The music teaching platform
that keeps students playing.

Exerzisor is all-in-one music teaching software for teachers and music schools — built to fight student churn. Interactive sheet music, practice games, XP and trophies are designed to keep students motivated between lessons.

🎼 Score & Tablature 🎸 Chord Sheets 🎵 Lessons & Courses 🎛️ Recording Studio 🎮 Practice Games 🏆 XP, Trophies & Streaks 📊 Practice Statistics 👨‍👩‍👧 Parent Portal
The problem

Why do music students give up?

Most students don't quit because they stopped loving music. They quit because practicing alone at home feels invisible: no feedback, no progress they can see, and sheet music that is just dead paper. Exerzisor was built around exactly this problem.

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Practice feels like homework

A PDF or a photocopied page can't play audio, can't slow down, and can't show a struggling student where to put their fingers.

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Nobody sees the effort

A student practices all week — and no one notices. Between lessons, motivation quietly leaks away and teachers only find out when it's late.

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Everything is scattered

Sheets by email, recordings in a chat app, notes on paper. For the iPad generation, this chaos makes music lessons feel outdated.

The Exerzisor answer

Interactive sheets that play along, games that make note reading fun, XP and trophies that make progress visible — and statistics that show teachers who needs encouragement before they quit. How Exerzisor fights churn →

Everything in one place

One platform. Every teaching tool.

Stop juggling email, cloud drives, PDFs and messaging apps. Exerzisor brings lessons, sheet music, files and student progress into one clean platform — in the browser, fully iPad-ready.

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Interactive Sheet Music

Upload Guitar Pro or MusicXML files — rendered instantly as interactive score and tablature with audio sync, practice loops and adjustable speed.

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Chord Sheets & Diagrams

Lyrics with chords, synced to real audio, with auto-scroll, transposition, strumming patterns and SVG chord diagrams for guitar, ukulele, bass and piano.

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Lessons & Courses

Rich-text lessons with sections, files and per-student assignments. Group lessons into structured courses with completion tracking.

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Recording Studio

A multi-track studio right in the browser: record, upload stems, review takes and leave timestamped feedback on the audio timeline.

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Practice Games

Sight Reading, Melodic Voice Leading and a chord-change trainer — endless auto-generated exercises, configured per student by the teacher.

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XP, Trophies & Streaks

Every practice minute earns XP across 50 levels. Trophies, day streaks and an optional pseudonymous leaderboard turn practice into a habit.

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Practice Statistics

See who practiced, how much and on what. Donut charts break practice down by activity — and optional alerts flag students whose practice drops.

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File Manager & Wiki

A Google Drive-style file manager with automatic MP3/MP4 conversion, plus a wiki knowledge base with version history and visibility levels.

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Music Toolbox

Metronome, chromatic tuner, chord reference, fretboard visualizer and chat — floating on every page, always one click away.

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Messaging & Parent Portal

Direct messages between teachers, students and parents — and a zero-setup read-only portal so parents can follow lessons, trophies and progress.

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Admin Console

Manage users, CSV bulk imports, registration codes, feature flags, storage and analytics for the whole school from one dashboard.

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And much more

Public sharing and free embeds, in-app bug reporting, email notifications, German & English interface — read the deep dives on the blog.

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Built for music education

Sheet music that plays along.

Upload a Guitar Pro or MusicXML file and it becomes an interactive practice partner: real backing tracks synced bar by bar, score, tab or both, speed from 0.25× to 2× — right in the browser, perfect on iPad.

See the interactive sheet music viewer →
Exerzisor interactive sheet music viewer showing score and guitar tablature with playback controls
The interactive sheet music viewer with score, tablature and audio-synced playback.
Pricing & hosting

Three ways to run your music school.

From fully managed to entirely in your own hands — you decide how much we take care of.

From the blog

Notes from the studio.

Deep dives into digital music teaching — how the features work and why we built them.

Guitar· 4 min read

Gamifying Music Education: Why Books are Outdated

Gamification· 4 min read

Making Music Practice Addictive (Like Video Games)

Notation· 3 min read

Ditch the PDFs: How Interactive Sheet Music Changes Practice

Data· 3 min read

How Much Did You Actually Practice This Week?

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Voices

What teachers will say.

We're collecting first-hand stories from the teachers, schools and parents using Exerzisor right now. Three spots are reserved — check back soon.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

What is Exerzisor?
Exerzisor is an all-in-one ed tech platform for music teachers and music schools. Lessons, interactive sheet music, chord sheets, courses, files, a recording studio and practice tools all live in one place — so you stop juggling email, cloud drives, PDFs and messaging apps just to teach.
How does Exerzisor help against student churn?
Exerzisor is built to keep students motivated between lessons: practice minutes are tracked automatically, students earn XP across 50 levels, collect trophies and day streaks, and practice with games like Sight Reading. Teachers see in the statistics exactly who is practicing and who needs encouragement, and optional alerts flag students whose practice suddenly drops — so you can react before they give up. Read the full story →
Does Exerzisor run on iPad?
Yes. Exerzisor runs in any modern web browser on computers, tablets and phones — including iPad, which is fully supported. There is nothing to install.
Which sheet music formats does Exerzisor support?
Teachers upload Guitar Pro (.gp, .gpx, .gp5) or MusicXML files and Exerzisor renders them as interactive sheet music with score, tablature and chord views, adjustable playback speed and audio sync.
Can parents follow their child's progress?
Yes. The parent portal gives parents a read-only view of their child's lessons, courses, trophies and progress, and they can message their child's teacher — with no setup needed.
How can I run Exerzisor for my music school?
Three ways: fully managed in our cloud at app.exerzisor.com, hosted under your own domain (on your servers or ours), or completely self-hosted for free — you decide how much we take care of. Compare the models →

Ready to modernize your music teaching?

Exerzisor brings your lessons, sheet music, files and student progress into one clean platform — and keeps your students motivated to play on.