As mentioned before, a user is able to save or embed their creations with ease. The user can also change the tempo, key, and length in settings. There are 5 different piano sounds, and 4 different percussive sounds to choose from. The Song Maker tool provides a 16 beat loop that includes a piano roll, so users can create their own melodies as well as a percussive track. Screenshot of Song Maker by Chrome Music Lab
It also allows users to easily share ideas with multiple export/download options, including embeddable links, and provides a wide range of uses. Sound Waves, which is a visualizer that accompanies the user’s note inputs), but there is also a Song Maker, that allows users to create, save, and share a 16 beat audio loop. Some of the experiments are more theoretical in nature (i.e. This YouTube video from Google gives a quick start guide on creating your own songs with Song Maker.Ī quick YouTube search will also throw up loads of tutorials for replicating famous/popular songs in Song Maker.I decided to look at Chro me Music Lab, which is a collection of 14 open-source sound experiments that can be manipulated by the user, and is available on any device that can open the Google Chrome web browser.
You can find out more about Chrome Music Lab on their about page but the easiest (and most fun) way to get to know the experiments is to try them out for yourself! Where can you learn more about Chrome Music Lab? For those who wish to explore further they will find each tool has a wide range of permutations to be adaptable for different ages, stages and learning outcome desired. Or just play about and have fun with each one – and then have a look at the “About” link to see what you’ve just been learning!Įach tool is visually very user-friendly and younger users could simply explore by trial and error and still gain a lot from experimenting.
Open any of these tools from the launchpad and simply click on the “About” link on each one to find out the straightforward guide to using each tool. There are a range different tools: Song Maker, Rhythm, Spectrogram, Chords, Sound Waves, Arpeggios, Kandinsky, Melody Maker, Voice Spinner, Harmonics, Piano Roll, Oscillators, and Strings. You don’t need to sign up for any account, you can just start creating right away by going to Chrome Music Lab on your browser of choice. Explore the different tools to see the possibilities. The tools can be used in open-ended ways but direct links can be made to the science and mathematics of sound/music through practical activities looking at sound waves, vibrations, oscillations, or to artists like Kandinsky and relationship to shape.
You can exploring different features of music and link these other areas of the curriculum.
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