Free scale references with notation and model audio
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Useful before you create an account.
A metronome, tuner, note-reading quiz, and printable charts for violin, viola, cello, and bass. No account, no download, no advertising. They run on your device, and the tuner's microphone audio never leaves the browser.
Start the metronome, right here
This is the real metronome, not a picture of one. Press play and it keeps time on the audio clock rather than a JavaScript timer, which is why it does not drift over a long practice session.
Press Space to toggle.
Time signature
Subdivision
Tempo markings
And three more
Each of these opens in one click and works immediately, nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
Tuner
Chromatic tuner
Bow an open string and the arc shows how far off you are, in cents. Reference tones for every string if you would rather tune by ear.
First move: Allow the microphone, then bow your A string.
Open the tunerReading
Note reading quiz
Name the note on treble, bass, or alto clef, and see which string and finger takes it. Keeps your streak and your accuracy.
First move: Pick a clef and answer the first note.
Start the quizPrintables
Printable fingerboard charts
Selected first-position notes for all four instruments, with finger numbers. Print it, photocopy it, hand it to a section.
First move: Pick an instrument, then download a free PDF.
Open the charts
Keep one useful idea from every practice week
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You kept time. Now give it a piece of music.
These tools stay free. An Arco account adds five guided lessons on your instrument and five in theory, with progress saved. No card. You can also download classroom printables with no email gate.
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