Music Practice Coach

Music Practice Coach turns a vague "go practice" into a plan you can follow. A plan is a sequence of steps. Each one does a single job: a timed instruction, a metronome at a set tempo, a passage of sheet music to read, or a loop of a recording slowed down until it is playable. You work through them in order, and the app keeps time. WHAT A STEP CAN BE • Instruction — text to read, with an optional tuner for tuning up • Timed — a countdown, with a metronome if you want one • Tempo ramp — the metronome steps up from a starting tempo to a target, cycle by cycle • Score — sheet music on screen with a countdown, and a metronome or a tempo ramp • Audio, video, or MIDI loop — set A and B points and repeat that passage, at any speed • Loop plus score — the recording and the sheet music side by side • YouTube — practice along with a video, with speed control and loop points SLOW IT DOWN, KEEP THE PITCH Audio and video loops play from 30% to 200% speed without the pitch shifting, so a fast passage stays in tune while you learn it. Pitch can be shifted separately, by semitones or cents, to match an instrument tuned differently. A SPEED RAMP THAT DOES THE WORK Set a starting speed and a target and the plan advances through the stages as you play, which is the part people skip when practicing alone. METRONOME AND TUNER, ALWAYS THERE A full metronome — any meter, per-beat accents, adjustable subdivisions — and a chromatic tuner with an adjustable A4 reference and a drone. Both work on their own, without a plan. FOR TEACHERS Build a plan, and share it as a package with everything it needs: the plan, the recordings, the scores. Students open it and practice exactly what you set. You can publish a catalog of plans your students install in one tap, and lock the media with a code if the recordings are not yours to give away. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Everything lives in a folder you choose. No account, no sign-in, no subscription, no ads, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. The Mac and iPad apps read the same folder, and there is a web version for everything else. Free, with no in-app purchases.