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Music Tools

Small practical tools to support music learning, rhythm and notation.

Made for Aria’s in-person students, free for everyone. These tools make reading music and finding notes quick and visual at home, so lesson time can go to bowing, tone and musical expression. About in-person lessons →

Fingerboard

Violin Fingerboard

Tap notes on the G, D, A and E strings to hear the pitch and see every enharmonic spelling side by side.

Open Violin Fingerboard →
Fingerboard · MIDI

MIDI to Violin Fingerboard

Open any MIDI file and it becomes violin music: notes, string and finger for every note, lit up on the music and the fingerboard as it plays, with the file’s other parts (or piano chords) as backing. Your files stay on your device.

Open MIDI to Fingerboard →
For teachers

Practice Plan Builder

Build a weekly practice plan from the Practice Library: pick videos, études, play-along tracks and games, set the minutes and times, then send it to a student as a link or export it for the Practice Planner.

Open Practice Plan Builder →
Fingerboard · ABRSM

Scales on the Fingerboard

ABRSM Grades 1–8 scales and arpeggios, note by note. The score and a coloured-finger fingerboard light up together. Step forward and back, choose a tempo and change the fingering.

Open Scales on the Fingerboard →
Fingerboard · Sight-reading

Sight-Reading on the Fingerboard

1,000 new pieces (200 per grade) at ABRSM Grade 1–5 sight-reading level. Take a 30-second look, play it through, then check every note on the music and the fingerboard. Printable PDFs too.

Open Grade 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 →
Fingerboard · Repertoire

Famous Songs on the Fingerboard

242 well-known songs (46–50 per grade), Grades 1–5: nursery songs, folk tunes, carols, hymns and classical favourites, with piano chords. Grades 4–5 repeat each tune an octave higher using 1st–3rd position. Printable PDFs too.

Open Grade 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 →
Jianpu · 简谱

Jianpu Violin Fingerboard 简谱小提琴指板

For Chinese numbered-notation players. Choose 1=C, 1=G, 1=D… to see every note as a jianpu number with octave dots, plus finger numbers for 1st–3rd position.

Open Jianpu Fingerboard →
Jianpu · 简谱

Jianpu Viola Fingerboard 简谱中提琴指板

The same jianpu fingerboard for viola: C, G, D and A strings, octave dots, finger numbers for 1st–3rd position, and an alto-clef staff.

Open Jianpu Viola Fingerboard →
Jianpu · 二胡

Jianpu Erhu Fingerboard 简谱二胡指位

For the erhu, the Chinese two-string fiddle. Choose a key to see every note on the inner (D) and outer (A) strings as jianpu, with the tuning name (15弦, 52弦…) and 1st-position fingering.

Open Jianpu Erhu Fingerboard →
Jianpu · 中胡

Jianpu Zhonghu Fingerboard 简谱中胡指位

For the zhonghu, the alto erhu tuned a fifth lower (G–D). See every note on both strings as jianpu, with the tuning name (15弦, 52弦…) and 1st-position fingering.

Open Jianpu Zhonghu Fingerboard →
Tuner

Violin Chromatic Tuner

A free, live chromatic tuner for violin. Select a string, play a note, and watch it light up on the fingerboard — flat, sharp or right in tune.

Open Violin Chromatic Tuner →
Rhythm

Metronome

The existing terminology page also includes a simple browser-based metronome for tempo practice.

Open Metronome →
Terminology

Music Terminology

Review common musical terms and meanings, with search and learning functions.

Open Music Terminology →
Notation

Jianpu → MIDI

Aria’s Chinese numbered-notation tool for converting Jianpu-style input into MIDI-based musical output. Open the MIDI file it makes in MIDI to Violin Fingerboard to see the fingering.

Open Jianpu → MIDI →
These tools are now included directly in this website package. The Violin Fingerboard tool plays each note and shows its enharmonic spellings, the Violin Chromatic Tuner listens through your microphone and highlights the note you're playing on its own fingerboard, the Music Terminology page includes flashcards, search and a metronome, and the Jianpu tool lets you edit, play and export numbered notation as MIDI.