Music Educator Approved – PlayAlong Trumpet Review

This is a fantastic app! I am a trumpet teacher and this has been perfect to use with online lessons during Covid-19. My students love it! I also really like the song selections, the flexibility (change tempo, transpose, options to view note names and fingerings, etc). If you're creative you can find many effective ways to practice with this app. For instance, a student can first listen to the song a few times without playing. Then he/she can play the song and the app will listen and indicate when the correct notes have been played. The student can start practicing with the fingerings and note names being shown, but then gradually can remove those aids and just play from the notes only. As a final step, he/she can play along with the recording of the song. Of course all of this can be done first at a slower tempo and then gradually with increased tempo. I do a lot of work with my students on scales and transposition, so using the transpose feature in this app opens up a world of other possibilities for each song as well. Thank you for developing such a useful and fun app!
Review by Brian Bender on PlayAlong Trumpet.