Glissand

White keys are the scale.

A piano hard-codes C major into the wood. This one does not. Choose a scale; the white keys become those notes and the black keys fill the gaps as sharps and flats. A white-key glissando is always a scale run.

Tonic

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Scale Accidentals Sharps Flats Labels Degree + name Degree Name None

White-key run (glissando)

On a piano, a run up the white keys is always C major. Here it is the scale you choose.

Play white-key run Little lamb Ode to Joy Für Elise

Same fingers, any key

Mary Had a Little Lamb uses the same white keys in every key. Play it in C, then try G or F.

Play Little Lamb in

Chord changes

Pick a style. Pads show the chord, the note, and which bars to play. Play that chord, then the next pad. Change tonic anytime to run the same loop in another key.

Style

Click, drag, or type the letters on the keys. Touch works. Hold a key to sustain. Shift plays the next octave; z and x move the typed octave.