Treble Trouble

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• Small steps, five paths

  Piano keys, Treble, Bass, Beats and Tunes. Every lesson goes learn, practice, quiz, with helpers along the way and no timer or lives.

• A real piano sound

  Every note plays on a sampled piano. Tap a note on the staff or a key on the keyboard to hear it.

• Feel the beat

  A soft metronome counts along while kids tap rhythms. Half, whole and eighth notes, quarter, half, whole and eighth rests, counting in three and dotted notes, then what each one is worth: ¼, ½, 1 and ⅛ of a whole note.

• Famous tunes

  Fifteen public-domain tunes, from Hot Cross Buns and Twinkle, Twinkle to Für Elise. Name each lit-up note, then find it on the keys.

• Notes, keys or beats

  Practice note names on the staff, keys on the keyboard, or note lengths. Pick treble, bass or both, add sharps and flats, and read one note or a four-note card.

• Three challenges

  Race the clock for one to three minutes with three lives, run a drill of 10, 20 or 30 questions, or play survival until the third miss.

• Progress and best scores

  The Results tab keeps progress through each path, plus the best score and streak for every game.

• 16 languages, your note names

  Notes read as letters (C D E), solfège (Do Re Mi) or German names (H, Fis, Es), matched to the language and changeable in Settings. Arabic, Persian and Hebrew read right to left.

• iPhone and iPad

  Portrait or landscape. On iPad the staff, keys and answer chips grow a size. Light and dark themes.

• Private and ad-free

  No accounts, ads, analytics or tracking. Progress stays on the device and in your own iCloud, and links out of the app wait behind a quick grown-up check.

Free to copy for your own learners: sheet music for every tune, a worksheet for every lesson (with its answer key and a page for grown-ups), and practice pages. They're US Letter and print on A4 too. Each sheet's QR code opens its lesson in the app; inside the app they come in your child's language, on A4 or Letter, with a fresh set of questions each time.

Free download

Includes all piano-key lessons, the staff basics, the first treble notes (G, middle C, high C), the first two tunes, and the treble notes and keys games.

Full version

One in-app purchase, no subscription, and it works with Family Sharing. Opens the rest of the treble lessons, all bass and beat lessons, the rest of the tunes, bass and sharps and flats in the notes game, and the beats game.

Questions, bugs or ideas? See Treble Trouble Support, email support@zubin.dev or message me on X (@zkmake). The app collects no personal data; the privacy policy has the details.

Languages: English, Español, Deutsch, Français, فارسی, العربية, 日本語, 中文, 한국어, हिन्दी, Português, Italiano, Русский, Türkçe, 繁體中文, עברית.