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Chrome Music Lab
A collection of browser experiments for playing with sound, pattern and rhythm.
Chrome Music Lab is a set of small experiments that turn sound into something visible on screen. In Song Maker, a child can put together a short composition and share it. Other experiments link music to science, maths and art. There’s no lesson sequence; it is open-ended play.
- Ages
- Explore together; older children can experiment independently
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Music, Creative play, Science
- Languages
- English
- Listed
- 2026-10-11
What kids do
- Compose in Song Maker
- Compare sound patterns
- Clap along to a composition
- Pair music with movement
Who it suits
Google doesn’t attach an age to it. Little ones tend to enjoy it next to an adult, while older children can wander through the experiments by themselves.
Notes for parents
The experiments open in browsers on phones, tablets and laptops without an account. One family game: make a short pattern, change a single part, and listen for what changed.
What you need
- Compatible browser
- Speakers or headphones
In these guides
- Drawing, animation and music apps for kids who would rather make than watch: Creative apps for kids: digital painting, step-by-step drawing, stop motion, pixel animation and beat-making, grouped by the kind of making each involves.
More Music
- musictheory.net: Short lessons and drills on reading notes, rhythm, scales and chords.
- Ableton Learning Music: Browser lessons from Ableton on how beats, basslines, chords and melodies fit together.
- Ableton Learning Synths: Interactive lessons on how synthesizers shape sound, with controls kids drag and then listen to.
- Incredibox: A music game in which kids drag sounds onto animated performers to build a mix.
- Blob Opera: Kids appear to conduct a quartet of singing blobs, dragging each one to shift its pitch and vowel.
- Piano Maestro: Kids play a real piano or keyboard while the iPad seems to listen in and light up the notes they hit.
- Classics for Kids: Kids hear composer stories on a weekly radio show, play note and rhythm games, and write little tunes of their own.
- Prodigies Music: Kids sing, use hand signs and ring colorful bells along with short video lessons.