SmartScales - Backing Tracks 4+
Suitable for ABRSM
Greater Heights Media Ltd
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
SmartScales makes practising scales and arpeggios interactive and fun! A collaboration between highly experienced music educators and leading music software developers, SmartScales ensures you’ll be making beautiful music thanks to specially-composed backing tracks in a broad range of styles.
The graded exercise packs, available as in-app purchases, closely follow the syllabus of the ABRSM, the UK’s largest music education body and the world’s leading provider of music exams. Free content allows you to try exercises in each grade before buying. Content for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass available today, more instruments coming soon!
• Follows the complete ABRSM syllabus*, including all exercise variations
• Choice of music styles for every exercise
• Fully interactive score follows the music
• Adjustable tempo as you build towards ABRSM's suggested playing speed
• Loop the exercise so the music goes on while you play
• Built-in metronome helps you keep in time
• Toggle lead, backing and metronome tracks on and off
• Music can be used as jam along tracks
* The syllabus on which SmartScales is based is © by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and is reproduced by permission of the copyright owner.
What’s New
Version 1.4
Updated Piano Grade 1 content to latest syllabus
Ratings and Reviews
I’m glad I bought it.
Although it’s not perfect, I am extremely glad I bought this app as it has been helpful in my study. I have the double bass version. At first I found the synthesised “double bass” sound somewhat annoying to play along with and would like to suggest they offer an alternative with just a piano sound to get the pitch. However, the sound is considerably improved if you connect the iPhone or iPad to an external amplifier and speaker. This is an otherwise excellent app. I’m not sure about the play along backing tracks though, but you don’t have to use them. I have taken up the bass after a lifetime of playing and teaching guitar professionally and find this is a great help for improving my intonation. It would be good if they could adapt this app to also check your intonation while you are playing and give you an analysis of how much you are improving, or even just reminding you of particular notes you’re less accurate on. I am currently working on Grade 6.
Needs a Pro version for school use
I would give this 5 stars but for the inability to use this in schools where children’s devices are controlled by Apple School Business Manager which forbids in-App purchases. Please release a pro version with all Grades enabled, I’m sure it would be popular
Excellent service from the developers
I recently noticed the syllabus for grade 1 scales wasn’t correct (Abrsm). I wrote the thd developers and they updated it without delay. Very impressive and it’s a useful tool as well. My son uses it for violin and now that I know the syllabus for piano will be updated when necessary I won’t hesitate to recommend it to my piano students. Thank you smartscales!
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Information
- Provider
- Greater Heights Media Ltd
- Size
- 31.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2015 Greater Heights Media Limited. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Violin Grades 1 to 8 £12.99
- Piano Grades 1 to 4 £4.99
- Violin Grades 1 to 4 £4.99
- Violin Grade 3 £1.99
- Cello Grades 1 to 8 £12.99
- Violin Grade 5 £2.99
- Violin Grades 5 to 8 £9.99
- Violin Grade 1 £0.99
- Violin Grade 4 £2.99
- Cello Grades 5 to 8 £9.99
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.