Bass Sight Reading Trainer

Sight-reading skills open the door to reading written music and familiarizing yourself with various music styles. Sight-reading is not a daunting task, and with sufficient practice, anyone can develop this valuable skill.

Our app is designed to help you quickly identify notes across every part of the fretboard, with a special focus on positional playing.

By enhancing your sight-reading abilities, you'll find it easier to focus on other musical aspects like harmony and rhythm.

Features:

Practice & test mode

Four different modes of use:

1. Locate notes on the fretboard based on the notes in staff.
2. Locate notes on the fretboard based on note name and pitch.
3. Find the names of notes on the staff (without the fretboard)
4. Identify the names of notes presented on the fretboard.

Automatic detection of problematic notes.

Key signatures & scales

Key signature support, from 1 to 6 sharps or 1 to 6 flats.

Automatic selection of the enharmonic notes for each scale to prevent double sharps or double flats in the key signature.

Scales include major, minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor, blues, pentatonic, and all modal scales.

Frets, strings & note selection

Support for 4, 5 and 6 string bass guitars.

Frets are grouped to limit the number of notes to practice and test.

Predefined fret groups, e.g., 0-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 0-12, 13-17, etc.

You can define custom fret groups.

The highlighted fret group is displayed on the fretboard.

Your sight-reading progress is tracked per fret group.

The longest streak record per fret group measures your sight-reading accuracy.

You can select specific strings for the highlighted area.

Test notes can be limited to naturals or notes from a selected scale.

Read ahead

Reading ahead is a crucial skill for effective sight-reading.

You can adjust the number of notes to read ahead.

Other

Several alternate tunings are available for 4, 5, and 6-string bass guitars.

Optional extra treble clef for iPad.

Support for left-handed bass guitars.

Option to display the fretboard in perspective (in landscape mode).

A universal app compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

Supports all screen sizes.

No ads or in-app purchases.

Dark mode support (iOS 13+).

Tested on iOS and iPadOS 17.