Note Rush: Music Reading Game
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | $8.99 | Thomas Grayston | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Play with a bunch of fun themes and race to earn stars and beat your best time! Note Rush is great for teaching keyboard geography by making sure each note is played in the correct octave. A music theory must-have for learning sight reading at all levels of music education.
"Note Rush has quickly become my favorite app for piano teaching." - Joy Morin, colorinmypiano.com
"Note Rush is a motivating app that engages students to improve quickly with their note reading skills. It is definitely one of my top favorites and will be used often!" - Jennifer Foxx, musiceducatorresources.com
"Note Rush is a great way to review notes for the One Minute Club." - Susan Paradis, susanparadis.com
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Listens to Your Instrument
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Note Rush helps students learn a strong association between notes on the page and keys on your instrument by using your device's microphone to detect when you play each note. Works with pianos, keyboards, flutes, violins, you name it! (See Q&A below for more about supported instruments.)
Student-paced
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Note Rush goes as fast or as slow as the student with no time limits, so is suitable for complete beginners right through to being a fun challenge for professionals!
Grand Staff Context
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The whole grand staff is always visible, showing each note in full context and helping students learn how notes are spaced out across the two staves.
Octave-Sensitive Keyboard Geography
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It's a "B", but which "B"?? Note Rush teaches keyboard geography by making sure you're getting the note in the right octave every time.
Great for Home Practise
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Students will rush to their instrument at home every day with NoteRush, chasing that elusive high score! Unlike flashcards, children can drill note identification at home with no music-reading parent required to check if they're getting them correct - Note Rush checks for you! Play every day and you'll soon be able to name and identify notes instantly!
Levels
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Note Rush has five built-in Levels, from Middle C-Position right through to the full grand staff with 2 ledger lines above and below. Plus select between Treble Clef, Bass Clef or both! Full customisation of specific note selections is coming soon.
Replace Your Flash Cards
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Use Note Rush instead of printed flash cards! Note Rush was designed to replace the cards used in One Minute Club - a challenge you can run in your studio where students have to complete a given level in under a minute. Give it a try!
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Note Rush is made by Thomas Grayston, a software developer, pianist, and husband to a piano teacher.
Reviews
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DrMegaBeast
This app is kind of fun but frustrating. Because the lags. When you are trying to beat a challenge a lag comes in and ruins everything. Then you fail to beat your record.
A Godsend for piano teachers!!!
LoriBArnold
I have had more success with students on flashcards since using this app than ever before. Buh-bye standard flash cards. I don’t need you anymore! On my wish list to the developer: An app in recognizing Major, Minor, Diminished and Augmented chords in their root form and inverted form would be so awesome. Also 7th chords in root and inverted positions. I have 70 piano students and I have had more than half purchase your app! I’m working on the rest of them. Thanks for breathing fresh air into an otherwise stale thing at lessons!❤️❤️❤️❤️ Lori A. Southern Utah
So much potential
pmperry
This thing has so much potential... Unfortunately, it doesn’t support midi connectivity so it relies on the mic and that is often flawed as most people with music apps can tell you. Also, not much variation in games, it really needs a chord mode as well. Anyway, there are better apps for flash cards on the market.
Does not always get the note
jmlooman
The app will act like I hit the wrong note when I actually am hitting the right note. I have to hit the correct note multiple times before it registers and moves on. I have used it on my iPhone and iPad with the same behavior. Too bad. It has potential...
Nice app but Bass Clef has real problems
synthmandan
Treble Clef seems to work fine at all levels... However, Bass Clef is randomly going to a new note without any input... Seems like it has a mind of its own way too often. My students will sit there ready to answer a Bass Clef question and before they can hit the Piano key with the correct answer, it goes off to another one or two notes often in rapid succession. Please fix and i will redo my review to 5 stars.
Just what I needed!
Glissando50
As a piano teacher, this is the app I've been looking for! I am pretty new to it, and so far like most everything about it. It does need to have an option to expand the staff, for more advanced players, but I understand that is in the works. Also, I didn't see a screen that just uses regular notes instead of the cutesy bugs,etc., but that would be a great option for adult students. My last request is to have a way to track student progress. That would mean a way to sign students in, individually, and keep track of their level and response times. Would save teacher having to write all that down. Overall, a great app I highly recommend!
Cream always rises to the top! This app is a winner!
StudioJPiano
I’m a big fan of Note Rush, and so are my piano students! This app drills the foundational skill of matching notes to the piano keyboard in a most fun way! (By the way, it doesn’t bother my students that these are not printed notes-but ladybugs, planets, and soccer balls-they like to choose.) I have 2 types of challenges as part of my Wall of Fame in the studio this year - one is identifying various-sized groups of note flashcards in 60 seconds or less, with a thank you nod to Nicola Cantan for the idea, and the second part is playing Note Rush! Levels 2, 3, and 5 match perfectly to my goals for my students, and that makes the app so easy to use as a teacher. My students play Level 2 for our “Bronze Level”, for instance, Level 3 for our “Silver”, and Level 5 to "Go for the Gold”. When any of their NoteRush times meet the requirement, their name goes up on the wall, which they watch closely! Several of the more competitive students want to make a friendly competition of their Note Rush scores, which is easy to do, since the times are measured in seconds and hundredths of a second, which eliminates ties! (Thanks for this feature, Thomas!) So the students’ note placement skills are improving, which makes me happy, and they are having a lot of fun in the process! Finally, I wanted to add that many of my students have already purchased their own app, at my encouragement, so now I know they are playing Note Rush often. Congratulations, Note Rush team!
Love it!!
Emhan1
I love it!! I've been using it every week as part of the opening to every student's lesson. We're recording times and I'm seeing huge improvements. The kids love "playing a game" and some of them have even purchased it themselves for at home practice. Love it!!!
Love it but needs tweaking
LoloM9
Absolutely love this game! I teach piano and it's great for my student! Only problem is, it somehow picks up other sounds (of us talking) and imagines that the note was played, when it wasn't. Don't know how that could be fixed. We tried whispering and that didn't work either. Strange! Also, would be great to add student names to track progress (I have 30+ students). And maybe even an option to limit the time available to play the note: for example, answer within 5/10/15/20/30 seconds, if not, the next note shows up anyway and you get a score at the end showing how many notes you answered correctly.
