PracticeFirst™, powered by MatchMySound™, is an easy and affordable way to allow your students to practice anytime, anywhere, on any device (including mobile!). PracticeFirst provides students with instantaneous & intuitive feedback, allowing them to gain meaningful insights into the quality of their practice and accelerate their achievement. During the COVID-19 pandemic in particular, music educators have widely adopted PracticeFirst in the classroom.
With the addition of Excelcia Music Publishing's band, orchestra, choral and jazz ensemble works to PracticeFirst's content library, subscribers have access to even more resources and music to assist with virtual learning. Excelcia Music Publishing’s catalog is filled with new flexible and full-version pieces from outstanding and dedicated composers at all grade levels, and PracticeFirst provides an invaluable tool to keep students engaged, practicing and learning our fantastic pieces. Together, Excelcia Music Publishing and PracticeFirst are enhancing curricula and inspiring students.
Robust Feedback
PracticeFirst is an industry leader in providing detailed and nuanced student performancefeedback, assessing accuracy in:
- Rhythm
- Pitch
- Intonation
- Duration
Adjust assessment rigor from "easy to "hard", and set score threshold for submission
- Tailored for students of all levels
- Comes with exercises and pieces, and also allows you to create your own
- Create exercises with multiple parts from multipart scores
- Assesses rhythmic and pitch accuracy
- Assignment types include memorization and sight reading modes
- Grading scale can be adjusted from easy to hard
- Works for polyphonic instruments like piano and guitar
- Teachers can now let students choose their instrument themselves when practicing
- Includes a built-in tuner for instruments that need to be tuned before playing
- “Click track” option in place of the metronome for exercises with floating tempo
- A great practice and assessment tool, perfect for choral students
- Fully integrated with the MusicFirst Classroom's gradebook, scheduling, portfolio-building and other features. - Use our content, or upload your own
