Ableton's free course on beats, basslines and song structure, taught by handing you the instruments inside the page.
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Learning Music sits in Music Makers under Make, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as brainy, useful and clever.
Browser instruments, sequencers and sound toys designed so that anyone's first thirty seconds sound good. Headphones strongly recommended.
Chiptune tracker with a whole song's worth of channels, shareable as a URL that contains the entire tune inside it.
Drag four blobs up and down and they sing genuine four-part harmony, trained on real opera singers, always in key.
The cat plays whatever key you press, on bongos, a keyboard or a full drum kit. Peak internet, and still maintained.
Fourteen small experiments — spectrogram, harmonics, arpeggios — that explain how music works by letting you break it.
Dress beatboxers in different outfits and each one adds a loop, building a full a cappella track by drag and drop.
Faithful browser rebuild of the Roland TR-808, down to the orange buttons and the cowbell nobody can leave alone.
Every key on the keyboard fires a different sound and a matching burst of animation. No two letters look or sound alike.
Multi-instrument piano roll in a browser, backed by thousands of user sequences you can open, pull apart and ruin.