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Songs you convert are saved here on this device automatically, with your settings (part, key, notes outside the range, tempo and where Play starts).
Songs are kept in this browser, which may clear them if you don't visit for a while (Safari does after 7 days, unless Ocadoke is on your Home Screen). Export backup keeps a copy.
No saved songs yet. Upload a MusicXML, MIDI or ABC file (or paste an ABC tune) and it will appear here. (The samples aren't saved.)
Your songs are kept only in this browser: clearing its data, or a new phone, would lose them. A backup file keeps them safe.
A backup file holds all your songs. Use it to move them to another device.
Choose music
MusicXML, MIDI or ABC, or a PDF or screenshots of sheet music (read with Audiveris, GNU AGPL).
PDFs and screenshots read by Audiveris will likely need proofreading.
Pages to read
Read as one piece, in this order.
Or try a sample:
Adjust
The tune Which notes
A file can hold several parts: voices, instruments, a piano's two hands. "Likely the tune" marks the app's best guess. To check another part, pick it, press Preview to hear its first notes, then Use this part. Hear the whole piece plays every part together.
In piano music the tune shares the staff with chords and accompaniment. Main tune leaves out notes played under a held tune note, and chords-only stretches well below the tune. Top note of every chord takes the highest note wherever notes start, so accompaniment can slip in: try it if the tune seems to be missing notes.
Fit your ocarina Notes it can't play
The ocarina plays from A4 to F6. For notes too high or low: Move phrase moves each whole phrase up or down an octave, so the tune keeps its shape. Move note moves only the notes that don't fit, one by one, which can make big jumps. Leave out turns them into rests. Keep, mark red keeps them and marks them red, for you to decide.
Moving the whole song to another key can make more of it fit. "Best fit" marks the key where the most notes fit, with how many. Pick another, hear the melody's opening in it with Hear this key, then Use this key.
Layout How it's shown
This song was saved when long rests (intros and breaks) were shortened to 1–2 bars, marked ✂, and its edits were made that way. Keep puts them back to full length, so the bars match the score; that clears those edits. Then, while playing, Skip long rests (in Practice) jumps through them instead.
3. Play
Which part is the tune?
Tempo
Metronome
Tuner
A4 = 440
Tap any note or rest to start there.
Practice
Or drag its ends in the sheet music.
The pages this was read from. The reader can miss a note now and then (long notes most often): compare, and fix anything with Edit.
How to read this
- Letter = the note to play. A plain letter lasts one beat.
- Underlined letter = half a beat (two fit in one beat). Double underline = a quarter beat.
- Dash after a letter = keep holding for one more beat; a short dash = half a beat more.
- Dot = rest for one beat; underlined dot = half a beat. ’ = breathe. | = bar line.
- Tap a letter or a rest to start playback from there. Exact rhythm is in Bars & beats.
- Picture = how to hold the ocarina for the note: filled holes covered, open holes uncovered (the two below are the thumb holes, on the back).
- Underlined = half a beat (two fit in one beat). Double underline = a quarter beat. Otherwise one beat.
- Dash after a picture = keep holding for one more beat; a short dash = half a beat more. ’ = breathe. | = bar line.
- Rests aren't shown, to keep it simple: the letter tab has them.
- Tap a picture to start playback from there.
- Number under the letter = how many beats to hold it (one beat is a quarter note). The small grey label below is where it falls when you count the bar out loud; bold counts are where the metronome clicks.
- Tap a note or a bar number to start playback from there (in Sheet music, tap a note).
- (E5) +1 = keep holding the note from the bar before (a tie).
- ’ = breathe here, between phrases. Rests are also good places to breathe.
- Curved line above notes = slur: play them smoothly in one breath, tonguing only the first.
- p, mf, f = soft, medium, loud (on an ocarina, play softer by blowing gently and watch the tuning). hold = pause on the note.