Melopal - Turn music lessons into practice

The weekly chaos

“What was Emma supposed to practice?”

Text from a parent, Wednesday, 19:42.

The piece is somewhere. Maybe in an email. Maybe in WhatsApp. Maybe in that Dropbox folder from three years ago. You know you sent it, but nobody can find it, so you take another photo and send it again.

Every one-to-one music teacher knows this routine. Not because teachers are disorganized, but because the tools they use were never built for teaching an instrument.

WhatsApp · Tue 21:14

Sorry to bother you! Which piece was Emma doing again? 🙈

RE: RE: FW: scan_0034_final_v2.pdf

Cloud folder

“Emma violin stuff” · 142 files · last opened months ago

Practice notebook

Left on the piano at home. Again.

This week’s practice Active

From Anders

Bars 1–16 slowly, metronome at 60. Relaxed bow arm in the crossings.

Gavotte - Gossec

Sheet music · attached

Reference recording

Everything for this week. One place. No digging.

How Melopal works

From your library to your students music stand in three steps.

No setup marathon. Start next week's lesson where this week's ended. Send your first assignment before your next lesson.

Build your library once. Use it every lesson.

Bring the music you already use. Scan with your phone, upload PDFs, or import your entire forScore library in one go.

Scan with the camera in the iOS & Android apps (Android app in the making)
Upload PDFs from anywhere - drag in the whole folder
Import forScore files and keep your organisation
Find anything by title, composer or tags

Add Music

Upload PDFs to your Melopal music library.

Scan with Camera

Upload PDFs

Import forScore files

Using another music app? Export the PDF and drop it here.

Assign in the last minute of the lesson.

Pick the student, write what to practice, attach the piece. Add a YouTube or Spotify reference, or record a 20-second voice note while the lesson is still fresh. Your student can pack up while you do it.

Assign to one student or a whole group at once
Voice notes up to 5 minutes - faster than typing
YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud links attached to the task
Share your annotated copy or the clean original

New assignment

Student(s)

Emma · Violin ×Jonas · Viola ×

Lesson instructions

Duet for next week’s group lesson - count the rests out loud!

Audio note

0:23 - “…and keep the up-bows light…”

Create assignment

Your student opens one place. Not seven.

Students join by scanning a QR code in the lesson - the youngest don’t even need an email address. From then on, every assignment lands in their Melopal: the music, your notes, the recordings. Parents can stop doing archaeology in the chat history.

QR or link invite - joining takes seconds
Works on phone, tablet and computer
Status moves New → In progress → Completed
You always see what’s active for every student

Share invite

Emma’s account is ready - share this so she can sign in on her device.

INVITE LINKmelopal.app/invite/emma…

Copy link

Send email

What changes

By week two, lessons start on the music - not on logistics.

Lost sheet music

If it’s assigned, it’s on their device. “I forgot the music at home” quietly retires.

30s

To send an assignment

Less admin than the WhatsApp message you’re typing today - and it doesn’t scroll away.

Place students look

Music, instructions, voice notes and references stay connected to each other.

1 or 50

Your students, organized

See what each student has been assigned, what’s new, and what’s done. No spreadsheet.

The practice loop

A week in the life of one assignment.

Tuesday · in the lesson

You assign the Gavotte

PDF attached, two lines of instructions, a reference recording. Emma scans the QR. Done before she’s packed her case.

New

Wednesday–Sunday · at home

Emma practices from one screen

The music is right there, your note next to it, the recording one tap away. No “mum, where’s the file?”

In progress

Next Tuesday · in the lesson

You both know where you left off

Open Emma’s page: what was assigned, what’s active, what’s done. The lesson starts where it matters.

Completed

For iPad teachers

Your iPad is brilliant on a music stand. Give your students the same experience.

You’ve spent years organising a beautiful forScore library for your music stand. Melopal lets you turn any piece into an assignment in seconds, delivered to students with your instructions attached.

Import forScore files directly. Your scores and setlists come across - no exporting one PDF at a time.
Scan paper in seconds. Method book page, exam piece, your own exercise - straight into the library.
Annotations, your call. Send your marked-up copy or the clean original, per assignment.

Students don’t get another homework app. They get a music stand in their pocket.

No distractions, no clutter, no noise - just this week’s music, and your instructions to go with it.

One clear list of what to practice right now
Your instructions attached to the piece - not in a separate chat
Reference recordings one tap away
Joins with a QR code · parents welcome to look over the shoulder

See the student side

My assignments EL

Gavotte - Gossec

Bars 1–16 · metronome 60

New

D major scale

2 octaves · slurred

In progress

Etude No. 4

Completed last week

Start practicing

Fair questions

You’re skeptical. Good - you’re a teacher.

Why not just keep using WhatsApp, email and Drive?

Because it's cluttered and messy. A chat scrolls away, a folder grows crowded, and nothing connects them. Melopal keeps the piece, the instructions and the references together for each student. That is the missing connection.

Will my students really open another app?

They open the app where their music lives - that’s a different thing than “another app.” Joining is a QR scan in your lesson, no email needed for young students, and afterwards it’s the only place they have to remember.

Is this more admin for me?

An assignment takes about 30 seconds - pick student, two lines, attach. That usually replaces an email, a chat message, and the “what was it again?” follow-ups. You send it once. Your student always knows where to find it.

Your students always know what to practice.