Notes to Play, its name and logo, design, code, artwork and text, is © 2026 Smart Man Media, LLC. All rights reserved. The songs you make with it belong to you.
1. The app
The Notes to Play app, its source code, interface design, the "Notes to Play" name and logo, the stage and intro artwork, instrument drawings, icons, guides and text are owned by Smart Man Media, LLC and protected by copyright and other laws. You may use the app as described in the Terms of Use; you may not copy, modify, redistribute or resell it, or extract its sounds or artwork, without written permission.
2. Your songs
You own the songs, lyrics, melodies, arrangements and recordings you create in the app. Using the app's chord suggestions, patterns or built-in sounds in your music does not give us any rights in your songs, and you don't need to credit Notes to Play (though we'd love to hear them).
Chord progressions and scales are common musical building blocks and aren't owned by anyone. The app's built-in sounds are licensed to you only for making music inside the app and in recordings of your own music, not as a sample library.
3. Sounds and fonts we use
| Used for | Source | License |
|---|---|---|
| Grand piano | Salamander Grand Piano V3 by Alexander Holm | CC BY 3.0 |
| Electric bass | FluidR3_GM SoundFont by Frank Wen (via midi-js-soundfonts by Benjamin Gleitzman) | CC BY 3.0 |
| Studio drum kit | MuldjordKit by Lars Muldjord (FreePats stereo version) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Live drum kit | DRSKit by the DrumGizmo team (Deva & Lars Muldjord) with DRS Drums | CC BY 4.0 |
| Rock drum kit | CrocellKit by Crocell and Lars Muldjord (DrumGizmo) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Clean electric and distortion guitars, finger and picked bass, Electro drum kit | FreePats project (electric guitar FSBS; bass YR by Andrea Biasior; synthesizer percussion by Roberto) | CC0 (public domain) |
| Warm, Glass and Air pads; 808 and 909 drum kits; electric piano, organ, synth strings, basic electronic drums | Made in the app's own code | © Smart Man Media, LLC |
| Steel and nylon guitars, studio piano, beta drum kit and string pad | Used in the private beta for testing only | Being replaced with our own recordings before public release |
| Archivo typeface | Omnibus-Type | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Cormorant Garamond typeface | Christian Thalmann (Catharsis Fonts) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| JetBrains Mono typeface | JetBrains | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Noto Music typeface | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | |
| Rhymes and related words | Datamuse API | Free public API |
| MP3 export | lamejs by Alex Zhukov, a JavaScript port of the LAME MP3 encoder (The LAME Project) | GNU LGPL |
Creative Commons BY 3.0 sounds have been converted (trimmed, normalized, encoded as MP3) for use in the app.
lamejs is included unchanged as a separate file (data/lame.min.js) under the GNU Lesser General Public License; its license notice is in data/LAMEJS-LICENSE.txt. Its source code is available at github.com/zhuker/lamejs, and you may replace that file with your own build of it.
4. Trademarks
"Notes to Play" and its logo are trademarks of Smart Man Media, LLC. Other names that appear in the app (for example Chrome, Safari, iPad, Android or MIDI) belong to their owners and are used only to describe compatibility.
5. Copyright concerns
If you believe something in the app uses your work without permission, contact [email protected] with the work, where it appears in the app, and your contact details, and we'll look into it promptly.