Vibe Coding Music with Strudel

A companion page to the Workshop 2 — Vibe Coding activity.

Strudel lets you write live-code music right in the browser — change a number, hear the beat change instantly. This page collects tracks to play with. The class activity track is way2.cc/caf — open that to follow along in the workshop.

More versions will be added as we find good ones.

Seven Nation Army — The White Stripes

The famous E E G E D C B bassline from Jack White's 2003 riff. Everyone knows it; it's a great one to pull apart and remix.

Hear the original first:

Versions to explore

1. Class version (Track 1 from the workshop) → way2.cc/caf

2. SoundFred's version — from the YouTube tutorial Tutorial for Coding Music in Strudel.cc: Seven Nation Army (by The White Stripes) by SoundFred.

Code source: whitestripes-sevennationarmy.txt in Manfred Scheucher's strudel-loops repo.

setcpm(124/4)

$git:note("<[52@3 52 55@1.5 52@1.5 50] [48@4 47@2 -@2]>").sound("gm_electric_guitar_muted:3")

$kick:sound("bd!4").bank("AkaiLinn").gain(1/4)

$snare:sound("[- sd]!2").bank("AkaiLinn").gain(1/4)

Open in Strudel (one click)

Stranger Things — Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

The synth theme you pulled apart in Track 2 of the workshop.

Versions to explore

1. Class version (Track 2 from the workshop) → way2.cc/cae

2. farhankk360's intro theme — a fuller arrangement of the show's opening: warm pads, a heartbeat kick, a bass with a slider you can drag while it plays, plus flute and brass lines → way2.cc/cah

3. Another version — a supersaw arpeggio where the filter drifts by perlin noise, so it never sweeps the same way twice → way2.cc/cad

More real songs, live-coded — open one and remix it

Each link opens straight in strudel.cc. Press Ctrl+Enter to play, then change a number and listen — the same skills you just used. (Search the song name on YouTube if you want to hear the original first.)

• Super Mario Bros. theme — the NES classic rebuilt from two square waves, a triangle wave and white noise, exactly like the real NES sound chip. Find the muteSquare1 switches at the top and turn channels off to hear each part alone → way2.cc/cab
• New Order — Blue Monday — the 1983 club classic: drum machine, that famous bass, and an arrange() that builds the song section by section, with a piano-roll view drawing the notes as they play → way2.cc/cac
• Billie Eilish — Birds of a Feather → strudel.cc/?yTnr825wyd9V
• Grimes — Music 4 Machines → strudel.cc/?sOc7cVTqJHUU
• Outrun June '25 — shadesDrawn — not a cover: an original synthwave piece composed in Strudel, layers fading in one by one over a TR-909 beat → way2.cc/cag

Credits

• Seven Nation Army — The White Stripes (Jack White, 2003). Original: official music video (The White Stripes, YouTube).
• Stranger Things — theme by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Survive), for Netflix's Stranger Things. Class version: Strudel cover by "eefano". Intro-theme arrangement: farhankk360 (credited in the code header). Version 3: shared Strudel patch, no author stated in the code.
• Super Mario Bros. theme — composed by Koji Kondo (Nintendo, 1985). Strudel cover by "Flowhacker" (credited in the code header).
• Blue Monday — New Order (1983). Strudel cover/remix by "Lewis" (credited in the code header).
• Birds of a Feather — Billie Eilish (2024). Shared Strudel patch.
• Music 4 Machines — Grimes. Shared Strudel patch.
• Outrun June '25 — original composition in Strudel by "shadesDrawn" (credited in the code header).
• Video — Tutorial for Coding Music in Strudel.cc: Seven Nation Army (by The White Stripes) by SoundFred (YouTube).
• Code — Manfred Scheucher, strudel-loops repo (no licence stated — used for educational classroom purposes with attribution).
• Strudel — strudel.cc, GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).

Classroom use, with attribution.

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