On this week’s adventure, we journey back into Chrome Music Lab once again to explore one of my favourite features: Song Maker.

Open up Chrome Music Lab and click on Song Makers. You will be transport to the wonderfully designed canvas for your next musical creation. I like the simplicity in controls and intuitive interface. The page will provide you with a grid, like a sheet of graph paper. On this you can start clicking and begin building a track. It will have a percussion instrument on the bottom with the pitched instrument on top. This reflects a practice idiomatic to western music notation, where the percussionist is typically on the bottom of the score followed by bass instruments and the pitch value increasing as the one scrolls to the top of the page.

-Tangent; this is interesting as pitches we prescribe as high and low are not really high or low… or are they? Well sounds waves are perceived as high and low in the brain (the sound is processed electro-chemical signals which are interpreted by you and your brain. The physical sound waves all travel to the same place (the height of wherever your ear is) BUT lower frequencies (like bass notes) are physically larger (and slower) whereas, high frequencies are smaller (and faster.)

…anyway

You can start plunking out notes on Song Maker and with hopefully intuit the controls and create some fun little piece of music. There are options to switch the instrumentation around as well as alter the length, key, time signature, and scale you would like to use. And whats more is you can save your music and keep a downloaded file. With some scaffolding I’m sure you can make a lot of valuable insights about orchestration and music composition.

Here is the fun I got up to while using this tool.

Try this link to add on to my song