Help and demo videos

Every part of AbcMusicStudio, explained. No account needed to read any of it.

Guides with a video

What AbcMusicStudio does for a folk musician: keep your tunes as ABC, hear them played back, and practise them with a metronome and a band.

AbcMusicStudio, an overview

How to use the metronome: a tempo from 30 to 300 BPM, tap the beat, and real bodhrán, spoons or foot patterns for jigs, reels and polkas.

The metronome for a jig and an An Dro

How to put a band behind a tune: search The Session or paste ABC, and the accompaniment follows the tune type by itself, from reels to an dro.

The Backing Machine with a jig and an An Dro

How to keep a repertoire: folders and tunes, reading a score, editing its ABC, and learning one phrase by phrase at your own tempo.

Creating your first score

How to fill in your musician profile, your instruments and your photo, and choose what a visitor sees on your public page.

Your musician profile and public page

How to browse every past version of a tune, compare two of them, restore one, and name a snapshot you want to keep.

Browsing a tune's version history

How to tune by microphone in the browser, with the B flat and E flat transpositions trad players need. Nothing is recorded and nothing is uploaded.

Where to set the visual theme, scores per page, ABC editor width, chords per bar, the MIDI instrument and the repository's sort order.

ABC notation writes music as plain text: what it is, a real tune to read, the header fields, and every symbol of the standard in one reference.