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A tutorial exploring some of the basics of Ableton Live

An extensive PDF on anything and everything a Jazz Choir would ever need, from musical basics to recording and sound equipment.

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.

It is better music education to focus on the process of children's creating ability than their academic result.

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.

I found this video very helpful in giving a basic introduction and overview of how the Launch Pad works

Categorized site that explains why music ed. is important.

Research shows that learning the do-re-mis can help children excel in ways beyond the basic ABCs.

PBS explaining the benefits of music ed.