Online Piano for Teachers

What you get

• A piano in the browser. Click or tap the keys, or play on the computer keyboard (A S D F … for white keys, W E T Y U … for black keys, Z and X to change octave). On a touch screen pupils can press several keys at once to play chords.
• Note names on the keys. Under Names, show the names as C D E or as Do Re Mi, or choose Off. Key letters shows which computer key plays which note.
• Easy songs with lit-up keys. Choose a song (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Happy Birthday, Jingle Bells, Ode to Joy, the opening of Für Elise) and the next key lights up. Listen first plays the song before pupils try it. See all easy songs.
• Sustain, volume and octave controls.
• MIDI keyboard. Press Use MIDI keyboard to play the on-screen piano with a USB MIDI keyboard (Chrome and Edge).
• Full 88-key piano on the virtual piano page, with a Full screen button.
• Recorder. ● Record, play back, Save in the browser, Copy link or Download MIDI. More on the record page.
• Reference pages on piano keys, chords and scales.

Projector mode

On the main piano, press Projector mode. The piano fills the screen on a dark background with fewer, larger keys and large note names, so the class can read them from the back of the room. Note names are on by default in projector mode; switch them between C D E, Do Re Mi and Off with Names. Your choice is saved only in this browser.

Press ⛶ Full screen to hide the browser bars as well (where the browser supports it), and ✕ or Esc to leave projector mode. Octave, volume, sustain, Key letters and the computer keyboard work as usual. The song and recorder panels are not shown in projector mode.

Lesson ideas

Find middle C

Turn on note names and show the piano on the board. Ask pupils to find C, then every C on the keyboard. Turn the names off and ask again. It quickly shows who sees the pattern of two and three black keys. The piano keys page explains the layout.

Do Re Mi or C D E

Switch between letter names and Do Re Mi to connect the two systems, for example when singing a scale and then playing it on the scales page.

Follow the lit keys

Pick an easy song, press Listen first, then let a pupil play it as the keys light up. Pupils can take turns on one screen, or each work on a tablet.

Build a chord

Use the chords page to show a major chord, then let pupils play it on a touch screen with three fingers. Compare major and minor by moving one key.

Record and listen back

A pupil records a short tune, then the class listens back and talks about rhythm and wrong notes. Download the MIDI file to open it in a music program such as MuseScore or GarageBand and show the notes as sheet music.

Homework without an instrument

Pupils with no piano at home can practise the same song on a phone or computer. Share a recording link so they hear the tune you mean.

Privacy

• No account, no login and no pupil data. There are no ads and no analytics.
• The sound is made on the device with the Web Audio API.
• The recorder stores which keys were pressed and when, not audio. Save keeps a recording in local storage in this browser only (up to 20); clearing browser data deletes it. Copy link puts the notes after the # in the web address, which browsers do not send to the server. Download MIDI saves a file on the device. Recordings are not uploaded.
• A share link can be opened by anyone who has it, so do not put pupil names in shared links.