Learn to read music by playing it: real songs, real notation, on pads or piano keys.
Or watch it firstLights fall down four lanes onto a grid of pads. The song as a faint staff sits in the corner. The pad being hit has a thick edge and a dot.
Pad Run
Lights fall down four lanes onto a grid of pads. The song as a faint staff sits in the corner. The pad being hit has a thick edge and a dot.
Notes fall toward your pads while the staff scrolls behind them: read it, hit it, keep the song going.
Plays with: An 8x8 grid controller that sends MIDI (Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer; not Safari or iPhone), or the pads on the screen.
Free
Lights come in from the right toward a grid of pads on the left. The song as a faint staff sits behind the lanes. The pad being hit has a thick edge and a dot.
Same game, turned sideways: the grid sits on the left and notes fly in from the right, over a faint staff.
Plays with: An 8x8 grid controller that sends MIDI (Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer; not Safari or iPhone), or the pads on the screen.
Free
Staff Run
Notes move right to left along a staff. The current note is ringed, and a thin line runs from it to the pad that plays it.
Real notation streams from the right; each note lights its pad target as it arrives. Read the staff, find the pad.
Plays with: An 8x8 grid controller that sends MIDI (Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer; not Safari or iPhone), or the pads on the screen.
Free
Notes with their written rhythm move right to left along a staff: a beamed pair, a hollow half note, and a faint dashed note that this level skips.
Read the notes with their rhythm, from the right, and play them in time on a keyboard.
Plays with: A MIDI keyboard (Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer; not Safari or iPhone), or the Stylophone on the screen.
Free
Piano Run
Notes move along a staff, then fall onto a piano. The key they land on is lit, with a thick edge and a dot.
The staff streams in, then each note falls onto a lit piano. Play it on the screen keys or a MIDI keyboard.
Plays with: The piano keys on the screen, or a MIDI keyboard (Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer; not Safari or iPhone).
Best sideways on phones
Free on the screen keys and with a MIDI keyboard
You read real notation the whole time; it's how you know what to play next.
Each pitch maps to one pad or one key, so your hands learn where the notes live.
Start on Easy, finish on Hard, without changing songs.
Experimental: Chrome or Edge on a computer, close Live first.
Tilt a DualSense to play; chords are on by default.
Lights fall down four lanes onto a grid of pads. The song as a faint staff sits in the corner. The pad being hit has a thick edge and a dot.
Notes with their written rhythm move right to left along a staff: a beamed pair, a hollow half note, and a faint dashed note that this level skips.
Notes move along a staff, then fall onto a piano. The key they land on is lit, with a thick edge and a dot.
No. Pick a game and play. An account only keeps your bests on every device.
A computer browser for MIDI: Chrome, Edge or Firefox. Safari and iPhone don't support Web MIDI, but the on-screen keys and pads work everywhere.
Yes. Every game here is free to play.
Yes: send them the link. No sign-up, nothing to install.
Yes, with the pads and keys on the screen. Piano Run is best with the phone sideways.
8x8 grid controllers that send MIDI, MIDI keyboards, and Ableton Push 3 (experimental).
English and Romanian. You can switch at any time.
Launchpad and Novation are trademarks of Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd. Push and Ableton are trademarks of Ableton AG. MPD and Akai Professional are trademarks of inMusic Brands, Inc. note-noodle is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by any of these companies, and names their products only to describe the controllers Pad Run is designed for. DualSense is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. STYLOPHONE is a registered trademark of Dubreq Ltd.