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Great acts to encourage the health of the school community. These could easily apply to other instructors in addition to the administration. The joke is that the secretaries run the school. Get to know the people you work with because they could be the ones that provide help for you in the future.

Great acts to encourage the health of the school community. These could easily apply to other instructors in addition to the administration. The joke is that the secretaries run the school. Get to know the people you work with because they could be the ones that provide help for you in the future.

This has some nice exercises to help kids sing through their break. It even has some notated. The rest of the website also has some intriguing pages.

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 might help with repairing damaged zip files. I haven't tried it yet; however, it might be worth looking in to for those of you who have corrupted files.

A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.

We're writing a song for our performance project, and I've used this extensively. I've found it to be quite helpful. At first, I thought it would be dumb to post it, but after some thought I disagreed with my original notion. This tool is an example of how technology is helping songwriters network, through the use of a thesaurus and rhyming. It made the song writing process much more efficient and smoother.

Helpful intro tutorial to seeing how a launchpad works.

This tutorial is decent. Is helpful but there is a lot of talking involved which might overwhelm a novice piano player. He also has a lot of "ads" trying to get people to like the post or try to subscribe, which I think is a little annoying

This tutorial is helpful because it shows he steps clearly, quickly, and in a way students of any age can understand. It is also nice that it is in a home setting, not a shop.

His explanation of bow hold is clear and he uses analogies that are very appropriate for young violinists to help them understand the shape of the hand. I also like that he teaches bow hold on a pencil and emphasizes that the hand should feel relaxed and natural.

I think that making lesson plans will be one of the most challenging things in the first few years of teaching, I find that websites like this are very helpful in ways to organize them and what kinds of information should be in them.

Choosing music seems like quite a challenge. Any list of music that would be good is quite helpful.

Hey guys! This might be helpful! Its a list of a bunch of songs with the same chord progression.

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

IMSLP has free public domain sheet music and scores for thousands of pieces of music available for study.

This site helped me throughout my music history courses. Great resource of older classical scores in particular.

A great resource filled with exercises to help every percussionist.

Here is a website where I had to do all of my aural perception at my old institution. There are chapters of exercises for rhythm, melodic dictoatoon, and chord progression. If the tempo is too fast you can take the exercises and put them in finale and use the tempo that is best for you. Hope this helps you all