Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
Photo: Ketut Subiyanto
Utilizing powerful Optical Music Recognition (OMR) software, PlayScore can snap a picture of a piece of sheet music and play it almost instantly using a range of musical voices. It's a great app for anyone learning an instrument, or singers who are in need of virtual accompaniment.
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Read More »It’s worth noting that while undoubtedly impressive, there are a few things which PlayScore seems to struggle with – and which you may notice when scanning in sheet music yourself. We noticed that PlayScore has some difficulty with tied notes – where individual notes of the same pitch are joined together to create one long, continuous note. In our testing, PlayScore read tied notes as two separate notes, which impacted upon the playback. And while you can manually set the tempo of a piece, disappointingly PlayScore often overlooks speed notation positioned above bars or phrases. It stormed past a noted ritardando – which calls for a gradual slowing of tempo – a number of times in our testing, even when scanning in optimum conditions. This could be a major bugbear for singers using PlayScore as a makeshift accompanist, as you’ll need to manually adjust the tempo using PlayScore’s slider to achieve the desired effect. Finally, we found that PlayScore struggles to simulate the sustain pedal when using the piano voice, and that more generally, dynamics (how loud or soft a piece is meant to be played) were a bit sporadic. At certain times, PlayScore seemed to follow markings for an increase or decrease in volume. At others, individual notes were played unexpectedly loud for no apparent reason. The app allows you to scan and play single-page scores for free, and if somebody else sends you a full score you can open that without paying too. Beyond that you’ll need to sign up for a monthly subscription ($4/£4) to unlock multi-page scanning and more. Ultimately, despite a couple of bumps along the road, PlayScore is a genuinely impressive, thoughtful, and useful tool that any musician should consider downloading.
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