Modern Piano plays right here, with no account: real recorded piano notes under your mouse, your fingers or your computer keyboard. The full GOONS studio goes further - 88 keys, MIDI, chord pads in any key, a sequencer and take recording with MIDI and WAV export.
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Rotate your phone for more keys Keep this take in GOONS Studio Need 88 keys, MIDI recording and effects? Open the full studioEvery page below has a piano you can play, free and with no account, from your first five notes to a full classical piece.
100 songs
Easy songs, carols and classical pieces, with this same piano under every score to listen and practise.
13 lessons
A free course from the keys to both hands and the pedal, a piano and an exercise in every lesson.
66 songs by colors
A rainbow piano with animal sounds, songs to follow by colors and first lessons for young players.
8 styles
Jazz, blues, boogie-woogie, gospel, pop, ragtime, Latin and lo-fi: one playable lesson per style.
120 chords
Play notes to get the chord name, or pick a chord to see its keys. The chords of all 24 keys too.
108 scales
Major, minor, pentatonic, blues and modes in 12 keys, with notes, fingering and chords.
4 games
Read notes against the clock, name intervals and chords by ear, remember melodies.
In GOONS Studio
88 keys, MIDI with velocity and sustain, chord pads in any key, a sequencer and takes you export as MIDI or WAV.
Open the studio piano100 free scores with the same piano under the music: listen first, then let Practice mode light up each note and wait for you. The Christmas songs are back for the season.
Christmas Piano Songs27 songs
Easy Piano Songs68 songs
Classical Piano Sheet Music58 songs
Piano Songs for Kids26 songs
Famous Classical Piano Pieces37 songs
Ode to Joy
Beginner · Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Beginner · Traditional
Au Clair de la Lune
Beginner · Traditional
Jingle Bells
Beginner · James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893)
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Beginner · Traditional
Carol of the Bells
Beginner · Mykola Leontovych (1877-1921)
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Beginner · Traditional
All 100 songs
Easy songs, carols, kids songs and classical pieces
13 short lessons, in order, each with a piano and an exercise. Progress saved in this browser.
Piano keys and note names
8 min
Middle C and hand position
8 min
Reading the treble clef
10 min
Reading the bass clef
10 min
Sharps and flats
9 min
Four levels in each game, best scores kept in your browser.
Note reading game
A note appears on the staff, you play it. Sixty seconds, combos, four levels up to sharps and flats.
Interval ear training
Two notes, one distance: name the interval or play the second note, from thirds to tritones.
Chord quiz
A chord lights up or just sounds: pick its name among four, from triads to seventh chords.
Melody memory
The piano plays a tune that grows by one note each round. Play it back as long as you can.
Keys are read by position, not by letter, like in Ableton Live: the same fingers play the same notes on a QWERTY, an AZERTY (France, Belgium) or a QWERTZ keyboard (Germany, Switzerland). The middle row plays the white keys from the lowest C on screen, the row above it the black keys.
| Note | QWERTY | AZERTY | QWERTZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | A | Q | A |
| C# | W | Z | W |
| D | S | S | S |
| D# | E | E | E |
| E | D | D | D |
| F | F | F | F |
| F# | T | T | T |
| G | G | G | G |
| G# | Y | Y | Z |
| A | H | H | H |
| A# | U | U | U |
| B | J | J | J |
| C (octave up) | K | K | K |
| C# (octave up) | O | O | O |
| D (octave up) | L | L | L |
| D# (octave up) | P | P | P |
| E (octave up) | ; | M | Ö |
| F (octave up) | ' | Ù | Ä |
| Octave down | Z | W | Y |
| Octave up | X | X | X |
| Sustain (hold) | Space | Space | Space |
Turn the labels to Keys and each piano key shows the letter printed on your own keyboard (detected automatically in Chrome and Edge). The keys only play while you are using the piano - pointer over it, focus inside, or a note in the last ten seconds - so Space still scrolls the page otherwise. In the studio, the same layout adds C / V for velocity and 1 to 8 for the chord pads, and a second "Two rows" layout covers two octaves.
Every note starts as a recording. The sampler loads real piano notes and pitches between them, then the envelope and the effects rack shape what comes out - which is why it holds up under a sustain pedal.
The keyboard is the easy part. What makes it useful is everything sitting either side of it.
Every key plays a real recorded piano note, not an oscillator. In the studio all 85 chromatic notes from C1 to C8 are loaded, the keys you can see first; on this page one note in three, so no key is more than a semitone from its recording. Soft notes also sound darker, like a real hammer.
Attack, decay, sustain and release are all editable. Shorten the release and it becomes a staccato keys sound; stretch the attack and the same samples turn into a pad. One instrument, several jobs.
Reverb, delay, chorus, phaser, distortion and filter, each a single click. Reverb and a little chorus is the default answer for anything melodic; distortion and filter are there for when it should not sound like a piano at all.
In the studio, eight pads hold the chords of the key you pick - major or minor, with 7ths, a bass note and a strum if you want them - and each chord is voiced close to the previous one. The name of whatever you play is shown under the keyboard, here too.
In the studio, Record keeps what you play - notes and sustain pedal, with a count-in if you want one. Play the take back, download it as a MIDI file or a WAV recording, or send its first bar to the 16-step sequencer, which plays in your key on a sample-accurate clock. Here, record 30 seconds.
In the studio, connect a controller and it plays properly: velocity is respected and the sustain pedal works. On this page and in the studio, the mouse, touch and the computer keyboard work too.
Same recorded notes every time - only the filter, the envelope and the effects change. Pick one in the Sound menu of the piano at the top of the page.
The instrument as recorded, with a light reverb. The setting to write with before you start processing anything.
Low-pass around 1.8 kHz and a short release: close, quiet and slightly dull in the way felt pianos are.
Slow attack, long release, wide reverb. Hold a triad with the sustain and it stops being a piano and becomes a bed.
Saturation, a slightly unstable pitch and a delay feeding back. The artefacts land on a real recording rather than on a sine wave.
Touch a key, or press A on your computer keyboard. The first note starts the sound; the piano notes for the visible keys are already loaded.
A S D F G H J K L sit on the white keys, W E T Y U O P on the black ones (Q and Z on AZERTY). Z and X change octave (W and X on AZERTY), Space holds the sustain.
Grand, Felt, Pad or Lo-fi. Slide across the keys for a glissando; hit the front of a key for a louder note, the back for a softer one.
Record 30 seconds here and keep the take in GOONS Studio. The studio piano adds 88 keys, MIDI, chord pads in any key, a sequencer and full takes with MIDI and WAV export.
| Type | Sampled acoustic piano: playable on this page, full instrument in the GOONS studio |
|---|---|
| Engine | Real recorded piano notes - one every three semitones on this page, all 85 from C1 to C8 in the studio |
| Keys | 25 here (13 on a phone held upright, 49 with More keys on a wide screen); 25, 37, 49, 61 or 88 in the studio, A0 to C8 |
| Sounds | Grand, Felt, Pad and Lo-fi here; ADSR envelope and six effects in the studio |
| Computer keyboard | Ableton layout by key position - QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ - with your own key labels |
| Chords | Live chord name here; eight held pads in any major or minor key, with 7ths, bass and strum in the studio |
| Recording | 30 seconds of notes here; full takes with sustain pedal, MIDI and WAV export in the studio |
| Sequencer | Studio: 16 steps in the chosen key, sample-accurate clock, accents, step record |
| Metronome | Here: on / off and tempo. Studio: accents, 2 to 7 beats, tap tempo, count-in, studio tempo |
| Visualiser | Spectrum, waveform and 3D modes in the studio |
| Input | Mouse, touch and computer keyboard; Web MIDI with velocity and sustain pedal in the studio |
| Requirements | Any modern browser with Web Audio - Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari. |
Most virtual pianos are a row of buttons wired to a sine wave. Modern Piano plays real recorded notes, follows how hard you hit a key and holds a sustain pedal, which is the minimum bar for an instrument you would actually sit down at. The piano at the top of this page is enough to play a tune; the studio version - MIDI, 88 keys, chord pads, sequencer, takes - is there to keep you once you do.
Because the envelope and the effects rack sit in front of the samples, the same instrument covers a natural grand, a soft felt-ish sound, a long ambient pad and a deliberately broken lo-fi keys patch. You do not need a different app for each of those; you need a release control and a filter.
Play three notes and the name of the chord appears under the keyboard - C/E, Am7, G7sus4 - which is a quick way to learn what your hands are doing. In the studio, eight pads hold the chords of any major or minor key, voiced close to each other, so one hand can keep the progression while the other plays over it.
Modern Piano draws on the same 5000-sample library as the rest of the catalog and shares the studio audio graph, so a part recorded here can sit under a drum machine, a sequencer or a vocoder. A new account opens it free for 7 days, like every app in the catalog - no card required. After that, it is part of GOONS PRO.
Yes. The free piano sheet music pages put a score above this same piano: press Listen to hear the song, then Practice mode lights up the next note on the score and on the keys and waits until you play it. You can slow the tempo down, practise one hand while the computer plays the other and loop any bars. Start with the songs listed below the piano, or browse the collections.
Yes. Press Staff above the keys: every note you play is written on a grand staff, treble and bass clef, with sharps and flats spelled for the key, and a chord mode shows the name of the chord you hold. Choose C D E or Do Ré Mi in Labels to see the note names as well.
Sampled. The piano on this page plays real recorded notes, one every three semitones, so no key is more than a semitone from its recording. The studio version loads all 85 chromatic notes from C1 to C8, which is why sustained chords keep the character of an acoustic instrument.
25 here (13 on a phone held upright), and 49 with the More keys button on a wide screen. The studio piano offers 25, 37, 49, 61 or the full 88 keys, from A0 to C8.
Yes. Keys are read by position, not by letter, so the same physical keys play the same notes on QWERTY, AZERTY (France, Belgium) and QWERTZ keyboards. Set the labels to Keys and each piano key shows the letter printed on yours.
Yes. Labels can be off, note names (C D E, with the octave on every C), Do Ré Mi, or your computer keys. Middle C is marked with a dot, and the name of the chord you play is shown under the keyboard.
Yes. Tap or slide across the keys, with several fingers at once. Upright you get 13 keys with octave arrows; turn the phone sideways for 25.
Yes, a simple one on this page, from 40 to 220 BPM. The studio metronome adds an accented first beat, 2 to 7 beats per bar, tap tempo and a count-in, and follows the studio tempo shared with the other apps.
Here, up to 30 seconds of notes, which you can play back and keep in GOONS Studio once you have an account. In the studio, Record captures a full take with the sustain pedal and exports it as a MIDI file or a WAV recording, or sends its first bar to the 16-step sequencer.
In the studio, yes: Modern Piano requests Web MIDI access, so any class-compliant USB or Bluetooth controller plays it, with velocity and the sustain pedal. The piano on this page plays from the mouse, touch and the computer keyboard.
In the studio, eight pads hold the chords of the key you choose - I ii iii IV V vi vii and V7 in major, their minor equivalents in minor - for as long as you press them, with 7ths, bass and strum options. They let one hand keep a progression while the other plays a melody.
Browsers block audio until you interact with the page. On this page the first key you touch or press starts the sound, with the piano notes already loaded; in the studio the Start Piano button or your first key does the same.
The piano on this page is free, with no account. For your first 7 days, yes. A new GOONS Studio account opens Modern Piano, like every app in the catalog, with no card required. After that, Modern Piano is part of GOONS PRO at €9.90/month - your account and your projects stay.
Modern Piano is free for your first 7 days on GOONS Studio, like every app in the catalog - no card required. After that, GOONS PRO keeps it open for €9.90/month.
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