SYNC
Teacher controls
Lock the piano, tools, mic, or scrolling, and admit who joins. The room does what you say — made for young students.
Live online piano lessons
You're in the room — and in control.
Live video, face to face. The same score on both screens, your annotations live on the page, and every control in the teacher's hands — built for teaching real piano, especially to young students.
One lesson, both screens — the same score, live video, and the teacher in control. Real screenshots; the teacher's camera tile is blurred for privacy.
More than a video call.
The things that actually make a remote piano lesson work — and that a generic call can't give you.
Live interactive exercises
Notes, chords, scales, and ear training — answered on the keyboard and graded as they play, right in the lesson.
Lesson plans
A week-by-week plan per student, plus a daily practice agenda that advances as each step is mastered.
Live video, on the score
Face-to-face video right beside the music — and extra phones can join as hands or overhead feeds.
A lesson, not a screen-share.
Generic video calls leave the teacher pointing at a PDF in another window. SYNCopated brings the score, the sound, and the ink into a single shared space — so the lesson feels like sitting at the same bench.
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Screenshot · in-session score canvas
Shared scoreOne score, in front of both of you.
Open a MusicXML score and it's engraved live; open a PDF and it renders page by page. Scroll, turn a page, or jump to a measure and the student's iPad follows. A practice cursor advances note-by-note as the student plays it correctly, and a wrong note flashes so it's caught in the moment.
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Screenshot · readiness check & session modes
Sound & presenceWhat the teacher plays sounds on the student's piano.
With a MIDI keyboard on each end, a demonstrated phrase travels note-for-note to the student's instrument — the voicing and phrasing, not a compressed video of distant hands. Live voice and video sit alongside, with camera angles for face, hands, and the keyboard. A readiness check confirms mic, camera, MIDI, and network before anyone is on the spot.
Everything for the next ten minutes is one tap away.
Annotations & markup
Teacher and student draw in their own colours, live — or drop fingerings, dynamics, slurs, and pedal lines from a music-notation palette.
Anchored notes & quick marks
Pin a timestamped note to a measure. A quick-mark palette — slow down, wrong note, fingering, dynamics — drops feedback without breaking the flow.
Session modes
Demonstration, instruction, feedback, performance, solo practice — each sets sensible audio, video, cursor, and MIDI defaults for the moment.
Hear it & record it
Play back the score with repeats and ornaments, or record a short MIDI demo onto a passage for the student to replay — at full speed or slowed down.
Suggested fingerings
An on-device engine proposes fingerings for a passage — pivots, thumb crossings, leaps — for the teacher to accept or edit right on the score.
Practice cursor
The cursor advances as the student plays each note correctly, and a wrong note flashes — with a tap to choose which hand leads.
Run the whole studio from one place.
A room per student that stays put between lessons. Plans, assignments, and a roster that spans every student you teach — without spreadsheets or a second app.
One dashboard, every student.
Rooms, people, planning, and resources in a single sidebar. Jump from a student to their room, their plan, or their progress in a tap.
One-on-one or a group.
Private rooms, or group classes where the teacher can mute or solo each student. Invite once — members stay in the room across every lesson.
Start a student in one tap.
Save any room as a template, or clone a curriculum-tagged starter pack. Scores, assignments, lesson plan, and practice routine come along for the ride.
Schedule, plan, and remind.
One-off or weekly lessons that mirror to the iOS Calendar, week-by-week lesson plans, and assignments with automatic reminders before they're due.
See where everyone is.
A cross-room roster of every student, practice progress at a glance, a feedback inbox for submitted recordings, and monthly usage so nothing is a surprise.
Recitals, when you're ready.
Stage a performance with a performer-and-viewer roster and a shared stage — the same room tools, scaled up for an audience.
A curated classical library, free.
Bring your own PDFs and MusicXML — upload, organise, and attach only what a room's students should see. Or pull from a hand-curated collection of public-domain classical scores, already tagged and ready to teach from or practise with.
- Upload your own scores (PDF & MusicXML) and keep each room focused on just its pieces.
- Browse the curated public-domain collection by composer, level, and purpose.
- Shared blank manuscript pages for working something out together, by hand.
- Equally at home in a lesson or in a student's own practice.
Made for teaching young students.
When the student is seven, the teacher needs to drive. SYNCopated puts the whole room under the teacher's hand — gently, and only as much as the moment calls for.
You decide who's in.
Every device asks to join; the teacher admits it. A deliberate door, not an auto-join — and demo slots for trying the app with a family before anyone signs up.
Lock what needs locking.
Lock the piano, camera, mic, annotations, scrolling, or notes — each on its own, or all at once. Keep a wandering seven-year-old on the same page as you, literally.
Calm by default.
Session modes set safe defaults so a class doesn't dissolve into a dozen open mics. Per-student notes and levels are opt-in, off until you turn them on.
The practice between lessons counts too.
A student can keep working when the teacher logs off — with structure, not just a metronome.
No MIDI cable? No problem.
Microphone pitch detection lets the cursor follow an acoustic piano through the iPad's mic — so practice between lessons doesn't need any extra hardware.
A daily agenda that adapts.
An ordered routine of exercises, scores, and assignments that advances as skills are mastered — with a “move on” option, so it's a nudge, never a wall.
Exercises that build the ear and the hand.
Note and chord identification, scales, and ear training, each tracking mastery over time — for guided practice or a student's own self-study room.
The boring parts, done right.
Sign in with Apple.
No passwords, no separate account to forget. A private-email option for families that want one. One tap, and you're in.
A real terms gate.
Versioned Terms of Use, accepted per user and recorded — the kind of thing a school or a parent actually asks about, handled on the first launch.
Private by default.
Students only see the rooms they're invited to. No third-party trackers, no data resale, and audio and video are streamed for the lesson — not stored.
Built for a specific room.
For piano teachers who miss the bench.
You learned at a grand in a quiet room, and you want your students to feel something close to that — even three time zones away.
For students with a piano at home.
Acoustic or digital, upright or grand. If there's a keyboard and an iPad on the music stand, SYNCopated fits.
For parents who want to see the work.
Opt-in end-of-lesson summaries and a per-student progress view the teacher can share. No dark patterns.
Bring your studio online.
SYNCopated is on iPhone and iPad. Set up a room, invite a student, and teach your next lesson on the same page — wherever you both are.
Download on the App Store