Making music as accessible to learn as coding

Hi, I’m Terry, maintainer of the awesome-strudel repository on Github, which contains a collection of popular song covers, tutorials and other resources in Strudel.
For those who don’t know, Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, which makes it easy for anyone to start making music in the browser.

As a self-taught programmer, I believe learning music should be as accessible as learning programming is now (thanks to the power of internet & computer). I started my programming journey as a kid with just a PC and internet access in a small city of Indonesia. I began by going through W3Schools tutorial and tweaking HTML on their online editor. It felt amazing that I could start making things just by typing in a browser.

However, unlike coding, I didn’t have the chance to learn music because we didn’t have any instruments at home, and music courses were too expensive.

But, now, things have changed. Thanks to strudel.cc , learning music can be done directly in the browser. Everybody can learn music with only internet browser.

I’m creating a free open-source guide to help beginners like me learn how to make music in the browser (and learn music theory along the way), using Strudel.cc. This guide is inspired by Ableton’s Learning Music, Play With Your Music’s Youtube Channel, and many other free internet resources that I’m grateful for.

Learning Music in the Browser with Strudel course

You can access the course for free on the published Notion site

Right now, only the first chapter, “Making Beats in Strudel”, has been completed. I’ll keep adding more chapters later - please give the repo a star to help keep me motivated hehe.