About Us
Built by a flute player who needed a shortcut
I'm Jesse, and I play flute. Practice Sight Reading started because I was overcommitted.
Back in college I was sitting in a rehearsal and my conductor said something that stuck with me: rhythm is the most important part of learning music. At the time I was playing in three or four different ensembles, prepping for two recitals that year, and working through a stack of lesson material. It was too much to learn on the normal timeline, so I went looking for a shortcut.
Sight reading was that shortcut. If I could read a piece faster, I could get it up to performance speed faster. So the first version of PSR was rhythm only, just patterns you clap out until they're automatic.
After I graduated, I added melodies too. That one wasn't born out of necessity the way the rhythm side was. It was more "can I build this" than "do I need this." But it rounded the tool out, and it's been part of PSR ever since.
Why PSR exists
The idea hasn't changed since college: give musicians a faster way to get comfortable with a piece, so they spend less time struggling through the first read and more time actually playing it. Rhythm practice is still free and unlimited today, the same as that first version. Melodies and the more advanced features came later, for anyone who wants to go beyond rhythm.
Meet Our Team
Jesse Clark
Founder and Flutist
Jesse has a Bachelor's degree in Musical Performance and over 20 years of experience in software engineering. He built the first version of PSR in college as a way to learn his own repertoire faster, then kept developing it after graduating. He still plays flute.
Irene Patrikios
Head of Operations, Creative
Irene has a marketing degree, an MBA, and a background in Customer Success. She runs day-to-day operations and the creative side of PSR, making sure the platform actually works for the musicians using it.