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Colours, shapes and emotions: David Lesage's method, the electronic Neotone handpan and tutorials to progress at your own pace.
Handpan Studio evolves thanks to you: from inside the app, send a bug, an idea, a question or a thought in one click. Every message is read and shapes what comes next.
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Each chord drawn as a colourful mini-handpan: notes, play order, suggested fingering. Export your chord diagrams as printable PDF or PNG.
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Song Mode shows lyrics with chord diagrams anchored above the words. Play Hallelujah or Let It Be on the handpan, no music theory needed.
Read the article → In Handpan Studio, your handpan becomes a guided surface: the app lights up the coloured note to play and walks you through, chord after chord, with sound and visual feedback.
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Export your progressions and visual scores as PDF or PNG to review, keep or pass on. Handpan Studio's visual score editor.
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The Neotone, an electronic handpan, plays through headphones: disturbing no one, in spatialised stereo sound of total purity. The discreet strength of electronic.
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Your voice doesn't sit right with the handpan? Shift the anchor note in one move and change key to sing at your natural pitch.
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A handful of chords behind thousands of songs. Discover the 4 magic chords and play them on handpan with Logic Mode.
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Deep, Bright, Wide: three Logic Mode layouts that adapt the chords to the singer's range so the voice settles naturally.
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Open-back headphones at home, in-ears on stage: my real listening setup with the Neotone — Beyerdynamic DT-990 Pro, KZ ZS12 Pro X in-ears and X-vive U4 wireless, with prices and links.
Read the article → Logic Mode turns the handpan from a meditative drone instrument into a real song-accompaniment instrument, no music theory needed.
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Play anywhere with no mains power: the Neotone and the Bose S1 Pro+ make a 100% battery-powered setup, up and running in one minute. Gear, budget and buying links.
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The Neotone has no built-in speaker: where should you place yours to be truly in the sound? My advice — behind you, at head height — with diagrams.
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Handpan Studio's acoustic mode shows YOUR scale in colour on your own handpan and teaches you chords. Free, no Neotone needed.
Read the article → Handpan Studio's Logic Mode ties each degree to a colour and an emotion. Build a chord progression and tell a story.
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Handpan Studio's Atlas lets you roam handpan scales from around the world, hear them and see them in colour. A sonic journey.
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In Handpan Studio, a chord becomes a drawing. Discover the 3 ways to trace a Constellation: Polygon, Open and Hands.
Read the article → Understand what a handpan scale is and learn to build your own, for free, in Handpan Studio's acoustic mode — then share it with the community.
Read the article → Night headphones, endless scales, effects, MIDI, studio quality: discover why an electronic Neotone handpan changes everything, and who it's made for.
Read the article → Learn handpan without music theory using ChromaKeys: every note becomes a colour, every chord a shape. David Lesage's visual method to progress fast.
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