Music games
Twenty ways to waste time musically. The melodies are real pieces from the library — so every game can end with you learning the tune it was playing.
What makes these different
Most browser music games run on canned loops. These run on the same 2,433 public-domain transcriptions as the rest of this site — so when Melody Tiles ends, it tells you that you were just playing Für Elise, and one click later you are learning it properly in letter notes. The games are the front door; the library is the house.
Nothing here needs an account, uploads anything, or takes more than two clicks to start. Your best scores live in your own browser.
The twenty games
Action — Letter Rain (type the falling letters and you are literally sight-reading), Melody Tiles (tap the tiles, the piece plays itself), Note Catch (basket, falling notes, decoys), Bumblebee Dash (alternate two keys as fast as Rimsky-Korsakov demands), Interval Invaders (zap the interval you heard).
Ear — Pitch Sniper, Higher or Lower, Chord Crush, Happy or Sad, and Odd One Out: sixty-second rounds that are secretly the same drills our ear-training tool teaches, wearing an arcade costume.
Rhythm & memory — Echo Chamber (a Simon that always sounds musical), Clap Back (repeat the rhythm), Tempo Keeper (the metronome stops, you don't), and Melody Mix-up (reassemble a shuffled tune).
Knowledge — Era Detective (name the century from eight seconds), Name That Tune (fewer notes, more points), Notle (Wordle where the word is five notes), Composer Clues (guess who from four hints).
Toys — Tone Grid and Beat Lab: no score, no rules, everything sounds good, and your patterns are shareable as links.
When a game hooks you on a melody, the serious versions live in Learn, the melody of the day, and Melody Detective.