In this final Code Along Jr. tutorial, our host Kalani shows you different ways to create your own music in Scratch! 🎼🥁🎹 Learn to add various instruments, notes, and beats to create unique sounds! At the end of the episode, you’ll be a true music producer! 🎶
Skip to the good stuff:
00:00 Introduction
00:53 Change backdrop and sprite
01:15 Add the “when clicked” events block and the “play sound until done” sound block to start playing music
01:33 Click the sounds tab and choose sound button to start building your music piece
02:18 Add the “forever” control block to keep playing the sound
02:43 Add the “broadcast” events block to broadcast another sound
02:55 Select the speaker sprite and add the “when I receive” events block to the script area. Then, add the “play sound until done” sound block underneath
03:29 Change the trombone and drum funky sounds to create a different sound
03:41 Add the “forever” control block to the “when I receive” events block to keep playing the sound
04:01 Add more actions to your music by downloading the music extension
04:24 Add the “play drum for 0.25 beats” music block (from the music extension) to the speaker sprite
04:47 Add the “wait for 1 seconds” control block, the “rest for 0.25 beats” and “play drum for 0.25 beats” music blocks (from the music extension) to the radio sprite
05:36 Click the sounds tab and change the length and volume of the sound, and do so until you find your right sound 😉
06:36 Add another sprite
06:58 Select the piano sprite and add the “when this sprite clicked” and the “broadcast” events blocks, the “forever” control block, and 4 “play note 60 for 0.25 beats'' music blocks (from the music extension). Then, add the “when I receive” events block, the “forever” control block, and the “play drum for 0.25 beats” music block (from the music extension) to start the first tune on loop with a snare-like tune
08:55 Review your code
09:17 Save your project
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Everyone’s invited to Code Along with Black Girls Code. It's a free, video-based coding academy by Black Girls Code in partnership with GoldieBlox. Here, Black girls, young women, and youth of all genders receive tangible, educational, and entertaining tutorials to spark interest in computer science and tech. With fun projects and simple step-by-step lessons, this series encourages you to code along while our expert coders make a game, a song, an animation, a story, and an AI chatbot using Scratch. In these 15-minute-or-less episodes, Code Along reaches millions of girls and provides them with the tech skills and confidence to build brighter futures. Speaking of future innovators — we also chatted with Googlers and toured a Google office space. Learn a new skill, discover a new role model, and Code Along with us.
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