Flashnote Derby App Reviews

For todays connected children, this is a great App that keeps their interest. I recommend to all my students! Thanks! Looking forward to your next App. My suggestion would be Rhythm Race

I purchased this app for my piano group students & I end up using it all the time for my private piano students too. In the group setting, we race as a team. We sit around the iPad & the students take turns naming the notes. It is such a hit that they usually ask for it at every lesson. In a private lesson, I usually start lessons with a quick round of 10 or 20 flash cards while I open notebooks & generally get myself situated. I love that I can select exactly the notes that I want to drill & I can even email them to my students. The students love playing games to review their notes. The students love the reindeer background for the game. It would be great to have a Valentines one or an Easter one too (the kids would be so excited!) One little problem I have with the app is the "you lose" message & wah, wah, wah music at the end if you dont beat the other horse. My beginners use the slowest setting (walk) but often just cant beat the other horse. Maybe "good try" instead? So far, I find it most appealing to the under-12 crowd, though if you were to add an option of alto & tenor clefs, Id definitely find a use for it with my intermediate & advanced theory teenagers :) Ive tried several apps but this is definitely my go-to app for note-naming flash cards. I recommend this to all my under-10 students and recommend it as a "must-have" app for any music teacher.

I am a piano teacher and currently use this app with my daughter and my students too. Their note reading is improving weekly!! Easy to select which notes were focusing on. Can also easily flip between naming notes by letter that are found on the staff to deciding where played on the keyboard. Highly recommend this app!!

The app is cute! In the next version if they could play a sound of the notes then it would be great.

Excellant way for children to learn the notes while playing. The video lessons are very good, useful and easy for children to follow. Could be improved by adding the solfeggio (do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si-do) system.

I have a hard time memorizing notes. This app saved the day!

This is a simple and fun app for children. I like that every aspect of the game can be customized: speed, number of questions, and the notes. Its great for beginners. The positive reinforcement is good and it is nice that any incorrect answers are reviewed. And you cant beat the price! I really think this is a great tool. Thoughts of an 8-Year Old: I like Flashnote Derby because it helps me learn my notes. I started out slow with just a few notes and after I did good on those, I added more. Then I added notes for both hands and that was a little harder.

If you are a student learning music or just a little rusty on your notes, this is the game to get! It helps you learn notes and is simple enough to figure everything out!!!

This app is a perfectly engaging way for children (and adults) to learn to read music. It is customizable to help make learning the note gradual but completely automatic.... See it know it. It is simple and streamlined, there are not too many features to distract kids from the task at hand, learning to read music. The best thing is that the love this game and want to play it over and over again so it is extremely effective. We love the exciting graphics and the feedback audio. Thank you, this is awesome! Will there be a math facts derby? This is the best format I have seen on iTunes, simple, engaging, and effective.

Works great! I am a music teacher and got it for my kids. Highly recommended.

My son hates practicing his flashcards, but this little game makes it fun and motivating for him to do it.

This app is a HUGE help! I use it and so do the kids now!

Does what it says it does and a few unexpected bonuses! My kids love it and I enjoyed playing it too.

As a music teacher, I search high and low for tools to make learning fun. This app is one of the best tools I have ever had. I have been using it already in just the last few days with my elementary age students, with great success. This program is simple, easy to figure out, and extremely effective. The students are a little resistant to using it at first, because they know it is supposed to help them learn. But after the first few "races," they are hooked and really enjoy playing the game. This app gets even better though: the videos are fantastic. For instance, I could not ask for a better video for teaching how to read guide notes. The only improvement I could possibly ask for in this app is an additional game that allows students to press a key on the keyboard that corresponds to the note they are reading. But as far as learning just the names of the notes goes, this app is perfect.

Great app! I was looking for a fun way for my five year old to learn his piano notes. I looked through many apps, and this was exactly what I wanted.

As a parent of three boys and a piano teacher myself, I am very happy with this app. Customization is perfect, and video lessons are a nice addition. Thanks for a quality app.

Love this app. I use it every night with my kids. Very easy to use and fun too. Makes learning fun the whole time.

My students love playing this game. The only thing that they would like changed is the letter names to start with "C" instead of "A". This is a must have game.

We love this app!! Kids are learning piano and its such a fun and easy way to learn to read music. I grew up playing only treble clef on flute and now learning bass clef for piano - not sure if the kids enjoy it more than me or not!

This is a great product . I use this in lessons with beginning students. Please add alto clef!