Welcome to AbcMusicStudio

Your music practice companion — explore the tools below, no account required

Metronome

Practice with precision using our interactive metronome, fine-tuned for traditional music styles — Irish jigs and reels, Breton fest-noz, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Cajun, and more. Set your tempo, choose your time signature, and keep perfect time with visual and audio feedback.

Backing Machine

Enhance your playing with auto-generated backing tracks tailored to traditional music families: Irish, Breton, North American Old-Time, Bluegrass, Cajun, and more. Backed by real instrument samples — Martin D28 acoustic guitar and acoustic bass — for an authentic, warm sound. Choose from authentic rhythms and styles to accompany your practice sessions.

Roadmap

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  • Composer — write a brand-new tune in any tradition and dance form the app knows, from an Irish jig to a Breton andro or a Balkan 7/8, and add it to your score
  • Music repository — browse, organise and manage your ABC scores in folders
  • User accounts — sign in to save your work and access it from anywhere
  • More backing styles and rhythm patterns
  • AbcMusicStudio Cloud — a paid tier with permanent, cross-device server storage
  • Score history — every save is versioned, with restore, compare and named snapshots
  • Offline mode — keep viewing and practicing your scores without an internet connection
  • Bands & Courses — shared spaces with a common repertoire for your band or students
  • Public musician profile — a shareable page showcasing your bio and tunes
  • In-app contextual help and a docked ABC notation quick reference
  • Export folders and scores as print-ready PDF summaries
  • Progressive tempo ramps in Learning Mode, based on each tune's traditional speed levels
  • Attach audio, PDF and image files directly to your scores
  • Print the tune you are viewing in one click, or pick tunes to print from any folder
  • Rich text descriptions for your profile, instruments, bands and courses, with ready-made templates
  • Search inside an attached PDF — every match highlighted on the page, and listed page by page
  • Start a composition from a tune you already have — the score you are on, one from your repertoire, or one fetched from thesession.org
  • Listen to a composed tune before you keep it, and discard it without touching your score
  • Record the instruments you play and how you tune them, including old-time cross-tunings for fiddle, mandolin and tenor banjo
  • Choose field by field what your public musician page shows, including whether to publish your contact details
  • Introduce your bands and courses on your public page, each with its own full description — separate from what you write for your members
  • Strip every chord from a tune in one click, straight from the chord grid, and start the harmony over
  • Play a tune on a real tin whistle voice, in its own octave, with notes that breathe out instead of being cut off
  • Backing tracks now recognise klezmer, Balkan, Latin-American and Nordic tunes from the rhythm you wrote, instead of treating them as Irish reels
  • Read a tune in tablature while you learn it, switching between violin, guitar, DADGAD, mandolin and tenor banjo without leaving Learning Mode
  • Put the name of every note under the staff while you practise, spelled for the key you are in
  • See where a tune invites rolls, cuts and grace notes, highlighted on the score for the instrument you play
  • A tune's history now records one entry per editing session, instead of one for every chord, tempo change or automatic tweak
  • Find a tune by name anywhere in your repertoire, without remembering which folder you filed it in
  • Take any past version of a tune and keep working on it as a separate arrangement, leaving the original untouched
  • Keep every take of a recording you replace, and put an earlier one back, the same way you can with a tune
  • Play your tunes over the sound of the sea, a background you can bring in and set to taste alongside the guitar and bass
  • Play a tune on the oboe, the clarinet, a Celtic harp or a wire-strung Irish bardic harp
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