Scores & composing · September 20, 2026
Your score comes alive: the player, the repeats, the music stand
The score no longer just gets printed: it plays, lights up chord after chord, counts your repeats and goes full screen.
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Learning handpan, differently
Colours, shapes and emotions: David Lesage's method, the electronic Neotone handpan and tutorials to progress at your own pace.
Logic Mode · September 16, 2026
Quick Jam: accompany a musician in three clicks
A friend calls out "G minor, I-IV-V on the verse"? Three clicks and your score is ready. And if you only know the chords, the app works out the key.
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Logic Mode · September 12, 2026
The three faces of minor: natural, harmonic, melodic
Under Logic Mode's "Sad" button, three shades of minor. Two dots rise by a semitone, and the oriental or jazz colour appears.
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Acoustic Mode · September 8, 2026
Two handpans that become one: Hybrid mode
When a second handpan joins the first, Handpan Studio draws each chord across both — and tells you what that duo really unlocks.
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Singing & accompaniment · September 4, 2026
Loop your chords, and sing over them
The accompaniment bar loops one chord — or a whole progression — at the tempo you choose. And when you want more, a drummer joins in.
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Community & library · August 31, 2026
The music library: what if your scale told you what to play?
Songs to accompany, handpan pieces, your own compositions: Handpan Studio's library tells you which ones your scale can actually play.
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Scores & composing · August 27, 2026
Compose your melody note by note: the melody editor
Drop your handpan's notes onto a timeline, listen, loop, speed up — and export as .mid. Handpan Studio's melody editor.
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Improve Handpan Studio with me: the feedback feature
Handpan Studio evolves thanks to you: from inside the app, send a bug, an idea, a question or a thought in one click. Every message is read and shapes what comes next.
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Scores & composing · August 19, 2026
Create and export your chord diagrams as PDF
Each chord drawn as a colourful mini-handpan: notes, play order, suggested fingering. Export your chord diagrams as printable PDF or PNG.
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The score editor: play your songs on the handpan
Song Mode shows lyrics with chord diagrams anchored above the words. Play Hallelujah or Let It Be on the handpan, no music theory needed.
Read the article → Logic Mode · August 11, 2026
Learn your chords step by step: the guided mode
In Handpan Studio, your handpan becomes a guided surface: the app lights up the coloured note to play and walks you through, chord after chord, with sound and visual feedback.
Read the article → Scores & composing · August 7, 2026
Keep and share your chords: the score editor
Export your progressions and visual scores as PDF or PNG to review, keep or pass on. Handpan Studio's visual score editor.
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Neotone & gear · August 3, 2026
Playing the Neotone with headphones: your immersive bubble
The Neotone, an electronic handpan, plays through headphones: disturbing no one, in spatialised stereo sound of total purity. The discreet strength of electronic.
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Singing & accompaniment · July 30, 2026
Transpose to sing in your own key
Your voice doesn't sit right with the handpan? Shift the anchor note in one move and change key to sing at your natural pitch.
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Logic Mode · July 26, 2026
The 4 magic chords on handpan
A handful of chords behind thousands of songs. Discover the 4 magic chords and play them on handpan with Logic Mode.
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Singing & accompaniment · July 22, 2026
Vocal layouts: accompanying every voice
Deep, Bright, Wide: three Logic Mode layouts that adapt the chords to the singer's range so the voice settles naturally.
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Neotone & gear · July 19, 2026
Which headphones for playing the Neotone?
Open-back headphones at home, in-ears on stage: my real listening setup with the Neotone — Beyerdynamic DT-990 Pro, KZ ZS12 Pro X in-ears and X-vive U4 wireless, with prices and links.
Read the article → Logic Mode · July 18, 2026
Accompanying songs on handpan, like a guitar
Logic Mode turns the handpan from a meditative drone instrument into a real song-accompaniment instrument, no music theory needed.
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Neotone & gear · July 17, 2026
Nomad setup: Neotone + Bose S1 Pro+, the self-sufficient musician's combo
Play anywhere with no mains power: the Neotone and the Bose S1 Pro+ make a 100% battery-powered setup, up and running in one minute. Gear, budget and buying links.
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Neotone & gear · July 16, 2026
My advice for being fully in the sound with a Neotone
The Neotone has no built-in speaker: where should you place yours to be truly in the sound? My advice — behind you, at head height — with diagrams.
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Acoustic Mode · July 14, 2026
Using Handpan Studio on your acoustic handpan (free)
Handpan Studio's acoustic mode shows YOUR scale in colour on your own handpan and teaches you chords. Free, no Neotone needed.
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Playing with emotions: the 7 coloured degrees
Handpan Studio's Logic Mode ties each degree to a colour and an emotion. Build a chord progression and tell a story.
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Scales & creation · July 6, 2026
The Sound Atlas: travelling through the world's scales
Handpan Studio's Atlas lets you roam handpan scales from around the world, hear them and see them in colour. A sonic journey.
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Method & colours · July 2, 2026
Constellations: seeing a chord as a shape
In Handpan Studio, a chord becomes a drawing. Discover the 3 ways to trace a Constellation: Polygon, Open and Hands.
Read the article → Scales & creation · June 29, 2026
How to create your own handpan scale (tutorial)
Understand what a handpan scale is and learn to build your own, for free, in Handpan Studio's acoustic mode — then share it with the community.
Read the article → Neotone & gear · June 22, 2026
Why choose an electronic handpan (the Neotone)
Night headphones, endless scales, effects, MIDI, studio quality: discover why an electronic Neotone handpan changes everything, and who it's made for.
Read the article → Method & colours · June 15, 2026
Playing handpan by colours: the ChromaKeys method
Learn handpan without music theory using ChromaKeys: every note becomes a colour, every chord a shape. David Lesage's visual method to progress fast.
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