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Assignable means free

Almost everything in the app can be assigned, and anything a teacher assigns opens for the student — whether or not the family has bought anything. Not for a term, not during a trial: that is how assignment works. The one limit is range: an assignment opens at up to two octaves, and the full range is the Full Studio.

What it means in practice

• A rule in the app, not a promiseAn assignment carries its own permission to open. The app does not check whether the student has paid for what the teacher chose — except the range, which opens at up to two octaves without the Full Studio — and it stores no unlock that could expire.
• No paywall inside homeworkA student following their teacher's assignment cannot arrive at a screen asking for money. That path does not exist.
• Almost everything is assignableEvery scale and mode in all twelve keys, arpeggios, patterns, intervals and chords, the chromatic studio, jazz vocabulary and the blues bass line, overtones, long tones, vibrato, snare rudiments, all 22 maqamat and every ear-training game.
• The free half is a whole methodOn their own, every student has all twelve major scales on every instrument, the arpeggios, long tones, vibrato, the Milestone and the ear-training games. One optional purchase of $24.99, once, opens the rest for a player choosing their own work. It is never required to do what a teacher assigns.
• No subscription, everThere is no recurring charge of any kind, so nothing can lapse in the middle of a semester.

Why it matters

A director recommending an app is putting their name on it in front of thirty families. If that app later asks a student for money, the director wears it.

This removes that risk completely rather than mitigating it. You are not trusting a company's current pricing policy; you are relying on how an assignment opens: what you send is what the student can play, up to two octaves (the full range is the Full Studio).

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