Lesson Plan

Lists, Chords, and Bad Bunny

Learn to use lists in Python to create chords. Practice using chords together to make progressions.

Level

Beginner

Time

20-30 minutes

Try It

STEP 1: Create a new Project

Go to tunepad.com and sign in.
Create a new project and change the name to “Bad Bunny”.
Set the temp to 90 BPM (beats per minute)

STEP 2: Chords

Add a Keys cell to your project and set the instrument to Keyboard → Organ
This code uses four variables to hold the chords we want to play
Each chord is a list of note numbers

chord1 = [ 48, 52, 55, 59 ] chord2 = [ 52, 55, 60, 62 ] chord3 = [ 50, 55, 59 ] chord4 = [ 50, 53, 57, 59 ] / playNote(chord1, beats = 4) playNote(chord2, beats = 4) playNote(chord3, beats = 4) playNote(chord4, beats = 4)

STEP 3: Drums

Add a Drum cell to your project
Set the instrument to Drums → Headlines Drums
This code uses variables to play the drum sounds.

kick = 0 snare = 2 / playNote(kick, 0.75) playNote(snare, beats = 0.25) playNote(kick, beats = 0.5) playNote(snare, beats = 0.5) playNote(kick, beats = 0.75) playNote(snare, beats = 0.25) playNote(kick, beats = 0.5) playNote(snare, beats = 0.5)

STEP 4: Hi-Hats (optional)

The last step adds hi-hats using a loop in Python. Feel free to try this code out if you want to.

Add a new Drum cell to your project and set the instrument to Drums → Headlines Drums

hat = 5 / for i in range(14): playNote(hat, beats = 0.25) / for i in range(4): playNote(hat, beats = 0.25 / 2)

IMPORTANT

Some of this code is indented by four spaces
We use indented code to tell Python what to repeat inside a loop
Use exactly 4 spaces so that Python doesn’t get confused

Try It

Open this project in TunePad https://tunepad.com/project/43861