Practise traditional tunes with a band behind you

Metronome, backing tracks and ABC scores for Irish, Breton, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Cajun and Québécois music. Free in your browser.

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Metronome Keeps time for jigs, reels, polkas and more Backing Machine Guitar and bass that play along with you Instrument Tuner Tune up, with B♭ and E♭ transpositions ABC notation reference Read and write music as plain text

Free or Cloud: what you get

Every plan gives you the whole application, with the standard instrument sounds. Cloud adds recorded instruments and keeps your tunes on our servers, on every device.

Local Free

€0, no card needed

  • Where your tunes are kept In this browser, on this device. We keep no copy
  • Write, play and practise Yes, all of it
  • Instruments: sounds and look Every instrument, with the standard General MIDI sounds and a plain diagram of the instrument
  • History of every tune and recording Not included: Cloud only
  • Share a repertoire with your band or pupils Not included: Cloud only
Most complete

AbcMusicStudio Cloud

€6 / month

or €16 / 3 months · €60 / year

No commitment. Cancel any time.

Everything in Local Free, plus:

  • Where your tunes are kept On our servers, backed up. The same repertoire on every device and browser
  • Instruments: sounds and look Studio sounds recorded on real instruments, from the mandolin to the concertina, and the instrument drawn like the real one when you edit a tab
  • History of every tune and recording Restore, compare, named versions, start an arrangement from an old version
  • Share a repertoire with your band or pupils They open it with one shared name and password: no account, nothing to pay

For teachers: your pupils need no account

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Short demos of the features, from our YouTube channel.

AbcMusicStudio, an overview

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Creating your first score

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Learning a tune phrase by phrase

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Hear the instruments recorded for AbcMusicStudio

A short phrase on each recorded instrument. The standard sound is what the free plan plays; the recorded one comes with Cloud. Switch while it plays to hear the same notes both ways.

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Drowsy Maggie, a reel

Included with Cloud

What's new

v0.4 · Coming Soon
  • Loop any bars of a tune — tap the first and last bar on the score, pick a practice speed and play them over and over; or loop the whole tune or one part, and find your loop and player settings again next time you open the score
  • A fingerpicked guitar in the Backing Machine — choose bass and arpeggio instead of strumming: the bass on the strong beats and the chord's notes picked one by one, following your chords in every rhythm
  • Open your TablEdit and Guitar Pro files — import .tef, .gp and .gpx tablatures with their frets, techniques and grace notes kept
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