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Practise piano in your browser
Free, in-browser piano practice — no account, nothing to install. Bring a MIDI keyboard or use your computer keys, then play any score you like, or drill sight-reading, rhythm, tempo, and ear training. Every run is graded, and your scores and progress stay on your device.
Today
Warm up
Work on
Learn one thing
Ways to practise
Seven things a teacher would suggest — why each one works, and something to try it on.
One small piece at a time
about 10 minutesPlaying a piece start to finish gives the hard bar the same few seconds as every other bar. Loop that bar on its own and it gets all of them.
In Plinky: Tap the two bars that keep going wrong and they become a loop, playing round and round until they stop being the hard part.
Slow enough to get it right
about 10 minutesWhatever you play is what you learn, wrong notes included. Slow is the speed where you still get to choose.
In Plinky: The tempo dial goes as low as you like, and a run is graded at the speed you played it. Nudge it up once a run goes by clean.
One hand at a time
about 10 minutesTwo hands doing different things is two problems at once. On its own, each hand is small enough to solve.
In Plinky: Switch one hand off and Plinky plays that part for you, so the music still sounds whole while you work on the other.
Hear it before you play it
about 5 minutesReading tells you which key to press. Hearing tells you whether you got there — and that is what carries you when there is no page in front of you.
In Plinky: Listen plays the phrase for you. Then the noteheads go blank and you find it by ear, each one turning green as you land it.
Mix them up
about 15 minutesSwitching between pieces feels worse today and holds far better next week. The small effort of coming back to something is the part that sticks.
In Plinky: A review session hands you a different piece each time, instead of one piece for half an hour.
Start a review sessionCome back to it later
about 10 minutesSomething you had almost forgotten and then remembered stays with you far longer than something never allowed to fade.
In Plinky: Plinky keeps track of when each piece is ready to come round again, and tells you what is due.
Start a review sessionLearn the chords, not the notes
about 5 minutesEvery key has seven chords, and most pieces in that key are built from them. Play them as blocks, up the scale and back, and a bar of three notes becomes one shape your hand already knows.
In Plinky: The chord sets sit with the scales and arpeggios: pick a key, choose root position or an inversion, one hand or both, and Plinky grades and remembers each one like any piece.
Play the chords of C major