PIANO SYNTAX

A toolkit for becoming more musical, at the piano and away from it.

Piano Syntax is a self-teaching companion for piano players who already have some foundation, built around pop and jazz. Lead sheets that play back, a chord lab, rhythm patterns, ten chapters of lessons and a reference section you can search mid-practice. Open it when you need it. No fixed path.

For iPhone and iPad.

Features

Everything You Need in One Place

Lead Sheets
Build a chord chart for anything you want to play. Transpose it to any key, choose how the chords sit under your hands, and hear it back on a sampled grand piano with a groove and a metronome. Export a clean PDF.

Send a Chart
Send a chart to another player and it arrives as a chart, not a picture of one. Your harmony, your form, your voicings, playing on their device the way you arranged it. Opening a chart someone sent you is free.

Songwriter Lab
Sketch a progression, give it sections, put your lyrics in bar by bar, and hear the whole thing with a groove behind it. Move it across to Lead Sheets when it is ready.

Chord Lab
Every chord quality on every root, from block triads through shell voicings to rootless jazz structures. Hear how each chord sits in context.

Rhythm Lab
Groove patterns for pop, jazz, blues and Latin, in common time, 3/4, 6/8 and 12/8. Straight and swing feel. Build your left hand vocabulary.

Practice Lab
Structured sessions by genre, focus and level, with timed blocks, a daily journal and guided paths.

Learn
Ten chapters, from practice method and fundamentals through jazz voicings and ii-V-I. Prose, real notation, interactive keyboards and audio.

Reference
Chords, scales, intervals, diatonic chords, the circle of fifths and study cards, indexed and searchable.

Background

I built a piano theory app for my students

The problem I kept running into was simple. A student would leave a lesson with a real understanding of something, a chord voicing, a rhythm pattern, a piece of theory, and then come back the following week having lost the thread. There was nothing I could point them to that was actually useful without being a full beginner course or a gamified learning app that had nothing to do with what we were working on together.

So I spent the last while building Piano Syntax. It is a music theory toolkit designed to work alongside lessons or on its own. Lead sheets you build yourself with chord voicings across pop and jazz, a chord lab, rhythm patterns, lessons from fundamentals through jazz harmony, and a reference section for quick lookups mid-lesson or mid-practice.

It is built for teachers who want a tool they can use in the room, students who want something structured to work with between lessons, and self-guided players who want to go deeper without committing to a full course.

Who is it For

Teachers
Use Piano Syntax as a teaching companion. Pull up chord voicings, lead sheets, and rhythm patterns mid-lesson. Everything is interactive and visual.

Students
Follow along with your lessons or explore on your own. No fixed path, no streak. Open it when you need it.

Self-taught Players
Already playing but want to understand what you are hearing? Piano Syntax gives you the tools to connect theory to the music you actually play.