Virtual Music Education

The tools you need for your online music education

Whether you’re a complete beginner or a professional musician, there is something special for you to learn at Virtual Piano. Begin your journey or fly even further. Schools use Virtual Piano as a credible teaching tool and students use it to excel in their passion for music. Whatever, you're here for, prepare to experience an uncharted world of creative music.

The Challenge Worldwide

Within us all is a desire to play music. To address a musical instrument with confidence, to play the notes in just the right order and to create music that moves us. We thrive on being able to participate in music and to engage with our emotions through the language of sound. Whilst nothing quite compares to the majesty of a physical grand piano, a harp, a Glockenspiel, a Sitar or even an organ, it’s often difficult to access these instruments under one roof, making learning these instruments a challenge for the majority.

Online Music Education

Virtual Music Education provides a new way of learning music principles quickly, with immediate access to high quality virtual musical instruments. Virtual instruments emulate the sound of the physical instruments, with the added bonus of portability. This makes the experience and creation of new music accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world, regardless of their personal circumstances. After all, the most valuable part of any music instrument is the sound it produces. You’ll learn how to create this sound in your own unique way and experience an uncharted world of creative music.

Learn to play the piano in less than one minute, anywhere, anytime. You can use your computer, tablet or even mobile device.

Anyone can experience the piano through Virtual Piano. You don’t need to be able to read music or to have played the piano before. Virtual Piano music sheets contain letters that correspond to the keys from a QWERTY keyboard. So it’s quick and simple to pick up. You can enjoy playing the piano instantly - anywhere, anytime.

It’s this simple

The characters you see in the Virtual Piano Music Sheets represent the keys on your computer keyboard. By pressing the highlighted keys, you can enjoy playing outstanding music.

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Select a song using the Virtual Piano Search box or by browsing the Music Sheets
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Letters in the music sheets refer to the keys on your computer keyboard
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Press the highlighted keys on your computer keyboard to play the song

Got it?

Play Piano

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Keyboard to Piano Mapping

How Virtual Piano instantly turns your Computer Keyboard into the world’s most remarkable musical instrument. When you visit VirtualPiano.net your computer’s keyboard keys (from “1” to “m”) turn into piano keys. Press “Key Assist” once to see your keyboard keys labelled on top of the piano keys. Press “Key Assist” twice to see all the Piano Key Labels and associated octaves. To access the black keys (Sharp notes), hold shift on your keyboard and press the keys labelled on Virtual Piano.

Online Piano Key Labels - Virtual Piano, Fast Optimised

SEMANTICS OF MUSIC SHEETS

Here is a simple explanation of how to easily play the Virtual Piano Music Sheets

ORDER OF LETTERS HOW THEY’RE PLAYED
[asdf] Play notes together simultaneously
[a s d f] Play the sequence at fastest possible speed
asdf Play notes one after the other quickly
a s d f Play each note after a short pause
[as] [df] Play “as” together, short pause, then “df” together
as|df Pause for “|”
as| df Long pause for “|” with one extra space
as | df Longer pause for “|” with 2 extra spaces
as| |df Longest pause for 2 “|” with an extra space
Paragraph Break Extended pause

MUSIC SHEET PRINCIPLES

BLACK & WHITE KEYS: In general White keys correspond to lower case letters on your keyboard and Black keys correspond to capital letters and symbols
SIMULTANEOUS PRESS: Try to keep letters in [ ] either all capital or all lower case but not a combination of both
MOBILE & TABLET: Black and White keys can now be pressed together on touch devices but not on desktops
CREATING MUSIC SHEETS: If you produce a music sheet that sounds superb, you can Submit It Here to be featured on Virtual Piano

On the go.

How to play Virtual Piano on a Mobile or Tablet?

You can press the piano keys directly on the device screen to play a song. The advantage is that you can press the black & white keys together at the same time. You will see a smaller number of keys, depending on the size of your device. But worry not, as there is a scroll bar under the keys enabling you to play all the octaves of a grand piano on your mobile device.

Keep the complete range of sounds from a grand classical piano and other signature world instruments

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Ready to go even further?

Learn how to create / edit your own music sheets

Music Sheet Producer

Navigate to the music sheet producer section using the grey arrow on the right hand side of the Virtual Piano Keyboard Display. Here you can create your own music sheet or edit an existing one.

Create, Edit & Refine

Press the pencil icon to open the sheet editor and make changes to your music sheet or to paste in an existing sheet.

Test it via Auto-Play

Test how your sheet sounds by using the Auto Play button and start again using the Restart button. Pause the Auto Play when you want to make an edit to the music sheet.

Share it with the world

When your music sheet has been perfected, use the Copy icon in the editing box to copy the music sheet letters. Click on ‘Submit’ to share it with the Virtual Piano community using the Submit Music Sheet form.

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