Grokkist Press Reading Room

ImagineMaker's ForgeSnackables

🎹 A Toybox of Music Theory Tools

Magical Music Theory Tools to Learn Music Online for Free
A collection of interactive online music theory tools and piano references for notes, keys, chords and scales. A fun way to learn and retain music concepts.

muted.io is a big, free box of interactive music theory tools β€” and far more fun to poke at than that sounds. Spin the Circle of Fifths and watch keys and their chords light up, plonk around on the Virtual Piano, build a groove in the Lil Beat Maker or the Super Simple Sequencer, work out what scale you've stumbled onto with the Scale Finder, or test your ears with the Rhythm Challenge. Guitarists get a fretboard, tuners and chord references too.

No sign-up, no ads β€” just open a tab and play. Whether you read music fluently or can't tell a fifth from a fence post, there's something here to lose a happy half-hour to.

Link not working? Let us know at [email protected]

Filed in the Reading Room

Register

A reading of this piece

What is this? β†—

The Press's reading, not a score. Nothing here is better at one end than the other. See the whole Press mapped β†—

Good finds, shared

Get the Snackables in the Grokkist letter.

Which letters
What's the difference?

The Grokkist letter is Danu's monthly letter about the whole Grokkist community: what people are making and thinking about, gatherings coming up, and a handful of Snackables, small good things worth your time.

The Press sends you new writing from this site as it's published (essays, talks, stories, books in instalments), plus a monthly letter from the editor. You can narrow it to the Realms you care about.

Choose either or both. Each email has a one-click way out.

Only send me Press pieces from (leave all off for everything)
What are the Realms?

Every piece in the Press lives in one or two Realms: regions of the Grokkist world, each asking for a different kind of attention. Pick the ones that draw you, and you'll only hear about pieces from those.

  • Unfolding Realm: identity and becoming
  • Entangled Vale: shared inquiry and making sense together
  • Maker's Forge: creative expression
  • Soma Isles: the body and embodied practice
  • Wild Margin: changemaking and possibility
  • Hearthlands: community and connection

Wander the Realms β†—

One click to leave, any time. We never share your address.

Check your inbox: there's a link to confirm. Then you're in.

That didn't go through. Try again, or write to [email protected].

In good company

Replies from signed-in readers. They open in their own space, so you can sit with the piece first.