Digital Project – Using Scratch

jessicasuannNovember 19, 2019November 20, 2019Uncategorized

In order to play audio when the keys on our piano are touched, we needed to code a game using Scratch which, when certain keys were pressed, would play assigned pitches.

We were able to find a pre-existing Scratch project which gave us a starting point for our coding:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/342680848/editor

Our MVP (Minimum Viable Product) that we want to achieve is to change the graphics as well as the keys that need to be pressed to play the notes.

If we have time we want to create an interactive piano tutorial in which we have sprites come down from the top of the screen and reach the keys when they should be pressed.

If we STILL have time we would love to make it into a ‘guitar hero’ style game where they get a score depending on how accurately they play the song in the tutorial.

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I am a student at Sydney Conservatorium of Music studying a Bachelor of Music (Education). I major in Classical Voice however throughout my studies I have practiced using a variety of pitched and non-pitched percussion, piano, guitar, and most recently; trumpet. Throughout my studies I've not only learnt how to encourage my future students to have an appreciation for music but have also extended my own appreciation and passion for music through exposure to a variety of new ways to express my musicality and experience music (predominately through technology and unique ensemble opportunities). Let's move away from "theory" vs "prac" structured lessons and adopt a more hands-on approach to music education. For a creative subject we should be teaching and learning about it in a creative way! View more posts

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Janet R. says:

November 29, 2019 at 10:38 pm

Amazing! I love your idea so much! It will be so cool to have a ‘guitar hero’ style game! Are we looking at a potential upgrade in the large scale piano?

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1. jessicasuann says:
  
  December 1, 2019 at 11:42 am
  
  We actually did have that for “Here Comes the Sun” and “Twinkle Twinkle”. Did you get a chance to play those games? If not, you can check them out in my last post: https://jessicasuann.home.blog/2019/11/30/piano-game-for-makey-makey/
  
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  1. Janet R. says:
    
    December 4, 2019 at 1:22 am
    
    Oh no! I missed out on it. I only got to play around with the piano steps itself and not the games. 😦
    
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