Coding Explorations in Music
- Level Middle School, High School
- Contact Hours 15
- Timeframe Unit
Coding + Music is a mini-course that introduces students to the basics of coding through music! In this block-coding course, students investigate how code can be used to create and enhance music by building programs that generate beat patterns, chord progressions, and musical sequences with visualizations.
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MODULES - 2
Students are introduced to the JavaScript block coding environment. They learn how to write a program that plays their own 8 count beat pattern.
Students will learn how to add chords, notes, and visualizations to their songs. For a final project, students create a full-length song with music visualization.
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Programs that generate beat patterns, chord progressions and musical sequences, with visualisations to go alongside them.
No. It is a block-coding mini-course: students connect blocks rather than typing syntax, and it introduces the basics of coding through music.
The course investigates how code can be used to create and enhance music by building beat patterns and chord progressions. Nothing in the course description assumes prior musical training.
About 15 contact hours, sized as a unit to drop into an existing class rather than as a course of its own.
Yes. Coding Explorations is the 40-hour quarter version containing this unit plus Generating Art with Code and Coding in Sports.
