Drawing guide · 3 small experiments

Your first line is your first melody.

You do not need to read sheet music to try this playground. A drawing becomes a loop: horizontal position sets the timing, vertical position sets the pitch, and color chooses the sound.

Try the web player ↗

1. Draw a rising line

Open the studio and clear the starting drawing if you want a blank canvas. Choose Keys, then draw from the lower left toward the upper right. Press Play. As the playhead travels across the canvas, the notes rise. Undo restores your previous drawing after a clear.

2. Leave a little silence

Add three separated dots in another color. A dot creates a note at that point in the loop. The empty spaces between your marks leave room in the rhythm. Use the eraser to remove a whole stroke when a part feels too crowded.

3. Change the mood

Keep the drawing but change Pentatonic to Minor or Major. The selected scale changes the available pitches. Lower the BPM for a slower loop or raise it for a quicker one. In this player, a loop spans four beats.

Listen to two shapes together

Draw a second line in a different color across the same part of the canvas. Marks in the same time column can sound together. Shorter drawings and fewer overlapping notes make the individual sounds easier to hear.

Keep an editable copy

Use Save to download a project, then Open to return to it later. An exported PNG is a picture and a WAV is rendered audio; neither replaces an editable project file.

A few more answers.

Does a color represent a musical note?

Color selects a synthesized sound. A mark’s vertical position selects its note within the current scale.

Why do curved lines play individual notes?

The web player reads the drawing across 64 time columns and maps vertical positions onto notes. It does not continuously slide pitch along a curve.