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I often play with the brilliant Sonic Pi  https://sonic-pi.net/   for a bit of fun, but let's be clear I have no musical ability. To get my head around it I tried turning thee one tune I know "Hot Cross Buns" for the recorder into a tune. I found a useful webpage  https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/notes.html  to turn the notes into the MIDI number (60, etc) . Played with the synthesier sounds and choose tech_saw just because I liked it. The code is below use_synth :tech_saws 2.times do   play 71   sleep 0.5   play 69   sleep 0.5   play 67   sleep 0.5 end 4.times do   play 67   sleep 0.25 end 4.times do   play 69   sleep 0.25 end play 71 sleep 0.5 play 69 sleep 0.5 play 67 Also tried it with changing the synth to prophet Also tried to make it a bit more mournful (possible slightly aggressive) with minor chords - I used  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_chord#:~:text=In%20music%20theory%2C%20a%20minor,is%20called...