The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) has launched a new iPhone app aimed at developing music students’ aural skills. The app is designed to improve skills such as sight-singing, the sense of pulse and meter, and musical memory.

The ABRSM is known to many as an examining board for students, with over 600,000 students taking the organisation’s graded exams in over ninety countries each year. The new app, intended as a learning resource for students taking ABRSM exams, covers test material for grades one to five.

Stuart Briner, the ABRSM’s Digital Learning Manager, said, ‘[The app] will not only be of great value to students but we hope teachers will be able to use it in lessons — whether teaching an individual or in a group situation.’

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