Piano Workout

Piano Workout contains the scales and arpeggios you need to practice regularly to hone and establish a good piano technique. All major and minor keys are available as well as rhythmic variations for the scales. There is a beginners set of scale exercises to get a beginner started efficiently. Then there is the main “Working Up” set of exercises that allows a player to select from individual exercises or combinations of them to continually improve skills

A record of the user’s playing is kept so that the user can review both progress and the regularity of practice.

Piano Workout listens to an acoustic piano and scores the note accuracy and rhythm accuracy. If you have a MIDI connection to an electronic keyboard you can do silent practice by plugging headphones into the keyboard and connecting the MIDI output of the keyboard to your iPad via an Apple “Camera Connector” kit (available from Apple).

Up to 20 or more users can be supported by Piano Workout.

The exercises are:
Beginner
Left or right hand only; quarter notes (quavers)
Pentascale
Preparation for Octave
All keys, but no chromatic scale or rhythmic variation.

Working Up
Hands together or separately
One Octave quarter notes (crochets)
Two Octaves eighth notes (quavers)
Three Octaves triplet quarter notes
Four Octaves sixteenth notes (semi-quavers)
Each of these can be with any major or minor key; chromatic; arpeggio rather than scale.
There are rhythmic variations available.
In addition, one and two octave exercises can be in contrary motion.

These exercise can also be concatenated (e.g. one plus two plus three octave exercise).
Any key can be used.

A cadence sequence of 5 chords is available as a separate exercise.
Cadence at first inversion is available.

Exercise playing is scored and the score maintained in the playing history. A count of the number of gold stars (successful playing) and total points is also kept for the user to see progress.