Barnyard Bluegrass Sponsored iPod Nano Giveaway!

It’s all the Buzz in the tech world, the new iPhone 5 and refreshed iPod lineup.  With record pre-order sales and regular sales starting this week, we are excited to pass some Great news on to our viewers! The developers of Barnyard Bluegrass have graciously offered to sponsor a Giveaway for the newly refreshed iPod Nano 8th Generation!  Released last week, the new model has increased display area, restyled EarPods, and Lightning Connections bringing new life to the device we know and love. One lucky Grand Prize Winner will be awarded this sleek and stylish new model in the color of their choice.

But wait there’s more!  Additionally, Barnyard Bluegrass is offering prizes to 5 runners-up – promo codes for their out-of-the-box musical app!

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Barnyard Bluegrass – Are you ready to bring a whole new music dimension to your iPad of iPhone?  Most music apps focus on basic instruments of piano, xylophone and drum, but in this barnyard children experience the folksy sound of banjo, bass, mandolin, violin, and guitar. As TheiPhoneMom said in our original review, “It’s a lovely change of pace.” (see review)

Are you tired of hearing the same old music from your child’s favorite app? Barnyard Bluegrass is here to help! This lovable band of animated farm animals comes equipped with banjos, fiddles, basses, mandolins and guitars and they aren’t afraid to use them. Offering seven complete songs – with accompanying read along lyrics – children can enjoy fantastic on-demand music using an interface simple enough for a toddler. Perhaps more importantly, parents may find themselves asking to turn the volume up, rather than down.

As if that wasn’t enough, there are three other areas of the app where visitors can delve deeper into the genre and make music of their own. Users can select an instrument and play it using a simple one-finger controller, read about the instruments and hear samples, or head to the farmer’s porch and jam with the entire band. Each area offers a different perspective on the music and gives young learners plenty of room to explore and create.

Tapping into children’s existing love of song, Barnyard Bluegrass offers “yee-haw worthy” renditions of classics like Old MacDonald, Turkey in the Straw, and Hole in the Bucket. For a more traditional taste of the style, there are several ageless bluegrass standards, namely: Pig in a Pen, Blue Railroad Train, Cluck Old Hen, and Nine Pound Hammer. To bring this much loved genre to life, we called upon Astrograss, a f fixture in both the New York City Bluegrass and Kids Music Scene, to perform and record just those tunes that would best connect to young users. All music was recorded and mixed at Inner Harbor Studios, NYC and was mastered specifically for Apple devices.

Barnyard Bluegrass is available in both LITE(free) and FULL ($1.99) versions and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

Disclosure: I have not personally tried this app. These descriptions come from the developers with some minor editing (and perhaps commentary) by myself.

Price: $1.99

See the app in iTunes (iPad version)

See the app in iTunes (iPhone/iPod version)

See the app on YouTube

Requirements:

iPad version: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

iPhone/iPod version: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

Seller: Whynoceros LLC

The contest rules:

Enter using any of the choices available for entry. Any of the options are acceptable, and entries per person are limited to the number indicated in the contest form. Entries will be reviewed and duplicate entries will be removed.

Contest is open to all residents of the 50 States and the District of Columbia, and only to those 18 or older! We really wish we didn’t have to exclude anyone but, well, the lawyers want to make sure that we follow silly contest laws. Blame them!

Winners will be chosen randomly. One grand prize winner will receive one (1) new Apple iPod Nano in the color of their choice (depending on availability). Five runners-up will receive promotional codes for a free download of the Barnyard Bluegrass app.

If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of being contacted. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.

This unit is purely for promotional giveaway. We are not held liable to honor warranties or customer service.

The full list of rules can be found here.

Official contest closes October 1, 2012 at 12:01 AM EST.

 

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