Tenuto

Tenuto

musictheory.net · 4.7 ★ · £4.99

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Description

Tenuto is a collection of 24 highly-customizable exercises designed to enhance your musicality. From recognizing chords on a keyboard to identifying intervals by ear, it has an exercise for you. Tenuto also includes six musical calculators for accidentals, intervals, scales, chords, analysis symbols, and twelve-tone matrices.

A short description of the exercises and calculators follows.

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• Note Identification
• Key Signature Identification
• Interval Identification
• Scale Identification
• Chord Identification
Tap the button corresponding to the written staff line. For example: if shown a C, E, and G with a sharp; tap the "Augmented Triad" button.

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• Note Construction
• Key Signature Construction
• Interval Construction
• Scale Construction
• Chord Construction
Construct the specified label by moving notes and/or adding accidentals. For example: if shown a C and an "Augmented 4th" label, move the second note to F and add a sharp.

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• Keyboard Reverse Identification
Tap the piano key corresponding to the written note on the staff. While similar to Note Identification, this exercise uses a piano keyboard rather than note name buttons.

• Keyboard Note Identification
• Keyboard Interval Identification
• Keyboard Scale Identification
• Keyboard Chord Identification
Tap the button corresponding to the highlighted piano key(s). If the C and G keys are highlighted, tap the "P5" (Perfect 5th) button.

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• Fretboard Note Identification
• Fretboard Interval Identification
• Fretboard Scale Identification
• Fretboard Chord Identification
Tap the button corresponding to the marked fretboard position(s). If the 2nd fret of the D string is marked, tap the "E" button.

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• Keyboard Ear Training
• Note Ear Training
Listen to the played reference and question notes. Select the piano key or note button corresponding to the question note.

• Interval Ear Training
• Scale Ear Training
• Chord Ear Training
Tap the button corresponding to the played notes. If E and F are played, tap the "Minor 2nd" button.

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• Accidental Calculator
Display the accidental for a note and key.

• Interval Calculator
Display the interval for a note, type, and key.

• Chord Calculator
Display the scale for a tonic and scale type.

• Chord Calculator
Display the chord for a note, type, and key.

• Analysis Calculator
Display the chord for a symbol and key.

• Matrix Calculator
Display the twelve-tone matrix for a specified tone row.

Developer

What's New

Version 5.0.1 · 8 Dec 2025

- Fixes an issue where Tenuto could fail to import an exercise.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

54 ratings

Recent Reviews

theengelbert

v4.2

Outstanding

This app is absolutely superb, the tests are exactly what I needed to progress. My biggest fear with apps that are smaller than some of the really well supported ones is they can disappear in the future if they don’t keep up with the iOS. Please don’t let this happen I need this app forever!

26 Aug 2023

Wobbleydad

v4.2

Excellent app for learning the fret board

I’m a guitarist. After many years playing the guitar this is the first tool which has really helped me to learn the fretboard. The fact that you can customise each exercise allows you to focus on you weaknesses, and improve them before moving on. I’ve used about 5% of the app exercises so far so still a lot to learn but looking forward to the journey.

10 Aug 2023

ccvsdfgsdf

v4.2

Suggestion

On the keyboard interval and chord identification games please add the option of a fixed starting note.

22 May 2023

AndrewDCG

v4.2

Brilliant

What more can I say? This app is just superb. It is highly customisable and is helping me really firm up my musical foundations. I use it currently to test my chord shapes in Challenge mode, 50 chords and see how long it takes to name the chord, name the scale degree of the root note and to play it. Saying this out loud really helps drum it in. When I get below 5 minutes for 50 with no mistakes I change to another key.

12 Mar 2022

rajam4

v4.1.2

Muse have for instrumental teachers

Works offline. A must have app for teaching music theory and instrumental music.

13 Aug 2020

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