For Music Educators
LA Violin Shop — Partner Tools for Teachers
For over twenty years, teachers have sent their students to LA Violin Shop for instruments, rentals and repairs. The two tools below are ones we now use and recommend in our own studio work. Both were built by musicians, and both are free to start.
Metro X
One app for every musician.
Tune. Keep time. Play along. On every device you own.
A tuner accurate to 0.1 cent, a metronome you can see, piano accompaniments to practice with, and your sheet music, with every tool floating right on the score. One account on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android and metrox.app.
- Beat — 50 to 600 BPM, subdivisions, accents and tap tempo. The ORB floats on top of your score and pulses with every beat.
- Tune — accurate from the lowest bass string to the top of the piano. Strings in pure fifths, a drone, seven temperaments and Concert A from 410 to 480 Hz.
- Note — a PDF score library with free scores from IMSLP, annotation, page-turner pedals and sync to all your devices.
- Play — piano accompaniments for voice, violin, cello and more. Slow to 75%, loop any bars and repeat with a rest.
- Sync rooms — everyone in the room hears the same beat, on iPhone, iPad and Android together. Hosting a room is free.
For the studio and the classroom: start a Sync room before a group lesson or sectional and every student's device follows one beat. Share a score from your library and every student has the same bowings and fingerings.
Free to start. Pro from $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $49.99 once for lifetime access. No ads.
Get Metro X — App Store · Google Play · Web
SYNC and ORB technologies patent pending.
Toree
For teachers and the families they teach.
Run your studio without the paperwork.
Most private teachers spend their evenings on the part of teaching nobody signed up for: the text threads about make-up lessons, the recital list in one spreadsheet and the roster in another, the reminders that go out late. Toree puts the teacher's calendar and the family's calendar in one place, so a lesson is booked once and everyone sees the same schedule.
- For teachers — your classes, students and schedule in one place, without the paperwork.
- For families — book a spot, see the whole week, and never ask “what time is the lesson?” again.
- For studios and school programs — one schedule for group classes, sectionals and recitals, visible to every family involved.
Toree was built for the way music teachers actually work: weekly lessons, changing seasons, and families who need the schedule to simply stay straight.
Teachers who work with LA Violin Shop also receive studio rental programs, school service and recommended-teacher listings. See School Service and Recommended Teachers & Schools.