Earshed

For adults who learn piano by ear

Play real songs by ear, not just drills.

Earshed hides the chords in songs you love. You find them on your keyboard, it tells you when you're right, and what you miss becomes tomorrow's practice.

Find your first chord by ear Download on the App Store

No sign-up. On an iPad it opens straight in Earshed, with your keyboard over USB-C or Bluetooth; anywhere else it opens in the browser.

Amazing GraceKey of G

One chord is hidden. Listen, then find it on the keys.

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The problem

You did the drills. Real songs still won't come.

You can name intervals and play your scales. You've watched the tutorials. Then a song comes on and you can't find a single chord, because the drills never met a real song.

Earshed practises on the songs themselves. You hear the song, you find its chords on your keyboard, and the keyboard tells you the moment you're right. The chords you miss come back tomorrow, until you land them on the beat.

How a song becomes yours

Hear it, find it, prove it.

  1. Hear

    A song you care about, or a short progression in its key.

  2. Find

    The chords are hidden. You play what you hear.

  3. Confirm

    Your keyboard checks each chord, in any inversion.

  4. Drill

    The ones you missed become cards, graded on the beat.

  5. Ready

    A clear bar tells you when to move on, or change key.

Every chord name, number and interval Earshed shows is worked out from the notes, not written by AI.

Where you can play it

Made for the iPad on your music stand.

Big chords you can read from the bench, controls you can reach between phrases, and nothing that pops up while you play. Your practice and your plan are the same on iPad, iPhone and the web.

On iPad and iPhone
  • Your keyboard over USB-C or Bluetooth, each note timed as the keyboard sent it
  • Your own recordings, from Files or Dropbox, in any key and at any speed
  • Find the chords by ear, then play along with the chart following
  • Drills made from the chords you miss
  • Your teacher's studio: assignments, reports and replayed takes
  • A half-screen window beside your chart app
Download on the App Store
In the browser
  • The demo, with no sign-up
  • Your songs, plan and practice history, in Chrome on a computer or an Android tablet
  • Chart links for the band, and the page for your teacher
  • The studio for teachers, on any computer
Keyboard setup

For teachers

Your students' week, proved on the keyboard.

Stop spending the first five minutes of a lesson working out what happened. See which days they practised, which chords they found, and where they got stuck. Free for your first 3 students.

What teachers see
Ada's weekExample

5 days, 2 h 10 min · 1 song · proved in G

The 6m chord in Amazing GraceMissed 3 of the last 4 times.
2540153020
GG7CGDEmDG
Assignment: Amazing Grace in G ✓ proved · on the beat 75% of the time · 1 take to hear

Prices

Start free. Go Premium when it's working.

Free

$0 no card

  • The Foundations path, checked on your keyboard
  • 5 of your own songs and 40 drill cards
  • Your first plan, and a page for your teacher

Premium

$14.99 a month, or $119 a year

  • Every song, drill and path
  • The any-key challenge, loop and slow
  • Re-planning whenever your week changes

Teachers

Free

  • Your studio and your students' reports
  • Student seats at a lower price, for your lesson fee

Everything in each plan · a 7-day free trial in the app, with a reminder before it ends · half price for students and ministries

Earshed is on the iPad

Download it free, find your first chord by ear, and start the 7-day Premium trial only if you want it. It runs on iPad and iPhone with iPadOS or iOS 18 and later.

Download on the App Store