Your rehearsal plan shouldn't die in the rehearsal room.
You spend hours planning which passages to rehearse and what students need to focus on at home. But that plan lives in your head. Virtunity is building a concert preparation system that pushes your weekly focus directly into each student's practice plan — so when they walk into rehearsal, they've already done the work.
Status
What's ready and what's not yet available
The concert-prep workflow below is future-facing. The status board shows what you can use today.
Live now in the iPhone early access build
Students can use the iPhone build today. It gives daily structure and tracks what's actually happening in the practice room.
- Daily practice plans built from what you practiced, where you struggled, and what your teacher assigned
- Tuner, metronome, drone, recordings, voice notes, and session logging — all built in
- 11,000+ tagged exercises across 10 band instruments
- Practice history, streaks, and fundamentals you can track over time
Available to private instructors in limited release
Teacher access is in limited release. We're testing the workflow with real studios.
- Invite students with a class code and connect lessons to daily practice
- Review what students practiced before the lesson starts
- Run lesson mode, leave notes, and assign next steps inside the teacher workflow
- Early access users currently use the product at no cost while launch pricing is still being finalized
The next teacher and director layer
These are in progress and not available yet.
- Class-level analytics and weekly teacher summaries
- Parent-facing progress updates and reporting
- Band-director concert-prep and ensemble-readiness workflows
What comes after the current release
These come after the iPhone and teacher release is solid.
- Android support
- A web-based practice experience
- School, studio, and district launch pricing/licensing
The Gap
Concert prep breaks down between rehearsal and the practice room
Sound familiar?
- You say "work on measures 13–29, focus on the articulation" and maybe 4 kids actually do it
- Your rehearsal arc lives on a piece of paper — none of that planning reaches students at home
- You walk into rehearsal and discover preparation gaps on the spot instead of in advance
- You can’t tell which students are practicing the concert rep vs. generic exercises
- Different sections need different focus areas but you can’t personalize 60 practice plans
What We're Building
A concert prep system that connects the rehearsal room to the practice room
Each feature is built to move your rehearsal plan into students' daily practice.
These features are still in progress. If you want access first, join the list and share what matters to your program.
Concert Preparation Pipeline
V1Create a concert event, build a week-by-week rehearsal arc, and tag the passages your students need to practice. Your weekly focus areas flow directly into each student's daily practice plan — so Monday's warm-up targets what Thursday's rehearsal needs.
Intelligent Exercise-to-Passage Matching
V1When you flag a passage — fast articulation, wide intervals, chromatic run — Virtunity automatically selects exercises from the library that train exactly those skills. Your students don't just get a reminder. They get a targeted warm-up.
Post-Rehearsal Quick Update
V1After rehearsal, spend 60 seconds updating the plan: which pieces are ahead, which are behind, and any notes for students. The system adjusts exercise matching and practice weights for the rest of the week automatically.
Key and Tempo-Aware Matching
V1.5If the hard passage is in E♭ concert at quarter = 132, your students should be practicing their E♭ scale at tempo — not a generic scale exercise. Exercises match the key, and tempo ramps toward concert speed across the rehearsal arc.
Student-to-Director Feedback Loop
V1.5After practicing concert-focused exercises, students signal how it went: “Got it,” “Getting closer,” or “Still stuck.” Before rehearsal, you see the aggregate: “12 of 18 clarinets flagged the run at mm. 13–29 as still stuck.”
Section-Specific Focus Areas
V2Trumpets need high-register endurance in the finale while clarinets need to nail a technical run in the development. Assign different focus areas per section — or per instrument — for the same concert week.
Concert Readiness Dashboard
V2See how prepared your ensemble is, broken down by piece, section, and technique area — all from actual student practice data. “Piece 1: 78% ready. Piece 3: 42% ready — the clarinet run is undertrained.”
Multi-Concert Management
V2Manage multiple concurrent concert arcs with overlapping prep timelines. The system balances student practice loads across concerts based on proximity and readiness. Nearest concert gets priority. Least-ready pieces get weighted higher.
Adaptive Rehearsal Arc
V2.5Your plan adjusts with reality. After week 2, Virtunity surfaces: “Students are ahead on Piece 1 but behind on Piece 3. Consider shifting week 3 focus.” Accept with one tap, modify, or ignore.
Parent Visibility Layer
V2.5Parents see what their kid should practice this week and whether they’re doing it — in plain language, no jargon. “Concert in 4 weeks. Your student is on track.” The kids who practice are the kids whose parents know what to practice.
Crowdsourced Rehearsal Knowledge Base
V3Over time, Virtunity learns what works. “47 directors have prepared Holst First Suite. Directors who front-loaded articulation work saw 31% higher accuracy by concert week.” Searchable by piece, level, and timeline.
Post-Concert Retrospective
V3After the concert, log what went well, what didn’t, and whether you’d change the rehearsal arc. This closes the loop and feeds the knowledge base — not just what directors planned, but what actually worked.
Repertoire Intelligence
V4Search for a piece and see how other directors prepared it: common technique tags, difficulty by section, suggested rehearsal timelines. A crowdsourced repertoire preparation database that gets smarter with every concert cycle.
Development Roadmap
Shipping in stages, gated by real usage
Concert pipeline, exercise matching, post-rehearsal updates
Key and tempo-aware matching, student feedback loop
Section-specific focus, readiness dashboard, multi-concert management
Adaptive rehearsal arc, parent visibility
Crowdsourced knowledge base, post-concert retrospectives
Repertoire intelligence — a crowdsourced repertoire preparation database
Available Now
The foundation is already live
Concert prep is still being built. In the meantime, your students can already use structured daily practice plans, built-in tools (tuner, metronome, drone), session scoring, and a connected teacher workflow in limited release. 11,000+ exercises across 10 instruments. The concert prep pipeline builds on top of what's already working.
Our Founder
Built by a band director who lives this problem
Justin Berchtold
Band director and private lesson instructor at Merit School of Music. Former Concertmaster and Principal Clarinet of the Marine Forces Pacific Band. Featured soloist on the 2014 Marine Corps Live Recording of the Year. BM in Music Performance from DePaul University.
The concert prep features came from a conversation with a fellow band director: “I spend all this time building a rehearsal plan and none of it reaches the kids at home.” Virtunity is being built to fix that.
Help us build this the right way
We're building these features with input from real band directors. Request rollout updates and tell us what concert prep tools would change your program.
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