Playing Against Notes

New: daily goal and streak, flats, and a Test Skill you set up yourself. Read the note, press the key, and watch your speed improve.

I created a this as a very basic app initially for my own note-reading practice on Windows as a standalone to immediately correct/know if I had made a mistake within a certain range base on my learning speed/free time.

I have then enhanced and improved it further, as well as uploading this into Windows Store and Apple App Store to share with other beginner piano learners like me, in the hope this little app can help them. I am not sure how useful this app will be but hope whoever finds this and uses it, can find it useful for their learning/practice at their own pace.

Learn to read the notes on the piano the simple way: a note appears on the staff, you press the matching key. Repeat until reading music notes feels automaticLearn to read the notes on the piano the simple way: a note appears on the staff, you press the matching key. Repeat until reading music feels automatic.

I originally built this app for my own note-reading practice, and I'm sharing it in case it helps you too.

HOW IT WORKS A note (or a chord) appears on the grand staff. Tap the matching key on the on-screen piano. Right answers turn green, wrong ones turn red, and the app keeps your score.

CHOOSE YOUR LEVEL • Choose your keys: pick the lowest and highest key to practise, anywhere from A0 to C8 (at least 7 keys). • L Only: left hand. One note from your keys on the bass staff. • R Only: right hand. One note from your keys on the treble staff. • Basic: one note from your keys. • Expert: one to three notes anywhere on the piano, as chords or separate notes.

TEST YOUR SKILL Tap Test Skill and choose 10, 20 or 40 notes, with 1, 2 or 3 seconds for each. "Ready?", a spoken 3-2-1 countdown, and go. A sound tells you right or wrong at once. See how many you hit and your average speed, and try to beat your best score: the app keeps one for each choice. Test History shows your last 10 tests and how your speed changes.

PRACTISE EVERY DAY Set a daily goal of 25, 50 or 100 right notes. Every right note counts, in practice and in tests. Meet your goal each day to grow your streak.

PRACTISE YOUR WEAK NOTES The app learns which notes you miss or find slowly and brings them back more often. See them on a small piano under Weak notes, and practise just those with one tap. After a test, it shows the notes to work on.

HELPFUL TOOLS • Answer shows the right key when you are stuck. • Zoom from 3 keys up to the whole 88-key piano. • Swipe the keys to travel along the keyboard. • Turn sharps and flats on or off, and note names on the keys on or off. • Note names as letters (C D E) or as do-re-mi in Japanese (ドレミ) or Korean (도레미). • See your score: right, missed and percentage. • Share your test result as a picture.

PLAY ON THE SCREEN OR A REAL PIANO Connect a USB MIDI piano or keyboard (an adapter may be needed) and press real keys.

GOOD TO KNOW • No account needed. Works offline too. • Plays in landscape on iPhone and iPad. In English, Japanese and Korean. • Shows a small banner ad and an occasional full-screen ad. An optional one-time in-app purchase, Remove Ads, removes them for good on all your devices with the same Apple ID.

Questions or ideas? Use the support link on this page. This is a small independent app and feedback is welcome.