ABRSM Piano Practice Partner vs TunyStones Piano - read music Usage & Stats
The OFFICIAL ABRSM Piano Practice Partner is a simple way to make practising your ABRSM Exam pieces more musical, enjoyable and rewarding.
"… immeasurably valuable for learning new repertoire … the app is brilliantly easy to navigate and inviting to use." BBC Music Magazine
Let Piano Practice Partner play one hand while you play the other as you learn.
Use the ABRSM Piano Practice Partner to:
• Practise each hand separately to improve your fluency – focus on your left hand technique while Practice Partner plays the right hand.
• Make practice more musical and enjoyable by having a virtual partner to play along with.
• Improve your control and general piano technique, helping you to become a more fluent pianist.
• Slow down or speed up the music to a tempo that suits you, for slow careful practice.
• Set loops to repeat parts of your piece if you need to focus on one section.
• Learn to memorise your music for more secure performances.
• Personalise it! Choose from over 20 different hands to customise your Practice Partner.
Piano Practice Partner comes with two examples of music from Grade 3 and Grade 6 of the NEW ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026.
In app you may purchase:
• Grade selections
- All pieces from the 2025 & 2026 ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Initial Grade - Grade 8.
The following pieces from earlier ABRSM syllabuses are also available to purchase in-app:
• 2023 & 2024 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-8.
- All other (alternative) pieces from the ABRSM Piano Syllabus for Grades 1-8.
• 2021 & 2022 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-8.
- All other (alternative) pieces from the ABRSM Piano Syllabus for Grades 1-8.
• 2019 & 2020 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-8.
- All other (alternative) pieces from the ABRSM Piano Syllabus for Grades 1-8.
• 2017 & 2018 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-8.
• 2015 & 2016 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-3.
- All other (alternative) pieces from the ABRSM Piano Syllabus for Grades 1-3.
Please note, it is not possible to upload standard audio files or CD recordings with Piano Practice Partner. Piano Practice Partner uses custom file formats which provide separate playback of left- and right-hand parts.It is therefore only possible to buy these specialised Practice Partner pieces from within the app via in-app purchase.
ABRSM
ABRSM is the leading authority on musical assessment. More than 650,000 candidates, in over 90 countries, take our exams every year.
Our mission
To set standards in providing the highest quality music exams, services and resources, which engage and sustain ever more teachers and learners, enabling us to increase our support for music education.
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TunyStones is created by piano educators for piano educators and their students.
- Works with any piano or keyboard.
- Supports teachers and motivates pupils
- Teaches from scratch - no previous knowledge required!
- Enhances creativity with reading, composition and improvisation features
- Allows you to compose your own music
- Turns music reading into a great adventure and your piano into a game-controller
- This smart app automatically adjusts to different learning types/speeds
- Includes introduction levels to provide a general understanding for music notation
- The game is nonverbal: you play and understand how it works, while playing!
Content:
- Melodies by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and popular tunes
- Specially conceived Music Reading Exercises
- 126 levels + the possibility to create your own levels!
How it works:
- Place your tablet (iPad) on your piano or keyboard.
- Meet Tuny, the main character of the game, whose movements you control with your music
- The piano is now your game-controller: play sounds and Tuny will move accordingly
- Have fun: swim along rivers, cross rapids, jump on stones
- Without even noticing you will progress in reading music very quickly!
Try it for free!
TunyStones is a widely tested, science-based method developed by music educators at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Basel, Switzerland.
It is produced by the SwissMusic Lab GmbH.
We are always striving to improve your playtime. Please contact us with any questions, feedback or suggestions!
Contact: info@tunystones.com
Additional Information for Music Educators on the didactic content:
Cleff Mountain I – the Mountain with one peak
Start learning with Cleff Mountain I.
- Establishes a general orientation in the notation system
- Introduces music intervals: prime, second and third
- Contains: „Ode to Joy“, „Kuckuck“, Haydn‘s „Surprise Symphony“ and specially conceived Music Reading Exercises
Cleff Mountain II – the Mountain with two peaks
Continue learning with Cleff Mountain II, after you have completed all levels of Cleff Mountain I.
- Trains content from Cleff Mountain I
- Introduces music intervals: fourth and fifth
- Contains: „Frère Jacques“, „Happy Birthday“, „Eine kleine Nachtmusik“, „Twinkle, Twinkle little Star“ (original version and variation by Mozart) and specially conceived Music Reading Exercises.
Composition Mountain – the Mountain with multiple peaks
- Allows the creation of your own melodies
- Enhances creativity
- Enables you to jump along your own melodies with Tuny
- This feature encourages everybody to compose
- Can be used by teachers to compose for your own students and by students to compose their own melodies/levels
For further information, please see our Terms of Use: https://tunystones.com/terms-of-use/
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ABRSM Piano Practice Partner VS. 
TunyStones Piano - read musicDecember 15, 2024