Songs to learn

Every piece here is free to share. The children's songs are public-domain tunes that we arranged and fingered for first lessons. The classical pieces, from Bach's minuets to Joplin's rags, were typeset by volunteers of the Mutopia Project. Each edition is in the public domain or under a Creative Commons license, and its page names the typesetter.

Every piece has a grade from 1 to 8, and the lists below go easiest first. Most come in three levels: the melody alone, the melody with a simple bass, then the whole piece. So you can play the tune of a harder piece long before you can play all of it.

In the app you read the music as you play it: two measures of sheet music at a time, with the notes falling onto the keys below. The Readable now shelf gathers the pieces whose notes you have already met on the path, and opens each one at a level you can read. Wait for me holds the music until you play the right note. You can also play one hand while Octotune plays the other, loop a measure, or slow it down.

The Octotune team · Updated September 24, 2026