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Lots of familiar songs can be played with only three chords -- so that's what this does. **The tempo of the song can be changed with the slider....and that's not all that changes! Hope you enjoy this. Larry828 ********This project includes bass notes for each chord. "Music Box" specifically features 4-note runs into each chord change.
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Love this so much, sounds like those relaxation CDs for babies, lol!
I'm glad you love the Music Box and I appreciate your nice comment! Hearing that there are relaxation CDs for babies has left me speechless. Will Scratch be able to get a lot of babies to sign up? Will the babies remember their passwords??! Would the front page need a new section? Thanks for opening up all these new questions!! :-)
(view all replies)They're very calm songs!!!! Great project!!!!!
Thank you very much for your nice description of the music! Scratch is a very good program for creating music...as the various Galleries of music projects show. Thanks again!
(view all replies)=) It's nice! Loveit
that song makes my baby bro happy
that's cool!!!
Thanks for telling me! That's a very nice comment to read. Thanks again!
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Wow, how can I equal that nice comment??!!! Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate the comment.
I love the music! It is nice to listen to.
Thanks again! I seem to be making a lot of music projects these days so maybe there will be others you'll enjoy too. It's very nice of you to write such nice comments. Thanks!
Fascinating music project. I like the music. The graphic is beautiful. I downloaded it to learn more about making music with Scratch.
Paddle2See and I began to comment back and forth on the possibility of using random choices to create music, while putting controls in place to try to produce specific effects. His recent "Music Mutations" is an example. I used Lists to restrict the notes that could be played, but the sequence was random. To make it more "human" I added those little 4-note runs as a bridge in each chord change. It's all still evolving...
A compliment from you, whose projects are so perfect, is a high compliment indeed. Thank you! My first music project came from wondering if I could let the movement of a sprite control the tones produced. (link to project) The random motion produced pleasing music (sometimes) so I used random tone selection to produce "scary" music for my Halloween projects. (I'll continue in the next comment.)
Nice front page Larry, entertainingly musical.
Thanks! There are more and more music projects all the time. It's November...do you know where *your* music project is?? :-) Thanks for the nice comment. (And don't forget to submit your musical project - with lists - to the Scratch Design Studio.)
this is my physically-oriented music box sim: (link to project) I have a nice music box that plays "somewhere over the rainbow" which inspired me, about how music boxes work. this project is very interesting, and sounds good.
Music boxes are wonderful and fun to watch. Some large ones have a big range and can play lots of notes separately or in chords. Your music box project captures the mechanism really well. Mine is a random-music project disguised as a music box. And both projects are fun! :-)
BTW - I'm not ignoring your request for a kayak and a sailboat on my Paddle2SeeFixIt project. I've answered it twice and my answer has been rejected by the foul language sensor both times. Erroneously, I should add :)
the censor blocked "g [space] anyt" for some reason. I think that scratch is a friendly enough environment that most of the words aren't things people would say.
(view all replies)Upon close inspection one finds the word "boa" in "sailboat" and boa refers to a ferocious, scary snake. Then there's "yak" in "kayak"...another animal reference. Sailboat also has "ail" referring to illness. I'm glad to know I'm being protected from all that! :-)
The k***k and s******t would be nice on the project. (We'll see if this gets past the sensor!!) :-)
(view all replies)I had a weird idea listening to this...what if we spliced more pre-programmed runs together in a random fashion? For instance, I've got a bunch of Christmas carols in my Christmas Jukebox project. What if we grabbed a random number of notes from one song and spliced it together with a section from another song and so on. Would it make medleys? Or would it sound like the mall at X-mass time?
I just uploaded "Jingle Write" which is a note-for-note version that might be the basis for figuring out how to add randomization to a tune like that while keeping its identity. (I'm not much of a jazz fan...I like to hear the melody, unless it's *really* random.) If this gives you any ideas in addition to the ones you've already mentioned that's all to the good because I can't yet picture what to do next...
Seems like it would have to make medleys. With all the control you have over note quality and duration it ought to sound really nice. Non-commercial. Even meditative like your other music projects. Sounds like a good idea!
Very cool! The runs add a lot to it. This could very easily be used as background music for any number of projects. I love the way the music box becomes transparent and reveals the internal mechanism.
In fact I've been puzzled ever since I saw through the front of the box to see only two spinning disks, not even connected. How they could produce music is difficult to explain. My theory is that the motor and mechanism is actually cleverly built into the lid. And the image of the two *horizontally* spinning disks is projected by mirrors into the space below. Does that sound plausible to an engineer and kayaker?
(view all replies)The music box itself was fun to build. It took a few minutes to figure out how to make that transparent panel *efficiently* rather than sizing it by trial and error. Of course all I had to do was copy the sprite, insert the panel and then erase everything but the panel. Then place the original box sprite and the panel sprite together on the screen. I'm really pleased with the result and am kinda fond of my music box project. Thanks for the compliment!