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App Description

The OFFICIAL ABRSM Piano Practice Partner is a simple way to make practising your ABRSM Exam pieces more musical, enjoyable and rewarding.

"… immeasurably valuable for learning new repertoire … the app is brilliantly easy to navigate and inviting to use." BBC Music Magazine

Let Piano Practice Partner play one hand while you play the other as you learn.

Use the ABRSM Piano Practice Partner to:
• Practise each hand separately to improve your fluency – focus on your left hand technique while Practice Partner plays the right hand, for example.
• Make practice more musical and enjoyable by having a virtual partner to play along with.
• Improve your control and general piano technique, helping you to become a more fluent pianist.
• Slow down or speed up the music to a tempo that suits you, for slow careful practice.
• Set loops to repeat parts of your piece if you need to focus on one section.
• Learn to memorise your music for more secure performances.
• Personalise it! Choose from over 20 different hands to customise your Practice Partner.

Piano Practice Partner comes with three examples of music from Grades Initial, 5 and 7 of the NEW ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces 2023 & 2024.

In app you may purchase:
• Grade selections
- All pieces from the 2023 & 2024 ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Initial Grade - Grade 8.
- All other (alternative) pieces from the ABRSM Piano Syllabus for Initial Grade - Grade 8.

• Individual pieces
- Any individual piece from the 2023 & 2024 ABRSM Piano Syllabus, Initial Grade - Grade 8.*
*Pieces A4-A10, B4-B10 & C4-C10 from each Grade can be purchased within the 2021 & 2022 syllabus.

The following pieces from earlier ABRSM syllabuses are also available to purchase in-app:

• 2021 & 2022 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-8.
- All other (alternative) pieces from the ABRSM Piano Syllabus for Grades 1-8.

• 2019 & 2020 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-8.
- All other (alternative) pieces from the ABRSM Piano Syllabus for Grades 1-8.

• 2017 & 2018 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-8.

• 2015 & 2016 syllabus
- All pieces from the ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces books for Grades 1-3.
- All other (alternative) pieces from the ABRSM Piano Syllabus for Grades 1-3.

Please note that it is not possible to use standard audio files or CD recordings with Piano Practice Partner. Piano Practice Partner uses custom file formats that provide separate playback of left- and right-hand parts. This content is more feature-rich and uses very different technology to standard audio files. It is therefore only possible to buy these specialised Practice Partner pieces from within the app via in-app purchase.

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App Changes

• July 30, 2014 Initial release
• September 13, 2014 New version 0.7.8
• October 10, 2014 New version 0.8.1
• May 29, 2015 New version 0.8.2
• July 08, 2016 New version 2.0
• June 13, 2019 New version 3.1
• September 11, 2019 New version 3.2
• September 30, 2019 New version 3.2.1
• July 15, 2020 New version 4.0
• December 09, 2020 New version 4.1
• September 16, 2023 New version 4.2.1
• November 15, 2023 New version 4.3