#GOOGLE CHROME MUSIC LAB SERIES#

To hear a really slow oscillator, pick the square shape and touch the very bottom of your screen.

Drag your finger up and down to change the oscillatorвЂ™s frequency, or swipe to hear different types of oscillators. You can watch the notes flow by, scrub it back and forth, and change the sounds.ДЄn oscillator makes sound by vibrating at a steady rate, known as its frequency. This experiment is inspired by piano rolls. Originally, a piano roll was a roll of paper that you fed into a self-playing piano to make it play a piece. Musical intervals emerge from this natural phenomenon, such as the octave and the major chord (like the opening notes of вЂњStar Spangled BannerвЂќ).

#GOOGLE CHROME MUSIC LAB SERIES#

The harmonic series is a set of frequencies with a simple relationship: twice as fast, three times as fast, four times, and so on. The pitch of your voice gets higher when spun faster, and lower when spun slower. You can also record your own voice, or other sounds around you. Spin the spinner like a record player вЂ“ slow, fast, forward, backward вЂ“ to hear how it affects the sound. Tap to add notes, then use the buttons on the bottom to play and change your melody. Time moves left to right and pitch goes up to down. Grids like this one are a common interface for creating melodies. It turns anything you draw вЂ“ lines, circles, triangles, or scribbles вЂ“ into sound. This experiment is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, an artist who compared painting to making music.

Tap the wheel to explore major and minor chords. This experiment lets you play arpeggios in different patterns. Tap the magnifying glass to zoom in and see a red line graphing the position of one molecule, tracing the shape of the wave.ДЄn arpeggio is a chord played one note at a time. The blue dots represent air molecules bouncing back and forth as sound travels through them. Sounds travel through the air like waves through water вЂ“ but a lot faster. Tap a note on the piano to play a chord starting on that note. With this experiment you can compare spectrograms of different sounds, or use the mic to see what your own sounds look like.ДЄ basic chord is made up of three notes. A spectrogram shows the frequencies that make up the sound, from low to high, and how they change over time, from left to right. Click on the grid to build your own rhythms.ДЄ spectrogram is a picture of sound. The most common rhythms repeat every four beats, but it can also be every three, five, six, or more. You can also use a MIDI keyboard or sing a note into your mic. To make a song, add notes by clicking the grid. There are 13 interactive experiments for you to enjoy. I hope you will create your own song using Song Maker and email me it.Д¬hrome Music Lab, as you probably have guessed, runs best on a Chrome browser. To all my students, I would love to hear about you favorite experiments. Her favorite one is still Rhythm and she regularly asks to play the вЂњmonkey game.вЂќ My favorite experiment in Kandinsky. My daughter wasnвЂ™t quite 1 year old when I found this site, and she immediately fell in love with the variety of experiments. I stumbled upon this Google website awhile back when I was looking for fun, interactive music websites that a young child could enjoy.

Google chrome music lab