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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

10 BEST ANDROID MUSIC APPS 
(*note: some not always free!) 

 

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1. Music Tutor Sight Read

Learn to read and write music (+flats, sharps, keys) with MusicTutor SightRead

Learn to sight-read music with MusicTutor SightRead (MTSR). MTSR is a quiz game designed for music students, for learning to read (and write) music in an easy and pleasant way.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.virtualcode.musictutor.sightread

 
3. My Piano Assistant

The application is a reference of the piano chords and scales. For the requested chord or scale application gives its formula, notes according to a selected root and shows positions of notes on the piano keyboard; it also allows to listen to the selected chord/scale.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexpp.mpa

 
4. Mobile Metronome

List of features:

- Fine tempo tuning from 10 to 230 BPM
- Tap tempo
- Load and save presets
- Adjustable tempo signature for simple, compound and complex meters.
- From 2 to 20 beats per measure
- Beat subdivision as quarter, eighth, triplet, sixteenth, quintuplet and sextuplet notes

- Beat emphasis
- 4 soundpacks
- Adjustable volume

- Visual beat counter
- Italian tempo markings
- Automatically turns off when there´s an incoming call
- Runs in background
- Settings are saved automatically on exit

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gabriel.metronome

 
5. Ultimate Guitar Tabs

An easy and convenient application for viewing guitar Tablatures on your phone.

Ultimate Guitar Tabs is an easy and convenient application for viewing guitar Tablatures, bass Tablatures, drum Tablatures and chords. This is the only mobile application giving you UNLIMITED access to the world's largest database of Tabs from Ultimate-Guitar.com! Use this intuitive viewer to browse the collection of over 400,000 Tabs and then learn or practice your favorite songs wherever you are.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultimateguitar.tabs

 
6. xPiano

A simple piano application:
+4 octaves piano keyboard
+12 instruments
+Adjustable piano keyboard width
+Multi Touch(Android2.1~)
+Record and Play
+2 sample songs to play

xPiano+, which has 5 octaves, 128 instruments, more functions and more songs, is available, and actively updated.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyandroid.piano

 
7. Drum Kit

DrumKit - the best drumming experience on Android

DrumKit is a multitouch drumming application which provides the best experience of finger drumming.

It comes from a top-down view and gives you an instant drum kit at your finger tips and includes sampled sounds of a variety of snares, cymbals, a tom and a nice kick drum for that extra thump.

DrumKit's coolest features are:
:: movable drums and percussions (bass, snare, toms, multiple crash, ride, hi-hat, bongos, cowbell... everything what you will ever need!)
:: cool animations (animations work great on higher end devices like Desire, Nexus, etc)
:: multitouch experience
:: DrumEditor - enables you to select which drums should be active at drum stage
:: Composer (BETA) - enables you to create basic rhythm so you can play only finesse beats while rhythm automatically playing

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phellax.drum

 
8. Robotic Guitarist Free

Guitar emulator + Chord guide + Tuner + Metronome

Robotic Guitarist is a virtual guitar for your device. This application will be useful both for those that already play the guitar and learners, and even if you can't play but want to get some fun or experiment with its sounds.

Main features:

★ Multitouch guitar emulator:
Choose a chord without having to learn finger positions and just hit the strings to get sounds recorded from real instruments. You can strum, plays arpeggio or any other desired technique thanks to two picking modes. Multitouch supported in capable devices.

★ Chord guide:
An easy-to-use interface allows you to change your chord selection on the go. You'll see at all times a diagram showing finger positions. Very useful for learners or for those who play already and need to recall a chord.

★ Tuner:
If you play a non-virtual guitar, Robotic Guitarist is your loyal electronic pocket-tuner.

★ Metronome:
It's a handy digital metronome. It has settings for speed (beats per minute) and different signatures (constant, 2/2, 4/4, etc.).

★ Guitar lab:
You can choose the sound between acoustic or electric guitar, piano (two octaves available), chorus or flute and map them to the whole guitar, or even pick a different one for each string! This will bring to you a lot of sessions of experimenting and having fun.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pedrocorp.android.guitar

 
9. Chordbot Lite

Songwriting tool / electronic accompanist for the mobile musician.

Chordbot lets you create and play advanced chord progressions easily on your phone. Useful for songwriting experiments, as accompaniment for your guitar / saxophone / theremin solos or as a backing band for your shower singing sessions.

Features:
* 60 chord types in all keys/inversions
* 50+ comping styles (full version)
* Slash chords
* Transposition
* Automatic inversion selection
* Automatic song generator
* MIDI/WAV file export (full version)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chordbot.demo.gui&hl=en


 
10. Musical Piano Pro

Be Musical on the go with a piano, drum kit, metronome, pitch pipe and more!

A musical toolkit including instruments (grand piano, piano keyboard, drums, autoharp), tools (metronome, pitch pipe), a game (piano practice), and more (piano recording, wireless piano MIDI, piano/drum multi-touch)

Detailed Features
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Piano Practice Mode
  • Play-along piano learning game 
  • Over 20 included songs (+ any MIDI)
  • Piano & Keyboard
  • Scrolling grand piano
  • 2-octave stacked piano
  • 128 General MIDI instruments
  • Recording (Piano & Keyboard) 
  • Export as MIDI or ringtone
  • Wireless MIDI input device
  • Supports Windows/Mac/Linux
  • Metronome
  • 40-200BPM metronome
  • Time signatures/subdivisions
Pitch Pipe
  • C to C 
  • Drums
  • Basic 8-piece drum kit
  • Auto harp (BETA)
  • o Strum chords on the harp strings
  • Multi-touch (piano/drums)
  • Honeycomb tablet optimized
OTHERS:
- Musical Piano FREE (Christopher Souvey)
- Musical - HQ Piano Samples