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Song Maker. Song Maker, an experiment in Chrome Music Lab, is a simple way for anyone to make and share a song.
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Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. What can it be used for? Many teachers have been using Chrome Music Lab as a tool in their classrooms to explore music and its connections to science , math , art , and more.
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About the Chrome Music Lab
The Chrome Music Lab (CML) – created by Google in 2016 – is a fantastic online resource for music teachers and students. It’s simple to use and its main aim is to allow visitors to explore soundand create with sound. The Chrome Music Lab is: 1. free 2. interactive 3. bright and colorful 4. works on any device 5. simple to use The CML has 13 different areas to explore – known as “experiments” and each one has a different focus. The experiments are: 1. Song Maker 2. Rhythm 3. Spectrogram 4. Cho...
How can I use CML with my students?
Each experiment in the CML is super-useful for introducingor reinforcinga music/sound concept. I love the idea of using it as a starting point for a topic – a springboard activity which is followed by the rest of your lesson or unit of work. The CML has limitations (for instance, you can’t export or download work), but I don’t think this should be seen as a negative. It’s just something to be aware of and you can plan your lesson accordingly. Some of the experiments allow students to save a l...
How are other teachers using the Chrome Music Lab?
There are a collection of tweetsshowing how other teachers are using the CML here.
How to use:
Create a song by clicking notes into the grid. The top section of the grid can be used for high notes, and the lower section of the grid for low notes. There are two rows of dots at the bottom for creating a rhythmic pattern.
Good to know:
1. Change the playback sound and tempo with the options at the bottom of the screen 2. Click on Settingsto change the scale, length of the song, range of notes, time signature and more 3. You can use the mic to record notes into Songmaker 4. You can save or share a link to your song 5. Set up templates or partially completed songs ahead of your lesson to save time during class
A few lesson ideas:
1. Recreate a song you have learnt in class (you can provide the starting note for the students) 2. Compose a melody using the pentatonic scale (you can change the scale in the Settings area) 3. As a class, compose a bassline ostinato using the lower section of notes and then play it on classroom instruments (or sing it). 4. Demonstrate visually melodies that move by step or leaps 5. Compose simple rhythmic patterns in two parts 6. Ask students to create a pattern that demonstrates high vs lo...
How to use:
Click in the grid to see two animated characters play rhythms meters of 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Good to know:
1. Add sounds by clicking on the grid 2. Remove a sound by clicking on it again 3. Switch to each new meter by clicking the right or left arrow 4. Each meter uses different instruments
A few lesson ideas:
1. Select a meter and remove the existing rhythmic pattern. Students can then create their own pattern on the grid. This could be done as a group or individually 2. Press play and ask students to keep the beat – they could clap or walk to the beat – while CML plays the rhythm 3. Select a meter and set up a simple rhythm. Ask the students to all clap the top line/part only. Then ask them to clap the second line/part. Divide the students into two groups and ask half to play the top line and the...
How to use:
Spectrogram shows a visual picture of the frequencies that make up sound. Choose an instrument or sound source from the buttons at the bottom of the screen to compare spectrograms of different sounds.
Good to know:
1. You can record your own sound using the microphone 2. You can draw freely on the screen to create abstract sounds
A few lesson ideas:
1. Choose two sound sources and write down 3 differences between each of the spectrograms for those sounds 2. Ask students what loud sounds look like on the spectrogram? How about quiet sounds? 3. Click on the microphone and say (or sing) “aah”, then say/sing “eee”. How does the spectrogram change? Try an “ooh” sound and compare that to the “ah” and “eee” sounds. Other interesting sounds to try: “k”, “ba”, “ssss”, “shhhh” 4. If you have already used the Harmonics and Oscillators experiments w...
How to use:
Choose a note on the keyboard to see a three-note triad based on that note
Good to know:
1. Switch between major and minor using the toggle button below the keyboard
A few lesson ideas:
1. Use Chords as a visual guide when introducing the concept of triads to students 2. Display Chords on the data projector during class and choose one of the notes on the keyboard. Ask one of the students to identify the two other notes that will make up the triad. Then ask them to click/tap the root note to check their answer 3. Use the major/minor toggle switch to show students the difference between a major or minor chord based on the same root note
How to use:
Play a note on the keyboard to see a visual representation of the way in which a sound wave travels through air molecules.
Good to know:
1. Zoom in using the magnifying glass to see a red line tracing the shape of the wave created by one note
A few lesson ideas:
1. Play a low note and ask students to describe the way the air molecules move. Are they moving slow or fast? What happens when you play a high note? Are they moving faster or slower than the low note? 2. Zoom in using the magnifying glass and play a low note. Describe the waveform of a low note. Play a high note and describe the waveform now – is it different to the low note? 3. Open Oscillators on a separate tab or on another device and play a low frequency. How does the waveform in the osc...
How to use:
Click on a chord on the coloured wheel to play a single major or minor arpeggio. Press the play button to hear the selected chord play in the pattern shown at the top of the screen.
Good to know:
1. You can use the arrows to change the playback pattern to one of five variations 2. There are options to change the playback sound from harp to piano 3. You can alter the tempo using the metronome button
A few lesson ideas:
1. Ask students to define what a chord is in music. Click on the letter names in the circle to hear chords. Then discuss what an arpeggio is – a chord that is broken up into individual notes that are played one after the other. Press the play button to hear CML play different types of arpeggio patterns 2. Select one chord and then play the arpeggio that appears on the screen on a keyboard, guitar or other instrument. Switch to a different arpeggio style and play that one, Continue through all...
How to use:
The artist Wassily Kandinsky compared painting to making music. In this experiment you can draw shapes, lines and scribbles on the screen and hear them turn into sound.
Good to know:
1. Different shapes make different types of sounds. Try circle and triangle! 2. Click on a drawing to hear it play back 3. Press the play button to hear your entire painting 4. Vertical placement changes the pitch of a note or timbre of the sound. Try drawing 3 triangles in a column to hear three different percussive sounds 5. Use the coloured circle to the left of the play button to change the sounds
A few lesson ideas:
1. Young students can draw a picture on a piece of paper using 3 or 4 shapes/lines. They can then recreate (copy) their picture in the Kandinsky experiment and press play to hear the drawing. Ask the students: does your picture sound the way you expected? What do you like about the sound of your picture? Anything you would change? 2. Draw a picture on the screen and play it back with the different sound/colour options – which one do you like the best? Why? 3. Draw some horizontal lines on the...
How to use:
The Melody Maker allows students to create a single-line melody using graphic-style notation which represents time (from left to right) and pitch (up and down).
Good to know:
1. Melody Maker is a simplified version of the Songmaker mentioned earlier. Melody Maker does not allow you to alter the scale, range or beat subdivision 2. Playback the melody you have created by pressing the play button at the bottom of the screen 3. Change the tempo or add duplicate notes using the other options
A few lesson ideas:
1. Recreate a song you have learnt in class (you can provide the starting note for the students) 2. Compose an ostinato and play it back on tuned percussion or Boomwhackers (the note colours on the screen roughly match those of the Boomwhackers!) 3. Demonstrate visually a melody that that moves by step or leaps 4. Demonstrate high vs low pitches
How to use:
Drag the slider left or right to hear the Voice Spinner recording played slow, fast, forward or backward.
Good to know:
1. Click on the microphone to record your own sounds: melodies, spoken sentences or other sounds around you
A few lesson ideas:
1. Ask students to note that as the slider is moved left or right the pitch changes. Where on the line is the pitch of the sound at its lowest? 2. When you move the slider all the way to the right or all the way to the left, the spinner moves more quickly. What happens to the pitch of the sound when it moves more quickly? What about when it spins slowly?
Song Maker, the newest experiment in Chrome Music Lab, is a simple way for anyone to make and share a song. Built by Google Creative Lab, Yotam Mann, and Use All Five using Web Audio API, WebMIDI, Tone.js, and more. Learn more on our Github page.
Mar 1, 2018 · And, it works across devices—phones, tablets, computers. Check it out here and have fun making some music. POSTED IN: Education. Chrome. Song Maker is a simple website that lets anyone to make music, then share it with a link – no need to log in, make an account, or install an app.
