Practice Farm: Etudes, Any Key
Rewritten for your instrument
$9.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
iPad
1,341 studies in 35 books, Arban to the Bach cello suites, engraved for 39 instruments in any key, with a band behind every page. One purchase, no subscription, offline.
Practice Farm is a library of étude books, orchestral excerpts and Bach, rewritten on the spot for the instrument you play. Choose your instrument once. Every page comes out in your clef, in your range, in any key you want, with the fingerings on the notes and a band to play along with.
WHAT'S ON THE SHELF
• 307 studies from Arban's Complete Method, by chapter
• Bordogni, Kopprasch, Blazhevich, Slama, Bléger, Müller, Cornette, Belcke
• Bach's cello suites, sonatas and partitas, and Telemann's fantasias
• 329 orchestral excerpts for 12 instruments
• 275 traditional tunes
• 365 Bach chorales in four voices
1,341 studies in 35 books, and room for your own.
WRITTEN FOR YOU
No more reading Bordogni in the wrong clef or Kopprasch out of your range. Tell Practice Farm what you play and every study is rewritten for it: a tuba gets bass clef and valve numbers, a trumpet gets its own transposition, a cellist gets string positions. 39 instruments, each with its own clefs, range and fingering system.
ANY KEY
Move a study up a semitone, down an octave, or into any key you name. Or take it around the circle of fourths or fifths and get one page with all twelve keys on it, with rest bars between them.
PLAY ALONG
Drums with a groove. A drone that follows the study when it changes key. And on the 76 studies that were printed with a piano part, the pianist. Set a tempo by tapping, get counted in, take the repeats.
BACH CHORALES
Four parts: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Choose an instrument for each one, a trumpet on the soprano, a horn on the alto, a trombone and a tuba below, and the chorale is transposed on the spot, each part in the right clef and key for the instrument that plays it. Change an instrument and the part changes with it. Read all four parts on one iPad or split the score across two. A ready-made quartet for a studio class, a section rehearsal, or colleagues each reading their own part.
YOUR OWN MUSIC
Import any MusicXML file and it works like every other study. Export any page as a PDF for a student or a teacher.
THE INSTRUMENTS
Violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar, bass guitar, ukulele, flute, piccolo, alto flute, descant and treble recorders, oboe, English horn, clarinets in B flat, A and E flat, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, soprano to baritone saxophones, trumpet, French horn, alto, tenor and bass trombones, euphonium, tuba, soprano, alto, tenor and bass voice, glockenspiel, xylophone, marimba and vibraphone.
WORKS OFFLINE
The whole library is inside the app. Every study, every key, every instrument and the band all work with no internet connection, on a plane or in a practice room with no signal. No account and no subscription. One purchase.
In English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.
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Practice Farm 1.1.
• 1,341 studies in 35 books: 152 more orchestral excerpts, now 329 for 12 instruments, with the clarinet, oboe, bassoon, flute, horn and string books much larger.
• 76 studies now have piano accompaniment.
• Choose the beat unit on the tempo dial. Set a 6/8 study to the dotted quarter, or a fast waltz to one beat per bar, and the tempo, the count-in and the drums all follow that pulse.
• Improved experience for transposing instruments.
• Playback support for trills, grace notes and tremolos.
• Engraving fixes throughout the library.
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Information
- Seller
- Nicholas Mahon
- Size
- 170.8 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPad
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Nick Mahon
