Play any song
with just letters.
No sheet music. No theory. Read the letters, press play, and hear the melody come alive — with every octave glowing in its own colour on a live keyboard.
Hear the notes, don't just read them.
This is a real, playable piece. Hit play — the keyboard lights up in octave colours and a warm reverb-piano carries the melody. Drag the speed slider to slow it down while you learn.
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Twenty music games, real melodies
Action🎹 Melody TilesTap the falling tiles and a real piece plays itself under your fingers.
Puzzle🟩 NotleWordle, but the secret word is five notes of a famous melody.
Action🌧 Letter RainType the falling letters — and you are literally sight-reading music.
Toy🥁 Beat LabA pocket drum machine — build a groove, swing it, share it as a link.
Everything on DoReDog, one tap away
Games, tools and rabbit holes — free, no sign-up, and every melody in them comes from the real library.
A groovebox that reads the score — drums, bass and textures that follow any piece's own harmony.
🌊Flow PianoThe piano where wrong notes are impossible — any key plays the right note, the feeling is all yours.
🕹️Music gamesTwenty arcade games built on real melodies — Melody Tiles, a five-note Wordle, a drum machine and more.
🕵️Melody detectiveA few notes play. Find them on the keyboard — then find out what you were playing.
👂Ear trainingTwo notes, how far apart? The skill that turns letter notes into music, in five-minute sessions.
🎡Circle of fifthsThe map of every key, in letter notes — with nine real chord progressions moving across it.
🎹Chord finderEvery chord on a piano: hear it, see the keys, read it in letters. Twelve roots, fifteen types.
❓Music quizzesAudio quizzes built on the player — name the piece, the composer, the interval. Endless mode included.
💡Music factsCuriosities from the catalogue — sourced, checked, and stranger than you'd expect.
📅On this dayWhat happened in music history on today's date — premieres, births, scandals.
🗺️TimelineSix centuries of music history, walked era by era with pieces you can play from each.
🎼MIDI → letter notesDrop in any MIDI file and get letter notes back. Your files never leave the browser.
🎩All composersEvery one of the 435 — from Bach's 359 pieces to the 242 composers we hold a single piece by.
📈Your progressPieces you've played, streaks and scores — kept in your browser, nothing uploaded.
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A library with real depth
Not a handful of hits — hundreds of complete works, every prelude, sonata movement and character piece rendered in playable letter notes. Browse by the composers you love.
Every piece, its own little world
Tap any scene to open the piece and press play.
Say hello to Doré
Doré is the headphone-wearing pup behind DoReDog — perfect pitch, endless patience. He hears a melody once and plays it right back, by letters. Learning music, but make it feel like play.
Built for people who play by ear
A real, live player
Every piece plays right in your browser with a synthesized reverb-piano — no downloads, no plugins. Watch the playhead sweep and the keys glow as it goes.
Colour-coded octaves
Each octave has its own colour — pink, green, red, gold and blue — so your eye follows the melody effortlessly, on the page and on the keyboard.
Free & instant
No account, no paywall. Open a piece, press play, adjust the speed and start learning. It’s that simple — supported by unobtrusive ads.
Lower case, UPPER case, dashes.
Lowercase letters are the white keys. UPPERCASE letters are the sharps (black keys). Dashes are silence or held time. Stacked letters play together as a chord.
Read the full guideYour next favourite melody is one press away.
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