The iPhone App Review : iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad App News & Reviews

BandMaster: Jam With a Jazz Quartet Anytime

Price: $14.99    Score: 10/10    By Michelle Schusterman I have a lot of apps, and that’s putting it mildly. But I have to say, as a musician, I’ve never been more excited about an app than I am about this one. BandMaster, created by RoGame Software, is an app very similar in concept to Band-in-the-Box, allowing [...]

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Dr. Billy Taylor’s Jazz Piano App is Perfect for Any Jazz Collection

Price: FREE    Rating: 9/10    By Michelle Schusterman This app is a must-have for any fan or student of jazz music. Jazz Piano celebrates the life and music of the prolific Dr. Billy Tayor, a leader in the jazz world who, in his late eighties, continues to perform and educate regularly. The app opens to a [...]

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Ringostation – Ringtones for iPhone

It’s not easy finding quality ringtones for the iPhone is it? Actually, it’s rather comical when you consider that the world’s most advanced mobile phone lacks a true ringtone service that can provide wide variety and high quality. That’s why we were more than pleasantly surprised to discover an iPhone ringtone provider called Ringostation. Ringostation.com [...]

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7 Chords is a Must-Have App for Guitarists

Price: $1.99    Score: 9/10    by Shaun Campbell Teaching yourself the guitar is not an easy task. I picked up my first guitar a few years ago and started out the same way most people do – find a song you like, and try to play it. So you search the internet for the tab or [...]

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Shazam Updated – Now a must-have app

The popular music identification software for iPhone, Shazam, has just released a major update (v1.5). This update brings with it a host of new features, but there is one stand-out improvement that now makes Shazam a must-have app. You now have the ability to store “pending tags” for when you don’t have access to the [...]

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DigiDrummer Lite – Drum Simulator App

DigiDrummer Lite is a free drum emulation app for the Apple iPhone. It’s basically a stripped down version of DigiDrummer, the full-featured older brother. DigiDrummer Lite provides you with a basic virtual ‘kit’, on which you can fool around and create some simple beats. This “Lite” version comes with a kick (bass), snare, open/closed high-hat, [...]

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MiniPiano App Review

MiniPiano is a free piano emulation application for the Apple iPhone. It is available for download from the App Store. MiniPiano is a stripped down version of the FingerPiano application, by developer Junpei Wada. As you’d assume, this app operates like a ‘real’ piano -- you press down the keys on the screen with your [...]

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Review of Shazam for iPhone

Shazam is a free application for the iPhone, available for download from the Apple App Store. What Shazam aims to do is to identify music (song name, artist, album) that is playing around you – on the radio, on TV or at the cinema. Almost everyone has experienced that moment when you hear a great [...]

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Ocarina App for iPhone

The Ocarina application by Smule is the first true native instrument designed specifically for the iPhone, and currently one of the most popular paid downloads in the Apple App store. If you have never heard of an ocarina before, you’re probably not alone. It is the instrument made famous by the hugely popular Zelda game [...]

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