About DoReDog
We believe anyone should be able to sit down and play a melody — without years of theory or a wall of sheet music.
DoReDog started with a simple frustration: the piece you want to play is out there somewhere, written in friendly letters — but you still have to imagine how it sounds before you can learn it. So we built the missing half.
Meet Doré 🎧
The name says it: Do — Re — Dog. Doré is our music-loving pup with perfect pitch and a good pair of headphones. He hears a melody once and plays it straight back — by letters. He’s the spirit of the whole idea: anyone can play by ear, you just need someone to show you the notes. (Not sold on the name? Tell us — he answers to almost anything.)
Read it, then hear it
Every arrangement on DoReDog is more than text. Open a piece and a real, browser-based piano brings it to life: the playhead sweeps across the notes, the keyboard lights up in octave colours, and a warm reverb-piano carries the tune. Slow it down, loop a tricky bar, or tap a single letter to hear exactly which note it is.
Colour is the shortcut
Sheet music takes months to read fluently. Letters take minutes. We add one more layer — a distinct colour for every octave — so your eye can follow a melody up and down the keyboard almost instantly. It’s the fastest on-ramp we know of for playing by ear.
Free, and staying that way
DoReDog is free to use with no account required. We keep the lights on with a few unobtrusive ads, which means you can share a link with a friend and they can start playing in seconds — no paywall, no sign-up form.
What you’ll find here
- Original DoReDog arrangements and studies written for our player.
- Timeless public-domain classical and traditional melodies.
- A live sandbox where you can paste your own letter notation and hear it play.
Say hello
DoReDog is a small, independent project. If you have a request, a correction, or just want to tell us what you’re playing, we’d genuinely love to hear from you at mnkahraman@gmail.com.
Sources & credits
Our letter notes are derived from public-domain scores and freely-licensed MIDI transcriptions of public-domain compositions. With gratitude to:
- The Mutopia Project — public-domain typeset editions.
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library — public-domain & CC0 scores and MIDI.
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus — public-domain 19th-century art songs, released CC0 by MuseScore & volunteer editors.