by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
Conversation in the past few Idea Exchanges has wandered to how music teachers are using the iPad in their teaching. I thought it would be useful to share what iPad apps I use on a daily basis. Hopefully people will also contribute what they use (and how they use it) in the comments section below.
Every time I tell myself "there can't possibly be another application I haven't heard about," somebody inevitably shows me something useful that I missed. Below are the apps that I find myself using the most. All apps are free. Post the apps you find best for music teaching in the comments section below.
App | Teaching Situation | Use | |
![]() | Camera | Individual Instruction | Both video and stills during lessons |
![]() | Evernote | Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction | Partnerships: I use this to walk around with my lesson plans. Individual lessons, I use it like an electronic piece of paper.(more on that later) |
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Pro Metronome
| Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction | You can easily change the accent pattern with this app |
![]() | MetroTimer | Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction | Has a timer built in, so you can time technique exercises |
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Clock
| Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction | Stopwatch and timer feature. For timing group activities or timing technique exercises in lessons |
![]() | n-Track Tuner | Community Partnerships | Tuning guitars, shows spectrum and exact frequency |
![]() | Timbre | Type in a zip code and it displays all live music for that area | |
![]() | GoodNotes | Individual Instruction | Handwriting app with staff paper, zooms in which is helpful and has a wrist guard |
![]() | 30/30 | Community Partnerships/Individual Instruction | Timer app. Allows you to make a timed task list. Good for modeling practice behavior in lessons and keeping group work on task |