Metronaut Sheet Music 4+

Downloaded it for a bit and it looks like it is a great app to practice! If you fall into the main category that the app falls to. Most pieces are classical, which is fine, unless you fall into a nonclassical instrument. Plus some people don’t want to really play classical. For example I downloaded this app and as a Sax player in my school’s jazz band, I want to play some jazz. Unfortunately I couldn’t find one single piece like that.

This app has a whole lot of potential that I hope they expand on eventually. Imagine if they could have lessons for your instrument with it. They could have little classes where they could teach improv for example.

Great app, Just aint for me.

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So I downloaded Metronaut for learning purposes. I take private lessons for the flute, and wanted to up my game for exams. I hopped into the app and tapped on one of the community posts. I listened to Ave Maria for a bit, and thought that it was really cool that you could share your learning on here! And then I clicked out of it and it kicked me out of the app, which was super annoying, and then I thought, let’s do some practicing! So I tapped on Japanese flute method lesson 1, and it loaded some pieces for me to play. I chose the first one, Lightly Row, and then noticed that I couldn’t play the full song without paying for the premium. I thought, whatever, it’s probably just for this one song. But no. You have to pay for premium to play the full version for EVERY SONG. YOU GET 2 BARS OF MUSIC, AND ONE THAT’S HALF FADED! I’M VERY DISAPPOINTED!!! Please fix this. I also play piano, so I find it annoying that I cannot select 2 instruments. Please make it only premium for select songs, like very popular pop or rock songs, not ALL OF THEM! What if there’s a 3 year old violinist who wants to play full songs? This is truly unacceptable. Please fix all of this!

I had high hopes for this app, and wanted to try it out to see if it would be helpful for my students, and also see if it would be helpful in my own practice. For me personally, I knew right away that it wouldn’t be all that helpful since it only has a few solo pieces for my instrument (horn). It would be more helpful if it had orchestral excerpts and etudes, and some less standard solo works as well. For a little while I thought it might still be good for my students but it turned out to be just not that great after trying it out with a few pieces. My main complaints are: when the metronome feature is turned on, it is slightly off from the accompaniment that is playing, as is the highlighted bar. Occasionally the accompaniment just completely froze on one note, like it wasn’t picking up my playing correctly. I also noticed it would pause when it picked up the sound from me emptying my horn in the rests. And anytime there was a tempo change it simply did not work well at all. If those were improved, it might be helpful for younger players, and if there was more repertoire it might be better for me.