Authored by LitDev
This blog is by Small Basic user Yvan Leduc and is based on this Forum Post . It shows how to play musical chords in Small Basic just using the standard Sound.PlayMusic method.
Objective
How to play a complete music chord, for example a C major chord, instead of playing the separate notes.
Solution
A full sample program is provided with the publish code, NNP250 . It plays the first staves of a piece for classical guitar written by Matteo Carcassi: Study No.6 Op60.
How it Works
As an example of a chord in the program, we look at a C major chord which plays 3 notes together.
Here is a full C major:
a
[
1
]
=
"o4l64 E"
+
"o6l64 C"
+
"o8l64 G"
'C major chords, 3 notes together
n
[
1
]
=
"o5l6 E"
It has two variables
a
and
n
, together they build the chord,
o4
= the octave on the keyboard
l64
= the duration of the note (very short)
E
= the note
E+C+G = C major on a piano.
and the final instruction that plays the chord is:
Sound
.
PlayMusic
(
a
[
t
]
+
n
[
t
]
)
This is placed in a For Endfor loop with other chords and notes.
Thanks Yvan for sharing this.
