Posts in Grades K-3
Doctor Musik

Over a dozen highly-engaging mini-games to play with sounds, melody, notation, and rhythm and more. Many games include adjustable difficulty levels for different skill ranges. Includes recorder and boomwhacker-specific activities.

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Music Speed Changer

This easy-to-use app, available for Google Play, iOS, or directly on the web, enables you to modify the pitch or tempo of a song. Additionally, it features a loop function, allowing you to select and repeatedly listen to a specific snippet of the track. It's a great tool for musicians practicing a particular part of a song, people wanting to re-pitch a sample, or for anyone looking to customize how they listen to their favorite tunes.

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Animate from Audio

Part of the Adobe Express suite, this free video creation tool allows you to select a character and background before recording a brief snippet of spoken audio. Impressively, your chosen character will lip-sync to the audio you've recorded, offering a creative and personalized way to bring your stories or messages to life. This feature is perfect for creating engaging content with a professional touch, without needing advanced video editing skills.

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World Music Network

This guide features a world map as a navigational tool to explore music styles, discover popular artists, and learn about traditional instruments from across the globe. It offers a geographical approach to understanding the diversity of music, allowing users to connect musical expressions with their regions of origin and cultural backgrounds.

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Semi-Conductor Experiments with Google

This Google experiment offers you the chance to conduct an AI-powered orchestra. By utilizing your webcam, the website captures your arm and body movements, with the orchestra responding in real time to your direction. This interactive experience merges technology and music, allowing for a unique and engaging way to explore conducting.

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Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Select your preferred instruments and craft a unique orchestral variation based on Britten's "Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra." This interactive opportunity lets you experiment with different instrumental combinations, allowing you to personalize your exploration of orchestral sounds and textures inspired by Britten's educational masterpiece.

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New World Symphony

Discover musical form by constructing your own rendition of Dvořák’s "New World Symphony." This interactive experience allows you to select which themes to play and when, with the option to repeat them as desired. Additionally, you have the freedom to alter the playback sound, offering a personalized exploration into the composition's structure and themes.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Choose an instrument and delve into the nuances of sound: density, pitch (from low to high), and dynamics within this interactive version of Mendelssohn’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." This digital exploration provides a hands-on approach to understanding the intricate components of music through one of the classical repertoire's beloved works.

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Variation Playground

Click and drag a musical character across various dynamics and moods, with the journey being recorded for effortless playback. This engaging activity allows you to explore a range of musical expressions and atmospheres.

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Soundbreaking

Dive into the evolution of groundbreaking music technology with an interactive exploration of 10 different tools. This journey through history lets you discover various types of microphones, experience a mixing desk, experiment with vocal and guitar effects, delve into sampling, and much more, offering a comprehensive look at the technological advancements that have shaped music production.

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Clarion Lite

Clarion is a vibrant online instrument where pitches are depicted as bold, colorful shapes on the screen, offering a visually stimulating way to make music. You have the flexibility to alter the instrument's layout and the number of pitches displayed by choosing from various pattern options. Sound activation is made possible either through body tracking with your camera or by using your computer mouse, providing an interactive and engaging musical experience.

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Seeing Music

With Seeing Music from the Google Creatability Experiments, visualize pitch, waveforms, and more in an interactive display. This tool captures your voice through your computer's microphone, and as you speak or sing, your sounds are visually represented on the screen. It offers a variety of visualization options, such as spectrogram, spectrograph, waveform, Hilbert Painter, among others. You can opt to display note names as you hit each pitch, providing a fascinating and educational insight into the structure of your vocal sounds.

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Sound Canvas

Sound Canvas transforms your drawings into auditory experiences. The pitch of the sound increases as your lines move higher up on the canvas. You have the flexibility to draw using your computer mouse or to enhance the interaction by enabling the body tracking feature, creating a unique blend of visual art and music.

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Sampler

Play brief music samples from your selected genre by initiating sounds via body tracking. Choose from an array of genres like funk, orchestral, hip hop, rock, synth, bluegrass, and even silly sound samples. Plus, there's the option to upload and integrate your own sounds, offering a personalized and interactive musical exploration.

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Word Synth

With Word Synth, you can input a short phrase, choose specific pitches, and listen as it sings your sentence back to you. This tool allows you to modify the scale, key, the "amount of sing," and even the tempo of playback, offering a customizable and interactive way to hear your words in melody.

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Boomwhackers

Enjoy creating music with this one-octave on-screen Boomwhackers set. You have the option to play with the diatonic set alone or enhance your musical range by including the chromatic add-on. This interactive tool provides a fun and colorful way to explore music and rhythm.

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