by Jack Carter
Jazz piano, from first note to full standard — at your own pace.
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Start Learning
Begin from Level 1 — single notes, chords, jazz harmony, extensions. Progressive and structured.
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Play a Song
Jump straight to jazz standards — My Foolish Heart, Autumn Leaves, Blue in Green and more.
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Play Mode
Guitar Hero-style falling chord highway. Pick a song, follow the notes, score points.
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Finger Tutorial
Animated scale fingering for every key and scale type — right and left hand.
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Practice Log
Last 6 months · daily practice
Recent Sessions
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Streak
Level 1 · First Notes
MIDI
Jack at the piano
Over-the-shoulder view
hover · see the view
Coming Soon
Jack
Your animated piano teacher
A living, animated teacher inside Ukiyo Piano. Watch him play. Follow his hands. When you connect your MIDI keyboard, the camera cuts to the view you see when you hover the image — over the shoulder, above the keys, mountains behind, music on the stand.
MIDI-reactive · he plays when you play
Demonstrates every scale and chord
Camera cuts to your POV at the keys
Always there · never in the way
Ukiyo Piano
by Jack Carter · under the hood
A complete jazz piano learning environment built from the ground up. Everything you need — from your first note to improvising over standards.
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Levels
8
Standards
50+
Voicings
6
Scale types
12
Keys
88
Piano keys
Learning Curriculum
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10 Progressive Levels
Single notes → Major & Minor chords → Seventh chords → ii–V–I in C, F, Bb, Eb → 9ths & 11ths. Every step explained with theory.
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12-Bar Blues
The full 12-bar form in C with dominant 7ths, bar-by-bar theory notes. I · IV · V explained through playing, not reading.
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Animated Finger Tutorial
Correct fingering for every scale type across all 12 keys — right and left hand. Animated step-by-step with thumb-cross markers.
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Live Staff Notation
Real treble clef notation updates with every chord change — noteheads on correct lines and spaces, stems, ledger lines, accidentals.
Jazz Standards — Chord Changes
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My Foolish Heart
Victor Young · Bb Major · Bill Evans style · 24 bars · lush maj7 voicings
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Autumn Leaves
Joseph Kosma · G minor/Bb · 20 bars · the world's most-taught standard. Pure ii–V–I architecture.
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Blue in Green
Miles Davis / Bill Evans · Kind of Blue · 10-bar circular form · modal, meditative harmony
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Misty
Erroll Garner · Eb Major · 24 bars · most beginner-friendly standard. Every phrase ends with a ii–V–I.
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'Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk · Bb minor · 16 bars · the most recorded jazz composition ever. Advanced chromatic harmony.
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Fly Me to the Moon
Bart Howard · C Major · 16 bars · the famous I–vi–ii–V cycle. Beginner-friendly, endlessly musical.
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So What
Miles Davis · Kind of Blue · 32 bars · pure D Dorian modal harmony. The opening track that changed jazz forever.
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All The Things You Are
Jerome Kern · Ab Major · 28 bars · modulates through 4 keys. The most harmonically sophisticated standard ever written.
Features
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Play Mode — Guitar Hero
Falling chord highway for all 8 standards. Three difficulty levels — Beginner (1100ms window) · Standard · Advanced (300ms). Left and right hand lanes.
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Improv Sketchpad
Record freely via MIDI — your notes print as real notation in real time. 8/16/32 bars, quantise snap, chord detection, playback, PNG export.
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Full 88-Key Keyboard
Fluid — fills 100% of any screen width. Blue = left hand root. Amber = right hand voicing. Fingertip dots in Fingering mode.
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Mic Pitch Detection
Autocorrelation pitch detection via your device microphone. Correct note advances the lesson. Wrong note triggers a flash and dissonant cue.
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MIDI Keyboard Support
Plug in any USB MIDI keyboard and it connects instantly. Velocity-sensitive piano synth. Works across all modes including Improv recording.
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Practice Log
6-month heatmap calendar, session history, accuracy tracking per level. Auto-saves every 2 minutes. Persists between visits.
Coming — the roadmap
Animated teacher "Jack" — Studio Ghibli-style character who demonstrates scales and chords. Camera cuts to over-shoulder POV when you play. MIDI-reactive.
Daily Practice mode — a single button that sequences a 10-minute session: warm-up scale → current level → one song bar by bar. Build the habit.
More standards — Giant Steps, Stella by Starlight, The Girl from Ipanema, Summertime, Autumn Leaves in minor. Each one a new harmonic world.
Improv export to PDF — clean lead sheet of what you just improvised. Print it, share it, play it back next session.
Improv Sketchpad Play freely — your notes print as sheet music in real time
Bars Key Snap Tempo 90 BPM
Ready — press Record then play
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♪ Song Mode
Songs
Jazz Standards · Chord Changes
Select a song to see the chord changes
Tip: turn on Manual mode to study each chord at your own pace
Play Mode
Guitar Hero · Jazz Standards · Choose a song
Chord Mode — learn the harmony. One tile per bar, both hands together.
Standard · hit window 700ms · both hands
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Combo
Tempo 72
🎹 MIDI · or tap lane
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BPM
Ballad
Scales
Beginner Layer · Finger Guide
Scale Type
Root Key
Hand
Notes & Fingering
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finger guide
Right Hand
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Tempo 72
BPM 80
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Right Hand · Voicing
Ukiyo Piano · by Jack Carter
Chord Library
Jazz Reference
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