Learn how to read music in minutes with "Ambrose PianoTabs"

Two things are important in learning to play piano: The ease of reading music and the desire to play the music

• Reading music made simple. The the lines on the page represent the black keys, but using colours. Every note on the piano is visualised, there are no sharps or flats to confuse you
• Your desire to play piano is satisfied when YOU select the music YOU want to play.  Knowing a tune allows you to hear your mistakes and correct them without a teacher.

Our free music library contains 3000+ piano tunes, in all grades of music difficulty.

Piano Tabs has been developed over 35 years by Russell Ambrose, who was frustrated by his own efforts to learn to read music and in turn by his children.  Conventional music notation is difficult and most give up before they get comfortable.  Anyone with even with mild dislexia (like me) is disadvantaged. 

Listening to music you don`t like is torture.  Selecting your favourite tunes makes learning easy and encourages practice. Practice makes perfect

It is easy it is to convert to standard notation once you are proficient

More piano students give up piano study because of reading
problems than for any other single reason.
 

Glossary of our Game Use

Duration: How long to hold the key down (sound)

Key: A lever on a keyboard, pressed to sound a note 

Metronome: A steady sound like the tick-tock of a clock, to help you keep time

Note: A musical note is a sound, represented by a symbol on a page of music (stave)  ♪ or ♫ — these show pitch and duration

Note by Note Mode: Play one note at a time without time pressure. Music is static until the correct key is pressed, the music then moves to the next note.

Note with Duration Mode: Plays note by note AND you must hold the key down for the correct duration as shown by the duration bar

Pitch: How high or low to note is

Real Time Mode: Practice playing a tune with a strict beat in time, to a metronome

Stave: Set of lines on which music is written. Each line and space represents a pitch

Tempo: = Speed - at tempo 60, beats per minute means one beat is one second