Best Apps for Learning Musical Instruments (Android & iOS)

Let’s say you’ve been wanting to learn how to play the guitar or the piano, or read musical notes for quite a while now. Still, the thing is, taking classes online can be pricey, and watching an entire tutorial on YouTube can be tedious– especially if you have a short attention span. So, here are some of the best apps that you can try to learn musical instruments.

Yousician

Yousician is your music tutor, covering Guitar, Piano, Singing, Ukulele, and Bass. The app listens to you play and gives instant feedback on your accuracy and timing. It offers a step-by-step video tutorial guide that will guide you through each lesson. It has over 1,500 missions & exercises, with hundreds of videos, covering all the skills you need: sight reading sheet music, classical and pop songs for piano, and for guitar and ukulele, you’ll learn chords, strumming, melodies, lead, fingerpicking and more.

Yousician also offers music theory and includes individual trainers for each skill and chord. It’s free for trial, and you can avail of its subscriptions annually and monthly. Prices may vary in different countries.

Download: Android | iOS

Simply Piano

Simply Piano is a fast and fun way to learn piano. The app is perfect both for complete beginners and pros. It includes courses for different musical tastes and playing levels, and it is also capable of slowing down songs from your library for easy learning. Just place your device on your acoustic/MIDI Piano or keyboard and play. The app will immediately recognize what you are playing, and you’ll instant feedback on your playing to quickly learn and improve your piano skills.

Download: Android | iOS

Perfect Ear

Perfect Ear provides you with high quality, unique ear training, rhythm training, and solfège capabilities. The app is ideal both for beginners and pros. It comes with customizable interval, scale, chord and rhythm training exercises, as well as melodic dictation exercises. You can create custom scales, chords, and chord progressions for practices.

Apart from those, the app also offers sight-reading trainer, absolute pitch trainer, and note singing trainer.

Download: Android | iOS 

Ukulele Tuner and Learn Ukeoke

Ukeoke breaks down your favorite songs into simple ukulele chords so that you can master them in an instant, with no knowledge of tabs or sheet music required. Songs are displayed in a play-along style with easy chords, adjustable backing tracks, and lyrics.

The app listens to you play and gives you feedback on how to improve. It also includes an accurate and easy-to-use tuner.

Download: Android | iOS

And there you go. Do you have anything else to recommend? Share it with us in the comments below!