French horn fingering chart & scales — brass practice, scored in real time.
French Horn Trainer is a French horn fingering chart, sight-reading trainer and practice game for brass players. It fits the horn you actually play: choose single F horn, single Bb horn or double horn, and the on-screen fingering chart and real-time scoring change to match your instrument, note by note.
Read the music, hold the correct rotors as each note sounds, and the app scores you in real time, so you build the link between what you see, what you hear and what your hands do.
New in 4.0 — Sight-Read:
• Endless new horn music to read at sight, written fresh each time you tap New song, so you never play the same exercise twice.
• 24 styles: etudes, jazz, bebop, bossa nova, blues shuffle, ballads, rock, funk, baroque, Balkan, samba, marches, waltzes, klezmer, salsa, Irish folk, ragtime, tango and more, plus technique drills and rhythm reading.
• You choose the length (4 to 32 bars), the rhythm level (quarters, eighths, or triplets and dotted figures) and the tempo. A count-in starts you off, and chords and a bass line play along.
• Fingerings follow your horn, thumb trigger included. Every note turns green, amber or red as you play; tap a note to see what happened: wrong fingering, late, or missed.
Built for horn players:
• Three horns, one app — single F, single Bb and double horn. On the double horn, use the thumb trigger (Bb side) exactly as you do on your instrument; on a single horn, drill the valves alone. Switch anytime in Settings and everything re-fingers instantly.
• Play-along loops — eight measures on the staff, played back with a piano-style chord under each measure, so you train fingerings in a musical context, not in silence.
• Learner mode — no metronome: each note sounds only when you finger it, so you can work out a passage at your own pace.
• Transcribe by ear — play a passage on your instrument and the app writes it onto the staff, note by note, in your key.
• Real-time scoring — credit for holding the right combination as each note plays, with every note marked green, amber or red and a clean-run detector that rewards mistake-free passes.
• Alternate fingerings per horn — set your own preferred fingerings, stored separately for each of the three horns.
• Swipe to control — swipe left/right to change tempo, up/down to transpose to any key.
• Horn scales and studies — built-in libraries of major and minor scales, chromatics, arpeggios and technical etudes for daily practice.
• Track your progress — daily, weekly and monthly trends (Sight-Read included), streaks and unlockable badges, plus a stats screen for every song with an accuracy-over-time chart.
Read music your way:
• Note names in letters (C D E), German (H / B) or fixed-do solfège (Do Re Mi) — switch independently of the app language.
• Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian and Chinese.
Free to start:
• The free version includes seven major scales, fully scored, and Sight-Read etudes of 4, 8 or 12 bars.
• Upgrade to Standard to unlock every song and every Sight-Read style and length, import songs and libraries, and share songs; Pro adds creating, deleting and exporting whole libraries. Standard comes as a yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial or as a one-time purchase; Pro is a one-time purchase.
Whether you're moving up from a single to a double horn or getting ready to read whatever lands on your stand, French Horn Trainer keeps your practice focused, musical and measurable.
What's new
New: Sight-Read. Endless fresh music to read at sight in 24 styles, from etudes and jazz to bossa nova and klezmer, with chords and a bass line. Fingered for your horn, thumb trigger included. Every note turns green, amber or red; tap one to see why. The 32-note exercises are marked the same way. Etudes of 4, 8 or 12 bars are free; Standard unlocks every style and length.