Baby Chords Makes Musical Babies
Fri, December 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM It is difficult not to be a pushy parent sometimes, no matter how much you try, but surely a little gentle coaxing in the creative, musical direction is ok, isn't it?
Baby Chords is an app that might help both entertain and distract little ones, whilst introducing them to the principles of making music with scales and chords.
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The app has been specifically designed to make basic, possibly harmonic, noise making easy for anyone. This is from the iTunes description (capitalisation as per the original):
Pressing any three consecutive notes ALWAYS PRODUCES A CHORD. Sliding your finger across notes ALWAYS RESULTS HARMONIOUS.
Select among delightful instrument sounds of the PIANO, HARP and GLOCKENSPIEL with beautiful baby musical instrument interfaces, baby PATTERNS and baby BLOCKS as display options.
Baby Chords is in the app store now for $2.99 (£1.79). Let us know if you try this app, and what your little ones think, in the comments below.
Reader Comments (2)
I'm a sucker for music apps, especially those that are chord-based so I bit. One-finger play is quite beautiful on the harp and fun on the piano and xylophone. The fleeting visuals of mallets when you touch the xylophone are cool. Full-handed 'play', like the baby in the video, is pretty annoying, as well as full of distortion, but clearly babies like it! Because of the arrangement of the notes, it's definitely not for picking out known melodies! Fun, though.
Thanks Mary - just bashing away did seem very annoying but we are glad that you managed to get something else out of it.