Introduction

Pianotracker is an application to support you in various aspects of your piano training. The main feature is that you connect your keyboard/ePiano to your tablet or computer and the app will give you feedback about your performance in realtime. That means it will show details about your accuracy and correctness (more aspects will be added later). This is very important because most of our time we spend practising piano there's no teacher present who will watch over these vital aspects of piano playing.

It aims to support a wide range of skill levels - whether you're a beginner or an advanced player. It is designed for efficient training without being intrusive. It is designed for sharing your performances/plays with your teacher/friends and vice versa to enable remote teaching or social activities. To enable individual training and to enable you to play your own arrangements/variations Pianotracker supports the import and sharing of your own scores. You can also add your very own fingering to each score.

Pianotracker is still under development and in an alpha stage.That means the some features are still a bit unstable and a page reload might be required when the application crashes. See FAQ - Troubleshooting for known limitations.

Join the community

1. here you get help, you can ask questions, make proposals, ...
2. we use Slack as our Chat-Platform
3. Join us on Slack (recommended)

Setup

Pianotracker needs to be connected to your keyboard/ePiano via MIDI. All devices usually have a MIDI-USB port (read the manual of your keyboard/ePiano). If you get stuck connecting your device to the app don't hesitate to write an email to service[at]pianotracker[dot]com

The following sections describe the main pages of Pianotracker.

Home

The home screen is divided into two sections:

1. Your playtime chart
2. Folders

Your playtime chart

That sections shows your actual playtime for the last two months. The goal is to provide a visualisation to make it easy for you to validate whether you've reached your personal goal of how much time you want to spend on practising. As playtime counts only the time you're actually playing a score when you're in training mode (see below).

Folders

Folders are the main way to organise your scores and to enable fast access to your scores the way which makes sense to you. E.g. you can create folders for your repertoire or a training folder for scores you're currently practising or as a teacher you might have a folder for each student... To assign a score to a folder you have create the folder first and then go to the library do a single click on the score to open its action menu. Use the drive_folder_upload action.

Library

The library screen is divided into two sections:

1. Public Library
2. Import

Public Library

In the library you can search for a score you would like to play. The public library is mostly driven by user created content. Pianotracker will provide scores by its own from time to time. If you don't find a score you're looking you can always import a score by yourself and even propose it as a public available score.

Scores you've imported on your own and are not public available are marked with

If you single click/tab on a score you can trigger some score related actions:

• You can assign a score to your home folders by clicking on drive_folder_upload.
• You can bookmark scores by clicking on star
• You can edit the score (like change title) if you've imported that score on your own edit

Import

Which file format can I use to import a score?

To import a score you'll need the score in MusicXML format, which is a well accepted standard format and every music composition tool should be able to export your score as musicXML file.

I have a printed music sheet how do I get such MusicXML file?

You have several options:

1. Google for it :) or use e.g. MuseScores library
2. Create the score manually (which might take some minutes). Use a music composition tool like MuseScore which is for free or e.g. Sibelius
3. Make a request via mail to service[at]pianotracker[dot]com - we might create that score for you if enough people vote for it (but no guarantee).

In the import dialog there's an option 'Put into training' - What does that mean?

Scores marked like that will appear on 'Continue' and 'Don't' forget section at your home page.

In the import dialog there's an option 'Public available' - What is the procedure to publish a public score?

A score marked as public available will be initially a private score (only available to you) but our service team will be notified that this score is meant to be public available. The service team will verify the request and publish it - which might take up to 48h hours. Any change to public available score will be verified by our service team before the change is actually executed.

How can I change the score description or upload a new version of an existing score?

It depends on whether you've uploaded the score initially (owner) or not (public available scores uploaded by others). If you're the owner then open the score properties dialog by single click on the score in the library and then choosing the edit score action edit. Any updates to a public available score will reviewed by our service team.
If you're not the owner you can file a change request via mail to service@pianotracker.com