StaffWars Live

Name: StaffWars Live
Price: 2.99 USD
Rating: 4.4 (810 reviews)
Author: TMI Media, LLC

Education

$2.99 · Designed for iPad

810 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

TMI Media, LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

127.4
MB

Built on the success of the original 'StaffWars', StaffWars Live offers game play designed to aid students in instrumental practice. Choose your instrument, key signature, scale and note range, then play the notes that appear on the staff with your instrument to destroy them before they damage you clef. Notes get faster with every ten correct and you get three lives. Press the "Settings" button to change your instrument, scale, key signature and adjustable note range. All notes are in the instruments' written pitch (i.e. Clarinet in C major would be concert Bb Major) All your scores are saved when exiting the game, so you can track your improvement. Scales include Major, Major Blues, Minor Blues, Chromatic Need to practice transposition? StaffWars Live has got you covered. All notes are in the instruments’ written pitch, so you can be a french horn player and select ‘Trumpet' to practice transposing to Bb. Connect any MIDI device to trigger the game with MIDI. Note range = from 4 Spaces Below to 4 Spaces Above Clef Start speed adjustable. ***NOTE*** - Make sure your instrument is in tune prior to playing StaffWars Live. Always play with good attacks and good tone. Game sounds may trigger the pitch detection so it is a good idea to turn your iPhone\iPad volume down while playing with the sound turn on.

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

810 Ratings

Best app for learning notes on the staff - HANDS DOWN
09/16/2016

Rik Bostin
If you are a musicteacher, please trust me and just buy this now. This latest take on this "typing tutor" style gamification is yielding almost magic results. I've been teaching piano for over 15 years. The results I've had after two weeks with my students this semester is astounding. In two weeks I have seen multiple students go further than they went in a year in reading.. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to teach or learn to read music for the piano. Before Staff Wars LIVE, the original Staff Wars was my goto for teaching the notes on the staff. It had beaten out LineSpace which had way less cusomization and hadn't updated since 1.0 YEARS ago. By opening up the microphone, makign the text larger and simplifying all of the options while offering more control it went other level. These earlier apps revolutionized teaching note reading. StaffWars Live takes it to an entire other level.
Best app for learning notes on the staff - HANDS DOWN
09/16/2016

Rik Bostin

If you are a musicteacher, please trust me and just buy this now. This latest take on this "typing tutor" style gamification is yielding almost magic results. I've been teaching piano for over 15 years. The results I've had after two weeks with my students this semester is astounding. In two weeks I have seen multiple students go further than they went in a year in reading.. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to teach or learn to read music for the piano. Before Staff Wars LIVE, the original Staff Wars was my goto for teaching the notes on the staff. It had beaten out LineSpace which had way less cusomization and hadn't updated since 1.0 YEARS ago. By opening up the microphone, makign the text larger and simplifying all of the options while offering more control it went other level. These earlier apps revolutionized teaching note reading. StaffWars Live takes it to an entire other level.
Amazing game
11/04/2023

BugattiGirl9 - Ali
For those who don’t know how to play piano on this, it’s the Trouble Cleff or one of the Cleffs it’s very good to play on the clarinet piano guitar violin. This is my only way of practicing and whenever I forget how to play an instrument of mine, I do this game and then I go to my music book good at the game with this certain instrument of mine.P.S.for those add haters there’s no ads because it is for learning and only learning music and I really think it’s an amazing game. You guys should really get it. It’s worth the money to.
Amazing game
11/04/2023

BugattiGirl9 - Ali

For those who don’t know how to play piano on this, it’s the Trouble Cleff or one of the Cleffs it’s very good to play on the clarinet piano guitar violin. This is my only way of practicing and whenever I forget how to play an instrument of mine, I do this game and then I go to my music book good at the game with this certain instrument of mine.P.S.for those add haters there’s no ads because it is for learning and only learning music and I really think it’s an amazing game. You guys should really get it. It’s worth the money to.
It has issues but ok when it works.
01/11/2021

Joe days
I’m not sure if this app is tuned to something other then A=440. I tune my instrument before using the app and I always have to adjust the slider because it’s not picking up the notes correctly. I been playing clarinet for over 20 years. I want to use this app to practice playing bass clarinet in bass clef and to practice transposing Bassoon to Low C bass. My main issue is the following:When practicing reading bass clarinet on Bass clef the notes are not correct. In bass clef the first space is an A. In treble clef the first space is an F. When the mode is set to bass clarinet with bass clef. The first space is still reading an F which is not correct. Therefore this mode is completely useless. If I set the settings to bass clarinet treble clef it works as expected but I have no use for that. I already know how to read treble clef. If the developer can fix that would be great. Also having a slider to select A=440 or A=442 or something else depending where you are in the world would be great.

Developer Response
As a middle school band director (in the USA), I have never seen a piece of music have the Bass Clarinet part written in Bass Clef; always in Treble Clef. I can add that to the next release. As for A=440 or 442, the pitch detection is not that picky.... either should work... but I will look into it.
It has issues but ok when it works.
01/11/2021

Joe days

I’m not sure if this app is tuned to something other then A=440. I tune my instrument before using the app and I always have to adjust the slider because it’s not picking up the notes correctly. I been playing clarinet for over 20 years. I want to use this app to practice playing bass clarinet in bass clef and to practice transposing Bassoon to Low C bass. My main issue is the following:When practicing reading bass clarinet on Bass clef the notes are not correct. In bass clef the first space is an A. In treble clef the first space is an F. When the mode is set to bass clarinet with bass clef. The first space is still reading an F which is not correct. Therefore this mode is completely useless. If I set the settings to bass clarinet treble clef it works as expected but I have no use for that. I already know how to read treble clef. If the developer can fix that would be great. Also having a slider to select A=440 or A=442 or something else depending where you are in the world would be great.
Developer Response 02/04/2021
As a middle school band director (in the USA), I have never seen a piece of music have the Bass Clarinet part written in Bass Clef; always in Treble Clef. I can add that to the next release. As for A=440 or 442, the pitch detection is not that picky.... either should work... but I will look into it.
AWESOME APP
01/08/2022

former Sp teacher
This is a very good app. It is fun, but educational. It has helped me keep my notes memorized and has helped me learn new notes as well. It is MUCH better compared to the regular Staff Wars. It tells you what note your playing when you play it, and you can customize it to your instrument and range of notes. I highly recommend it if you’re having trouble keeping your notes memorized or want to learn new ones.
AWESOME APP
01/08/2022

former Sp teacher

This is a very good app. It is fun, but educational. It has helped me keep my notes memorized and has helped me learn new notes as well. It is MUCH better compared to the regular Staff Wars. It tells you what note your playing when you play it, and you can customize it to your instrument and range of notes. I highly recommend it if you’re having trouble keeping your notes memorized or want to learn new ones.

Minimum iOS Version 15.6 NEW CUSTOM INSTRUMENT Is the transposition for your instrument not available in SW Live. It is now! Custom instrument allows you to choose the interval for offset, and clef you want to you. Select 'Custom' in setting and select the number of semitones up or down you want shifted. It will show you the Concert pitch verses the Written Pitch. Enter what you want the written pitch to be. Example - Trumpet -> To Sound C Major -> Written D Major -> +2 semitones Improved Pitch Detection Pitch Slider removed for tuning, better algorithm accounts for closeness Improved Midi Detection Addition of Minor Scales\Harmonic Minor Scales Fixed Varios Layouts