INCREDIBOX

Who is the target audience of the website? (Elementary, MS, HS, other)
- In my opinion, the target audience is more than likely middle school students.
What is the functionality of the website? What does it do?
- The site/app introduces the concepts of loops and loop composition by giving students a series of loops in different categories
(melodic, harmonic, percussion, etc), and lets them create their own version of a song using the loops they think sound best. It keeps
their attention by showing the loops as different outfits that the singer/beatboxer avatar can ‘wear’.
How could you use the website for teaching music/songwriting? Give an example of an activity you could do with the website in the classroom.
- I would use this website to encourage middle school students to become interested in loop composition. I would more than likely
explain the basics of the site, then let them explore by themselves, and ultimately present their composition to the class. Once they’ve
created their composition and become confident in it, I would explain what a loop really is, and introduce technology like Soundtrap if
they’d like to explore further.

CHORDCHORD

Who is the target audience of the website? (Elementary, MS, HS, other)
- High school students with at least basic knowledge of music theory.
What is the functionality of the website? What does it do?
- ChordChord generates a chord progression for the user, after inputting a style of music and a tempo. They get pretty complex, using
modal interchange chords and secondary dominants.
How could you use the website for teaching music/songwriting? Give an example of an activity you could do with the website in the classroom.
- I think for high school students, it’s an interesting way to show them that not all good music follows a specific formula. Not every
song ever is going to be a I-V-vi-IV, so it’s important for students to be able to explore their creativity without feeling confined in the
tonal harmony/AP Music Theory world.

GROOVE PIZZA

Who is the target audience of the website? (Elementary, MS, HS, other)
- Groove Pizza’s target audience is probably Middle and High school students. However, I think to a simpler extent, the software could
be used for elementary school students.

What is the functionality of the website? What does it do?

- The website shows a circle split into 16 even slices. It lets the user put rhythms (using the 3 drum sounds used in traditional 3 part
drum notation) into the 16 spaces (subdivisions) to create their own rhythms, and see them visually on the circle.

How could you use the website for teaching music/songwriting? Give an example of an activity you could do with the website in the classroom.
- I would use Groove Pizza to explain subdivisions to middle school students. Especially because Groove Pizza has a feature where you
can change the 16 slices/subdivisions to a larger, or smaller amount. It also has the ability to change style and incorporate swing
rhythms, which could be a part of the greater lesson.

CREATABILITY SOUND CANVAS

Who is the target audience of the website? (Elementary, MS, HS, other)
- Elementary school students
What is the functionality of the website? What does it do?
- Sound Canvas is still an experiment via Google. However, it gives students the ability to draw on the screen, and hear the pitches and
frequencies move and increase and decrease depending on where on the screen they draw, and WHAT they draw.
How could you use the website for teaching music/songwriting? Give an example of an activity you could do with the website in the classroom.
- On a simpler level, it can explain to young children the visual differences between high pitched and low pitched notes. Each student
would have the ability to draw a picture on the screen, with headphones in, and listen to the sounds they made while drawing. I would
ask if the students noticed anything about the experiment, and then show the differences in high and low pitches on piano.