PianoLabs
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    What's inside

    A free online piano, and everything around it

    PianoLabs is a piano you play in your browser — with your mouse, your computer keyboard or a MIDI keyboard — and a whole piano-learning app built around it. Here is what the new version brings.

    Play

    • A free online piano. A sampled 88-key grand piano in the browser, played with the mouse, the computer keyboard or a MIDI keyboard, with sustain, soft and sostenuto pedals.
    • Your own piano. Plug in a MIDI keyboard or digital piano, or let PianoLabs listen to an acoustic piano through the microphone.
    • Play Along. Falling notes and engraved sheet music together, across 445 public-domain pieces or your own MIDI and MusicXML files — listen, learn note by note, or perform and be scored.
    • Metronome. Tempo, meter, subdivisions and tap tempo.

    Learn

    • Learn to Play course. A step-by-step piano course from how to sit at the keys to songs, scales, chords and arpeggios in all twelve keys, with play-along lessons that listen as you play.
    • Music theory library. Theory topics written out and worked through, from reading notes to harmony.
    • Intervals & Chords. A twelve-module course on how intervals stack into chords and chords into keys.
    • Modes and songwriting. The seven modes as a lesson you can hear, and a chord chart for songwriters that grows a row at a time.
    • Quizzes. 280 quizzes across fourteen topics, from note names and rhythm to intervals, key signatures, cadences and form.

    Practice

    • Fourteen practice exercises. Note recognition, interval training, sight-reading, melodic dictation, play by ear, rhythm, chord switching, chord progressions, scales, arpeggios, theory flashcards and more.
    • Hanon and Schmitt. The classic finger exercises, checked note for note against the printed editions, with a speed builder.
    • Today's Practice. A daily plan picked by spaced repetition from what you are weakest at, and custom routines you build yourself.

    Explore harmony

    • Chord, scale and arpeggio libraries. More than a thousand chords, scales from the major to the exotic, and arpeggios fingered over one to three octaves — in every key, playable on the keyboard.
    • Circle of fifths. Keys, key signatures and the chords of each key, playable, in major and all three minors.
    • Harmony tools. Key Explorer, Tonal Harmony, Voice Leading, the Harmonic Family Tree and chord superimposition.

    Create

    • Music generators. Chord progressions, melodies, basslines, hooks and full accompaniments in any key and a hundred styles.
    • Beat maker and song structure. A drum sequencer with real grooves, and a song-form builder.
    • Sheet music editor. Write notation, import MIDI and MusicXML, record your playing and turn it into a score.
    • Audio Lab. Import any recording, slow it down without changing the pitch, transpose it, take the vocals out, and read its chords, key and tempo.

    Games and progress

    • The arcade. Six games that train your ear, your reading and your theory: Chord Invaders, Sight Flight, Melody Siege, Cosmic Quickdraw, Rhythm Runner and Ear Arena.
    • Streaks, XP and ranks. A practice log, streaks, XP, ranks, achievements and a leaderboard.
    • Community. Communities to join, and a marketplace of progressions, beats and routines to fork.

    Free to start

    A free account keeps these for good. PianoLabs Pro unlocks every other feature.

    • 88-key piano, MIDI and falling notes
    • Metronome
    • Learn to Play course (C major)
    • Music theory library
    • Intervals & Chords course
    • Quizzes (Chords & scales)
    • Practice Room and your practice history
    • Chord library (Triads)
    • Scale library (Major & minor)
    • Circle of Fifths
    • Audio Lab (Chord transcription)
    • The arcade (Chord Invaders)
    • XP, streaks and the leaderboard
    • Communities
    • Browse and fork the marketplace

    Questions

    What is PianoLabs?
    PianoLabs is a free online piano and piano-learning app that runs in your web browser. You play a sampled 88-key grand piano with your mouse, your computer keyboard or a MIDI keyboard, or play your own acoustic piano and let PianoLabs hear it through the microphone. Around the instrument are a step-by-step Learn to Play course through all twelve keys, play-along with falling notes and sheet music across 445 public-domain pieces, fourteen practice exercises for ear training, sight-reading, rhythm and technique, Hanon and Schmitt finger exercises, chord, scale and arpeggio libraries, harmony tools such as the circle of fifths, music generators, a beat maker, a sheet music editor, an Audio Lab that slows down any recording and reads its chords, six music games, and a daily practice plan with streaks, XP and a leaderboard. The piano, the metronome, the first key of the course and the core theory tools are free; PianoLabs Pro unlocks everything else.
    Is PianoLabs free?
    Yes. PianoLabs is free to start, and a free account keeps these for good: 88-key piano, MIDI and falling notes; Metronome; Learn to Play course (C major); Music theory library; Intervals & Chords course; Quizzes (Chords & scales); Practice Room and your practice history; Chord library (Triads); Scale library (Major & minor); Circle of Fifths; Audio Lab (Chord transcription); The arcade (Chord Invaders); XP, streaks and the leaderboard; Communities; Browse and fork the marketplace. PianoLabs Pro unlocks every other feature.
    Can I play piano online without a piano?
    Yes. Click or tap the keys on screen, or play your computer keyboard: A to K play the white keys from C to C, W, E, T, Y and U play the black keys, and Z and X move down or up an octave.
    Does PianoLabs work with a MIDI keyboard?
    Yes. Connect a MIDI keyboard or digital piano to your computer and PianoLabs hears it through Web MIDI, which Chrome, Edge and other Chromium-based browsers support, pedals included.
    Can I use PianoLabs with an acoustic piano?
    Yes. PianoLabs can listen to an acoustic piano through your device's microphone.
    Do I need to download anything?
    No. PianoLabs runs in your web browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone.
    Is PianoLabs good for complete beginners?
    Yes. The Learn to Play course starts from how to sit at the piano and where to put your hands, then teaches reading, scales, chords and songs one step at a time, and its lessons listen to what you play.
    What can I learn with PianoLabs?
    Piano technique, including the Hanon and Schmitt finger exercises; reading sheet music and rhythm; music theory — intervals, chords, scales, modes and harmony; ear training; improvisation; and writing your own music.
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