 2 octaves on the piano. I hope you can find an update for that! I love the app!

I'm loving the app so far, but what has been annoying me is the way daily exercises are put together. I've completed the Treble clef exercises and exams with 100%, but for some reason the daily exercises only have the same notes over and over again; E, B, and F in my case. I would expect them to contain all notes I've learned so far so that I don't forget them, but rather they seem to contain only the notes I've made small mistakes with during the learning process, which is over 2 weeks ago.

wow, this was more helpful for learning and memorizing than anything I've tried before. As someone with bad memory and attention this is incredibly easy to learn with, I just bought the one time purchase to unlock all of the exercises for the price of a snack lol. So excited :) I can finally read music!! thanks :)))) even if you're not gonna buy the full version the free exercises are still very helpful