This is a great tool to use for composing and creating music. It is a free music software to write and create music.
This is the link to the MuseScore online tutorial. The lessons on here show you how to create your own musical score using the software.
A Virtual Drum Machine- A New York University Music Lab Experience
Do you want to make your own drum beats? Groove Pizza is a virtual drum machine that uses shapes to generate beats. The circular plane is the "Virtual Pizza". When you add shapes to the pizza it adds the number of beats corresponding with the number of sides of the shape. There is a great tutorial on the website on how to use it. You can record your beats as an audio file and more.
This is an online tutorial on How to Use Groove Pizza.
The aQWERTYon web application turns your (QWERTY) computer keyboard into an accordion keyboard. There are a lot of different sounds to use. It does take a second to load, so give it a moment to load up. You can play along with your favorite YouTube songs by copying and pasting them into the URL bar. There are some tutorials on the webpage that show how to work with the program.
Click on this link to just use the keyboard function. It will show you exactly what notes you are playing on the music staff.
Click this link to play music with your favorite YouTube songs. Simply copy and past the YouTube songs into the URL. They page is a little different than the plain keyboard, but the features are the same.
Click on this video to see how aQWERTYon works.