The promise
Written 31 August 2026, amended 5 September 2026 to say what practising with a teacher is, and 9 September 2026 to say where the line sits. Amended 18 September 2026 when the rooms became six: Sheet Music is now Reading and Pieces, and Composition is Compose. The promise gained a room and lost nothing. This page is the record of it.
The practice rooms are free. All six, forever.
Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, Reading, Pieces and Compose. Every level, no limits, no trial, no card. Your progress saves, on every device you sign in on, for as long as you want it. This does not become a paid product later.
When a person is giving you their time, my time, live sessions, courses, video, or practising with a teacher, that is different. Human expertise is paid. The practice rooms never will be. That is the promise.
James Carter, 31 August 2026. If I ever cannot keep this running, I will say so at least six months ahead and give you everything you have made, in a file you can keep. What I will not do is put these six behind a price.
A promise about "the tools" is not a promise, because nobody agrees what the tools are. So here they are, named, and the sentence above covers exactly these and nothing more. These six rooms, in this order, are the Artform Method, and the whole of it is free.
Every level of every one of them can be completed, to three stars, without paying for anything. Progress, streaks, stars, cloud sync and family profiles are part of that and always will be. A person who never pays me a cent keeps every star they earned.
Anything where a person is giving you their time. My time. Live sessions, where the room has a size. Courses, which are months of work sold once. Video made to sit beside the rooms. And practising with a teacher, below, once it leaves beta. Those are paid, or may be, and they are named here rather than announced later.
Nothing that is inside the rooms moves behind that line. That is the whole point of dating this page.
Practising with your teacher is the part of Artform Studio where a person can see you. Your teacher sees what you practised, sends this week's work into the app, and marks your checkpoints. It is in beta with a small number of teachers, and it is free while it is.
When it leaves beta, working with a teacher may carry a price. That may be paid by the household, through the teacher's lesson fees, or another way. The model is not decided yet, and it will be said here first.
The rooms do not move. Every pupil keeps all six, free, whether they practise with a teacher or on their own. Stopping with a teacher sends nobody back to zero: the record, the stars and the streak stay. The tools teachers need to teach through Artform are free while Artform is in beta.
The Pieces room is free forever, and I want to be honest about the difference between the room and what is in it. The scores come from public domain and openly licensed sources, and the day may come when a piece has to be removed because somebody with a better claim to it asks. That is not a price, it is a licence, and it is the one thing on this page that is not entirely in my gift.
So the library gets its own floor, said plainly: every score in it today stays free, for as long as it is legally mine to give. I will not put the library behind a price. I may one day have to make it smaller.
Every "free forever" from one person has the same unspoken ending, and it is not a paywall. It is the site going quiet. So that ending is covered too: at least six months' notice, and everything you have made handed back in a file you can keep.
What this page does not promise is a service running until the end of time, or an answer to every email. It promises notice, and your work back. Both of those are things one person can deliver on a bad month.