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Color Composer

Game3 levelsMaking up music

Tap the squares to paint a tune with colors, press Play and hear it loop. Then add a beat!

  1. Tap a square to put a colored note on the grid.
  2. Press Play: the tune loops from left to right.
  3. Change the squares while it plays, and add a beat at level 3.
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For grown-ups

About Color Composer

What your child learns

Color Composer lets children make up their own music before they can read it. Each row is a note, with its color and its animal, high notes at the top and low notes at the bottom; each column is a moment in time. Painting squares and hearing the result straight away teaches the two dimensions of every score: pitch goes up and down, time goes left to right.

The levels

  • Five colors: eight steps and the notes C to G, enough for a first tune.
  • All the colors: sixteen steps from C to the high C.
  • With a beat: a drum row and a clap row under the tune, like a real music studio.

Ideas to try together

Make a staircase going up, then one going down. Copy the start of a song you know. Leave gaps: silence is music too. Press Surprise me for a tune made of the five friendly notes C, D, E, G and A, which always sound good together, then change it to make it yours.

More

More games and songs

Balloon PopColored balloons float up: press the key of the same color to pop them.Copy the AnimalsThe animals sing a little tune: play it back. One more note each round.High or Low?Listen: is it high like a bird or low like an elephant?Note RainColored notes fall like raindrops: press each key just as its drop lands, and a song comes out.Guess the InstrumentA little tune plays: is it a violin, a trumpet, a kalimba? Tap the right picture.First piano lessonsSix short missions: high and low, black keys, find C, finger numbers, a first tune, the rainbow scale.

Songs to play by colors · Piano games for older players

Questions

Frequently asked

Is my child's tune saved?

Yes, in this browser: the grid of each level is still there next time you open the page on the same device.

Can we hear the tune with animal sounds?

Yes: choose the cat in the sound buttons under the piano, and the animals sing the tune.

What age is Color Composer for?

From about 3, with a grown-up, at level 1. Older children enjoy the sixteen steps and the beat at levels 2 and 3.

For grown-ups

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Everything in the kids section is free, with no account. GOONS Studio adds the full piano with 88 keys, drum machines and a sequencer in the browser, to record a song together and play it back, with a 7-day free trial, no card required.

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