Scratch Piano
Contributed by
Sue Gray, June 03, 2017
I run two Code Clubs at local primary schools. This last half-term I've been working with a group of Year 5 (age 9-10 years) students using Scratch. We made a Code Club project called Lost in Space and then extended it to make a quiz based on work they had been doing in class on English grammar. For the next half-term they have asked if we could do something 'physical' as the school has a bunch of Makey Makeys. Over the break I've been working on a worksheet for this project.
Anything could be the 'keyboard' for the piano but I chose to make a 'real' keyboard. In class with a group of Year 9 (age 13-14 years) we had great fun using students as the keys! This is a simple project that could be done without the physical element and, of course, could be extended to make a much bigger keyboard. For this project I have only used a single scale so that we could play simple tunes such as Frère Jacques and Mary Had A Little Lamb.
The Scratch project below (ScratchPiano_3) is this final version. The project ScratchPiano_4 is a further version that starts out using the piano but then randomly changes the instrument after each note is played for the first time.
Anything could be the 'keyboard' for the piano but I chose to make a 'real' keyboard. In class with a group of Year 9 (age 13-14 years) we had great fun using students as the keys! This is a simple project that could be done without the physical element and, of course, could be extended to make a much bigger keyboard. For this project I have only used a single scale so that we could play simple tunes such as Frère Jacques and Mary Had A Little Lamb.
The Scratch project below (ScratchPiano_3) is this final version. The project ScratchPiano_4 is a further version that starts out using the piano but then randomly changes the instrument after each note is played for the first time.
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