What we shipped

The Compose Tool learns two new instruments 🎹🎵 🎵 Recorder mode. Pick Recorder under Instrument and the whole tool becomes a recorder tool. The range clamps to middle C up to high D, so a kid cannot write a note their recorder cannot play, and the fingering cards sit under every note where the hand signs usually go. It plays back on a recorder sound instead of bells. 🎹 Grand staff. Also under Instrument: a bass clef under the treble one, for beginner piano pieces. Drag a bell onto the lower staff for the left hand. It plays back as a piano, and it prints and performs like everything else. 🎼 Chords actually play. Anywhere you put a chord, a quiet piano now plays underneath the bells with a nice long sustain. ✏️ Select, copy, paste. Drag a box around a few beats and you can copy them, repeat them, move them, or clear them. It works on either hand of a grand staff, and it works on an iPad. ↩️ Start Over asks first. Clearing all your notes used to happen the instant you tapped it, with nothing to undo. Now it warns you, and you get your song back if you tapped it by mistake. 📓 The song library looks like a music notebook now. Ruled paper cards, four to a row. To be upfront: for about a day, piano pieces published to the library showed only the right hand. The editor had them right the whole time and nothing was ever lost, but the library page was drawing the treble staff and quietly skipping the bass. That one was ours. It is fixed, and any grand staff song you already published looks right now with nothing for you to redo. Real recorder samples are next, to replace the synthesized one. Keep telling us what feels off, it genuinely shapes what we build. #HappyMusicing - Mr. Rob

Another big one 🎉 🔔 Bells in every mode — the "Bells" notehead only worked in 1/4 before. It now works in 1/8 and 6/8 too, beams and all, and covers every bell from low G to high G. Notes outside C–High C used to quietly turn back into plain noteheads. Not anymore. 🎵 8th notes look like 8th notes — put a note on the "and" of a beat and you get a proper flagged 8th with an 8th rest in front of it, instead of something that looked like a quarter. Slide it back to the downbeat and it's a quarter again. 🎤 Lyrics got real attention — syllables no longer collide ("Grandand" is now "Grand and"), hyphens sit centered between syllables instead of jammed against the next word, and the Lyrics list on each song page now reads as actual words with sensible line breaks. We cleaned up all 30 songs that had lyrics, so go look at yours. 🎸 Perform Mode — the staff and treble clef now hold still while the measures scroll past and dissolve behind the clef, just like our videos. Plus a 1-2-3-4 / Ready–Go count-in with metronome, four backgrounds (Field, Lake, Wood, City… or Mix), and a settings gear inside the player. 🎼 Version picker — every song page now lists all versions of that song at the TOP, with rating, length, tempo, and whether each has lyrics or chords. Pick before you read. ✨ Half & whole notes — hold bars are filled in more so they read better, and dots are always dark now so they stop vanishing on yellow. To be upfront: writing in 4/4, playing back and sharing a link are free forever, no account needed. The extra time signatures, Perform Mode and saving are now included with Lifetime and PK-5 rather than free. Details at /plans — already a member but seeing Free? Make sure your account uses your purchase email. Keep the reports coming. Most of the above started as something one of you flagged right here.

A TON landed this weekend: 🎸 Perform Mode — your compositions now scroll right-to-left like a real Prodigies Performance Track. Hit "Play Performance Track" on any song. Total game changer. 🎼 Chords in every key — pick a key signature or just type the chord (Em, F#7…). Thanks Seun! 🕒 New time signatures — 3/4 and 6/8 join 4/4 (Für Elise, here we come). 🔊 Rebuilt sound engine — no more blips, clicks, or stuttery starts. 🎵 Song versions — everyone's Twinkle Twinkles now group together like Ultimate Guitar: one listing, best version first, all takes one tap away. Add your own version of anything! 🔒 Public / Unlisted / Private — you choose who sees each song. ✨ Polish everywhere — cleaner beams on big jumps, fixed overlapping 2nds, correct hand-sign fonts, new bell art, full-screen playback on song pages.

iPad + Safari fixes are live 🎉 Two bugs from your reports are squashed: sound now plays even with the mute switch on (and comes back after a call or app switch), and Print → PDF actually shows the score instead of a blank page. Dragging bells no longer scrolls the page out from under you, the clef is no longer cut off in portrait, and taps/handles are bigger for fingers. NEW: Settings → Note Style lets you switch to Black & White notes for older or more advanced students. Please keep the iPad feedback coming — more touch improvements on the way!