How about Piano-Olympics?

A new free olympic-themed piano app let’s you learn&play national anthem and represent your country playing them against people from all over the world. It’s the world’s first global music competition app - activated also by a real piano! Piano Summer Games by JoyTunes. Free for iPad/iPhone/iPod for the duration of the Olympics.

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What Are The Musical Capabilities of an iPad?

There aren’t many technical advances over the last fifty years that the music industry hasn’t been hugely affected by. Television and cable, digital radio, computers, the internet. Music is susceptable to change, and by its very nature has to be constantly evolving. Great! Who wouldn’t want the industry to move on and advance with technology, as a great man once prophecised, “the times they are a changin’”.

So here we are in the 21st Century, and the mobile revolution is upon us. Tablet devices are all the rage and Apple continue to dominate. “There’s an App for that” as the mantra goes, but is there an App (or combination of apps) suitable for producing a chart-worthy piece of music? Let’s investigate.

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Learning Piano With an iPad?

There are dozens of piano apps out there that tell us they are “the easiest way to learn piano”. Of course, that’s pretty stupid. No iPad app is going to replace a piano teacher any time soon. However, there’s one new piano app that made a nice step in the Mus-Ed direction, and let’s you play dozens of songs using your own piano or keyboard (or on-screen touch piano). it’s called Piano Dust Buster and it’s even free.

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Perfect Pitch Piano: Learn to Play Piano by Ear

Perfect Pitch Piano is an app that teaches you to play piano by ear.

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Frisco School of Music Students create band using iPads

The Frisco School of Music presents “iBand”. This is an advanced class taught by Gabriel Batista with all of the instruments being iPad Apps. All of the students are taking music lessons at the school and were able transfer those skills to the various iPad applications.

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Hoodgrown Magazine: The First Hip Hop iPad Magazine App Launches!

What started as a print magazine that ceased publication due to increasing print cost and decreasing advertising revenue has returned as the first hip hop magazine app to hit the Apple store. Spearheaded by Chris “Cartel” English and Lord Jamar (of Brand Nubian fame), the Hoodgrown Magazine app is now available for download in the Apple App store.

“Though the website has been gaining in popularity I always knew that one day we would return to our print roots.” says Hoodgrown’s CEO, Chris English. “This app allows us to combine the best of the print and web experience in a whole new package. I’ll admit it took a little longer to bring to fruition than I would have liked, but already we’re improving on design and interactive elements.”

The app ia available as a free download in the app store as will each issue due to it’s advertiser supported model.

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