This is by no means an in depth look at Chrome Music Lab. It’s worth a play, and I love to use this in the background to give my pupils something to play along with. The arrow on the right changes the style of the rhythms you work with, including how many beats per bar and instruments. it’s is really simple – you tap the dots to add a musical “note” and the characters play the notes! They also have little personalities which are really quirky and fun to watch. Rhythm is something I had actually thought about myself a while back, and I’m glad I found it in Google Music Lab. If you’re quick enough, you can screenshot a child’s work like above and keep a record for both art and music, it being a perfect example of graphic scoring and shape drawing. You can also change the sounds using the little colour circle at the bottom. This is a fabulous app for FP/KS1/EYFS children as it is so easy to access. The system then plays your shapes, with certain shapes developing faces and different sounds. Kandinsky is gloriously simple! You start with a totally blank canvas, and simply stroke shapes onto the page. We’ve used it to create QR codes which are then stuck into books, or on displays, for people to interact with. You can also save your work as a link, to share or revisit as you see fit. It’s a fantastic way of getting children to work with grids when making musical patterns, and the application for sequencing and pattern in maths is endless. The initial layout differs depending on the device being used, but you can change how many bars you work with, as well as tempo and sounds. Each note on the top grid is colourised to match used note colours, and the bottom grid uses circles or triangles to represent bass or snare sounds. The entire operation is touch based you touch a block to add sound, you touch it again to remove it. Song Maker is a really simple arrange screen setup which allows you to learn about and begin to create simple songs using some preset melodic and drum sounds. In this post, I will focus on three of the experiments: Song Maker, Kandinsky and Rhythm. Each one has applications in music, science and mathematics. In total, there are 13 “experiments” to teach and learn with. Chrome Music Lab is one of those apps, and boy does it deliver in the classroom! One of those things is creating quirky, innovative apps which just tick all of the right boxes. Google, for all of their all encompassing status, are great at many things. There were roughly 40,000 clicks to download chrome and we saw a hugely positive outpouring for Google and #ChromeMusicLab across social media channels and have been contacted by several schools and musical professionals for collaboration opportunities to extend the idea past its launch.A little while back, I stumbled upon a hidden gem of the Internet: We had 1.34 billion users in the first 24 hours and an average time spent on the site of over 4 minutes. Google also believes in better education available to all and we were thrilled to see teachers across the world pick this up and use it in their classrooms. The experiments were accessible via the web and extended beyond Chrome for any browsers that supported the technology used in the build. Google believes in creating open and accessible tools and allowing for anytime anywhere access to information. The Music Lab experiments were translated into 40 different languages. The main technologies used are open libraries such as Tone.js and The Web Audio API which are available to the public.Ĭhrome music lab went live in parallel with a Google doodle celebrating the 105th birthday of the first women theremin player Clara Rockmore. We wanted a range of types of experiments that would allow anyone of any age discover music and by putting together a diverse team and remembering simplicity beats complexity, we were able to achieve that. We collaborated with musicians and coders to build simple easy to use tools that worked seamlessly across devices.
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