Easy piano sheet music from any song or score

Bring a song or a score, and ask for an easier piano version. The melody stays; the hard parts get simpler. The original is kept.

Drop a score, a PDF or a recording here

Your MusicXML, MIDI, ABC or Guitar Pro file opens free. A PDF, picture or recording uses 10 credits to write out first.

Your own score: Opens free
A request: About 1–5 credits
PDF: On every account. MusicXML and MIDI with Plus

You can make an easier piano version of a piece online, with nothing to install. Bring a recording, a song link, a PDF or a score file, then ask Starling, the assistant in the workspace, for an easier version in plain words: keep the melody, give the left hand less to do, move it to a key with fewer sharps or flats. The easier version is saved as a new score and the original stays as it was. Your own MusicXML or MIDI file opens free, and a reply costs about 1–5 credits from the 100 a free account gets each month.

As Satie wrote it

Starling’s easier version

Bars 5 to 8 of Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1, where the melody comes in. Above, the left hand jumps from a low bass note to a three-note chord in every bar. Below, after one request, the melody is unchanged and the left hand holds one note a bar, G then D, an octave higher, so it never has to jump.

How it works

Choose the score above, or a recording, a song link or a PDF. The workspace opens with it, after you sign in if needed. A recording or a page is written out as a score first.
Choose Starling beside the score and say what is too hard, and for whom. “The left-hand jumps are too hard for a beginner” works as well as a list of changes.
Starling writes the easier version as a new score, titled for the version. The original isn’t touched.
Play the new version against the original. Ask again for the next step up or down, then download the PDF.

The request behind the example

We sent Starling this once, on October 11, 2026, with the first eight bars of the Gymnopédie open and its default model. The new score came back in about 80 seconds.

Example request

My adult student loves this piece, but the left-hand jumps are too hard for them right now. Make an easier version for a beginner: keep the melody as it is and give the left hand something simple that doesn’t jump.

Starling said in its reply that its left hand is lighter than Satie’s harmony, which is true: it is the easiest step, not the only one. The next version can put the chord back on beat two, still in one hand position. This was one request on one piece, and other scores won’t always come out as well.

What to ask for, by what makes it hard

What makes a piece hard, and a request that fixes it
What makes it hard	Ask for
The left hand jumps or plays full chords	“Give the left hand one held note a bar”, or open fifths, or plain chords
Four or more sharps or flats	“Put it in C major”, or “as much as possible on the white keys”
Fast runs, triplets, syncopation	“Keep the tune, but no notes faster than eighths”
The hands travel or cross	“Keep each hand in one position for each phrase”
Several voices in one hand	“Melody alone in the right hand”

Change only what blocks the player, and the piece still sounds like the one they chose. A key change on its own is free: transpose sheet music moves the whole score without using credits. How to simplify piano sheet music goes through the five steps in the order a teacher would.

What you bring and what you get

You bring

A MusicXML, MIDI, ABC or Guitar Pro file, which opens free
A PDF or picture of printed music, read first for 10 credits
A recording or a song link, written out first for 10 credits

You get

An easier version as a new score, with the original kept
A PDF on every account, in staff notation or jianpu
MusicXML and MIDI with active Plus
As many versions as you ask for, each one saved

Good to know

Starling is an early beta. It can drop a note, misjudge what the player can manage or stop partway through a long piece, so play every bar before you rely on it.
Start from a recording? Piano audio to sheet music and YouTube to sheet music write it out first. From a printed page, see PDF sheet music to MIDI.
For other changes, such as a part for another instrument, see the AI sheet music editor.

Questions and answers

Is it free?

Opening your own MusicXML, MIDI, ABC or Guitar Pro file is free, and a free account gets 100 credits a month. Each of Starling’s replies uses about 1–5 credits and never more than 10 (checked October 17, 2026). A recording, a song link, a PDF or a picture has to be written out first, which uses 10 credits. The easier version’s PDF downloads on every account; MusicXML and MIDI need active Plus.

How does it make the music easier?

The way a teacher would. Keep the melody, then take out what blocks the player: thin the left hand to single bass notes, open fifths or plain chords, turn fast decorations into longer notes, move the piece to a key with fewer sharps or flats, and keep each hand in one position. Say which of these you want, or describe the player and let Starling choose.

Will it keep the melody?

Ask it to, and check. In our test on Satie’s first Gymnopédie, the melody, its rhythm and its rests came back unchanged and only the left hand was simplified. It can still misjudge a passage, so play every bar of the new version against the original before you hand it to anyone.

Can I choose how easy it gets?

Yes, in words: “one note a bar in the left hand”, “white keys only”, “no notes faster than eighths”. Each request makes another version, so you can build a ladder: a very easy version for now and a fuller one for later, all from the same original.

Can I get easy piano music for a pop song that has no sheet music?

Yes. Paste the song’s YouTube link or choose the recording, choose Solo piano if it is a piano cover or Band if it is the full song, and the notes are written out first. Then ask for the easy version. How to get piano sheet music for any song follows one song all the way, from a six-flat transcription to an easy version in A minor.

Can ChatGPT or Claude do it instead of Starling?

Yes, once ScoreStarling is connected: they use the same tools, and the easier version is saved the same way. Starling is the one already built into the workspace. See the connection guide.