Students can work alone or in small groups. Each instrument choice has a low and high pitch.Ĥ – Tempo – Set the range from 40 – 240 beatsĥ – Mic– Sing notes into Song Maker using your computer’s microphoneĦ – Settings– Modify several more elements in your composition. See detailed menu belowĨ – Save – Four options to save your composition.ġ- Length (Number of Measures) Create a piece that is as short as two measures or as long as 16 measures.Ģ- Beats Per Bar (Time Signature) Create a piece that has as few as two beats per measure or as many as seven beats per measureģ – Split Beats Into (Sub-division of each beat)ĥ – Key (sets the pitch range & the first pitch)Ĭhrome Music Lab = Endless Possibilities!Īs you can see, the possibilities for student composition are endless with Song Maker. Sampulator and Acid Machine.Here is the cheat sheet I developed to help you: Main Page Functions:Ģ – Melody Instrument Choices – Change the sound of your melodic compositionģ – Rhythmic Accompaniment Instrument Choices – Add up to two accompanying percussion lines. I’m particularly fond of Kandinsky, which translates your drawings into music.Īnd once you have graduated from Sound Maker, there’s all kinds of more complex browser-based sequencers that you can experiment with, too, including the likes of Soundation. While you’re at it, also have a look at the other instruments in the Music Lab. Once you created your masterpiece, Song Maker gives you a so you can easily share it with the rest of the world.

Google says it’s launching Song Maker in concert with Music in Our Schools Month, an initiative of the National Association for Music Education.

Some of the more nifty features include the ability to attach a Midi keyboard to your computer to play the instruments and a recording feature that will translate your singing into notes. There’s also a small rhythm section that lets you add drums to your songs. It’s no FL Studio, but it’s fun and you get to choose between a few instruments like a piano, strings, woodwinds, a synth and a marimba. It’s essentially an easy to use sequencer that lets you draw melodies in the browser (though it doesn’t feature some of the automation in the Music Lab’s Melody Maker tool). As the name implies, Song Maker is all about making songs. Google has added a new instrument to its Chrome Music Lab: Song Maker.

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