Blues Maker is a fun online tool where users select Lyrics and Harmonica effects to make their own piece of music.

In the words of the website,

"Let the sadness out of your heart. After gathering it all, click next and sing along. Foot stomping is recommended."

Visit http://www.thebluesmaker.com/ and make music! 

As you will all be aware from previous blogs, thanks to the internet, in order to create music, users no longer need to know how to play an instrument.

If they want to create something, they can use various online services and mashup "music loops" to create something unique. Soundation is one such website.

Soundation is an online free music mixing program that has many sound loops. The interface is divided into parts..

• the left pane is for audio channels;
• users can set the volume an...

JamStudio is a website that makes song composition easier by allowing users to...

• choose an instrument loop;
  
• plug in basic chord changes; and
  
• listen to what they have created — all within seconds.
  All of this is done rather intuitively by clicking on boxes/menus/etc.
  

A basic knowledge of music theory is helpful but, it is not necessary for making music at Jamstudio, which has...

• a free (with adverts) version that doesn’t require any login information (this is ideal for learners...

SheetMusicEditor allows users to drag and drop their...

• clefs,
• time signatures and
• notes

Because users have to manually drag everything into the right place the resulting sheets won’t have that high quality look; alignment of notes will be slightly off.

A great tool to write down simple tunes and prepare them for printing quickly. I don't think it would be advisable to use with very complicated compositions.

Find out more at http://w...

Beatboxing is a musical art that only a few people can do.

Incredibox is a fun online beatbox machine which lets users compose their own human beatbox arrangements online, and share them with others.

Features:

• Free, no registration required.
• Compose a human beatbox ensemble.
• Drag and drop icons to a character to create sounds.
• Click shuffle icons to let app run on itself.
• Download Incredibox as a screensaver.
• Share your compositions with others.
• Available in French and English.

iNudge is a free and fun music synthesizer that lets users create their own sound patterns by selecting steps on a 16×16 matrix.

It seems pointless at first, but once users start creating more advanced sound patterns it can get quite addictive.

Start by selecting little squares on the matrix with a mouse. Users can adjust volume and speed (tempo) of the 'tune' or clear the pattern with “CLR” button at the bottom.

If users want to save and play the tune later, the Get & Share allow...

Free Online Music Composer & Note Editor

Tools and Software for composing music and writing musical notes are not cheap and not all musicians can afford them.

Noteflight is a new online music composer and note editor which could serve as a nice alternative for such tools.

Users can...

• create,
• edit,
• display and
• play back music notation online.

The great thing – users don’t need to connect a musical instrument to enter notes. They just do it using keyboard and mouse.

Noteflig...