Free music tools

ONE IDEA, THEN ONE MORE THING · 01

Draw a melody. Give it a beat.

Make an eight-beat phrase, leave some space, then add a drum part in Studio.

Open Draw a little music

Free to try. No account needed for the tool.

Your starting point

Start with the wave drawing in C at 100 BPM. It lasts eight beats. Loop drawing is already on.

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    Hear what is there

    Press Hear my drawing. Let the whole phrase play once. The line is a sequence of notes: left to right is time, higher up is a higher pitch.

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    Leave a gap

    Choose Erase and remove two notes near the end. Listen on the next loop. The pause gives the ending a little room. Undo the stroke if you prefer the first version.

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    Change the answer

    Choose Draw and paint a short, lower ending. Keep the beginning so you can hear how the new ending answers it. All the notes stay in the selected pentatonic scale.

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    Give it a beat

    Choose Add a beat in Melodic Studio. The editable melody opens in a new local project at the same tempo. In the next-step panel, add the drum part and press Hear them together. You can undo the addition or edit its notes.

Hear it with a beat.

This melody started as a drawing. Play it, then switch the drums on and off.

Try this with your own drawing
100 BPM · loops until you stop it

What to listen for

The collection’s playable example uses this exact starting drawing and tempo. The second version adds a kick and hi-hat; the melody itself stays the same. Try erasing notes in your version and listen for where the drums now have more space.

One more thing to try

Open the drum clip to change a hit, or edit the melody’s ending again. Keep the project on this device and come back to it from Studio’s project list.

Try it in Draw a little music

What would you like to do next?

One recording to finish, or a track to build? Pick the app that fits.

Audio Lab

Record. Edit. Done.

Record your voice or an instrument, or import an audio file. Trim it, shape the sound with effects and export it when you’re happy.

Starts a separate recording or file edit. Creations from these tools aren’t imported by this link.

Record and edit in Audio Lab

Melodic Studio

Make it part of a track.

Build a song with melodies, drums, bass and recordings. Use a free tool to bring your notes or audio and tempo into a new project.

Already have an idea? Open Studio and start a project.

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