Learning Strudel
A hands-on course, in order. Each chapter adds one idea — press Try ▶ to hear anything in the scratchpad below.
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Understand how to use this guide and the right mindset for learning Strudel.
Strudel is live-coding music: you write a few short lines and they loop forever, and you change them while they play. This guide is a course — work through the chapters in order. Each one adds one idea.
Every example has a Try ▶ button — it drops the code into the scratchpad below and plays it. Change a number, hit play again, listen. In the editor, Cmd/Ctrl + Enter plays and Ctrl + C stops.
You're not composing a song top-to-bottom. You're writing rules for time that repeat. The way to learn is to grab a working example, change one thing, and run it — then keep the happy accidents. Treat the scratchpad like an instrument, not a document.
sound("bd sd hh sd")Poke and break things. Take any example, change one value, and listen to what moved. That builds intuition faster than reading ever will.