The fingering videos, for any scale you choose.
The fingering videos on our Instagram come straight out of Daily Scales: the same music, the same fingerings, the same drawings. In the app you choose the instrument, the scale, the key and the speed, and it plays for as long as you want to practice.
One note at a time
The music scrolls past and the note you're playing lights up, so you never lose your place.
The fingering for every note
Valves, slide positions or fingers over each note. Woodwinds, brass and strings also get a drawing of the instrument that shows each fingering as it comes.
At your speed
Start as slowly as you need and turn the tempo up as the scale gets easier.
On iPhone and iPad
On iPad your instrument sits under the music. Turn your phone on its side and the music fills the screen.
Fingerings for 40 instruments.
Choose an instrument and a scale to see the page Daily Scales writes for it, in the right clef and range, with the valves, slide positions, string fingerings or piano fingers marked over the notes. In the app every one of them comes in all twelve keys.
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A complete scale book for every instrument.
One octave of C major is where most players start. After it come 35 scales, 34 arpeggios and chords, and 38 patterns to run them through, on all 40 instruments, in all twelve keys.
Every one of those scales and arpeggios in every key, through every pattern, in 15 rhythms, with 18 articulations, in 6 meters: 32,370,840 different exercises. More than you will ever finish, and every one of them ready to play with the band behind it. That count leaves out the dynamics, the direction, the inversions, and which of the 40 instruments it is written for.
Before you buy.
I'm just starting. Is it for me?
Yes. Start with one octave of a major scale at a slow tempo, with the fingering over every note. Set your range once and every exercise stays inside it, so the app never asks for a note you can't play yet.
Which instruments does it cover?
40 of them: woodwinds, brass, strings, keyboard, voice and pitched percussion, each with its own clef, range, transposition and fingerings. Find yours above.
Is it a subscription?
No. It's $9.99 once, with no account, no ads and no in-app purchases.
Does it need the internet?
No. Everything, the sounds included, is on your device, and the app collects nothing about you.
iPhone or iPad?
Both. One purchase works on every iPhone and iPad signed in to your Apple Account.
Practice with a band, not a metronome.
Most scale practice is done against a click. This one is done against a band that knows what you are reading: drums and a drone under every scale and every pattern, the whole rhythm section over a tune's changes. It re-rolls itself every chorus, so it never plays the same thing twice.
A drone that follows you
Set it once and leave it. It holds the tonic of whatever is on the page, and when the page changes key the drone changes with it. Going round the circle of fifths never means stopping to reset anything.
Drums that know what you're reading
They play the subdivision of the exercise you're working on: triplets get a swung ride, sixteenths get the grid underneath them. Eight styles, so you can put the scale in the feel you actually need it in.
Everything a practice session needs.
What breaks a practice session is rarely the playing. It's deciding what to play, remembering what you did yesterday, and keeping it inside a range that suits you. The app holds all of that so you can start on the first note.
Routines and grades
More than 100 ready-made sheets, graded from the first octave up. Or build your own and save it.
Your range, your clefs
Set your range once and every exercise stays inside it. Move it to drill the register you're working on.
Watch the days add up
The app counts the days you practiced. The streak is what gets you to the stand on a bad morning.
Stop deciding
Fill a hat with the scales and arpeggios you want, then let the app deal. No two sessions come out the same.
Print it, or send it
Any page exports as a PDF. Send it to anyone, whether or not they own Daily Scales.
iReal Pro import
Bring in your own tunes. Practice scale and arpeggio patterns over their changes.
Digital 1-2-3-5 over a turnaround
Run your patterns over the changes.
Knowing the chord scale is one thing. Playing it at tempo, over a tune, is the job. Paste an iReal Pro link and decide what gets written over those chords.
Any scale and arpeggio catalog can be written over chord changes, voice-led from one chord to the next, so the line stays in one register instead of leaping a tenth every bar.
Want it to build? Set the chorus plan and each pass moves up a level: guide tones, then arpeggios, then scales, then patterns. Want it to stay uncomfortable? Set a digital pattern and let it reshuffle its digits every chorus, so you drill all twenty-four orderings instead of the two your fingers already like.
Screenshot the lead sheet of your own book and import it into Daily Scales, and practice the head while the band plays the form behind you.
An app for students of all levels.
Students tend to practice the keys they already play well. Build them a practice routine that gives them more variety: anything from one octave scales with the fingerings written in to dominant 13th arpeggios in 3rd inversion around the cycle of fourths. Randomize as much as you like so no two weeks look the same.
A student reading a pattern they have never seen in a key they avoid is sight reading as well as practicing. They stop hunting for the notes and start moving around the instrument, and the harmony they were taught in theory class turns into something under their fingers.
Send it whichever way suits: as an image over text, as a PDF, or as a QR code they scan into their own copy of Daily Scales and practice with the drums and drone behind them.
I made Daily Scales to push my own technique, and to give my students something better than a metronome to work against: a drone to tune to and a band to play with. It has been honed and tested by working orchestral musicians, and my students at the Conservatoire play from it every week.
Something new to practice every day.
Daily Scales is for iPhone and iPad for now, and is coming soon to Google Play. Follow @daily.scales for the videos.
One purchase, yours on every iPhone and iPad signed in to your Apple Account.