• 🎼 Virtual Marimba

    Play warm wooden-bar melodies, explore chords and scales, practice with two mallets, and record musical ideas directly in your browser.

    1. Marimba Sound Settings

    2. Interactive Marimba

    Last Note Played — Tap a wooden bar to begin

    Click or tap a wooden bar to play. The marimba covers C3 to C6. Scroll horizontally on smaller screens.

    Computer keyboard: A S D F G H J K L ; Q W E plays C4 through C5. In Two-Mallet Practice mode, successive notes are paired to sound together.

    3. Marimba Chord Player

    Select a chord and playing style to hear its notes.

    4. Marimba Scale Finder

    Blue outlines indicate scale notes, while gold outlines indicate root notes.

    5. Marimba Melody Recorder

    No marimba melody recorded yet.

    Record note attacks and timing, play them back, or copy a text-based sequence. Recordings remain in the current page session and do not export audio or MIDI.

  • A Virtual Marimba lets musicians, singers, songwriters, producers, and beginners play marimba notes directly in their browser without needing a physical instrument.

    Whether you're practicing melodies, exploring musical scales, or experimenting with percussion arrangements, this free online marimba provides an interactive way to create music.

    How to Use the Virtual Marimba

    Click or tap the wooden bars to play notes, or use your computer keyboard for additional control.

    Choose between concert, soft, bright, and wooden mallet sounds. Adjust the mallet hardness, resonance, and volume to experiment with different tones.

    Learn Marimba Notes and Technique

    The marimba is a pitched percussion instrument made with wooden bars arranged similarly to a piano keyboard. Resonators beneath the bars help amplify and sustain their sound.

    Compared with a xylophone, the marimba generally produces a warmer, deeper tone.

    Marimba players commonly use two or four mallets to perform melodies, harmonies, and chords.

    Practice Marimba Scales and Chords

    Use the built-in scale finder to explore major, minor, pentatonic, blues, and other musical scales.

    The chord player also lets you hear major, minor, diminished, augmented, suspended, and seventh chords.

    These features can help with ear training, melodic development, and understanding harmony.

    Virtual Marimba for Singers and Songwriters

    Singers can use the virtual marimba for pitch matching, interval practice, and learning melodic patterns.

    Songwriters and producers can experiment with marimba melodies, rhythmic hooks, and chord progressions for pop, jazz, classical, cinematic, R&B, and other genres.

    Record Your Marimba Melodies

    The built-in recorder captures the notes you play and their timing so you can listen back to musical ideas.

    You can also copy a text-based note sequence for reference when practicing, composing, or arranging.

    Tip: Start by practicing a C major scale slowly, then try playing a simple three-note melody. Once you're comfortable, experiment with the two-mallet mode and chord player to explore harmonies.

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