Posts in Grades 9-12
Keyboard

An innovative on-screen keyboard experience that can be controlled through body tracking with your camera or traditional input methods like your computer mouse/keyboard. Customize the number of notes displayed, select scales and keys, choose from various playback sounds, and even specify which body part to track, including the nose, wrist, elbow, knee, or ankle.

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Learn How To Write Songs Songwriting Tools

This website offers an array of outstanding songwriting tools, perfect for those moments when you need a spark of inspiration or a jumping-off point for your compositions. It features numerous resources to ignite your creativity, such as a random melody generator, a random rhythm pattern generator, a rhyme scheme generator, daily chord progressions, and much more, providing ample ways to stimulate your musical creativity.

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Body Synth

Body Synth invites you to play an instrument through body motion. Pick from various sounds like guitar, synth, strings, or drums, select a chord, and then use your body movements in front of your laptop camera to produce sounds. Additionally, there's an experimental option that allows for voice commands, adding an extra layer of interactivity and accessibility to the musical creation process.

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io808 Drum Machine

A large-sized, online rendition of the iconic 808 drum machine. With the iO-808, you can craft drum patterns that are downloadable and compatible with other music software programs. This tool is not only practical for music creation but also serves as an educational resource, teaching you about the history and evolution of drum machines.

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EarSketch

This innovative app merges the worlds of coding and music. Participants are taught how to create and adjust code to generate musical compositions, providing a unique cross-curricular experience that combines computer technology with artistic expression.

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Assisted Melody

A Google Arts Experiment where you can utilize piano keys or the staff at the bottom of the screen to input the notes of a melody. By clicking the "Harmonize" button, the website employs AI to generate harmonies in the style of Bach.

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Rhymezone

A user-friendly search engine designed to assist you in finding rhymes, near-rhymes, definitions, antonyms, synonyms, common phrases, and more. It's an ideal tool for writing song lyrics, raps, and engaging in various word-based creative activities.

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Soundscape World

Select from one of four distinct soundscape worlds and construct your own soundscape using pre-set rhythm, bass, melody, and harmony loops. This activity is not only entertaining but also serves as a great tool to ignite discussions about timbre, texture, arranging, and the layering of sounds.

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Hatnote

Experience the unique and beautiful sounds of edits being made to Wikipedia articles in real time. This intriguing concept translates changes into sounds, offering a strangely beautiful and captivating listening experience.

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Beat Box (Toy Theatre)

Design a brief loop consisting of up to 5 segments by choosing an option from the bottom of the screen and clicking within the grid at the top. Each button corresponds to a unique rhythmic or pitched sound.

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