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An iPad running a supported version of the app, plus a compatible MIDI-enabled piano or keyboard for live input and external playback. Use the app’s piano sounds for listening without an external instrument. Live practice feedback and MIDI recording need a MIDI input connection.

A USB-MIDI cable or interface must carry data, not just charging. Depending on your iPad and piano, you may need a suitable adapter or powered interface. Bluetooth MIDI is optional; Bluetooth audio is a different connection.

1. Open Bach to Piano and choose a piano avatar and profile.
2. Use the top navigation icons to choose Library, Score or Jam.
3. Open the connection control and choose the piano as input and/or output.
4. In Library, choose a performance and press Play. For live learning, open a prepared score in Score.
5. Check your volume and playback destination. Play a few keys to confirm incoming MIDI before starting practice or recording.

The app remembers your last workspace. Upper controls open when you launch so you can immediately change views.

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1. Connect your piano by supported USB-MIDI or Bluetooth MIDI.
2. Open the top connection control.
3. Select your piano as the output destination.
4. Choose a Library performance and press Play.

The piano’s sound engine produces the notes. MIDI does not transmit an audio recording and does not mechanically move a digital piano’s keys. The resulting tone depends on your instrument and its MIDI settings.

Select your keyboard or piano as MIDI input. Choose a score and practice hand, or open Jam to record. Input and output are separate choices: a connection that sends playback successfully does not automatically prove the app is receiving your keys.

If supported, use the app’s unified connection panel to connect Bluetooth MIDI. Pairing the iPad to a piano for audio alone will not supply MIDI notes.

1. Confirm that the cable supports data and the piano supports MIDI in the direction you need.
2. Check both input and output selections in the app.
3. Check the piano’s own volume and the app’s volume/mute control.
4. Try the app’s playback sounds to separate a routing issue from an instrument issue. Install or select a supported sound bank if prompted.
5. Reconnect the interface or Bluetooth MIDI endpoint, then try one note.

If trouble continues, email support with the piano model, iPad model, iPadOS/app versions and connection type. Avoid deleting the app as a troubleshooting step before backing up your data.

Browse All performances or a collection; search by composer or composition and choose a sorting order. Tap a performance’s play control to listen. The lower-left player lets you adjust playback and volume.

A work with several interpretations has an expand control near its composer. Open it to see the individual performances. Preview continues until playback finishes or you change/stop it; the active preview offers Pause. Choosing a preferred interpretation is separate from previewing it. That choice is remembered for your profile and used when playing the collapsed work.

1. Tap Select in the middle control row.
2. Tap a selection circle for one performance, or begin on the circle and sweep up or down to select a range. Grouped interpretations unfold so you can choose individual performances.
3. Hold a selected song title to drag the selection toward the left playlist area. The compact preview includes the number of selected performances.
4. Hover over the desired playlist to see the drop feedback, then release. Move to another playlist before releasing if you change your mind.
5. Drop onto New playlist to name a playlist containing the staged songs.

Use Done to leave selection. Individual checkmarks identify exactly what will be included.

Import your own MIDI performances using the import control. Favorites and listening notes help you return to music and remember what you heard. Use the listening-notes control beside a performance.

Personal imports support multiple-song selection and deletion. Swipe left on a user playlist to reveal its trash action. The confirmation offers a “do not ask again” option; the preference can be changed in Settings. Recover eligible deleted items in Recently Deleted. Removing a playlist leaves its music files in the Library.

Library playlists belong to a profile; imported MIDI files and the underlying catalog are shared app resources. Deleting a MIDI performance can therefore affect its availability to other profiles.

Listen: hear the score demonstrated. Free Play: select left, right or both hands, and progress by playing the correct target notes. Timed: practice against the configured moving tempo.

Tap a bottom hand control for Free Play, or hold it to choose the practice mode. When both hands are selected, the chosen mode and tempo apply to both. The app reads MIDI pitches; it cannot physically identify which hand played a key.

“No hands selected” means neither hand is assigned for your practice. It is distinct from the named Free Play mode, which waits for the selected learner hand.

In one-hand Free Play, your correct learner notes trigger the partner phrase. Accompaniment uses an estimate of your playing pace, and the next learner cue still waits for you.

For more natural gaps, open Practice settings → Metronome → Score tempo during hand rests. With this optional setting enabled, the partner follows your estimated pace while your hand has written notes, uses the score’s normal tempo during your hand’s written rests, then waits at your next correct note. Changing the setting pauses playback. The option is off by default and applies to one-hand Free Play.

Use the tempo control to work at a comfortable speed. Define a passage with the loop controls, save it with a useful name, and repeat that section. Full performances and repeated passage practice serve different purposes; restart from the beginning for a completed-performance result.

When a Score playlist is open, tap its name → Reorder playlist. Drag the handles and choose Save; Cancel keeps the prior order. Editing pauses practice while retaining your current score and saved position.

Hold the note in the score, use the magnified selection to identify it, and choose the hand/staff display you prefer. The app retains these practice-display choices with the saved score. Use the original/modified hand-assignment control to compare views.

This is a way to adapt a prepared score’s practice presentation, not a promise to rewrite an imported MIDI performance or provide a complete music-notation editor. Check the selected note carefully before confirming a change.

Open included prepared scores or import a supported prepared .concertscore.json file. Other supported source files may require the Mac companion conversion service and its address/token. Conversion results should be checked before practice; general PDF-to-score conversion is not an automatic on-device feature.

A MIDI listening performance does not automatically supply an edited, verified written score. Library performances and Score resources are related musical experiences with different file requirements.

• Expected-key cues: connect the next target in the score to the on-screen keyboard.
• Hand colors and sustained outlines: separate the parts and show accompaniment notes that continue sounding.
• Note feedback: makes correct notes and mistakes easier to recognize.
• Middle C: marks the B3/C4 boundary as an orientation point.
• Staff reminders: show treble FACE/EGBDF and bass ACEG/GBDFA landmarks.
• Key signature guide: marks keyboard pitch classes belonging to the piece’s key signature when known.
• Chord names: show recognized held chords.

Reveal only the guides you need. Their visibility can be adjusted; upper controls and the piano view can be hidden to make room for the score.

The Score pace indicator begins neutral until enough learner onsets are available. It compares measured Free Play pace to the source tempo: green within about 10%, yellow within 25%, orange within 50%, and red farther away. Playing much faster than the target also moves away from green.

Completed results can show average Free Play tempo beside the score’s stored written tempo. Older recordings of results may have no stored written tempo. Your profile’s calendar, goals and practice history help you revisit sessions; tempo feedback is an estimate, not a judgment of musical expression.

1. Connect and select your piano as MIDI input.
2. Open Jam with the workspace icon.
3. Start recording, then play. The recording captures MIDI performance information rather than a microphone recording of your room.
4. Pause or finish, name the jam and save it to your active profile. Use Resume to continue an existing idea, or New jam for a fresh recording.
5. Play it back through the chosen output and return to saved jams from your profile/calendar.

Use section markers/bookmarks to find passages, audition a section, and shape how you revisit a recording. You can explore grid/tempo choices and score-style notation while retaining the original performance timing.

Jam notation is a provisional view of a live performance; it is not automatically a publication-ready engraved score. Use MIDI export when you want to continue working in another compatible music tool. MIDI export contains performance instructions, not an audio file.

Choose an avatar and name on first use, then use the avatar/name menu to switch or manage profiles. Profiles have individual Library playlists, preferred interpretations, goals, practice history and saved jams. The app recalls the last workspace and a saved practice checkpoint, including relevant hand/speed choices.

These are local profiles, not password-protected online logins or automatically synchronized cloud accounts. Instrument connections, some display preferences and shared score files can apply across the device. Select your own profile before practicing or recording so the session belongs to the right person.

Keep an external backup of your app data and important MIDI exports. Files stored in an app’s device container can be lost when the app is deleted. A new installation under a different app identifier starts with separate storage.

For development installations, Xcode’s Devices and Simulators window can download an app container. Contact support before attempting a restore or changing installations if you are unsure. Local profiles are not a replacement for a backup.

Enable Pedal and middle-C shortcuts in Practice settings. Your piano must send the expected MIDI controller messages: middle pedal CC 66, right CC 64 and left CC 67. Support and pedal assignments vary by instrument, so test while stopped.

These commands change practice hand selection. They do not start playback, start a Jam recording or switch the app’s workspace. Release middle C after a command before playing the next cue.

• Right only: hold the middle and right pedals for at least 1½ seconds, and hold middle C for at least 1 second.
• Left only: hold the middle and left pedals for at least 1½ seconds, and hold middle C for at least 1 second.
• Both hands: quickly tap and release the middle pedal, then hold both outer pedals and begin a 1-second middle-C hold within 5 seconds of that tap.
• No hands selected: hold the middle pedal for at least 1½ seconds and middle C for at least 1 second. Both practice hands clear and playback remains paused.

Watch the on-screen confirmation. If a shortcut does not trigger, use the touch controls and check your piano’s transmitted pedal messages. Hardware behavior is not guaranteed across all models.