What Is This?

This is an online music player, playing tunes in Chris Walshaw's ABC format. It is used with traditional music - see The ABC Notation Page for details and resources where you can find tunes.

- Copy/paste or type your ABC music into the 'ABC Editor' window. The paste button will automatically copy ABC into the editor.

- Alternatively, search thesession.org for a tune using the search box. Click one of the tunes in the tunelist to select it. Some tunes have more than one version (setting) which you can choose using the number buttons.

- Use the music playing bar to play/stop playback.

- Set the tempo with the box on the right of the playing bar.

- Use the transpose buttons to automatically change key.

This page is intended for use in a PC/Mac web browser. It may also work on tablet and/or phone, but has not been tested on all devices and some screens may be too small to see all the music.

Credits

Driven by abcjs, an open source ABC notation editor, written by Paul Rosen and Gregory Dyke. The tune database is courtesy of https://thesession.org/.

This website, (c) Clive Williams / Rectangle Red, 2024.