ABRSM Cello Practice Partner 4+
Have fun practising cello
The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) Limited
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The OFFICIAL ABRSM Cello Practice Partner is a simple way to make practising pieces for your exams more musical, enjoyable and fun. It is useful for anyone learning or teaching pieces from the ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces from 2024.
Use Cello Practice Partner to practise with the piano accompaniment, the cello part in isolation, or the duo ensemble recording. The app will help you to:
• Become familiar with the accompaniment and understand how the solo line fits with the piano part for more secure performances.
• Make practice more musical and enjoyable by having a virtual cello partner to play along with.
• Slow down or speed up the music to a tempo that suits you, for slow careful practice.
• Listen closely to the Cello in isolation to hear every detail of the expert performance.
• Repeat tricky passages by setting loops around them.
Perfect for helping you develop confidence and fluency in your playing!
Cello Practice Partner comes with one example piece from Grade 4 of the NEW ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces book from 2024.. In app you can purchase:
Individual pieces and Grade selections from:
• The ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces from 2024 books for Initial Grade – Grade 5.
• The 2020–2023 ABRSM Cello Exam Pieces books for Grades 1–5.
Notes:
• Please test the app using the sample piece to ensure it is working effectively on your device before making any in app purchases.
• Solo (unaccompanied) pieces are not available in-app.
• Practice Partner does not support the upload of external audio files.
What’s New
Version 1.6
Minor bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Good but needs serious bug fix
It’s a great idea, and works well from a learning point of view, but when you buy a collection of pieces it takes the money (8.99) but doesn’t let you access the pieces. In the past it has sorted itself out if I just leave it for a few weeks but I recently purchased all the grade 4 pieces. (I say recently, but really about 4 months ago) and I still can’t access them. This is really frustrating because they have taken my money but I haven’t got the pieces. It gives me an option to buy the pieces separately but I can’t purchase the package again. I give it three stars because it works well except for the bugs. Would be great If this could be sorted.
Could be good need to fix looping
This could be a really useful app if the positional and looping controls were made easier to use. On my iPhone 12 the “handles” to move the loops and the position of play back are much too small and close together so that you skip from one to the other. Make the loop and playback handles bigger and further apart.
Make the above bigger than the cartoon cello and piano. Their usability is more important than the cartoons.
Also let the app appear in landscape mode so the playback line is longer allowing for finer-grained positioning.
Also the slow down wheel is hard to use. Just have wheel left to right that you double tap to reset rather than have to switch it on and off then turn a unintuitive set of dots.
Yaaaaaaas!!! Finally!!!
Fantastic app! Love the features and ease of use!
I’d like to see some integration between buying the Grade Book and perhaps accessing upto 3 pieces on the practise partner. I’ve bought the book, the CD and now have to pay an additional £5.97 to practise the three pieces I’ve chosen for the grade I’m working on!!! I’ve done it anyway because it’s fantastically useful but it would be nice for there to be a bit of a reward for investment into the brand.
I’m really looking forward using it as part of my daily practise.
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Information
- Provider
- The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) Limited
- Size
- 22.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) Limited
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Grade 3 B1 - Over the Rainbow £1.99
- Grade 3 Selection 2020-2023 £8.99
- Grade 3 A2 - Contredanse £1.99
- Grade 4 Selection 2020-2023 £8.99
- Grade 2 C1 - The Flintstones £1.99
- Grade 2 Selection 2020-2023 £8.99
- Grade 2 A1 - Minuet £1.99
- Grade 1 Selection 2020-2023 £8.99
- The James Bond Theme £1.99
- Grade 3 Selection (2024) £8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.