Tools we’ve made.
Free, in your browser, nothing to install
Everything interactive on this site, in one list — 35 of them at the moment, and more coming.
Almost all of it runs in a browser tab, with nothing to install and nothing to buy: the fingering charts, the theory games, the tuner, the metronome, the drones and the first songs all need no account at all. A few things do ask for a free one — the timed fingering game, because a round saves its times to your progress, and anything that stores your work or prints a PDF. That's the only reason any of it sits behind a sign-in.
These started as things I wanted for my own students, and there was no reason to keep them to myself. If one of them is useful to you, take it. If there's one you wish existed, I'd like to hear about it.
Interactive fingering charts
One per woodwind, covering the instrument's full written range. Step up or down a note at a time, or jump to a random one, and the diagram shows the keys to hold down. Every chart plays the pitch too, and transposes for whichever horn in the family you play — so a written note on a B♭ clarinet or an alto saxophone sounds at the right concert pitch without you doing the arithmetic.
Flute fingering chart
The full flute range with the keys for every note, and a horn picker for piccolo, concert flute, alto flute in G and bass flute.
Clarinet fingering chart
Written-pitch fingerings across the break and into the upper register, with a picker for B♭, A, E♭ and bass clarinet.
Saxophone fingering chart
Written-pitch fingerings for the whole range, with a picker for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone.
Oboe fingering chart
B♭3 up to G6, including the half-hole notes — every fingering checked by Professor Austin Smith at the University of Mississippi.
Bassoon fingering chart
Bass clef through the low range and into tenor clef higher up, with the E hole shown closed, half or open.
Learn The Keys — the fingering game
A timed drill built on the same diagrams. A note appears on the staff and you press its keys on the instrument itself, then hit done — a stopwatch runs on every note. Five levels widen from the first five notes out to the full range, and the results screen shows your total time, your accuracy, your average per note, and which notes still need work. Alternate fingerings count as correct. You can browse the levels freely; starting one asks for a free account, because a round saves its times to your progress.
Flute
Press the keys on the flute diagram before the clock adds up.
Needs a free account
Clarinet
Same drill on the clarinet, register key and all.
Needs a free account
Saxophone
Same drill on the saxophone, including the palm keys.
Needs a free account
Oboe
Same drill on the oboe, with the half-hole plate as its own target.
Needs a free account
Bassoon
Same drill on the bassoon, thumb keys included.
Needs a free account
First songs
A hundred original melodies — twenty-five per instrument, five levels of five — written for this site rather than borrowed. Each one names in a sentence what it's teaching, shows its key, range and rhythms, and plays back on whichever horn in the family you play. Reading and playing them needs no account; printing one as a part, saving it, or opening it in the compose studio asks for a free one.
Flute first songs
Twenty-five melodies climbing from F and C major out to five sharps.
Clarinet first songs
Twenty-five melodies in written keys, built so crossing the break arrives when you're ready for it.
Saxophone first songs
Twenty-five melodies in written keys, with the low bell notes and palm keys held back to level five.
Oboe first songs
Twenty-five melodies that keep the awkward E♭-to-F steps and the low notes short and late.
Music theory games
Six drills you can point at your own instrument. Every one lets you pick the clef, so a bassoonist practices in bass and a violist in alto, and every one grades the spelling that's actually on the page — B♭ and A♭ are different answers even though they're the same key.
Note identification
Name notes on sight in treble, bass, alto or tenor clef — explore the range freely, or play a timed ten-note round.
Interval study
Name the distance between two pitches, reading it on the staff or by ear alone — ascending, descending or as harmony, from wide sizes up to every quality within an octave.
Rhythm and meter
Hear a rhythm played off a staff at any tempo with the beat moving through it — then tap one back yourself and get marked note by note.
Tapping back needs a free account
Scale building
You're given the tonic and you spell the rest, major or minor, in any clef — including the theoretical keys most tools skip.
Arpeggios, chords and triads
Name chords by ear or on the staff, as a block or an arpeggio — major and minor through diminished, augmented, inversions and five kinds of seventh.
Interval class training
Post-tonal ear-free analysis: name the interval class from 0 to 6, with a one-line explanation after every answer.
Practice tools
The things you'd otherwise open an app for. All of them run in the browser tab, with nothing to install and no account.
Tuner
Listens through your microphone and reads the note, the cents off, and a needle — the border glows green inside two cents. A = 440 or 442.
Metronome
Tap tempo, accented downbeat, real time signatures, and subdivisions drawn as beamed notes where one note lights up on the beat you're hearing. Compound meters count in dotted beats, so 6/8 is two, not six.
Drones
Sustained pitches for tuning and long tones — twelve notes, 440 or 442.
Tone trainer
Hold a note and the target turns green when you're in tune, one level at a time. It listens through the microphone and knows your horn transposes.
On all five woodwind pages
My First Warm-Up
A ninety-second warm-up you play along with: long tones, tonguing and scales, with a count-in, the fingering for every note as it comes, and counts and a click you can switch off. One version for each of the five woodwinds.
Writing music
A staff you can write on, and a band to play it back. Both export files you keep — nothing is locked in.
Compose studio
Write up to sixty-four bars by tapping the staff or typing note letters, with ties, articulations, key and time signatures, repeats, and playback on any woodwind. Download it as a PDF part or an MP3, hand it to a different horn and it rewrites itself so it still sounds the same, or import a MusicXML file to start from.
Needs a free account
Backing track maker
Build a chord progression in any key, pick piano, guitar and drums, set a tempo and swing, and export the loop as an MP3 counted in whole passes plus a printable chord chart. The metronome locks to its downbeat.
Needs a free account
For teachers
The half of the site built for the person at the front of the room. Some of these open as soon as you make an account; the ones that touch a student roster unlock once your teacher application is approved, because they show real students' names and scores.
Rehearsal timer
Plan a class in segments, then run it — the clock counts down and keeps counting up in red when a segment runs long, because overtime is data. History charts planned against actual.
Needs a free teacher account
Seating charts
Curved band-room rows you drag students into, importable straight from your roster, and printable in landscape.
Needs a free teacher account
Instrument inventory
Track school horns by serial number and condition, note who has which, and export to PDF, print or spreadsheet.
Needs a free teacher account
Scale test generator
Pick keys, scale types and an instrument and it spells the scale in that instrument's written key and register — notes hidden by default, so the class plays from the name first.
Needs a free teacher account
Printable classroom docs
Attendance sheets, playing-test rubrics, pass-off sheets, practice logs, an instrument contract, a parent letter and a syllabus — each as a PDF or an editable Word file, none of them assuming a particular ensemble.
Needs a free teacher account
Classroom mode
Run any of the games live for a class or one student at a time, recording straight to their progress.
Needs a free teacher account
Random student picker
Pick a student or a section without repeats until the pool empties. Students who haven't made an account yet are still in the hat.
Needs a free teacher account
Class statistics
Accuracy by instrument and a theory overview, filtered by class and comparable side by side, every chart readable as a table.
Needs a free teacher account