Fifths: Drone Tone Generator
Music Theory & Scale Practice
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Fifths is built around one idea: practicing with musical context, not just isolated exercises.
Create moving drone progressions, explore harmony through the circle of fifths, and turn YouTube lessons into focused practice loops. Build the exact practice environment you need for intonation, improvisation, fretboard awareness, phrasing, ear training, and learning real songs section by section.
When you want a fixed reference, Fifths also works as a focused single-note drone, or a continuous tanpura for a rich harmonic center.
Use Fifths to:
- Build looping drone progressions for scale, melody, and improvisation practice
- Create single-note or multi-note drone steps to outline changing harmonic centers
- Hold a single drone when you want a stable key center for ear training or intonation work
- Turn YouTube lessons into saved practice loops
- Slow down difficult sections, set rep targets, and let Fifths automatically ramp up speed as you progress
- Fine-tune loop start and end points and adjust volume
- Quickly search for a song's key and BPM while you practice
- Explore the circle of fifths visually and hear key relationships instantly
- See key signatures, relative keys, parallel keys, and scale notes at a glance
- Train faster with daily questions, streaks, and multiple quiz difficulties
- Add the Music Theory Daily widget to keep a fresh question on your Home Screen
- Practice with 100+ sounds including strings, choir, organ, guitar, winds, pads, and synth textures
- Save presets, favorite sounds, loops, and sounds tailored to your workflow
- Customize note naming, reference pitch, octave range, fade time, and quiz length
- Keep practicing alongside other audio apps
Fifths Pro unlocks unlimited saved loops, longer drone progressions, the full sound library, and Medium and Hard quiz difficulty.
Whether you are working on intonation, improvisation, key signatures, modes, intervals, songs, or general musicianship, Fifths gives you a practice tool that is immediate, musical, and built for repetition.
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Tanpura drone
Added tanpura as a new drone sound — a traditional Indian stringed instrument that provides a rich, continuous harmonic accompaniment. When selected, Fifths plays a fixed-Sa tanpura sample with seamless looping, optimized to start on the resonant tone. The BPM, bars, and progression controls are hidden for tanpura since it plays as a continuous drone rather than a stepped sequence.
The developer, Richard Chirino, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Richard Chirino
- Size
- 76.9 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Giant Robot 2026