Bow Quest is a game that listens to your child's real violin or viola. Every piece is a quest, every note is heard, and every practice session earns coins. For children of about 6 to 12, and for the teachers and parents behind them.
Free to install. Works with a real violin or viola.
Open the app, pick violin or viola, and tune with the built-in tuner. No cable, no pickup, just the microphone of the phone, tablet or PC.
Pieces are shown in standard notation, with a metronome or a piano accompaniment. Slow the tempo down, or learn a piece one note at a time in walk-through mode.
Right after playing, the game shows the pitch and timing of each note. Good playing earns coins, and coins unlock stories, characters and equipment.
The map is divided into 12 areas, each one a violin or viola skill: pizzicato, bowing, finger patterns, string crossings and more. The pieces in an area start simple and grow.
From the very first open strings to Twinkle Twinkle, Ode to Joy, Bach's Minuet in G, Pachelbel's Canon and Vivaldi's Spring, with folk tunes, blues and pieces written for the game.
Practice time is counted only while the instrument is actually being played. Parents and teachers see the time, the pieces and the scores.
A teacher assigns pieces in the app and sees the results as soon as they are played. The student sees what to practise next.
The world has creatures and stories to discover. Playing earns coins, and coins open the stories and the shop. The only way to earn them is to play.
One account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows. Practise on the family computer, continue on a tablet.
No more fights over ten minutes of practice. See what was played, for how long and how well, even when you cannot tell a good note from a bad one.
For parentsAssign homework, follow each student's practice and scores, and use the library in class. Teachers get Bow Quest for free.
For teachersOne licence for every teacher and student of the school, with a discount for institutions. Ask us for a quote.
For schoolsBow Quest began in 2019 when our own three children loved music lessons but not practice. We built the game around their violins and cellos, tested it at our kitchen table and with their teachers, and have been improving it since. Read the story.
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Free to install. Works with a real violin or viola.