Sight-reading and fingering practice for brass players. Free, in your browser, and it works offline.
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It puts music in front of you at a tempo you choose, with a conductor beating time and a reference tone in your ear, and tells you honestly whether you played it.
The music is generated, so you are always reading something you have not seen before — which is the thing that actually makes a reader fluent. Play along on the valve buttons and every note is judged: right, wrong, or missed.
B♭ cornet and trumpet, flugel horn, E♭ tenor horn, B♭ baritone, euphonium, and E♭ or B♭ bass. Fingerings follow the instrument you pick.
Read in whichever your part is written in, with the brass band treble-clef convention where it applies.
Drill a scale or an arpeggio in any key, read generated phrases, or play through written themes.
Metronome, conductor, tempo dial, key dial and a reference tone — so there is something to play against, not just something to look at.
Any brass learner — beginner or advanced, in a band or not. It is built by a learner in a brass band, so the conductor and the key dial show their origins, but nothing about it assumes you play in one.
If you came looking for a tuba, euphonium, cornet or tenor horn fingering chart: this shows you the fingering under the note you are actually trying to play, and then stops showing you the ones you already know. Turn the hints off when you no longer need them.
It runs in a phone browser and can be added to your home screen, where it works with no connection at all.
Everything above is free and stays free. A paid Android app is being built, and it adds the things that need more than a web page can do:
After that, playing your partwith the other instruments around it, so you are reading in context rather than alone. An iOS version comes after the Android one.
This page will link to the app when there is something to link to.
This is built by one person, and the fastest way it gets better is people saying what broke or what they wish it did. Bugs, an instrument that is missing, something that felt wrong to read — all welcome atfeedback@brassmaster.net.