6.3 Rehearse and perform music, including music they have composed, by improvising, sourcing and arranging ideas and making decisions to engage an audience.

6.2 Develop technical and expressive skills in singing and playing instruments with understanding of rhythm, pitch and form in a range of pieces, including in music from the community.

4.3 Create, perform and record compositions by selecting and organising sounds, silence, tempo and volume.

4.1 Develop aural skills by exploring, imitating and recognising elements of music including dynamics, pitch and rhythm pattern.

Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.

Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music Students will compose and play rhythms in time meters of 3, 4, 5 and 6 Music Education Standards If you’d like more information,please see this Why Won’t That Music Website Load? article.

It will NOT work well (or perhaps at all…) in Internet Explorer so please make sure you use Chrome or Firefox.

The website featured in this lesson – part of the Chrome Music Lab – has been built with the Web Audio API. Here’s a complete lesson plan that uses the first one – Rhythm – which allows students to compose and play rhythms in different meters. The 12 experiments that make up the Chrome Music Lab easily lend themselves to multiple uses in music education.

Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music wrote about the browser-based music tools in his article Google Are Giving Away Experiments To Teach Music And Code. In March, Google launched the free Chrome Music Lab Experiments site to celebrate Music In Our Schools month and to allow users to explore the way in which music works. Lesson: Compose and play rhythms in different meters with Chrome Music Lab

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