Sheet music adapted for every learner.
Upload sheet music and watch note names and colors adapt for students to play and learn.
🔒 Your music is never stored — it is read, adapted, then discarded.
Before and after
What actually changes on the page.
Your original page stays exactly as it is. Color and names are added on top of it — so what the class reads is still the piece you handed them, not a redrawn copy of it.
The alphabet
The same note is the same color.
Coloring by pitch, a note keeps its color everywhere it appears — on this page, on the next page, on every part you hand out. A student who cannot yet read notation can still find their note. A student who can learns the name and the color together, and stops needing the color.
These twelve are the pitch colors. Set an instrument and you can switch Color by to String instead, and the colors then show how a note is played — the string, the valve, the fret — because at that point what a student is hunting for is the finger, not the letter. On strings the two line up: each string wears the color of the note it is tuned to.
What it does
An adapter, not another notation editor.
You already have the music. NoteAdapt takes the sheet you are actually teaching from and makes the version this student can play — without you re-entering a single note.
Color that carries meaning
Every pitch gets its own color — and with an instrument set, the color shows the string, valve or fret instead. Turn it off with one checkbox when a student is ready to read without it — the same sheet, one setting apart.
Labels in the language you teach
Letter names, solfège, or scale degrees — and rhythm syllables underneath in Kodály, counting, or Gordon.
Real fingerings, not just note names
27 instruments. Valve numbers or a drawn valve diagram, woodwind fingering charts like the one on the classroom wall, trombone positions, and guitar tab planned a whole line at a time rather than note by note.
One sheet, several versions, one pass
A class set makes the differentiated copies together — colors and letters for one group, solfège for another, rhythm-only for a third — as one PDF or a zip. Copies are labeled by their settings, never by a student's name.
In the room
Where it actually gets used.
A class playing from adapted parts — stands up, color visible on the page.
How it works
Three steps, one prep period.
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Upload the page
A PDF or a photo taken on your phone. Photos are cleaned up automatically before they are read — flat, well-lit and in focus is all it asks. Long books go in batches of up to twenty pages, with a picker so you choose which ones.
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Check what it flagged
Anything NoteAdapt was unsure about comes back flagged in pink, so you look at four notes rather than proofreading four hundred. Click any note to correct it. For a dense score, ✂️ Adapt a region frames one line or one part and reads just that, more reliably.
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Print it, or download the PDF
That is the deliverable — paper for the stand, or a file for the board. Nothing is kept on our end, so download or print anything you want to keep.
Three modes
Adapt what exists, or make what doesn't.
Overlay
Your page, colored on top
Keeps your original page exactly as it is and adds color and labels over it. This is the one you will use most, and the one that reads real sheet music.
Skills
Scales and arpeggios, built to order
Pick the note, the scale, the clef, one octave or two, ascending or down-and-back. Stack up several and save them as one PDF. Nothing to upload.
Creative
Blank staff paper you fill in
Fourteen kinds of paper, and they are different products rather than display options — ordinary clefs, grand staff, rhythm-only, simplified staves of one to three lines, contour-only, and tab that fills itself in from the notes above.
Instruments
Twenty-seven, with the fingerings drawn out.
Set an instrument and the notes stop being colored by pitch and start being colored by how they are played — the string, the valve combination, the slide position, the fret. It is the difference between a student knowing which note it is and knowing what to do with it.
Strings
- Violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Double bass
Colored by string, labeled with the finger number.
Brass
- Trumpet (B♭)
- Horn in F
- Double Horn (B♭/F)
- Baritone / Euphonium (B.C.)
- Baritone / Euphonium (T.C.)
- Tuba (3-valve)
- Tuba (4-valve)
- Trombone
Valve numbers or a drawn diagram with the pressed valves filled in. Trombone gets slide positions.
Woodwinds
- Recorder
- Flute
- Oboe
- Clarinet (B♭)
- Bass Clarinet (B♭)
- Bassoon
- Alto Sax (E♭)
- Tenor Sax (B♭)
- Baritone Sax (E♭)
A fingering chart above each note, drawn the way the wall chart draws it — covered holes filled, half-holes half filled, side and pinky keys in their chart positions.
Fretted
- Guitar
- Bass Guitar
- Ukulele (high G)
- Ukulele (low G)
- Baritone Ukulele
Tab numbers in fret colors, planned across the whole line. Chord diagrams too, from a book or drawn yourself.
Keyboard
- Piano
Finger numbers 1–5, planned a phrase at a time rather than a note at a time — the treble staff is the right hand and the bass staff is the left, so the numbers print above one and below the other. Scales take the standard published fingering.
A teacher at a laptop, mid-adapt.
An adapted sheet on a music stand, close up.
From teachers
What the people using it say.
Pricing
One teacher, one subscription.
Everything in NoteAdapt is included at every level — all 27 instruments, every label system, class sets, all three modes. The only thing that differs is how quickly a busy afternoon gets through the queue.
Monthly
$20/ month
Cancel any time.
- ✓Every instrument, label and mode
- ✓Class sets and PDF export
- ✓Uploads join the shared queue
Yearly
$200/ year
Two months free — $40 less than paying monthly.
- ✓Everything in Monthly
- ✓One invoice for the school year
- ✓Uploads join the shared queue
Premium
$35/ month
Cancel any time.
- ✓Every instrument, label and mode
- ✓Class sets and PDF export
- ✓Front of the line in Overlay mode — your uploads are read first when several teachers are adapting at once
⚠ Not live. Nothing here charges anyone — there is no payment processor connected and no subscription to buy. Prices are what these plans WILL cost, not what anyone is being charged. Every button points at the access request form, the same as everywhere else on this page.
Privacy
We never see your classroom.
The safest way to hold student data is not to have any. NoteAdapt is built so that when a district asks what student information it holds, the answer is none — nothing to leak, nothing to subpoena, nothing to explain. You have a teacher account, and we keep what runs it: your name, your email address, and what you have adapted.
- Your music is not stored. The file you upload is read, adapted, and discarded. Your adapted sheet lives in that session only — which is why it will not be waiting for you tomorrow, and why you should print or download it.
- We never ask for a student's name. No field asks for one. Class-set copies are labeled by their settings — "solfège", "rhythm" — because that is what tells them apart.
- Students have no accounts. They never sign in, because they never touch it. You adapt the music and hand out paper.
Questions
The things teachers ask first.
Getting started
Bring the sheet you are teaching on Monday.
That is the whole test. Take a photo of the page, adapt it, print it, and see what the class does with it.