Every tune you know, ready when you are.
TuneBox is a digital tunebook for traditional musicians. It keeps your session repertoire organized across all your instruments and tells you exactly what to practice today — spaced repetition built for tunes, not flashcards.
Free · Nothing to install · Your data exports anytime
Practice that plans itself
Fifty tunes in, "what should I play tonight?" becomes the hard part. TuneBox answers it with an algorithm built around how musicians actually learn.
Learning mode: climb the tempo ladder
New tunes start slow. TuneBox remembers the tempo you can actually play and nudges the metronome up each session until you hit target speed.
Playing mode: never lose a tune
Once a tune is up to speed, TuneBox models how quickly it fades from your fingers and brings it back for review just before it slips away.
One tap, and on to the next
Open the practice queue, play the tune, rate it Easy, Good, or Hard. That's the whole workflow — the scheduling maths is TuneBox's job.
More than a tune list
Everything around the practice — collecting, organizing, hearing, and sharing your tunes.
Every instrument, tracked separately
The same tune on fiddle and whistle are different skills. TuneBox keeps tempo, keys, and progress per instrument, so each one gets its own practice queue.
ABC notation, alive
Paste ABC and get clean sheet music, synth playback at any tempo, and one-tap transposition. A built-in metronome keeps you honest.
Import from thesession.org
Search the largest archive of traditional tunes and pull one in — notation included — in seconds. Bulk-import whole tunebooks, too.
Sets, tags, and labels
Group tunes into sets in playing order, tag them for gigs and sessions, and filter your library or practice session by any of it.
Recordings and backing tracks
Attach source recordings, record yourself to hear your progress, or record a backing track and play along — retempo'd to today's practice speed.
Works offline
TuneBox installs to your phone like an app. Your tunes are cached locally and practice logs sync when you're back online.
Your tunebook stays yours
Export a printable PDF tunebook with a full index, a plain ABC file that opens anywhere, or a complete ZIP archive with every recording and practice log. No lock-in, ever.
Common questions
What is TuneBox?
TuneBox is a free online tunebook and practice organizer for traditional music — Irish, Scottish, old-time, and other session traditions. It stores your tunes with sheet music, recordings, and notes, and schedules your practice so the whole repertoire stays playable.
How is it different from a paper tunebook or a spreadsheet?
A list tells you what you know; TuneBox also tells you what to play tonight. Every tune is searchable, grouped into sets, tagged for sessions and gigs, and rendered as sheet music from ABC notation — and the built-in spaced repetition keeps old tunes from quietly disappearing.
How does the practice scheduling work?
New tunes climb a tempo ladder: TuneBox remembers the speed you can actually play and nudges the metronome up each session. Learned tunes go into a review rotation that brings each one back just before it starts to fade — the same spaced-repetition idea behind flashcard apps, adapted to muscle memory and tempo.
Where do the tunes come from?
Paste ABC notation directly, or search thesession.org — the largest archive of traditional tunes — and import a tune with notation in seconds. You can also bulk-import an existing tunebook, and everything exports back out as PDF, ABC, or a full ZIP archive.
Your tunes are waiting.
Sign in, add the tunes you're working on, and let tonight's practice plan itself.