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Your expert guide through the piece. Section by section.

Not one long video. Not a course. A focused demo and practice directions for every section of the piece — follow along, and watch it come together.

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Why we built this

Practicing well is harder than it looks.

You sit down with the best intentions — but without a clear structure, it’s easy to lose direction, repeat the same mistakes, and walk away unsure if anything stuck.

Tracks replace uncertainty with structure — so every time you sit down, you know exactly what to focus on, and every time you get up, you’ve moved forward.

A Track is

✓A structured practice roadmap for one piece

✓Crafted by tonebase experts who know how to learn it

✓A companion for when you sit down to practice

✓A complete path to confident performance

A Track is not

✗A video library to browse freely

✗A general technique course

✗AI-generated or algorithm-powered

✗Designed for passive, one-time watching

How it works

Instrument in hand.
Expert in your pocket.

Every Track breaks a piece into focused sections. For each one, you get a short video demo, an annotated score, and clear practice directions — built for musicians who want to make every session count.

Video demonstration

A focused video segment showing exactly what this passage demands, played and explained by a world-class musician.

Annotated score + context

Written breakdown of the key technical, musical, and interpretational details — with score annotations to guide your eye to exactly what matters.

Practice directions

Clear, specific directions for what to do with your instrument — how to isolate it, how to build it, and what to listen for. Not a suggestion. A structure.

See how Tracks work:

Designed for the practice room — not the couch

Tracks are built to sit open on your music stand while you play — optimized for desktop and iPad. The instructions are written to be read and acted on at your instrument, in real time. Every time you sit down, you have an expert guide giving you the structure and direction to make real progress.

now Available

Our first Track, built to show what this format can do.

We started with The Swan, a piece that rewards structured, patient practice more than almost anything else in the cello repertoire.

Saint-Saëns: The Swan

with Mafalda Santos & Mischa Maisky

Intermediate

Saint-Saëns' beloved Swan, broken into a guided path by tonebase Cello lead Mafalda Santos. Practice demonstrations, detailed fingerings and exclusive piano backing tracks carry you from the opening phrase to a performance where cello and piano truly breathe together.

Available Now →

Where this is going

We’re launching with a handful of Cello Tracks and building from here. More pieces, more instructors — all on the way. This is the beginning of a format we’ll keep investing in, not a one-time experiment.

Have a piece in mind?

After trying out your first Track, you'll have a chance to tell us what you’re working on. We read everything, and the next Tracks will be shaped in part by what you’re actually practicing.

Pick a Piece.
Open the Track.
Sit Down and Play.

Your first session is one click away.

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Your expert guide through the piece. Section by section.

Practicing well is harder than it looks.

Instrument in hand.Expert in your pocket.

Our first Track, built to show what this format can do.

Pick a Piece.Open the Track.Sit Down and Play.

Instrument in hand.
Expert in your pocket.

Pick a Piece.
Open the Track.
Sit Down and Play.