Hands on Piano

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Songs

Your music

Add your own MusicXML or MIDI files

You can pick several at once, or drop them anywhere on the page. They stay under Your songs in this browser until you remove them. MusicXML gives the best notation; MIDI has none, so note lengths are rounded to sixteenths.

All the music is in the public domain. Scores from the music21 corpus; Moonlight Sonata, Rondo alla Turca, The Entertainer and the Chopin preludes encoded by Craig Stuart Sapp (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); Für Elise from the Mutopia Project; the Chinese melodies as given on Wikipedia; Bèo dạt mây trôi and Cò lả transcribed from Dương Huyền Ly's lead sheets on truongca.com, without the grace notes; the Clementi and Schumann from the OpenSheetMusicDisplay samples. The chorale, the Foster song, the Vietnamese and Chinese songs and the beginner tunes are arranged here for two hands.

Settings

Loop

Bars

Tap Loop where it should start and again where it should end, or drag across bars in the music (on a phone, press and hold first). Drag a loop's ends to change it.

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Timing

Count-in

One bar of clicks before the music starts.

Hands

Sound

Follows the Both / Left / Right switch. Mute or unmute a hand here to change what you hear.

Hands on the keyboard

Shows each finger on its key.

Skin tone

For both hands.

Fingering in the score

Finger numbers written in the music.

Display

Note names

Letters beside the notes and on the keys.

Notation size

Score theme

Light paper or dark.

Keyboard theme

The piano case: black or white lacquer.

Keyboard

Split keyboard

When the keys don't fit the screen, each hand gets its own window and the stretch between them folds away.

Play along

Tap the keys, or use a MIDI keyboard.

Shortcuts: Space play or pause · ←/→ previous or next bar.

Hand travel timed from PianoMotion10M. 3D hand from WebXR Input Profiles (MIT).