Daddy Note

Daddy Note: play piano along with your sheet music

Pick a song to begin.

Song & piano

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Piano sound comes from

The beat

Walking speed

Play time

Hands
from bar to bar

Stop when you like to see how you did.

Practise piano with sheet music that follows you

Daddy Note shows your song on a grand staff, waits for each note you play, keeps the beat with a metronome, and gives you an accuracy report when you stop. Load MusicXML, MXL or MIDI files, practise one hand at a time, and loop the tricky bars. Connect a digital piano by MIDI, or use the microphone with an acoustic piano. Your files stay in your browser and there is no account.

Help

Load my own songMusicXML, MXL or MIDI files
  1. Open Song & piano and press 📂 Open.
  2. Pick a .musicxml, .xml, .mxl, .mid or .midi file.
  3. The title and the first bars appear on the staff.

Have a song in MuseScore? Use File → Export → MusicXML. No file yet? Press Sample.

Use the microphoneFor an acoustic piano
  1. Choose Mic and allow access when the browser asks.
  2. Put the device on the music stand, close to the piano.
  3. Play one clear note at a time to start.

Any octave counts. In a chord, one note is enough.

Connect a digital pianoUSB or Bluetooth MIDI
  1. Plug the piano into the computer or tablet, or pair it by Bluetooth.
  2. Choose MIDI keyboard. The piano’s name shows when it’s found.
  3. Press Start and play the note in the stripe.

MIDI needs Chrome, Edge or Opera. On Safari, use the microphone.

Set the speed and the beatTime signature, accents, tempo
  1. Pick a time signature chip, or More for the rest.
  2. Tap a beat block to cycle it: loud, medium, soft, silent.
  3. Drag the Slow–Fast slider or type the number of clicks per minute.

Learning something new? Start slow. You can speed up once it feels easy.

Hear the song firstListen, Pause, Continue
  1. Press ▶ Listen. After a count-in the app plays the song for you.
  2. Press Pause to stop on the current notes, then ▶ Continue.
  3. Press Stop to go back to the beginning.

While paused, swipe the staff or tap a note to choose where to continue from.

Practise one handBoth · Right · Left
  1. In Play time, choose Right or Left next to Hands.
  2. The other hand’s staff fades and stays silent.
  3. Press Start: only that hand’s notes are waited for and scored.

The report says which hand you practised.

Repeat the tricky barsLoop from bar … to bar …
  1. Turn on Loop and set from bar and to bar.
  2. Press ▶ Listen. Those bars repeat until you press Pause or Stop.
  3. Or pause on a note and press Loop from here.

The metronome keeps time across the jump back.

Read my reportNotes, rhythm and a score out of 100
  1. Press Stop whenever you like.
  2. Note accuracy: how many notes were right. Rhythm accuracy: how even your timing was.
  3. The big number mixes both: 70% notes, 30% rhythm.

Pauses longer than two beats don’t count against your rhythm.

Use it on the music standFull screen and Add to Home Screen
  1. Press ⛶ Full screen (or the F key) for a one-screen layout.
  2. ♪ Song opens the song and piano controls there.
  3. On iPad: Share → Add to Home Screen to start it like an app.

Press Exit full screen or Esc to go back. The choice is remembered.

Keyboard shortcuts

SpacePause or continue Listen
← →Previous or next note (while paused)
Shift + ← →Previous or next bar (while paused)
HomeBack to the first note (while paused)
FFull screen on or off
?Open Help

Welcome to Daddy Note!

Play along on your real piano. The music follows you, and you get a score at the end.

The tour takes about a minute. You can find it again under ? Help.

Turn your device sideways

Daddy Note works best with the screen sideways. If it won’t turn, check the rotation lock.