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Song Maker is an extended version 3. Tap on any cell in one of the
of Melody Maker. It has the flexibility columns.
to increase the number of grids and 4. Tap on some cells in any row.
columns. Features of rhythm are also (By repeating steps 3 & 4, you can
present below the grid. While only one get used to the working of cells)
cell in a column can be played at a time
in Melody Maker, Song Maker allows 5. Tap on the dots below the grid. You
playing multiple cells in a column at a can play some sound and generate
time. Some practice with Rhythm and a rhythm.
Melody Maker will make it easy to play 6. Make your selection of cells and click
music with Song Maker. One can switch the play button. The melody starts
between 5 instruments for melody and repeating after the last column. You
4 instruments for Rhythm. The range of can understand its pattern after
tempo in Song Maker is 40-140 (beats listening to it for some time.
per minute).
7. Users can increase or decrease
Steps to play and create music the speed (duration) of your music
using the tempo option.
The steps are quite similar to Melody
Maker, with an addition of Beats below 8. Sound effects of the cell and rhythm
the bar. There is also a flexibility to portion can be changed by tapping
change the number of cells. on the options beside Tempo.

1. Go to https://musiclab.chrome- Additional features: Users can change
experiments.com the grid style and scale and number of
notes (cell), number of beats through
2. Tap on Song Maker settings (Figure-7).

Figure-7: Song Maker settings

Image Source: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/
Important features in settings been divided into 4 equal parts. An
alternate arrangement of 2 shaded and
Length: Length refers to the division of
the complete grid into a fixed number 2 unshaded bars can be observed.
of equal parts. For example a length ‘Beats per bar’ & ‘Beat Split’: There
of 4 bars means the whole grid has are two sounds in a beatbox. These

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