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Read Ahead Hybrid – Piano Sight-reading app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 3584 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: Anacrusis LLC
Free
Current version: 1.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 30 Nov 2015
App size: 22.28 Mb

Read Ahead Hybrid takes the acclaimed Read Ahead curriculum for iPad and allows you to practice piano sight-reading using your phone in conjunction with the Read Ahead books. Free sample material can be downloaded from within the app or our website so you can get try it out right away.
Spend just 5-10 minute a day practicing the exercises and reading new music and watch your skills quickly develop. Innovative training exercises are incorporated in a carefully designed curriculum built around high quality music by a variety of composers. Read Ahead Hybrid is designed to help piano students (children 9+ and adults) build the right habits and develop the skills necessary to fluently read music.

Features:
• Designed to be integrated into a regular practice schedule.
• Fun for students to practice daily.
• Easy for busy teachers to incorporate into lessons and track progress on the my progress page.
• 36 daily exercise routines at each level.

Levels 1-3 available. Levels 4-6 are in development.

Read Ahead is being developed with a grant from the Maryland Innovation Initiative by professors Travis Hardaway and Ken Johansen at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.

- Known issue: there can be an occasional stutter when the metronome starts playing on devices with iOS9.