1. Lesson Five
Music

2. Skills
Adding an extension to Scratch
Coding instruments
Writing music

3. You will need headphones!
Create a new project
Title it Lesson Five
You will need headphones!

4. Keep your cat and add this drum sprite

5. We have to add the music extension

6. Now you have new music code blocks

7. Add this code to your drum
Try clicking on the drum – does it work?

8. Click arrow to switch drums
Let’s build a beat
Click arrow to switch drums

9. Just add a costume change after each drum beat
Now animate your drum
Just add a costume change after each drum beat

10. It should work like this

11. Let’s make our cat dance when we play the drum
The trigger is the sound
He needs a start position
This gives him some dance moves

12. Tip Let’s make our cat musical, too!
Music can also be triggered through broadcast commands
(no clicking on sprites necessary)
Tip

13. Click on the arrow next to “play note” to select different pitches
Try adding several different notes

14. Here is more detail on how to choose your notes

15. Click here to hear the audio

16. Click here to hear the audio
You can play different instruments simultaneously or create chords by creating new code using the same trigger
Click here to hear the audio

17. Experiment with the tempo commands
Try adding loops

18. Your Turn!
Write a Song
This can be an original song or a song you already know
Make a sprite that dances throughout the song
Submit to Lesson 5 in the class studio.

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