

Chrome Music Lab is all built for the web, so you can start playing instantly, whether you’re on a tablet, phone, or laptop. You can play with sound, rhythm, melody, and more. It’s called Chrome Music Lab, and you can check it out at g.co/musiclab.

We built a set of experiments that let anyone explore how music works. We will begin the process of combining your composition with your video choice in the next two weeks.This year, for Music in Our Schools Month, we wanted to help make learning about music a bit more accessible to everyone by using technology that’s open to everyone: the web. Once you are satisfied with your original musical composition you may save the web address to either a word document or email to yourself. To begin again you may press the restart button but any changes made to the settings will also be lost as the site goes back to the default settings in place. To remove either press on the undo button or click on any square previously chosen and the note will disappear. Clicking on the play button will also stop your composition so that you may make adjustments as desired. Once you are ready to hear your composition click on the play button. To choose and place percussion on particular beats click on the lowest two lines. To begin click on any square and it will be filled in with colour that designates a note chosen. I also chose a tempo of 119 for the song example that I created for this project. I chose 16 bars, 4 beats, split into 2, a Chromatic scale starting on Middle C of 2 octaves.

The tempo (or speed) of the composition when played can range from 40 to 240 beats – roughly one to two beats per second. Your notes are shown by different colours for each letter name:Ĭ – red, D – orange, E – yellow, F – light green, G – dark green, A – dark blue and B – purple and accidentals are shown by gradient colours between those notes. Starting Note (Low, Middle or High C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B possible)

Length of phrases (1 – 16 bars possible in total) If you click on settings button you are given additional choices such as: There are choices as to the instruments to be used: Marimba, Piano, Strings, Woodwinds and Synthesizer.Ĭhoices of percussion include: Electronic, Blocks, Drum Kit and Conga When exploring Chrome Music Lab several factors need to be considered. One of their assignments will be to use Chrome Music Lab – Song Maker to create their own original musical compositions for film background music. Division 1 & 2 students are studying how music determines the reactions and emotions of an audience when combined with images.
