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RILS Project: Tonara

Tonara application for iPad was created to enhance the learning curve for learning and memorizing musical scores.  By adding a digital score reader, a musician could enlist a digital practice partner for recording and real-time feedback.

Quite a few issues were encountered.  The student selected to review Tonara was a proficient musician, however her primary instrument was Mellophone.  Secondly, the student had to borrow the iPad from the instructor which created a conflict for sharing the recorded exercises.  Both parties must have access to iPads as there is not PC version of Tonara.  Interestingly, Tonara is not available for iTouch or iPhone which created a similar problem for sharing the files.  Collaboration and feedback can only occur if all parties have iPad and the Tonara app.

I plan to continue to use for personal musical feedback.  Otherwise, Tonara is a good start for a digital practice partner, but not for general collaboration at this time.

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Upon further review, I found that Tonara is limited is it's scope.  The user is relegated to the music catalog.  There is no way to upload or add other material.  Secondly, the offerings are for persons who have a working knowledge of sight-reading music and playing from a written score.  There are no offerings or drills for the novice.  So I could not use this with my beginning student. 

There was also a glitch in the program that was due to the sensitivity of the speakers.  The application does not discern the music being played from extraneous noises, therefore causing the Tonara Magic to respond to everything is "hears".  This creates a conflict with the cursor that is following the score causing it to get stuck or rush ahead.  There was also a lag with the page turner option.  Several times the experienced student was forced to manually turn the page because the Tonara did not "hear" the correct placement in the measure.

For all intents and purposes Tonara is simply digital sheet music for the experienced musician.  The features a limited, but, for the scores available Tonara can be used as a practice partner and for recorded feedback.

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I have decided to use my RILS to further discover the functions of Tonara.  I am interested to find how Tonara can be used for teaching, collaborating and sharing.  I have determined that I will try the application with two students, one with no musical training and one with over 15 years experience. 

The idea is to find out what level of musical fluency a student must have to use the Tonara.  I also would like to determine is Tonara is applicable for the beginning student.  One finding is that the music catalog is limited by the types of scores available.   I have selected pieces that should be playable by my experienced student.  However, I am challenged to find material for my new student.  

In order to master Tonara, I am personally working on several scores that will be shared through the record and sharing option.  I have enlisted a private instructor to ascertain if this is a helpful tool for feedback.

BP7_Tonara iMovie

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