App For Making Music Series Of Lessons

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Cant play an instrument The world could still be a stage for your musical talents.

Here are 10 apps to try if you want to see what songs are lurking inside your brain waiting to get out.

Figure is for everyone though: a tactile treat of an app to create electronic loops using drums, bass and lead melodies, with no prior knowledge required.

You can also check out and remix other peoples loops, and share your own.

This is its app for home-karaoke singers: you can wail along to a big catalogue of tracks, and even duet with other users.

A monthly 2.29 subscription gets you access to everything, while the chance to virtually sing with top stars can be a springboard to success.

You can buy packs of sounds from individual artists, then remix or create new tunes as you like.

Its easy to start using, but with plenty of depth to explore as you get more confident.

Stringing together drums, bass, guitar and piano to make your own tracks is easy especially with its smart instruments but the difficulty curve into doing more interesting and unique stuff is well judged too.

Its a colourful, character-based sequencer for kids: they drag coloured shapes into place on a timeline to trigger different sounds and animations for the animals on-screen.

They can have up to four at once: essentially a four-track music tool where the tracks are a gorilla, a pig, a sloth and an octopus.

This is a generative music app made by musician Brian Eno and his development partner Peter Chilvers, whose previous collaboration Bloom is also worth a look.

Its excellent working music, and an interesting insight into the area of generative music read this 2012 interview for more on Eno and Chilvers aims.

This app sees you arranging loops and samples as well as your own vocal recordings into songs.

DM1 is a good introduction: a drum machine that combines faithful sounds with intuitive controls: fun to mess around with, but also a good app for working on early ideas if youre a more experienced musician.

App For Making Music Series Of Lessons

It gets you to prop your iPhone up near your piano or keyboard, and then work your way through a series of lessons.

The app uses the iPhone microphone to listen to what youre playing, and rate your skills.

Its not the first app with this idea, but its one of the most accessible and fun.

Particularly if you have some Android recommendations: there are plenty of very good music-making apps on Android for more experienced musicians, but a dearth of good ones for novices.

The likes of Pacemaker, Edjing and Djay will have their time in the sun, but not just yet.

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