The Music Arcade VS EmbedCode

The Music Arcade's answer

• Many of the tools listen to you play through the microphone, so you practise on your own guitar, banjo, ukulele, piano or fiddle instead of tapping a screen
• It runs entirely in the browser: free, no ads, nothing to install, no sign-up needed** to play
• It's built by a working music teacher, so the games teach real skills: ear training, note reading, rhythm, chords, scales and songwriting
• It covers tenor banjo and Irish traditional music, which most music apps ignore, with sheet music, letter names and tab for 258 traditional tunes

The Music Arcade's answer

Most music-learning apps are a subscription first and only cover guitar, piano or ukulele. The Music Arcade is free to play in any browser, with no account needed, and it listens to the instrument you actually own — including tenor banjo, mandolin and fiddle. It goes from complete-beginner games up to courses in improvising, walking bass and counterpoint, so it's useful well beyond the first few weeks.

The Music Arcade's answer

• Adult beginners teaching themselves an instrument, especially tenor banjo and Irish traditional music
• Music students who want to practise ear training and note reading between lessons
• Private music teachers, who can send students straight to a game or tune page to practise at home
• Parents looking for free, ad-free music games for their children

The Music Arcade's answer

• William Troy's own music students.

The Music Arcade's answer

I'm William Troy, a music teacher in Ireland — I teach tenor banjo, guitar, piano, violin. I built The Music Arcade so my students would have something better to practise with between lessons than a book and a metronome: games that train the ear, tools that listen to them play, and every tune they're learning with sheet music and tab. It grew from there into a free site for anyone learning music.

The Music Arcade's answer

• Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, running entirely in the browser
• Web Audio API and microphone pitch detection (McLeod Pitch Method)
• abcjs and VexFlow for sheet music
• Supabase for optional accounts and saved progress
• Hosted on GitHub Pages