Pupitre - Learn Piano

New: Story, a map of nine chapters with exercises, checkpoints and songs, and the first one is free. Plus profiles, so everyone at home keeps their own songs and stars.

Pupitre is a music stand for your MIDI keyboard. Connect a keyboard, open a song, and its notes fall towards the keys you play them on while the score scrolls above. Play along at your own pace, let the song wait for you, or take on the challenge and score every note.

No keyboard at hand? Play the keys on the screen with your fingers, or just watch and listen.

LEARN A SONG, ONE HAND AT A TIME

• Falling notes. Every note falls onto its own key, the right hand in green and the left in blue, between bar lines, and lights the key as it sounds.

• A real score. Both staves, engraved, scrolling under fixed clefs, key and time signature, with lyrics under the notes. Choose its size and, with Pupitre Pro, its ink and paper for light and dark.

• Wait for Me. The song stops at each of your notes until you play it, then carries on. Pick Gentle, Careful or In Time, and switch it per song.

• Your hand, the other one played for you. Show or silence each part of a song, and play the one you are learning while Pupitre plays the rest.

• Tempo from 25% to 200%. Steady Tempo evens out a performer's rubato into one pulse.

• Loop a section. Drag it on the small piano roll, and it repeats with no gap.

• Rainbow Notes. Each note in its name's colour on the score, the falling notes and the keys. With Pupitre Pro, change the colours to match a teacher's book.

• Note names in letters, in solfège (Do, Ré, Mi) or both.

• Fingers on the falling notes and the score. First Steps shows the fingers as written. For other pieces with a part for each hand, Pupitre suggests fingers sized to your hand, picked or measured on your keyboard.

STORY

A map to follow, one chapter at a time, from five notes to both staves and real pieces. Each chapter has short exercises, a checkpoint to skip ahead and a song to pass. Chapter 1 is free; Pupitre Story opens the other eight.

PRACTICE AND CHALLENGE

Three exercises, answered on your keyboard: Find the Note by ear, Name the Note on the staff, and Echo the Rhythm. Each round ends in stars, and your best is kept.

In Challenge, each note you play in a song is judged as you play it: Perfect, Good, Early, Late or Miss. A streak multiplier climbs to ×4, a faster tempo scores more, and every song keeps your best. With Pupitre Pro, Arcade Effects make your notes glow as the streak climbs.

SONGS INCLUDED

• First Steps, Pupitre's own course: 28 public-domain tunes, English and French children's songs first, then Für Elise, Bach's Prelude in C and La Marseillaise, each arranged at three levels.

• 332 classical piano pieces from piano-midi.de, by composer, with a graded Start Here set. Preview any piece before opening it.

• Your own MIDI files. Open one, drop it on the window, or add it to My Songs, kept in iCloud Drive so it reaches your Mac and your other devices with its loop, tempo and settings.

Every song remembers its loop, its tempo, its parts and where you left it.

EVERYONE AT HOME

Give each player a profile: their own tempos, loops and stars, their own place on the map, and their own settings, which follow them to their other devices.

A PIANO THAT SOUNDS LIKE ONE

An upright piano is built in. The Concert Grand, a Yamaha C5 recorded key by key, comes with Pupitre Pro as a download from Settings. Velocity and the sustain pedal are played as you play them.

FREE TO START

Pupitre is free to download, with Practice, chapter 1 of Story, level 1 of every First Steps tune and of the Start Here set, your own MIDI files, Challenge, Wait for Me, Loop and every preview. Two one-time purchases, with no subscription, add the rest. Pupitre Pro adds every level and all 332 classical pieces, the Concert Grand, Arcade Effects and your own colours. Pupitre Story opens the whole map. Each works on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

No account, no ads and no analytics. Your songs, your settings and your best scores stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.