In preparation

Where music is read, practised and made

Musivelle is a single home for learners, teachers and working musicians: a score that keeps pace with you, a studio to shape the sound, and a desk to guide a pupil. We are preparing it with care, and shall open the doors when it is ready.

See what is coming

Everything below is live. Sound begins only when you ask for it.

The Entertainer, a rag by Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin, 1902, in the public domain. Piano, double bass and electric guitar. The first strain, with its ending.

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Guitar

The tune again, softly, an octave below the piano, where a guitar sounds. The tab gives the string and fret for every note; the boxes show the chord of each bar.

Bass

The left hand's bass notes, played on a double bass in its own low range. Each number is a fret on one of four strings.

Touch any note, fret number or key to hear it. Music by Scott Joplin (1902), now in the public domain; the notes follow the Mutopia Project edition, adapted for this page.

Whatever you play

Four rooms, one house

What we are preparing. Details may change before we open.

Practise

A score that keeps pace

Slow a passage, loop the difficult bars and let the page follow your playing, so that the time goes to the music rather than to the fuss.

Theory

Grade theory, kindly taught

Learn each topic, practise graded questions with notation in the manner of Trinity, ABRSM and Rockschool, take a timed practice paper and follow your progress from Grade 1 to Grade 8.

Teach

A desk for the teacher

Set a piece, a tempo and a due date, and see how the practice went, with every pupil kept gently in view.

Opening soon

We are tuning up.

Until the doors open, here is an A, as the orchestra would give it.