Google unveiled a new and cool Songmaker tool (you need to use Chrome to access it).

Just click on a few boxes and your song is born!

I use tools like this one (see The Best Online Sites For Creating Music) for English-language development activities (see The Best Music Websites For Learning English).  For example, students will create music and have their classmates describe what it makes them see when they close their eyes.

Here’s a video about it:

And here’s a tune I created in ten seconds. Don’t worry, I won’t leave my day job yet: