


The web-based software allows students to work in both online and in-person settings. 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. You can play with these experiments across almost all popular devices like phones, tablets, and laptops, just by opening the site on your web browser.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. Perhaps the most exciting part of using the Lab is that students can actually make and even share their very own songs!Īnd best of all the Chrome Music Lab is available to anyone with an Internet connection and NO account or special information is required! You just open any experiment and start creating. You can see some fun examples of how teachers are using Chrome Music Lab here. The Music Lab programs are even being combined with learning dance and playing live instruments. Music teachers are already using Chrome Music Lab as a tool in their classrooms to teach the fundamentals of music through its connection to academic subjects like science, math, art and more.


Chrome Music Lab is a website that has been designed to make learning music easy and accessible through fun, do-it-yourself experiments.
