Pianist magazine app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 8448 ratings )
Music Newsstand Movies & Music
Developer: Warners Group Publications PLC
Free
Current version: 7.2.10, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 31 Jan 2013
App size: 59.06 Mb

Pianist magazine is the internationally renowned piano magazine for people who love to play the piano. You don’t just read it – you play it too. With more than 40 pages of specially selected sheet music, for players of all levels, accompanied by the sound files, you can play along at home!

Inside you’ll find top teaching tips, interviews with pianists from around the world, full-length features on practical techniques, album and sheet music reviews, Q&As, concert highlights and more! The added BONUS comes in the form of more than 40 pages of specially selected sheet music for players of all levels – beginner, intermediate, advanced – plus sound files for every score – just touch the ‘play’ button on each page and hear how the piece should sound.

The sheet music section – with pieces from Baroque to Contemporary – comes with expert notes on technique and interpretation.

Specially recorded sound files come free with every issue, so that you can listen to the pieces inside the Scores section before you sit down and learn them. Its like having your own piano teacher at home!

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This app is free with purchasable content within. Within the app users can purchase the current issue and back issues.
Subscriptions are available within the application. A subscription will start from the latest issue.

-The subscription will renew automatically unless cancelled more than 24 hours before the end of the current period, you will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for the product.
-You may turn off the auto-renewal of subscriptions through your Account Settings, however you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period.
-Payment will charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased

Users can register for/ login to a pocketmags account in-app. This will protect their issues in the case of a lost device and allow browsing of purchases on multiple platforms. Existing pocketmags users can retrieve their purchases by logging into their account.

We recommend loading the app for the first time in a wi-fi area so that all issue data is retrieved.
If your app will not load past the splash page after a first install or an update please delete and reinstall the app from the App Store

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If you have any problems at all please do not hesitate to contact us: help@pocketmags.com

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Pros and cons of Pianist magazine app for iPhone and iPad

Pianist magazine app good for

Excellent magazine because it covers all the topics of interest to pianists.
I used to pick up a copy of Pianist at the book store. Now I get it on my iPad Pro. It is an awesome mag/app. Love the links and I watch a lot of their lessons on you tube. Im a beginner-intermediate senior player. There is just enough levels spread for everyone.
I use this app for years it is perfect ! Magazine and music in hand ! Thanks to the editor ! Didier
As a professional piano teacher, I love the magazine and have read it both in print and with the app. It is interesting and informative for pianists who are playing at an intermediate or advanced level and includes plenty of scores to play and advice on how to learn them. The magazine itself gets five stars. There are are a few things lacking in the app version that keep it from earning full stars in my opinion. First is that the print edition includes a CD with recordings for each of the scores plus a few extra tracks. The app only includes recordings for the scores included with a play button on the top of the first page of the score and - very frustratingly - stops playing when you turn the page, making it impossible to follow the score while listening. The scores are all lumped in the middle, which works well for removing that centre section in the print version, but for the digital edition it would make more sense to put the article on how to learn to play the piece right with the score so that flipping back and forth between the two isnt such a chore. Id also like to be able to use my Airturn for turning pages. There is a lot more that could be done with dynamic content and links within the digital version as well. Still torn about whether I would rather get the less expensive digital edition (its a UK based magazine, so getting it across the ocean apparently isnt cheap) or the more expensive but easier to use print version.

Some bad moments

I like it once it is in my iPad, but the download speed per issue is dreadful. If I want to open an issue over the weekend, I better make sure to start downloading by Tuesday to make sure I have it by Saturday. And while the issue is being downloaded, forget using the iPad for anything else. I do not know if it is an Apple issue or a Pianist issue, but none of the other apps take this long to download, even when they are twice or thrice the size.
How dumb can an app be? This new version of the Pianist does not recognize that the previous version exists on the iPad nor any of the previous downloaded issues with all their media. So you have to download again and delete the previous versions separately! There are no instructions suggesting any other way! Pianist, you can do better!
Wonderful magazine. Video lessons are excellent. full of scores. One of the main reasons to get Pianist magazine is to get and play the sheet music. Unfortunately, there is no way to print the scores from the iOs device. Unless you can read and play from an iPad,you might want to get the paper magazine instead. Of course, you can find many classical scores elsewhere.
I would call this a ripoff, but I dont think its their intention to take money for nothing; they just didnt bother to make it work, and then do nothing to fix it. The magazines dont download. One of the other reviews says it takes days; I admit I havent waited that long, and dont plan to. I requested help a year or so ago and never got a response. Take the money and run appears to be the plan.
This is the best digital magazine that I have tried. The price seems steep at first, but the magazine comes with a bunch of actual sheet music every issue along with recorded versions of the songs that are played by real pianists, not a midi player or student.
I downloaded it and when I tried to open it in newsstand all that came up was the word "Pianist" in black letters with a white background. I couldnt do anything so Im not sure if its something on my part or if somethings wrong with the new version.

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