Note Rush: Music Reading Game2.01.2 - App Store

Learn to Read Music with Note Rush! Note Rush boosts your note reading speed and accuracy, building a strong mental model of where each written note is on your instrument. Now even better with Note Rush: 2nd Edition!

How it Works
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Note Rush is like a virtual flash card deck for all ages that listens to you play each note, giving instant feedback and awarding stars based on speed and accuracy of note identification.

Race against the clock to improve your performance or hide the timer to gently engage those just starting out with the staff.

Includes built-in levels for piano and a range of other instruments as well as custom level design.
What makes Note Rush Different?
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- Play On Your Instrument
Note reading is best learnt in the context of how you identify and play each note - on your acoustic or MIDI instrument.

- Designed for Teachers
...and not as a replacement for them! Create fully customizable note sets and easily send them home to students.

- Fun Themes
Engage with fun themes that don't get in the way of learning, or opt for traditional notation.
Landmarks: The best way to learn your notes
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Note Rush fits with all teaching methods, whether you favor a purely intervallic approach or use traditional mnemonics! We promote learning key landmark notes then reading adjacent notes intervallically for the best results in learning to read piano notation.

Note Rush features a unique landmarks-based hints system (optional) that highlights nearby landmark notes to read intervallically from. Over time students naturally move from reliance on landmarks to a more intrinsic staff-to-keyboard association.
Preset and Custom Levels
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Use preset note ranges or create your own set of levels to suit your teaching style. Create a personalized level to target a particular student’s needs.

- Individual Note Selections
- Sharps and Flats
- Treble, Bass or Grand Staff (alto and tenor coming soon)
- Up to Six Ledger Lines
- Send custom note reading drills using App Links or QR Codes

Version History Lots of improvements/fixes in this update:
- Improvements to the Audio Recognition Engine.
- Level Designer has now been given its own dedicated tab at the top of the level selection screen, as it has proven difficult to find in the instrument list!
- Fixed: Note not blinking on incorrect note input.
- Fixed: Total time on level completion sometimes shows 1 second more than the correct time due to a rounding error. (Thanks Michael Cuthbert)
- Fixed: MIDI input not handling NoteOn(velocity=0) as a NoteOff event, which could be causing issues with MIDI behaviour more broadly. (Thanks Peter Ludbey)
- Decreased how long you have to play a non-concert pitch note to calibrate to it.
- Increased sensitivity to incorrect notes (you had to play it for a long time before it registered before).
- Increase tuning requirements to help reduce misidentified semitone-adjacent notes. 2.01.2 10/25/2023 Fixed the Summer theme which had all the beach items shown in black silhouette - should now be in full color! 2.00.1 07/09/2023 With over 100,000 sales worldwide, Note Rush is loved by teachers and students all around the globe. Today we are excited to introduce the highly anticipated Note Rush 2nd Edition!

What's New?

1. Refreshed user interface: Note Rush 2nd Edition boasts a modern, colorful new interface that is visually appealing and user-friendly.

2. Extended instrument support: offering an expanded library of built-in levels designed for various instruments, including piano, guitar, violin, flute, and more.

3. Enhanced level designer system with support for Treble and Bass clefs as well as Grand Staff (Tenor and Alto coming soon) and up to 6 ledger lines!

4. Save custom levels within the app for easy access: No more hunting through the camera roll!

5. Unique landmarks-based hints system! Landmark notes are a great way to get a firm grasp of the staff, and now Note Rush brings this approach into the learning experience. Learn more

6. New themes including Fruit Smash and Cute Bird, and a new scrolling theme selector, making it quicker to select a theme and get playing.

7. New Audio Recognition Engine to make gameplay faster and more reliable. 2.00 07/03/2023 Long-awaited MIDI keyboard support is here! This allows Note Rush to be played silently with headphones - great for group classes or partner lessons. Just plug in your keyboard via a suitable adapter and Note Rush will detect that you're using MIDI automatically!

Cables getting in the way? Note Rush now works in landscape mode too! If you've been using Note Rush sideways (a great way to highlight the mapping between the grand staff and piano keys btw!) you can still do this by turning on rotation lock before turning your device.

Oh yes, and some further improvements to microphone-based note detection, plus a significant reduction in file size (a hefty 750mb down to a much more reasonable 240mb).

Hope you love this update, and as usual please let me know what you think at www.noterushapp.com/contact-us or facebook.com/noterush
Thanks! -Thomas 1.60 06/11/2019 Hi there!
- I've heard those asking for longer games to drill more notes without restarting so often, so in this update I've added new 5x and 8x repeats options in Level Designer.
- Plus, I was recently interviewed by Tracy and Sara for an Upbeat Piano Teachers webinar, and this update contains a little surprise for those who sign up to watch! Keep an eye on the Note Rush facebook page (or email list) for details over the next few days...
Enjoy!
Thomas 1.55 11/29/2018 - Did you know you can hide the timer in-game by tapping on it? Now, with this update, hiding the timer will also initially hide the results at the end of each game (you can still tap to reveal the results if you wish). Useful for students who work better when not under pressure!
- Fixed a note recognition bug where in some cases certain notes would ignore microphone input for several seconds when they first appear.
- Improved QR Code rendering and scanning quality on Level Cards (also added Note Rush logo to QR Code).
- As usual, a bunch of other minor improvements.
Hope you like this update, please let me know what you think at www.noterushapp.com :)
-Thomas 1.53 10/18/2018 This update adds full iPhone X support (now utilising the whole screen). It also fixes a problem that was causing Note Rush to run very slowly on some older devices. (Please let me know if it's still slow!) There are also some further significant improvements to note detection, which should result in snappier, more accurate, gameplay.
Enjoy!
-Thomas 1.52 09/07/2018 New: Wrong note penalties! If you play the wrong note, you'll now incur a time penalty. Guessing just became a bad strategy! Don't worry, you can turn it off in settings if you prefer it without penalties.
Also, further note recognition improvements, and myriad other tweaks! 1.51 07/25/2018 Summer theme is here! (Sorry if you're in the southern hemisphere!)

Also: Improved sleep timeout handling to allow device to sleep if you abandon your device mid-gameplay. 1.49 06/20/2018 A bug that was impacting note detection (severely in some cases) has been fixed in this update! I've also added a quick question about note detection accuracy so I can gauge how well it's working for everyone - please answer it when it pops up. Thanks!
Thomas 1.48 05/24/2018 This version increases the highest detectable note to C7 (concert pitch) which may be necessary for instruments pitched up an octave such as glockenspiele. :) 1.47 04/12/2018 This release features hopefully significant note recognition improvements. Please let me know if Note Rush is having trouble detecting certain notes on your instrument with this update! 1.46 03/29/2018 A new secret theme for teachers at the MTNA National Conference! See the Piano Safari Booth for details!
Secret themes are now added to the standard theme cycle once unlocked.
App size reduction.
Parental Gate added to sharing function.
Various tweaks to note recognition etc. 1.45 03/19/2018 A new secret theme for teachers at the MTNA National Conference! See the Piano Safari Booth for details!
Secret themes are now added to the standard theme cycle once unlocked.
Various tweaks to note recognition etc. 1.43 03/17/2018 St Patrick's Day Theme is now live! 1.41 01/29/2018 Level Designer is here! Choose custom notes you want to practise with, including sharps and flats! Teachers can select notes for a student then send their note choices as a Level Card via Email or Text Message for the student to open on their device.
Plus, other minor improvements. 1.40 12/13/2017 Level Designer is here! Choose custom notes you want to practise with, including sharps and flats! Teachers can select notes for a student then send their custom level as a Level Card via Email or Text Message for the student to open on their device. 1.38 11/18/2017 New Easter egg theme! Available through end of April. 1.26 04/10/2017 Various improvements and fixes. 1.25 03/19/2017 - Top o' the mornin' to ya! St Patrick's Day theme is here! Available throughout March.

- Hide the Timer option - for students who get a little stressed out or distracted by a ticking clock. Just tap the 'x' next to the timer. Tap again to un-hide.

- Skip Calibration - for when you want to use concert pitch rather than tuning Note Rush to your instrument. Useful for vocal training, string instruments etc.

Other minor improvements:
- Bass clef is now rendered correctly.
- "Please leave a review" popup has been replaced by a much less obtrusive button that occasionally appears after playing a game. (Reviews really do help others find Note Rush in the app store, so thanks for all the reviews so far!)
- Other minor improvements and fixes. 1.24 03/06/2017 New limited-time Valentine's Day theme! Hurry, only available through February! 1.23 01/27/2017 - "Play Middle C to Start" calibration now faster and more reliable.
- Further improvements to background noise rejection (e.g. speaking) when detecting notes.
- Splash screen low resolution issue fixed.
- "Classic" theme no longer considered "new". 1.22 01/04/2017 - Christmas theme update!
- Improved note detection accuracy.
- Fixed background image rendering issues affecting some devices.

As always please let us know if you experience any problems. 1.21 11/29/2016 - Limited time Christmas theme!
- Improved note detection algorithm (please send in your feedback!)
- Some other behind-the-scenes tweaks. 1.20 11/16/2016 - New "Classic" theme with plain semibreves (whole notes) on a subtle paper background - great for adults or any student who is easily overstimulated.

- Improved "Play C to Start" reliability.

- New theme is now "announced" when update is first opened.

- Progress meter now fades to the background if and when notes overlap it. 1.18 11/07/2016