Play-my-note Lite
Free
3.0.2for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Play-my-note Lite
Play-my-note, designed to introduce beginners to musical notation, or provide a reference to experienced singers who don't play the piano.
This app allows anyone to find out how written notes sound. No need to know where the notes go on a piano, or even what they are called, this app lets you "play" a melody by touching actual notes on a screen.
Choose your key signatures, store the 25 most recent notes played, with a choice of 2 sounds. Treble, Bass and Tenor Octave clefs can be selected for singers, along with Alto and Tenor clefs for instrumentalists. Note names and Tonic Solfa syllables can be displayed for each key, and Concert Pitch names when transposing. Shapnotes in 4 and 7-note versions are supported, and the app can also show the tone/semitone steps in the scale. This is especially useful for explaining how accidentals alter the scale.
A simple introduction to written music for anyone, anywhere.
This app allows anyone to find out how written notes sound. No need to know where the notes go on a piano, or even what they are called, this app lets you "play" a melody by touching actual notes on a screen.
Choose your key signatures, store the 25 most recent notes played, with a choice of 2 sounds. Treble, Bass and Tenor Octave clefs can be selected for singers, along with Alto and Tenor clefs for instrumentalists. Note names and Tonic Solfa syllables can be displayed for each key, and Concert Pitch names when transposing. Shapnotes in 4 and 7-note versions are supported, and the app can also show the tone/semitone steps in the scale. This is especially useful for explaining how accidentals alter the scale.
A simple introduction to written music for anyone, anywhere.
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What's New in the Latest Version 3.0.2
Last updated on Jan 6, 2023
Old Versions
Thank you to all our thousands of Lite users, we have **great news**!
Thanks to a generous donation, we can make the complete features of Play-my-Note available FREE to ALL users for at least one year.
All key signatures, transposition and 25 last played notes are now included in Play-my-note Lite!
---No Ads, no in-app purchases, no catch. This is a philanthropic gift to students and hobby musicians everywhere. ---
*NEW* in this version: transposition for various instruments, especially Brass players.
Students of Trumpet, Cornet, French Horn, Tenor Horn (Eb Horn, Althorn) find it extremely helpful to take a reference pitch for the starting note of a phrase, or hear how a melody sounds before trying to play it. Set your instrument, and you can now play any note as it sounds on the page, without knowing its concert pitch name. (You can also look up the concert pitch names by pressing Notes names 3 times) Also useful for parents or carers helping with practice on Viola, Alto Sax or Clarinet, where even some knowledge of piano is not always useful.
*Also NEW* Shape Notes, either 4 or 7-shape versions. Shape Note singing remains a thriving tradition in some parts of the US, and is also sometimes used as an intermediate step when learning to sight-sing in Tonic Solfa.
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**Occasional sound Bug (no sound) - /only/ occurs if Side-Switch of iPad is set to 'Mute' at the time you download the app. Change the Side-Switch to 'Lock-Rotation', delete and reinstall the app, and then set the side-switch back to how you want it.
Thanks to a generous donation, we can make the complete features of Play-my-Note available FREE to ALL users for at least one year.
All key signatures, transposition and 25 last played notes are now included in Play-my-note Lite!
---No Ads, no in-app purchases, no catch. This is a philanthropic gift to students and hobby musicians everywhere. ---
*NEW* in this version: transposition for various instruments, especially Brass players.
Students of Trumpet, Cornet, French Horn, Tenor Horn (Eb Horn, Althorn) find it extremely helpful to take a reference pitch for the starting note of a phrase, or hear how a melody sounds before trying to play it. Set your instrument, and you can now play any note as it sounds on the page, without knowing its concert pitch name. (You can also look up the concert pitch names by pressing Notes names 3 times) Also useful for parents or carers helping with practice on Viola, Alto Sax or Clarinet, where even some knowledge of piano is not always useful.
*Also NEW* Shape Notes, either 4 or 7-shape versions. Shape Note singing remains a thriving tradition in some parts of the US, and is also sometimes used as an intermediate step when learning to sight-sing in Tonic Solfa.
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**Occasional sound Bug (no sound) - /only/ occurs if Side-Switch of iPad is set to 'Mute' at the time you download the app. Change the Side-Switch to 'Lock-Rotation', delete and reinstall the app, and then set the side-switch back to how you want it.
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Version History
3.0.2
Jan 6, 2023
Thank you to all our thousands of Lite users, we have **great news**!
Thanks to a generous donation, we can make the complete features of Play-my-Note available FREE to ALL users for at least one year.
All key signatures, transposition and 25 last played notes are now included in Play-my-note Lite!
---No Ads, no in-app purchases, no catch. This is a philanthropic gift to students and hobby musicians everywhere. ---
*NEW* in this version: transposition for various instruments, especially Brass players.
Students of Trumpet, Cornet, French Horn, Tenor Horn (Eb Horn, Althorn) find it extremely helpful to take a reference pitch for the starting note of a phrase, or hear how a melody sounds before trying to play it. Set your instrument, and you can now play any note as it sounds on the page, without knowing its concert pitch name. (You can also look up the concert pitch names by pressing Notes names 3 times) Also useful for parents or carers helping with practice on Viola, Alto Sax or Clarinet, where even some knowledge of piano is not always useful.
*Also NEW* Shape Notes, either 4 or 7-shape versions. Shape Note singing remains a thriving tradition in some parts of the US, and is also sometimes used as an intermediate step when learning to sight-sing in Tonic Solfa.
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**Occasional sound Bug (no sound) - /only/ occurs if Side-Switch of iPad is set to 'Mute' at the time you download the app. Change the Side-Switch to 'Lock-Rotation', delete and reinstall the app, and then set the side-switch back to how you want it.
Thanks to a generous donation, we can make the complete features of Play-my-Note available FREE to ALL users for at least one year.
All key signatures, transposition and 25 last played notes are now included in Play-my-note Lite!
---No Ads, no in-app purchases, no catch. This is a philanthropic gift to students and hobby musicians everywhere. ---
*NEW* in this version: transposition for various instruments, especially Brass players.
Students of Trumpet, Cornet, French Horn, Tenor Horn (Eb Horn, Althorn) find it extremely helpful to take a reference pitch for the starting note of a phrase, or hear how a melody sounds before trying to play it. Set your instrument, and you can now play any note as it sounds on the page, without knowing its concert pitch name. (You can also look up the concert pitch names by pressing Notes names 3 times) Also useful for parents or carers helping with practice on Viola, Alto Sax or Clarinet, where even some knowledge of piano is not always useful.
*Also NEW* Shape Notes, either 4 or 7-shape versions. Shape Note singing remains a thriving tradition in some parts of the US, and is also sometimes used as an intermediate step when learning to sight-sing in Tonic Solfa.
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**Occasional sound Bug (no sound) - /only/ occurs if Side-Switch of iPad is set to 'Mute' at the time you download the app. Change the Side-Switch to 'Lock-Rotation', delete and reinstall the app, and then set the side-switch back to how you want it.
2.0.4
Nov 4, 2017
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
minor bugfix
minor bugfix
2.0.3
Nov 3, 2017
update for iOS11
2.0.1
Jul 25, 2014
Bug fix for note names when adding accidentals.
2.0
Jul 16, 2014
Play-my-note Lite FAQ
Click here to learn how to download Play-my-note Lite in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Play-my-note Lite.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.1 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.1 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.1 or later.
Play-my-note Lite supports English
