App Description

Rutabaga is a simple tool for practicing music in every key. Select a time duration to spend per key (beats, seconds or minutes), press play and Rutabaga will loop randomly through the 12 root notes and their enharmonic equivalents. The rest is up to you. Use Rutabaga as part of your regular practice routine to drill the fundamentals of music theory, language and technique. Try it with scales, intervals, chords, inversions, progressions, lines, riffs, runs and solos. Anything that should be practiced in every key.

Examples:
- Set Rutabaga to 4 beats per key and practice jazz 2-5-1 chord progressions.
- Set Rutabaga to 48 beats per key and practice 12-bar-blues.
- Set Rutabaga to 8 beats per key and practice chord inversions.
- Set Rutabaga to 2 minutes per key and practice scales.
- Set Rutabaga to 5 minutes per key and practice improvising.

Rutabaga includes a metronome and a stopwatch, both optional, and has a clean, distraction free interface that works in all orientations for convenient use on a music stand or wherever you practice.

Rutabaga's algorithm for randomizing keys ensures you will never see the same key twice within a sequence of 12 keys and the pattern will never repeat.

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • April 21, 2018 Initial release