About Practice Bird
Practice Bird (previously PhonicScore) - the perfect tool to learn or practice your musical instrument with your collection of digital sheet music and music scores . With the ability to 👂 listen to
Practice Bird (previously PhonicScore) - the perfect tool to
learn or practice your musical instrument with your collection of
digital sheet music and music scores .
With the ability to 👂
listen to you while playing by using the built in microphone, PracticeBird can give you
instant feedback on your pitch, intonation and rhythm .
Our advanced music analysis technology works for any pitched instrument like piano, guitar, flute, violin, clarinet, electric guitar and even for your voice while singing.
So 🏅
challenge yourself in how good you can play one of the demo scores and share it with us! Download now and try!
Supported sheet music files
You can add your own
musicXML (.musicxml, .xml or .mxl) as well as
Midi (.mid) files (currently PDF files are not supported!).
Perfect to practice your part
PracticeBird makes it easy to learn and practice your part of any music score when you rehearse for your choir, orchester or ensemble. The playback system allows you to solo or mute any part in the score. So you can practice your part first and finally mute it to play along with the other parts as accompaniment.
Master difficult passages
The loop feature allows you to repeat any passage in the score at any BPM tempo so you can overcome the difficulties and add fluidity to your playing.
Individualize your sheet music
Sheet music in the flexible musicXML or midi format comes with a lot of advantages:
zoom in or out, show only parts you need, highlight your part, transpose, ..
Features
• Add your own musicxml or midi scores to your digital sheet music library
• Search and sort your scores
• Instant Pitch Monitoring: Check your pitch/intonation and rhythm while playing
• Automatic Page Turn: listens to you while playing and automatically scrolls down the music score so you never lose focus
• Playback: hear the score with piano and percussion sounds
• Choose which parts you want to hear (mute or solo)
• Choose the playback speed in BPM
• Chord symbols are supported while playback
• Metronome: enable or disable a click sound while playback
• Loop: play any set of measures in the piece repeatedly
• Zoom: the music score is re-rendered to optimally fit your screen
• Repetitions: Split screen shows repetition start
• Highlight your own part with yellow background color
• Navigate directly to measures via measure number
• 13 demo music scores for piano, recorder, violin and cello
Pro Features (only in PracticeBird Pro App)
• Volume sliders for every part in the music
• 127 selectable instrument sounds (play any part as violin, cello, clarinet, flute, choir or many others)
• Transpose the whole score to any key
• Change the clef (e.g. from F-clef to G-clef) of a part in the music score
• add unlimited number of scores
How to get and add sheet music
• Search Online sheet music platforms: e.g. on: noteflight.com, musicalion.com, musescore.com, imslp.org, cpdl.org (ChoralWiki), ..
• Use external music notation software to convert existing Pdfs or create your own sheet music: e.g. with Finale, Capella, Sibelius, Forte, Musescore, ..
• Download or export the sheet music as musicxml or midi files
• Import your sheet music files from the file system of your device or directly via "open in" from any other app (e.g. email)
About us
See our website for more info: https://practicebird.com
Download the app now and give us feedback:
[email protected]
Our vision is to enhance your experience with sheet music, help you improve playing your instrument and make practicing more fun!
Designed in Vienna 🇦🇹 with ❤️ - enjoy!
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Practice Bird since it was posted on our website on 2019-09-18 09:32:47.
The latest version is 2.16.1 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 13:18:09. See below the changes in each version.
Practice Bird version 2.16.1
Updated At: 2023-08-13
Changes: Fixed some issues with importing sheet music since Android 13
Practice Bird version 2.15.1
Updated At: 2023-05-03
Changes: Adapted for Android 13
Practice Bird version 2.14.0
Updated At: 2021-09-14
Changes: - Fixed reacting on dynamics and panorama in new playback system
- Fixed issues with adding musicalion access token
Practice Bird version 2.13.0
Updated At: 2021-07-28
Changes: Added direct access to musicalion.com having more than 50000 musicxmls available for download.
Practice Bird version 2.11.0
Updated At: 2021-02-18
Changes: - Fixed possible crash when connecting headphones
- Improved reacting on tempo instructions for playback
- Further fixes
Practice Bird version 2.10.0
Updated At: 2020-12-09
Changes: New features:
- Added new audio engine with improved instrument sounds (only for devices with Android Version > =5.0. For older devices this was not possible - they work with the previous audio engine)
Practice Bird version 2.9.1
Updated At: 2020-12-05
Changes: New features:
- Increase speed at every loop repeat
- Add a pause before every loop repeat
- Breath marks are displayed
- Directory for adding XMLs is remembered
Fixes:
- Improved reacting on tempo instructions for playback
- Fixed reading files from internal memory
- Further fixes
Practice Bird version 2.9.0
Updated At: 2020-11-13
Changes: New features:
- Increase speed at every loop repeat
- Add a pause before every loop repeat
- Breath marks are displayed
- Directory for adding XMLs is remembered
Fixes:
- Improved reacting on tempo instructions for playback
- Fixed bug in instrument selector
- Fixed positioning of articulations
- Further fixes
Practice Bird version 2.8.0
Updated At: 2020-05-25
Changes: Our App comes now with a new logo and name:
Practice Bird !
The new name emphasizes on making it fun and easy to practice sheet music and it just sounds better :-)
We hope you like it!
Further improvements:
- Added recording feature while doing Instant Pitch Monitoring: Play or share recording afterwards!
- Fixed showing our app when opening any file type
Practice Bird version 2.7.0
Updated At: 2020-05-18
Changes: . Ability to set Tuning in Hz for Playback, Instant Pitch Monitoring and Auto Page Turning (changeable only in Pro Version)
. Support of other note head types (e.g. 🥁 drum notation)
. Metronome marks are rendered correctly
. Transpose dialog shows the target key along with the semitones
. Added persistency to library settings and count-in settings
. Bug fixes
Disclaimer
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