1,840+
Note-for-note transcriptions
Across classic, modern, prog, and tribute repertoire — every chart is handed off to a working pianist for a second pass.
For intermediate-to-advanced pianists
1,840+ note-for-note piano-rock transcriptions, every one shipped with stems and a practice engine.
The working catalog. Filtered by genre, era, and difficulty — built for players who already know which Black Key is which and just want the chart, the stems, and a loop tool that doesn't lie.
The catalog, by the numbers
Hard metrics. No vague promise of "thousands of songs."
320+
Original artists covered
From the canon to cult bands your piano teacher has never heard of. We license through the publishers; we do not scrape.
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Difficulty tiers
Indexed to a working pianist's gig scale, not grade exam levels. Tier 1 is open-hands comping; Tier 6 is two-hand polymetric prog.
100%
Stem-isolated practice tracks
Every transcription ships with the original multitrack — bass, drums, and vocals on separate, slowable stems. No PDF-only dumps.
Browse the catalog
Shop the library the way you actually build a setlist — by sub-genre, era, and difficulty.
Not alphabetically. Not "newest first." Inside the library, browse by the taxonomy a touring keyboardist would use to prep a 90-minute set.
Featured · Classic Rock
Piano-Centric Arrangements, 1970–1985
Original artist — 320+ entries indexed
The era where the B3 finally lost the Leslie wars to a Rhodes and a string pad. Twelve hand-picked cuts that assume you can voice a ii-V in two octaves without thinking.
Open the classic shelf →Prog · 1971–present
Odd-Meters, Metric Modulation, Two-Hand Independence
240+ transcriptions
Modern Stadium · 1995–present
Festival-Headliner Piano-Rock
180+ transcriptions
Tribute Essentials · Working band prep
Tight-Ten Sets for Cover Bands
Curated setlists, 300+ cuts
The practice engine
A PDF is not a tool. The library ships with a loop engine that does what your DAW won't.
Every transcription in the library loads into the PianoRock practice loop — a browser-based, stem-isolated slowdown engine wired directly to the chart. Four moves, one screen.
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Load the chart next to the waveform
The piano part is rendered above the multitrack. Bars are linked — click any measure in the chart and the audio scrubs to the downbeat. No alt-tabbing between a PDF and a DAW.
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Slow it without pitching it
Drop to 40% tempo without the chipmunk effect. Loops stay phase-locked to the grid so you can actually hear where the comping lines up against the snare backbeat.
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Mute the hand you don't need yet
Bass, drums, and vocals each have their own stem. Solo the right hand over the drums to learn the comping rhythm. Mute the right hand and play along with the bass line. Build the arrangement in layers.
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Build back to gig tempo
Set a target tempo, set your current tempo, hit ramp. The engine brings you back up in 1-bpm increments so your muscle memory keeps up with your ears.
From the transcription desk
Not everything that gets requested gets transcribed. Here's why.
A song has to earn a slot in this library. We get a steady stream of member requests — thank you, keep them coming — and roughly one in four gets cut. The other three go on a watchlist or get politely declined.
The ones that earn a slot usually share three traits. The piano part is structurally load-bearing — you can hear the song come apart without it. The original recording is licensed and clean enough to multitrack. And the chart actually teaches something a touring piano-rock player would want in their hands.
The ones we decline tend to be the opposite. Karaoke-likely tracks where the keys are decoration. Songs whose only piano moment is a six-second pad swell. Crowd-pleasers that look requestable but teach nothing once you've learned them. We'd rather leave you with 1,840 charts you can build a set out of than 8,000 PDFs you'd close after one pass.
If a song you need isn't here, tell us. The watchlist is read weekly, and our transcribers in Berlin and Toronto are already booked through Q2 2026.
I built my entire cover-band setlist out of this library. First three gigs of 2025, every song came from one of the curated shelf pages. Tier 4 was honest — I had to woodshed two of them for two weeks — but the stems let me rehearse on tour in a hotel room with earbuds. The chart told me what to play. The stems told me why it worked in the mix.