tonestro for Trumpet - practice rhythm & pitch

I installed this app several months ago. It's OK. However, there is a frustrating disconnect between the scoring on the lessons versus the scoring on the songs. I score in the 95% and above on all lessons, yet I score 0% on all songs. This makes it extremely difficult to continue with the songs. What is the issue? I do not have access to a trumpet player or teacher to consult with.

I made a review of 4 stars earlier, but after reading about & trying other features I missed, I gave it 5 instead. This app is extremely useful for beginners & advanced players who may want to work on minor skills. The songs are too easy for advanced players, but I still find it very helpful. I will be using this to help teach my students when I can't be available. I may even consider creating a paid subscription in the future. I only wish it had more songs & songs with greater difficulty.

Appears to be new and therefore lacks a lot of features. It is difficult to use and annoyingly complex. In addition it is priced at about the same as Smart Music which is a vastly superior product. In the Jazz category the selections are not really what one would consider real jazz pieces. This app could be very promising with a fair amount of additional work needed by the Developers.

Great app, but I'm really missing out to check which songs I've played recently, favourite them or even sort them to my categories. I would really love to see the complete list of songs. And the level categories doesn't contain ALL songs available from selected categories. It would be awesome if you make a desktop site, the mobile phone is kind of small and inconvenient

I am a jazz trumpet player wanting to improve my technique/tone and have found it difficult to work on technical exercises alone, outside of a structured program and without feedback. This app solves all those problems and forces me to play every note like I am taking an exam. Ten out of ten for a brilliant app.

About 2 years ago this app was amazing there were many great songs that I enjoyed playing. Premium was just for lessons. Now all those songs that I used to enjoy are all premium. I got paying for lessons but for songs. I just don't see the point of paying for songs that used to be free. Those are the reasons why I am giving this app two stars.

Hey Alex, I am replying to your reply. I said your app didn't teach but after thinking a bit, maybe it shouldn't teach. I think the revised campaign is not a good idea. You can only learn so much in an app, which has only pictures and words. This could lead to confusion or slight differences in technique. Only a trumpet tutor can help with this. So I think you should stick to just adding songs as they are pretty fun, preferably add harder pieces (like trumpet concerto 1st and 3rd movements)

The free material is extremely limited. The annual subscription fee would be fair enough for a one-time purchase but not recurring. Also it seems that many songs have been deleted recently from the medieval, etude, classical, and traditional sections. They are not premium only now but apparently just removed from the app entirely. Why? You expect customers to pay the annual subscription fee when the content is actually decreasing?

Overall it's fine, but I feel that the app doesn't really take vibrato into consideration for pitches. I compared my playing with straight tone and then compared to playing with heavy vibrato and my pitch was all over the place according to the app. It's true that vibrato does change the pitch slightly but it's an expression of music and my fear is that this app may encourage a habit of straight tone playing which can be damaging to developing players. Perhaps add a vibrato setting?

Please do not bother with this app. Go out, buy your etude books and take private lessons and record yourself while playing etudes and excersices. It cannot pick up notes and says they are consistently wrong (even when playing the correct notes transposed on a piano). Trumpet version only allows B-flat trumpet and no others, transposing will not work because it still doesn't recognize notes. Says you can adjust the tempo however I never could figure it out. I wouldn't give these to a beginner.

I love it I really do, and I completely understand that you the developers need to make money of it with a premium mode. And I respect that. But I'm rating this as low as I am because of the energy factor. "Out of free play time for today" it bugs me it really does but once again I understand you need money of of this. And this is a super long coment and I only have 107 letters left so bye.

Exceptional app! It motivates you to practise and succeed. Challenging friends in pursuit of a high score makes it highly entertaining. Practising is no longer a chore as it engages you by correcting your technical difficulties. I suggest that the player still follows a set practise routine in warming up, playing scales, working through technical exercises and main repertoire etc. The app makes this all possible as it includes long tones, etudes, scales and challenging works. Highly recommended!

I love the teaching method, it's better than any books or teaching I've ever had before, I have learned higher notes and have gotten more confidence with my playing all ready. I definitely suggest this app for any one regardless of if your just learning or if your first chair in county band

It's a good app for a beginner trumpet player. But one thing about this app that I find the best feature is it has many songs for sight reading unlike Arbans book where it's just exercises. I reccomend this for people looking to increase their sight reading skills. For more advanced trumpet player I'd get an Arbans book and practice the exercises such as double toughing exercise to build strength with your tongue. If you want better tone do a long tone exercise. Even if it's super duper boring!!

I really love this app, but you can only play a number of times until you don't have any energy and except if you want to pay for the app you cant really do anything.(Yes you can watch ads, but a 15 second ad for one or two piece is a bit much)

Brilliant app for an amateur cornet player like myself to keep motivated practicing with new challenges and to improve my scores on the four component categories through older completed songs in the campaign. Highly recommend for all levels!

I gave it a 4 star first too but I after the premium membership I realized tonestro is pretty helpful. I would recommend it to friends but the membership is too pricey, the free content is too little to know on how great this app is😭. I also think the creators should add fundamentals and more jazz songs. Thank you for this app😥

Originally I came to this app for working on the instrument i already play. It would be nice if premium access wasn't lurking around every corner. The app did not ask for the experience level and immediately assumed I was new to the instrument.

This review only covers the learning section up to the 1st exam, from the perspective of an intermediate flute player. (GooglePlay needs to make reviews longer, I ran out of characters) Overall a good app! The rest of this is mostly for the devs. Use the finger chart to explain how to hold a flute. It'll make things a lot simpler. Please add/mention semibreve, minum, crotchet and quaver as alternate names, maybe a UK/US language option? Abdominal breathing and posture should be mentioned.

Used to like this app since it had many free songs that were really good, but of course they ended being pay to play I guess. 1 stars not a big fan of these type of apps.

After subscribing to the premium service this is an exceptional learning support tool. Could be improved if the song library was increased but is otherwise exactly what is needed for learning the sax independently.

Love how it grades you and shows you what you need to work on when it gives you your grade! Just wish there were more songs and especially less that required premium. I want to introduce my band director and class to it but there isn't really much on here to introduce.

Great app for self paced learning. I would recomend the developers implement some leasons on correct posture, holding your instrument correctly, breathing and embouchure.

No Piccolo Option When I downloaded this app i was hoping for piccolo to be on there and it is disappointing i will love this app if you change that and most of who ever is reading this is thinking pffft flute and piccolo are the same thing except piccolo is two times smaller well piccolo would be the same if they sound the same .... WHICH THEY DONT because of this i was not able to continue on with the lessons PLEASE FIX THIS *after the comment* thank you

Amazing app! It has songs for all skill levels and it makes it very clear what skill level the song is from the start!

Takes you through each step gently and at your own pace. Ideal for those who have never played and can't read music as you learn as you play. Brilliant.

Very buggy and way to frequent push notifications. On top of all that, a phone screen is too small to try and read music from

I'm finding the app motivating and useful, but I wish it had alto/treble recorder and C Clarinet (not uncommon for beginners - like the Clarineo) C Melody Saxophone would be nice too.

Great app for learning how to properly play the saxophone. Giving you all the information to play each note with the proper pitch and timing.

As a non musical parent this app is great for teaching my 7yr old the recorder. Here are some suggestions. Smoother page turning Videos demonstrating how to play the notes