To make music with LOGO you must first download the LOGO program to your computer. Go to MSW LOGO and download by clicking on the setup kit. Once loaded, click on MSW LOGO icon to put the LOGO window on your screen.

Minimize the LOGO window and go to PLAYER. Right click on Player.lgo (line two) and save the file.

Go back to the LOGO window. In the upper left-hand corner click "file," then select "load." Select and load the file, "player.lgo" Once loaded, test the program by typing: high do re mi fa sol la ti do into the "commander" section at the bottom of the LOGO window and hit the "enter" key. This should play the scale.


Making Music



As you type notes into the logo commander and hit the "enter" key, LOGO will play them in the order you typed them in. If you type: do re mi fa sol fa mi re dothis will play the scale with the sound like a midi piano. But you can also make different sounds. For example: banjo high do re mi fa sol fa mi re do creates a high pitch, banjo sound.

You can make notes that play fast or slow:
eighth do re mi
quarter do re mi
half do re mi
whole do re mi

You can play really low notes or really high notes:
dinosaur do re mi
low do re mi
middle do re mi
high do re mi

You can use the repeat to repeat a pattern of notes: repeat 5[do re fa] repeat 5[fa mi sol] repeat 7[re do mi]
*the number following "repeat" is the number of times the notes will be repeated. The brackets are those to the right of the letter p and do not require a shift.

To make a song, you can type out the notes, or you can use the editor. To use the editor, click the "edall" button at the lower right of the LOGO screen (window). In the editor, type in the commands in individual programs to suit your needs. For example:

to x
repeat 5[eighth do re mi quarter do re mi half do re mi whole do re mi]
end

Then click "file" in the upper left of the screen, then click "save and exit." To play this song, type x in the "commander" section at the bottom of the LOGO window.

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