free tools for people learning piano

Teaching yourself piano? — welcome home. Let's practice.

Piano Suite is a free, friendly home for self-taught pianists. Build your own practice from simple blocks, borrow a starter template that already works, and grow alongside other learners.

Everything's free to try — explore the community gallery freely and sign in only when you'd like to keep your own pages.

how the Workshop works

Practice that fits the way you learn

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    Pick a starter drill or open a fresh page

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    Press start and play — we'll keep time for you

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    Tweak the blocks until it feels like yours

01build your practice

Practice that fits you, not the other way around.

A metronome. A timer. A chord to aim for. Snap them together and you've made yourself a practice page. Change the chords, ease the tempo, leave yourself a kind note for tomorrow — the Workshop bends to whatever you need today, and you can practice right there.

No code, no setup, nothing to install. Press the slash key, pick a block, and play. Every page saves itself, so you can close the lid and pick up exactly where you left off.

02start from something that works

Blank pages are scary. Start with one that isn't.

First chords. A gentle ii-V-I warmup. A five-minute metronome sprint. Starter templates give you a working drill in one click — sit down, press start, and change anything once you feel at home.

You can also wander through drills shared by other self-taught pianists, copy one into your own Workshop, and make it yours. Someone out there has already built the thing you were about to struggle with.

  1. pickStart from a friendly template or a fresh page
  2. buildSnap metronome, timer, and chord blocks together
  3. playPress start and play — real keys or on-screen
  4. shareShare what you built, or borrow someone else's
03why these drills work

Kind to you, and built on the science of remembering.

Re-reading a chord chart feels like practice. It isn't — and that's good news, because the thing that actually works is simpler: retrieval. Ask your hands for the answer instead of showing it to them. In one classic study, retrieval practice roughly doubled week-later retention over re-reading (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006).

Every drill here is built on that principle. Turn on Anki Sync and the Workshop quietly loads your due cards, scheduling reviews right before you'd forget. Or just pick chords by hand — the motor-memory loop works either way, and neither way is wrong.

Playing a voicing through every key, in time, until it stops needing thought — that's how jazz pianists have always gotten from theory to fluency. We just put a stopwatch and a gentle schedule underneath a habit that already works.

Barry Harris — voicing drillsMark Levine — Drop 2 / block chordswoodshedding in all 12 keys
04who made this

Made by a self-taught pianist, for the rest of us.

Lessons run $60 an hour and up, so a lot of us teach ourselves — usually alone, usually unsure if we're doing it right. Piano Suite started as the toolkit I wished I'd had, and it's growing into something warmer: a free community where self-taught pianists learn together, share what works, and cheer each other on.

The whole project is open source and always will be free to learn with. If you're teaching yourself too, you belong here — questions, ideas, and first attempts are all welcome.

05anki companion decks

Ready-to-import Anki decks for chord drilling.

Two tab-separated Anki exports: root-position 7ths and diminished 7ths across five keys (C-G-D-A-E), and the extended 9/11/13 voicings with LH/RH fingering. Import via Anki's File → Import (Basic notetype) and they work with the Workshop's chord blocks out of the box — no add-on needed beyond AnkiConnect.

06see it in action

Take a 46-second peek at the Workshop.

Watch a practice page come together: blocks snapped into a drill, played on real keys, timed and scored as it goes. No account, no setup — everything you see runs right in the browser.

Ready to try it yourself? The Workshop is one click away, and everything you need to start is free.

the bench is ready

Pull up the bench. We saved you a seat.

Everything here is free and runs right in your browser. Your progress stays safely on this device until you decide you'd like an account — no pressure, no paywall between you and the piano.

Have a MIDI keyboard? Wonderful — drills shine with Anki + AnkiConnect. Don't have one yet? No worries — every drill plays happily on the on-screen keys too.