Make piano music easier to play.
PlayableNotes walkthrough: make it easier

Real screen recording on PlayableNotes (the dev site, which runs the same code as playablenotes.com). The AI wait is sped up and other waits are shortened. The title card wipes between two screenshots of the app's score, the original and the easier version. Piano audio is rendered from the app's MIDI export with its own piano samples; soft click and key sounds mark the real clicks, the typing and the AI's status changes. The original and the easier version are played at the same loudness. No voiceover.

00:00 — TITLE
Make piano music easier to play.
Für Elise, rearranged for a second-year student.
(The first line of the score, wiping from the original to the easier version, while the easier version plays.)

00:03 — STEP 1 · PICK THE MUSIC
Start from your own photo or PDF.
Reading costs 1 credit per line of music.
The upload dialog says you'll review the reading cost before it starts. Nothing is read or charged until you choose a file and confirm the count of lines.

00:08 — STEP 1 · PICK THE MUSIC
Or pick a piece from the free library.
(Search "Elise" and open Für Elise, Ludwig van Beethoven, 106 measures.)

00:11 — STEP 1 · PICK THE MUSIC
Open Für Elise and click Edit a copy.

00:14 — STEP 1 · PICK THE MUSIC
Your copy. Each change is a new version.
The Studio opens your own copy, marked Version 1. The library piece itself is unchanged.

00:18 — STEP 2 · ASK FOR IT
Say what your student needs, in plain words.
The request typed in the AI panel (Advanced mode, the default): "Make this easier for a second-year student: keep the melody, one held left-hand note per bar, no leaps bigger than an octave"

00:26 — STEP 2 · ASK FOR IT
The AI writes a new version.
Sped up: the real wait was 1 min 43 s (shown about 28 times faster). In other runs of this request on the full 106-measure piece the wait was 1½ to 2½ minutes. AI edits are free; no credits are used.
The reply arrives and the score redraws with the new left hand.
The AI's reply, in full: "I simplified the left hand to one held note per bar and reduced right-hand chords to the melody. I also adjusted a few notes by octaves so neither hand leaps more than an octave."
AI edits are free, within a fair-use cap of 100 a day.

00:37 — STEP 3 · SEE THE CHANGE
Same melody here. One held left-hand note per bar.
The right hand of the lines shown is the same as the original. Elsewhere in the piece the AI also changed some right-hand notes, as its reply says: the high E near the end of the middle section became a repeated E an octave lower (4 times), the right-hand chords in performed bars 44 and 82 to 98 were reduced to their top note, and the start of the arpeggio run in bar 99 moved up an octave.

00:44 — STEP 4 · NOTHING IS LOST
Saved as Version 2, with your request.
The Versions tab shows Version 2 (current, AI edit, with the request quoted) above Version 1 (Imported). Clicking Version 1 shows the original.

00:50 — STEP 5 · HEAR THE DIFFERENCE
The original is still here. Hear it first.
While you view an older version, the banner offers Back to current and Restore this version. Restoring adds the old version as a new one; nothing is overwritten.
(The original plays from the start to bar 5, notes lighting up as they sound.)

00:56 — STEP 5 · HEAR THE DIFFERENCE
Back to Version 2, and press Play.
Notes light up as they sound.
(The easier version plays from the start through the first ending, bar 9.)

01:05 — END CARD
Try it free: 50 credits.
Library pieces, AI edits and playback are free.
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New accounts get 50 free credits. Reading your own pages costs 1 credit per line of music; library pieces, playback and AI edits (up to 100 a day) are free.