In a mobile classroom - basically a trailer outfitted with a desk and some chairs - music teacher Chris Miller works with a group of active kindergartners dressed in green and khaki school uniforms. He teaches them the basics: musical concepts, artists and styles of music. "Everybody repeat after me," he says.
This tutorial is well done. She explains the basic movement needed to start vibrato, uses close-up screen shots so that the viewer can see exactly what her wrist and fingers are doing, and shows the progression from beginning vibrato to more advanced vibrato. She also explains what beginning student vibrato should sound like. I think this is a great video for students who are starting to learn vibrato.
The site talks about how using creative commons can benefit you greatly as an educator. From finding material for lesson planning on subjects you are unfamiliar with, or using someone's basic layout of a lesson plan and changing it to fit your needs. The availability of these things can be shared over the web so easily that there are always new ideas and things to explore.
We will be using Ableton Live 9 later in the semester and this link will provide a lot of valuable tutorials to help answer some of the questions you may have about using Live 9.
From the official site and has videos for these:
Setting up an audio interface
Setting up a MIDI controller
Recording audio
MIDI beats and melodies
Working with Session View
Session View to Arrangement View
Exporting audio
Optimizing your audio interface setup
This website is basically a game that can help get drill ideas out of your head.
There is also a forum that offers a community that enjoys talking about anything marching band.
There are also music writing forums for feedback on pieces you compose or arrange and general talk forums
This tutorial demonstrates a great advanced exercise that works on your diddle control between a close and open stroke roll. This tutorial I find this tutorial important because it doesn't provide a basic 101 demonstration but is meant for marching percussionists who want to learn how to build their roll quality in a more advanced way.
This video does a good job of explaining how to hold the tambourine, why we hold it that way, why we hit it with the meat of our hand, and he explains a typical rhythmic figure.