Detailed feature reference
Ear-first and groove guide
CADENCE — HEAR IT. CARRY IT. FIND IT. Learn → Practice & review → Hear & sing starts or resumes a short ear-first session. No account, AI credits or source book is needed. These are original exercises. 1. Hear: a home note, a breath, then a three- or four-note phrase. Let playback finish. Stopping it does not move the session forward. 2. Imagine: leave a few seconds of silence and hear the phrase internally. Cadence does not claim to measure your imagination. 3. Sing: explicitly enable the microphone, then sing each note for about half a second. Any comfortable octave is accepted, provided the whole phrase keeps its key and intervals. A repeated note needs a brief breath. Check the captured phrase when ready. No recording is saved or uploaded. 4. Play: connect the Roland FP-10 by USB, select it under Keyboard, and capture one note at a time. Release each key; pedal does not join successive notes. Use the piano's own sound. The reference octave is shown. Check the whole phrase when ready. A chord gesture invalidates that take; restart capture. 5. Review: compare the pitches, their order and movable-Do syllables. Singing and keyboard answers have distinct evidence and review schedules. Solfège is available as deliberate support. Opening it or replaying a phrase marks the remaining answers in that round supported, even if a replay is stopped. The global solfège setting for other exercises never reveals these answers. You can skip singing or keyboard without an inferred grade or a review penalty. A difficult, supported or skipped opening leads to the same phrase again. A clean opening leads to another shape. The final round uses a different key with hints tucked away. It is a fresh attempt within this session; the fixed transfer is not guaranteed to be unfamiliar across repeated sessions. The shared review policy brings misses back in about ten minutes, supported matches in about twenty minutes, and independent matches initially tomorrow. Repeating a phrase in the same session does not extend its review twice. Due ear phrases take priority when the next session begins. Unseen phrases follow. This initial deck has six major-key shapes in C, D, F and G, in two reference octaves. It checks pitch and note order, not rhythm or vocal technique. Committed stages and results survive restart. One active session and the most recent twenty completed sessions are retained. Failed saves keep a pending action in memory with Retry saving / Discard; save before quitting to retain it. Microphone and MIDI capture must be re-armed after returning to the screen. Headphones help prevent reference playback being picked up by the microphone. FIND YOUR PLACE IN THE BAND Learn → Practice & review → Find the groove opens the accompaniment lab. Start with Dm7 → G7 → Cmaj7 → Cmaj7, a one-bar count-in and 1–4 rounds. Choose On the beat, Offbeat comping or Swing eighths; adjust 50–160 bpm. Swing here uses a fixed 2:1 eighth-note ratio, not a universal swing model. Listen once. Then choose Take the piano part to mute the piano and play along. Piano, bass and drums can be muted separately. Acoustic and electric piano sounds are available. Changes stop playback and take effect on the next take. All parts share one audio clock. The chord strip follows the estimated audible position. A connected keyboard lights the keys; its own sound is used live. These are unscored listening/play-along takes. Use Practise rhythm taps for existing assessed tapping exercises, or Follow the changes for chord practice. The app now bundles TimGM6mb sampled instruments: acoustic/electric piano, acoustic bass and standard drums. Normal note, chord, score and study playback uses sampled piano. Metronome clicks and existing timed exercise reference tracks retain their established synthesis. This is a compact first sound bank, not a concert-piano library. See Resources/SoundBanks for source and GPL-2 terms. VALIDATION AND LIMITS Virtual MIDI and generated tones exercise the production capture path; audio rendering, save recovery, target hiding and adaptive review have regressions. No physical FP-10 or live microphone trial was available for this release. Use the bundled verification report for exact results. Room noise and breathy or rapidly changing singing can need a second take. This transparent authored practice policy is not a calibrated mastery estimate or an efficacy study.