Clefsight No keyboard

Learn to read sheet music at your keyboard.

Plug in a MIDI keyboard and play from a real printed page, not falling notes. Clefsight listens, finds the notes you're still slow to read, writes fresh music at your level, and marks every take like a teacher would.

Each bar fades as you reach it, so your eyes learn to stay a bar ahead.
Connect your keyboard Then a 3-minute check, so you start at your level. No keyboard here? Try the note drills on screen.

Connecting a keyboard needs Chrome or Edge on a computer or an Android phone or tablet, or Firefox on a computer. Safari, iPhone and iPad can't connect a keyboard to a web page. Help connecting a keyboard

Fifteen minutes, one button

Every day, Today puts together a session from what you read well, what you're slow on, and the piece you're learning. Press Start and play.

No session today? The sight-reading exercises are short pieces at every level, to print or to play.

  1. Warm-upThe notes you're slowest on, and the one or two new things your next piece needs, on their own first.3 min
  2. Fresh sight-readingShort pieces written for you that nobody has seen before, each played once. Only these move your reading level, because you can't have memorised them.4 min
  3. Your pieceThe piece you're learning, in a teacher's order: each hand, both hands with the music waiting for you, then with the metronome at 60, 80 and 100 %. It starts where it went worst last time.8 min

Marked like a teacher would

After each take, the page comes back in pencil. Red circles round wrong and missed notes, with the key you played. Blue ticks for notes that came early or late. The bar to practise is bracketed, and one tap loops it.

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Timing is judged against your own beat, so a slow, steady take isn't late.

Your reading map

Every line and space, key signature, interval and rhythm you've met, shaded by how automatic it is. Ink when you know it without thinking, blue while you're learning it, red when it's fading.

It fills in, note by note, as you play.

A library you climb

341 public-domain pieces from level 2 to level 5. Each one says how ready you are for it and what's still new in it, and each comes in easier versions made from the score itself: the melody alone, then with left-hand roots, then a simpler left hand, then as written.

Browse the library

  1. 234 piecesOde to Joy, Silent Night, and more
  2. 3183 piecesMinuet in G, Canon in D, The Entertainer, Greensleeves, and more
  3. 4100 piecesFür Elise, Prelude in C, and more
  4. 524 piecesMoonlight Sonata: I, Maple Leaf Rag, Solfeggietto in C minor, and more

Free, and on your device

  • Everything you need to learn to read is free: drills, the reading map, fresh sight-reading, the whole library and every easier version.
  • Your profile, practice and takes stay in this browser. Nothing about your playing is sent anywhere, and there's no account to make.
  • Bring your own music: MusicXML from MuseScore and most notation apps, or a MIDI file.

What a keyboard can't tell us

Fingering, hand position, posture, tone and the balance between your hands don't come through a keyboard's signal, so Clefsight doesn't grade them. Loudness depends on each keyboard, so it's only ever compared with your own playing. How grading works