The Whole Horn: Scale Practice
iOS app by Thomas Hornig. Education · Thomas Hornig
- Store rating
- 5 / 5
- Store rating count
- 4
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 1.4.1
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-17
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Every scale, already transposed for your instrument. Free, with no account and no subscription. Pick your horn — alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, clarinet, flute, oboe, trombone, cello, voice, even timpani — and every scale appears in the right written key, the right clef, and your instrument's real range. Sixty-nine instruments. All twelve keys. No mental math. Press Play. FOR TEACHERS — ONE LINK, NO ACCOUNTS Build the week you want your student practising: the exercise, the key, the tempo, the note values, the hours. Tap once and you get a single link. Paste it into Google Classroom, a group chat or an email. Your student taps it and the app opens already set up — their instrument, their transposition, their clef. Nothing to sign into. No roster, no student list, no password, no data collected. Everything you can assign is free, so no student ever meets a paywall inside their own homework. WHAT'S FREE, AND STAYS FREE • All 12 major scales, every key, up to two octaves, on all 69 instruments • Read-along notation that scrolls as you play, in your instrument's own written key and clef • Automatic transposition and clef for winds, brass, strings, voice and percussion • The tonic and dominant-7th arpeggios • The Milestone — every note tongued 16·8·4·2·1, through the whole range • Long tones, vibrato, and the ear-training games • The Tuning Room — just intonation against equal temperament, and why your tuner says 440 • Maqam Rast, with real quarter tones • Tempo control, articulation, note values from quarters to sixteenths, ABC or Do-Ré-Mi names THE FULL STUDIO — ONE PAYMENT, NEVER A SUBSCRIPTION Unlock once and it is yours, including every future update: minor scales and their arpeggios, intervals, patterns and shapes, chords, pentatonics, the seven modes and the ii–V–I, chromatic technique, whole-tone and diminished, the extended range, overtone training and voicing, the 46-rudiment snare canon, and the remaining twenty-one maqamat. ABOUT THE CONNECTION The trainer works offline — the scales, the notation, the metronome and the sound all run on your device. The spoken lessons stream from thewholehorn.com, so those need a connection. WHY TWELVE KEYS? A STORY. I grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, in the Thomas Jefferson High School band program, led by Dr. Earl C. Benson, who gave us more performing experience across more styles and stages than most players get in a lifetime. My saxophone teacher, Richard Dirlam, insisted I learn all twelve major scales cold. Because he insisted, when I was sixteen and staring at a big band chart I couldn't read, I could hear my way through a solo — the whole tune lived inside one major scale, and I owned that scale. That was the moment I became a musician. Forty years later I built the practice tool I wish I'd had then. This app is my turn to make the impression those two teachers made on me. WHO IT'S FOR The adult returning to an instrument set down years ago. The serious amateur who never stopped. T
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