Students will focus on coding a longer song in this Week 7 Challenge. The code should reflect the basic sections of a song as listed below:

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• Chorus: The section of the song that has the same lyrics and melody and repeated throughout the song between verses. 

• Verse:  Verses complete the body of the song and provide variety between repeated choruses.

• Bridge: This generally short section of the song has a different melody and lyric from any other section.  It often is used toward the middle or end of the song to build up to the chorus.  Not every song as bridge.

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EarSketch has a tool that will allow students to create this song structure without writing lines and lines of code: custom, or user-defined functions. Custom functions are written by the programmer to accomplish a specific task, often a task that must be done more than once. Students can use comments to help identify the sections of their songs as they write their functions. Once they have coded their sections into functions, students can call their functions to create a song that is between 30 seconds and 3 minutes.The songs must include at least one stem from Ciara or Common and include additional functions such as fitMedia(), setEffect(), makeBeat() or loops to create variation in their song.