Chatting Area! Have fun! (Part 1)

[Reflectfr]

Ok MY tutorial on how to make makecode music! (and how to make it sound less like note spam!)
some key factors to remember, the makecode sound editor most matches with piano and xylophone sheet music, so if youre going to use motifs/use notes from other songs search up song and piano, (eg hopes and dreams piano)
You can make Notes B scale and Sharp by clicking J after putting one down (im not sure how to do this on mobile) use the explosion for percussion (specifically drums) Here we go!

Reyces Tutorial to MAKEing makeCODE music!!!

Part one: the BASE of the song
All good songs have a main rhythm
Like They not like us, Undertale(track 71), And Hammer of justice (two are toby fox because why not)
so you need to get the basis of your song to begin with, Try to play around and see what works!

This is important because you will use the basis (which you can also use as a MOTIF in other songs, more on that later) through out the song!

2: The TEMPO
Temp, (also known as BPM) is how fast a song is, makecodes base bpm is 120 bpm. (bpm means beats per minute)

if you want a really fast song change it and make it higher, slower is lower!
3: The back-round instruments!
when you make a song if you only use one instrument it will be bare bones and boring, we dont want that!

As you can see the main sound is cars, while other sounds (eg cherrys, computer, and explosion) are in the backround to help give it a base!
4: Time!
A song needs to last a time to not over stay its welcome AND feel long enough to not feel to short!
battle themes/level themes dont need to be long and can be short, s 1-2 minutes are good!
while songs with lyrics often feel to short at this time so 3-4 minutes is better, however dont just repeat the same notes again and again like 20 times to extend it! which goes into our next one!
5: MOTIF’s
All great songs can sound like others too! and have references by having a short snippet!
A large one is DONT FORGET’s motif

this ties in to the base of the song, it should be in a lot of the songs main melody. but shouldn’t be everywhere in the song, or else it will just get annoying!
Conclusion: Makecode songs can be good of you know what youre doing (@InvalidProject’s music slaps) like most music making places! go on into the world and make your monsterous songs (@randomuser asked for this so shout out to her)

[Reflectfr]

cool!

[Rune]

Love seeing new users confused about the TMF lore, so let me clue you in.

Scamma is a fictional character created by ChimbroDaPro in his game called “The Makecode Forums” or TMF for short. The plot of this game is that the evil Scamma hacks the forums to lock topics and do weird things and you have to play out the story and stop him or whatever. (lol its been a long time since I played it.) From what I remember, Scamma is really just misunderstood and steps down once he gets basic therapy.

Later instalments feature Scamma as the player character, as he defeats his creator Vortex. The third instalment, “Multiversal Convergence”, was unique because it jumped between different share links only accessable within the game itself, so Chimbro basically just made like 20 games and stiched them together into his masterpiece. It ends with a climactic JRPG fight with some EPIC art by Luke himself.

You guys should play these three games, they are actually pretty good.

[RizeUpDev]

Lovely game! I would suggest you to add more enemies with more health or more upgrades or maybe they shoot randomly too!

[babol]

[ChimbroDaPro]

Wow… people be thinkin scamma was actually a real user… h-he was though, of course

Secondly as for this:

@RoboVacDev

I mean, if the TMF game explained @scamma himself as a big bully, why do people still like him?

I wonder, have you played like ALL the TMF games? There’s TMF 1, 2, 0.5, and 3. So uh… yeah hi bye

[CopySprite]

Shush…

@CopySprite

@RoboVacDev

Also, what happened to @scamma?

He was erased from the timeline, you joined a little late so you never got to meet them… It’s a good thing @ChimbroDaPro made some games to tell his story.

Pretend he was real.

[game_bird]

Anyone like my new Pfp?

Made by Procreate

[redSprite]

Thank you Reyce
Teach us about arrays now

[Peau12]

I love that game. I thought I saw something like it called Google Chat 1.0 in the summer, but I don’t see it anymore.

[CopySprite]

@ChimbroDaPro

h-he was though, of course

Yes… Of course.

@ChimbroDaPro

hehehehehehehehehe…

[redSprite]

Huh

Apple or Apple ahh

[Air]

so @scamma is not real??? then why. is everyone talking about???

[Peau12]

They are real.

[Reflectfr]

Also on backround instruments, dont make then too loud, just loud enough to be noticed but quieter then the main melody
another correction thanks to invalid, the explosion isnt a backround instrument its a beat.

[InvalidProject]

This is really well made! But reading this makes me want to add some key things you missed.

#1 - Priority
Don’t go on adding everything willy-nilly. While the rhythm (though not entirely necessary but helpful) is important, your priority should be a base! The base notes tend to be long sections of notes, usually to give a tone to the music you are creating. If you want an example of a base, go see my song Beheaded on the Free Music topic! If you want an example of NO base, go check out Happy Reset on the same topic!

#2 - Instrumentation
This one is a little bit of a suggestion since this can still be up to you for your works, but it’s as follows; Be careful on what instruments do what. The dog is an all-rounder, you can hear it almost everywhere–While instead, the Computer is much more functional away from the bottom, more useful when used at a higher pitch! Same with the kitten, the duck, the cherry, they all have unique ways they can and probably shouldn’t be used.

#3 - Backgrounds
While they are called background, some notes serve VITAL differences!! For example, the explosion is not a background, it’s a beat. Why is this important? The explosion is the only beat in this set, so it’s a very important thing to master. Take your time to learn it and you will see it’s VERY important to the song if you take your time to make sure it sounds right.

#4 - Time & Signature
Your songs don’t actually need to be mega long, in fact, most songs I’ve made for Hebes and Zombies of God barely stood past 1 minute each! They can be whatever you choose, but what can matter greatly is your balance of Time Signature. This determines how many notes can fit on one block of music. The default is 4 beats, 1 measure. You can change this to 4 beats, 3 measures to create 3/4 that fits perfectly! (Though you should just stick to 4 beats, 4 measures.)

#5 - Scale
Just for beginners, until you study things like Music Theory, PLEASE do not use any sharps or flats. If you would like your songs to have a more “evil” feel like my songs, you can look up Minor Scales, which are sets of notes that you can use to give that feeling! Using no sharps or flats and starting on C is the C Major Scale, a very easy-to-work with scale that sounds good!

Like I said, lovely work @Reflectfr! Also thanks for @randomuser for asking you to do this! Lovely work!

[Tails]

Thanks!

[CopySprite]

Okay I’ll be serious this time.
Scamma was a fictional character created by ChimbroDaPro to be the antagonist of his game jam game: The MakeCode Forums. He later made three other games in the series with each one diving deeper into scamma’s story.

I’m only pretending he was real because most of the users that were in the games aren’t active anymore so it wouldn’t be that unrealistic that there actually was someone called scamma and that everything in the games actually happened… Sorry.

[SDG-15]

I think it looks cool

[Allegory_Cheese]

How in the slick do you change the time sig