Read & play new musicas fluently as you’re reading this.
Sight-reading is not about recognizing notes quickly. It's about identifying the pattern, predicting what comes next and staying in time no matter what.
Our tool generates music optimized for sight-reading, analyzes your playing in real time and guides you toward mastery.
No account needed for the test. No credit card required.
Two ways to practise
Works with any piano or keyboard
Use MIDI for automatic scoring, or practise unplugged with any instrument. Either way, you get the same drills, pacing, and scrolling score.
Plugged in
MIDI-connected piano or keyboard
Get detailed feedback on every note you play.
- Pitch, rhythm, continuity, structure, and recovery are scored separately
- See your performance reflected directly on the score
- Your skill profile identifies weak areas and chooses what to practise next
Unplugged
Any piano or keyboard
No MIDI? You can still use the full practice system.
- Works with acoustic pianos and keyboards without MIDI
- The count-in, metronome, timer, and scrolling score work exactly the same
- At regular intervals, the exercise pauses so you can check what you just played
80 graded drills
Four levels of twenty drills each, sequenced like a method book and the graded repertoire that follows it. You start with your first notes around middle C, work through minuets and sonatinas, and finish on concert repertoire. Each drill adds about one new skill, and the music is generated fresh every time, so no drill ever becomes a memory test.
Or build and save custom drills
Seven tabs of settings behind every exercise. Read musical phrases built from real patterns and chord progressions, or unrelated notes from a range you choose. Play against a moving beat, or let each note wait while you find it.
All 30 keys, 5 meters, up to 128 bars
Pick a key off a circle-of-fifths wheel and its signature is engraved as you choose it, relative minor and all. Name several and the drill modulates part-way through, splitting itself into one section per key.
Your own mix of note values, dots and rests
Tick the note values you want to practise, then set how much of the drill each one gets. The shares count attacks, so a whole note takes far more of the bar than its percentage suggests. Dotted notes and rests get their own dials.
Choose melodic and harmonic shapes
Build the melody from scales, neighbour tones, skips, arpeggios, broken chords, sequences, leaps that recover and chromatic figures, each shown with a notated example. Then set the chord progressions underneath it, from basic I–IV–V–I frames to borrowed chords and secondary dominants.
A left hand that actually plays
Set how far each hand reaches by dragging across a keyboard, then choose what the left hand does under the melody: 15 accompaniment textures from a sustained chord to stride and a real countermelody.
Play along with real music, in time
Every drill is a real piece of piano music, with a melody over a moving left hand, chords, key signatures and all. It is written fresh for you and scrolls past at a steady tempo. Keep going the way a pianist does when sight-reading for real, and if you lose the thread, pause, restart or ease the tempo back without leaving the page.
How fluent pianists actually read
Train the five habits that turn notation into music.
Fluent readers are not identifying every symbol one at a time. They use a set of connected skills that ordinary note drills rarely train.
Recognize patterns instead of individual notes
Experienced pianists see a scale, an arpeggio, a chord shape or a sequence. They never see a collection of unrelated dots.
Every exercise is built from real musical patterns and chord progressions, so you learn to recognize familiar shapes instead of calculating each note from scratch.
Keep your eyes ahead of your hands
Fluent readers are already processing what comes next while their hands play the current beat.
Vanishing Score training hides the music before you reach it, forcing your eyes to read ahead. Set the lead anywhere from half a beat to two full bars.
Protect the pulse
A missed note does not have to destroy the performance.
The metronome never pauses, and scoring rewards continuity and rhythm instead of encouraging you to stop and hunt for perfect notes. Performers lean on exactly this survival skill when a passage goes wrong.
Anticipate what comes next
Because phrases follow recognizable harmonic patterns, skilled readers sense where the music is going before every note appears.
Exercises use functional progressions, cadences, and turnarounds, so you gradually learn to expect the music instead of merely reacting to it.
Prepare before the first note
Strong sight-readers use the preview deliberately: key, meter, tempo, hand position, rhythmic hazards, repeated patterns, overall shape.
Every session opens on a guided preview with that routine written out beside the music, and waits for you, until working through it becomes automatic.
Built for pianists who can play but cannot yet read fluently
Is sight-reading the skill holding you back?
Self-taught pianists
You play by ear or from memory, but an unfamiliar score still feels painfully slow. Turn reading into a reflex with focused ten-minute sessions.
Exam candidates
Sight-reading exams give you unfamiliar music, limited preview time, and one attempt. Train in exactly that format before test day.
Returning pianists
You used to read comfortably, but years away from the instrument weakened the link between the page and your hands. Rebuild it with exercises aimed at the skills that faded most.
Piano teachers
Choose the key, meter, range, note values, and difficulty to match your lesson. Every attempt creates new material, so students improve their reading instead of memorizing the exercise.
Simple, affordable training
Build a lifelong musical skill for $3.99 a month.
The free plan includes genuine timed sight-reading practice, in any one of the 30 keys and every rhythm there is.
Upgrade to Pro to unlock:
- All 30 major and minor keys
- Cut time and 6/8
- Longer musical phrases
- Borrowed chords and secondary dominants
- Wider note ranges
- Eye-hand span training
- Your skill profile, from MIDI runs
- Drills aimed at your weakest skill, from MIDI runs
Find out what is really slowing down your sight-reading.
Take the four-bar test.
Music you have never seen, played once, with a clear breakdown of your rhythm, pitch, continuity, structure, and recovery. It takes about a minute.
No account required. No credit card. Just eight bars and an honest diagnosis.