Appcompanist: Vocal Training

Appcompanist: Vocal Training

By Appcompanist, LLC

  • Category: Music
  • Release Date: 2017-10-17
  • Current Version: 2.6.6
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 241.64 MB
  • Developer: Appcompanist, LLC
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.4901
4.4901
From 202 Ratings
Free On itunes

Description

Appcompanist gives singers, voice teachers, choral directors, and choirs full musical control over thousands of professional piano accompaniments. Practice, teach, rehearse, and perform with flexible accompaniment you can actually control in real time. Change key instantly, control tempo during play, blend melody in or out, hold fermatas, check pitches, and save your own tempo and fermata changes as Custom Versions. The free version includes over 1,000 Vocal Exercises and 75 complete piano accompaniments with full app functionality. The growing Appcompanist library includes thousands of flexible piano accompaniments for opera arias, art songs, musical theater solos, jazz standards, pop and rock songs, choral music, complete works, and more. New recordings are added regularly, including user-requested repertoire. Why singers, teachers, and choirs use Appcompanist: • Instantly transpose any accompaniment to the key that fits your voice best. • Control tempo during play to create ritardandos, accelerandos, rubato, and more. • Use the patented Fermata Button to hold notes, chords, and pauses, then re-enter in perfect sync with the piano. • Turn the melody guide on or off at any time during play, choose from three octaves, and adjust the melody level against the accompaniment. • Check the next melody pitch when stopped and time entrances with confidence. • Save your tempo and fermata changes to create Custom Versions that can still be controlled during playback. • Learn choral and ensemble music more easily by emphasizing one or more voice parts against the accompaniment or against other parts. • Add markers, cuts, and loops for easier navigation, teaching, rehearsal, and focused practice. • Repeat vocal exercises up, down, or in the same key. • Create video recordings while using Appcompanist playback tools. • Search, filter, and sort the library to quickly find the right piece. Subscription options: Note: Prices shown are in US dollars. In-app pricing in other countries may vary based on current exchange rates. Contemporary Voice Collection US $9.99/month or US $99.99/year

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Reviews

  • Useful but bugged

    2
    By Blackhand12
    UI is really bad for Apple users around subscriptions

  • Amazing

    4
    By Elena2435
    This has been a life saver for practicing songs at tempo. Even when sheet music isn’t within reach. One tiny issue I have is that certain songs don’t have the certain “official” keys. For example, a piece that’s written in a minor key, but on the app the keys are all in major. Not a dealbreaker at all, just something I noticed.

  • 6 song Subscription doesn’t work

    2
    By antonia is here
    Great selection of songs and helpful for any singer, but the subscription model is buggy. when I hit restore subscription, my app crashes and I can’t access what I paid for. Unfortunate, there’s not a lot of resources like this.

  • Worthless

    1
    By Fingersten
    Might be great if I could get a confirmation code sent to me.

  • Poor customer support

    1
    By Disappointed ex usee
    I forgot my password and requested technical support twice and received no response. I had to cancel my subscription since I can no longer use the app.

  • New Update won’t let me access my subscription

    2
    By Sophia Silvers
    This app has been so amazing and helpful, but the new update made it completely unusable. After the update, I logged back in and had to recreate a profile. I tried purchasing the low cost subscription, but it told me I already had that subscription. When I click “restore subscription” nothing happens. When I try adding a song to my pick six monthly it says there’s a server error and they were unable to connect to my Apple ID. Please fix this! I was using this for auditions.

  • Phenomenal!

    5
    By KristineNAUQC
    Just started taking lessons again, and WOW! I wish I would have had this tool during my undergraduate! I use this with my students, myself, and anyone that is a musician! Can’t wait to see how this app evolves! Can’t imagine it getting any better! THANK YOU!!!

  • Great selection, but features are lacking

    2
    By AdamMachart
    It’s great to see that this app has grown significantly since the last time I used it. I had it for a few years back when it first started, and I’m finding out why I canceled it now that I’ve decided to give it another go. The selection is pretty versatile, but the app isn’t great for self tapes. We typically use our phones for taping, and would be immensely more useful if they had a computer version of the app. The video feature they added is pretty rough and doesn’t solve that fix. The audio isn’t loud enough from the phone speaker, and if you plug into a speaker, the mic moves over to the speaker (which makes your recording incredibly track dominant). The custom song feature is also incredibly glitchy. The cuts rarely work and often revert. Would love to see improvements to make it easier for taping — it ends up being more cost effective to hire pianists to make custom tracks or find recordings on YouTube than pay for a subscription. For those who just want to practice along and learn songs in Appcompanist’s catalogue, 5 stars, so this review is purely for limited access on audition side.

  • Game-changer in my HS choir room!

    5
    By ChoirTeacherMrsP
    As a high school choir teacher with limited piano skills, Appcompanist has been a game changer when it comes to rehearsals and sectionals. The versatility of the app allows for me to run sectionals more effectively, gives a little extra help in full rehearsals and assists my rehearsal accompanist to cover every part AND the accompaniment when I ask for the impossible. I've been using Appcompanist regularly this school year and I have seen real results as students use the choral shares to solidify their parts in their own time. I use the app during sectionals since I don't have a piano player in every section. My accompanist and I can "travel" from section to section to assist and guide while the students without one of us still have a solid recording to work with. During full rehearsals, I've had my accompanist play the accompaniment while using the app over speakers to assist with parts when needed. The fact that I can turn those parts on and off as we go is amazing. We are able to slow things down when needed and the consistency of the recordings is a huge help. In the past, my accompanist would spend hours making parts recordings that the students might use. With appcompanist, they have easier access to the recordings, there are never any glitches or mistakes and the sound is clear and consistent. More of them use the app than the recordings we made because of the flexibility they have now over our own recordings. My accompanist is also freed up to work with students individually or in small groups, rather than the hours spent making recordings. As the app's choral library grows, using it is easier than ever, though I also thoroughly appreciate the option to send music to them to be added. After just this short time of using Appcompanist regularly, I can't imagine going back to the way I did things before.

  • Keeps saying it can’t access my subscription when it clearly shows songs I used last month

    2
    By ionaNC
    I love this app. But only when it works. At least once a semester so far, it disconnects from my Apple ID and then tells me I’m not connected to my Apple ID when I clearly am. I have restarted my phone, restarted the app, deleted the app and redownloaded. Nothing works. The last thing I tried, which was deleting the app, caused it to fully log out of my subscription with accompanist. I clicked restore subscription and it says it can’t connect with servers, again because of my Apple ID. I checked my Apple ID and it clearly states that I still have access to my subscription. It’s clearly not my fault, and I need this fixed ASAP. Otherwise, the app is great. Love it but when it doesn’t work it’s ridiculous and infuriating. I get it, if you’re doing updates maybe that make the app not work for a bit or something, but if that’s what this is at least let us know.

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