Creative, Constructive Play
The Tune Zoo is a music toy for iPad that encourages kids (or adults!) to explore the fundamentals of music. It was designed with input from music teachers, and built on core educational standards and research in music pedagogy.
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4/5 Stars, Common Sense Media
“Charming, fun … chock-full of great information about different kinds of musical scales and their origins… a terrific, approachable way for kids to create their own tunes.”
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5/5 Stars, Best Apps For Kids
“A fantastic music app that is highly versatile and enjoyable. Teaches many music fundamentals along the way with an outstanding, hands-on style that will appeal to even experienced musicians.”
Apps Playground
“Brilliant…blends comical characters with some impressively powerful features for creating music and learning about the theory behind it.”
Geeks With Juniors
“So simple to use and engaging… [and] great production value. The sound quality is excellent, and the graphics bright and colorful. Kids will have a lot of fun.”
The Tune Zoo is a little world of animals who all sing scales. Pull their heads to hear them sing, and jump around the landscape to explore different scale types – from Blues to Indian Ragas.
Explorable Explanations
Scales are one of the main building blocks of music. Peek under the hood and play with interactive notation to explore how they work.
Looping and Mixing
Start a jam session, or even compose your own tunes, by making loops, sequences and mixes.
Perform, Record and Share
Capture and share your performance with in-app video recording.
There are no rules, high scores, time limits or stress – just open-ended creative, constructive play. It’s simple enough for a beginner to pick up immediately, but has layers of complexity to interest even the most experienced musician.
The Tune Zoo is a project by Extraordinary Facility, a design studio for learning and play. Read more about the studio, or have a look at the project’s development notebook.