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The Better Piano System

Collections to follow, mini-courses to pick from, and practice tools that are always open.

Course Resource Library

Exercises, key packets, and quizzes from the course, in one place.

Key packets

A guided tour of any key: the scale, every diatonic chord, all seven modes, and go-to progressions. C is free in Lite.

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Explore the Studio

The open tools: play, look things up, build, and watch.

Diagram Library
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Phone edition: look up any chord or scale, and watch your exercises at any speed. For play-along practice, open this same link on a computer.
Text works on any selected or clicked text on the page
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Course Exercises
Pages
From the Videos
Free charts and MIDI from the channel show up here. Nothing posted yet.
Quick Start
Clears the ✓ marks so you can track today's practice.
Appearance

Choose a page template

Progressions & song sheets

Reference & teaching

Structure

Import a chord chart

Paste any chart: chords over lyrics, "| C | G | Am F |" bars, [Verse]/[Chorus] headers, tabs with chord names, slash chords like C/E…

Insert music symbol

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You can switch any time with the Player / Teacher switch at the top.

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Copy Studio: every default text in the app

Edits apply immediately to the interface and to newly created pages (existing pages keep their text). To make them permanent, download the manifest and put it in your guide folder next to naming_manifest.csv: it loads automatically when you connect the folder. Placeholders like {KEY}, {REL}, {SIG} are filled in when a key packet is generated.

Create a printout

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Lead sheet shortcuts

Note input
NToggle note input
A-GEnter a pitch
3-716th to whole note
.Dotted
0Rest
TTie
RRepeat the selection
Q / WShorter / longer
DeleteDelete to rest
EscExit input / clear selection
Chords
Shift+A-GAdd a chord tone
Shift+3-9Add an interval above
Alt+3-9Add an interval below
Cmd+KChord symbol (Space next beat, Tab next bar)
Pitch
/ Half step (sharps up, flats down)
Alt+Shift+↑↓Diatonic step
Cmd+↑↓Octave
Navigate & structure
/ Previous / next (sounds the note)
Cmd+←→By measure
Home / EndFirst / last measure
Shift+clickSelect a measure range
BackspaceClear measure / range
Cmd+C / VCopy / paste selection
Cmd+3Triplet from the selected note
EnterLine break at the selection
Playback
SpacePlay / stop from the selection

Sign In to Better Piano Studio

Enter your email and we'll send you a 6 digit code. Better Piano System members get the full Studio. Everyone else gets a free account that saves your Pathway, notes, and streak.

New here? Any email gets a free account. The full Studio is included with The Better Piano System. See what's inside → · What's free?

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The Practice Wall

What's included?

Lite is the free version of the Studio. Use it right away, save your work with a free account, and unlock everything with the course. Anything with a 🔒 opens the sign-in window.

Preview

No account needed
  • Browse every chord and scale, with sound
  • The playable keyboard, MIDI included
  • The complete Key of C packet
  • Free sample lessons
  • The Pathway quiz and your full plan

Lite, with a free account

Any email address
  • Everything in Preview
  • Your Pathway, notes, streak and scores, saved and synced
  • The first video of your Pathway, free to watch
  • Video charts, ready to play and download

The full Studio

With The Better Piano System
  • Every course video, exercise and quiz
  • Key packets for every key, plus C♯ and F♯
  • Printable PDFs, printouts and song sheets
  • Watch a Song and Load MIDI
  • My Repertoire and the practice coach
Not a member yet? The Studio is included with The Better Piano System. See what's inside →

Build a quiz

Pick a mode, a subject and a difficulty. Every quiz is generated fresh, so no two are the same.
Mode
Subject
Difficulty
Length

Build a practice session

Pick how long you have, switch blocks on or off, and drag the bar to rebalance. The Studio keeps time, keeps you moving, and stays out of your way.
How long do you have?
Lite includes 15 minute sessions with Key of C technical work. Longer sessions, the full library, saved sessions and the practice log come with the full Studio.

Practice log

Practice sessions: how it works

Build your session

Pick how long you have, then switch the four blocks on or off: Warmup, Technical work, Main project, and Something fun. The colored bar shows how your time is split. Drag the white dividers to rebalance it. Each block can hold material: a course exercise for your warmup, a key and pattern from the Fundamentals Library for technique, and your own notes for the main project and the fun at the end.

During the session

The big ring counts down the current block, and the timeline along the bottom shows the whole session with the block you are in highlighted. Subtle sounds mark the moments that matter: a rising chime at the start, a single ping at the halfway point of longer blocks, a double ping at ten minutes remaining, three ticks in the final ten seconds, and a chime when a block ends. The speaker button silences all of them.

When a block's time is up, a card offers the next block. It moves on by itself after fifteen seconds, or you can jump right away, or press "+5 minutes here" if you are in the middle of something worth finishing.

Using the Studio mid-session

Press the Studio button (or any "Open" button inside a block) to go into the full Studio: the practice player, the explorer, the quizzes, anything. A small timer pill stays at the bottom of the screen so the session keeps running. Its buttons pause, skip ahead, or bring back the full session screen.

If you have a MIDI keyboard

The session listens while you play. If the keys go quiet for a few minutes it checks in on you, and your summary at the end shows real playing time next to elapsed time. One more trick: tap the lowest key on your keyboard three times quickly to move to the next block without leaving the bench.

Saved sessions and your practice log

Type a name and press Save, and your session shows up in the "Saved sessions" menu next time. The practice log works the same way, building a streak calendar from every session you finish.

With the full Studio, saved sessions and your practice history sync with your account, so they follow you to any device you sign in on. If you practice at two pianos, your sessions and streaks are waiting at both.

Lite version

Lite includes 15 minute sessions with Key of C technical work. Longer sessions, all twelve keys, the full Fundamentals Library, saved sessions and the practice log come with the full Studio.

The Piano Pathway

Let's build your plan

A few honest questions and a quick look at your reading, and you get a personal plan: where to start, what to practice, and your first pieces. About two minutes, and every answer changes the result.

You can build your Pathway any time from the Courses page.
CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
⟲ counterclockwise: down by fifths
add flats, remove sharps
⟳ clockwise: up by fifths
add sharps, remove flats
Neighbors on the circle are the closest related keys. Click any wedge to hear its triad.
Piece Library
Engraving the score…

Playback

Tempo
Expression
Hands

Loop

View

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This piece

⬇ MIDI ⬇ MusicXML

⌨ Reader shortcuts

SpacePlay or pause ← →Back or forward one measure HomeBack to the top + / -Zoom in or out [ / ]Tempo down or up, live A / B / CLoop start, loop end, clear the loop HBoth hands, right hand only, left hand only EExpression on or off (dynamics, ornaments, closing ritard) PgDn / PgUpTurn the page (triple-tap your lowest key works too) ?This guide EscClose the reader
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