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Yes! Appcompanist now offers a variety of School Licenses, Private Voice Studio Licenses, and a Choral Director Subscription (which licenses free use of the full Choral+ library for choir member listed by the Director subscriber), and student discounts. For more information, please visit the website, Appcompanist.com, or reach out directly to us at info@appcompanist.com.

The new Choral Feature, which allows users to emphasize one or more vocal parts against the accompaniment for part learning and practice, makes it possible for Appcompanist to begin including duets, trios, ensemble pieces, full roles and even all vocal parts of complete shows or operas. However, our concentration is still on building the most comprehensive library of solo vocal repertoire and choral music possible, so, if you have a specific suggestion for multi-part or ensemble pieces, feel free to contact us at info@appcompanist.com. We have added thousands of accompaniments by user request in just the last year, and we are not slowing down on recording any time soon. So, go ahead and request away, and we’ll work duets, trios, roles, and other ensemble pieces in as we can.

If there is a pop song that is often sung by musical theater singers or is part of a Broadway show, it may well appear in the Appcompanist Library already. If not, go ahead and request it at info@appcompanist.com. Also, now that the exercise, classical vocal, and musical theater libraries are well over 11,000 titles, we are starting to add popular songs, jazz standards, spirituals, folk songs, and a wide variety of songs that singers want to sing. We’ve added over 3,500 titles by user request in just the last eighteen months, so we love hearing from the singers and teachers in our community. Let us know what you need.

To begin with, we wanted to make sure we emphasized musicality in all of our recordings, so that our collaborative pianists and coaches could help guide singers toward a solid, musical performance, even if they chose not to use any of the musical controls of the app. And we counted on the player controls we offer to allow singers to further customize and control the music to better suit their own interpretations.

However, over the course of several years, we realized that going to a “straighter” interpretation in recordings actually allows the app to be more effectively used in rep learning, practice and even performance. We also learned that interpretive qualities like rubato and fermata could more easily be added, using the tempo controls, fermata button, custom version feature, etc. when the initial recording wasn’t quite as interpretive.

Therefore, we occasionally go back and re-recorded pieces that took so much liberty that they became a little tough to follow. If you run across such a piece, just reach out to us at info@appcompanist.com and we’ll work to fix it or add another version. Our current recording protocols are for the players to give a fairly straight, but musical interpretation. So, in time the entire library should reflect that priority.

Song settings such as key, tempo, melody blend and melody octave are all automatically saved when you close a song, so that the next time you open that song, it will play exactly as it did when you left off. You can clear all settings and restore to the original recorded settings by tapping the three dots in the lower right hand corner of the play screen and tapping “Reset Song Settings.”

You can also save all tempo changes and fermata changes that you make to a song during play by using the Create Custom Version feature. See Create Custom Version in the Using Appcompanist section of the website.