To play, touch/click each bar or press: (Numbers )1=C, 2=D, 3=E, 4=F, 5=G, 6=A, 7=B, 8=C', 9=D', 0=E' (Letters) I=F', O=G', P=A' To play Bb, press the down arrow key. To play F#, press the up arrow key. To return the notes to natural B & F, press B or F. Press C to take away the F & B bars (C Pentatonic). Press V to take away the E & B bars (F Pentatonic). Press SPACE to put the bars back.
1. Record the notes in Garage Band using my regular laptop keyboard. 2. Switch the sound from piano to marimba (closest to xylophone since I don't have that sound) 3. Spend hours trying to figure out how make the bars the right length and width to go from C to A' in this little space. 4. Calculated the (width of the background - space on sides of xylophone) / 13 bars - space between bars = width of each bar 5. Draw C bar (length & calculated width) color and label. 6. Copy/paste C bar, making each bar a little shorter and changing labels. 7. Select each bar (sprite), go to "sound" and import marimba scale recording. 8. Select region of recording for that pitch. Delete the rest of the scale. Trim attack and decay for the note. 9. Repeat step 9 for each bar. 10. Figure out coding for the first time (100 hours later) 11. Code each bar to play the imported sound by clicking the bar after a lot of trial and error. 12. Code each bar to play using the keyboard. (Getting the hang of this now!) 13. Code F's to play F# (hours of coding later) by pressing up arrow key and changing the pitch/percentage. 14. Repeat for B to play Bb. 15. Uh oh! How to make them go back. 16. Code some more by using the B & F keys to set pitch to 0%. 17. Try to change label on bar to F# & Bb. Failed, so changed entire bar color instead. 18. More coding to change the color and then change it back. 19. Code to eliminate bars to create C & F Pentatonic Scales. 20. Code to show/return the bars. 21. Realized assigned F key to change the pitch & color of F bar. 22. Recode F Pentatonic by pressing V key instead. 23. Add a background. 24. Save a copy of this project. 25. Create C, F, & G Pentatonic Scales with copied projects by deleting the bars and changing the background colors. 26. Eliminate some of the extra codes for Bb, changing colors, etc. 27. Code each bar to a different keyboard key (1-0 on the top row is the perfect amount!) 28. Share with the world and make people happy! FYI - This was my first time coding and using Scratch which is why it took about 2 days to complete.
