ASU Digital/Hybrid Lab

These are great rhythm, body percussion and and solfége exercises for young musicians!

This is a third tool like Garageband that creates layered tracks. The feature that makes this tool unique is "the revolutionary Session View: a unique sketchpad for improvising, playing and performing with musical ideas, without the constraints of the timeline. Freely and independently start and stop any number of audio or MIDI loops - everything stays in sync."

In Brass/Woodwinds Methods Lab, Dr. Mantie recommended this as a good backtrack creator to use in the classroom. It's not too expensive and would be a useful tool.

Interesting app software website for all music teachers!

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.

A lot of great thinkings about digital music education compared to original music education.

Concise discussion of MIDI and piano roll notation.

This is a great description of what midi is and what it controls. 

mega digipad.

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.

I found a great article that covers music copyright issues in the classroom. Check this article out - The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes media for public knowledge and action-media made by, for, and with publics to address the problems that they share. We pay particular attention to the evolution of documentary film and video in a digital era. With research, public events, and convenings, we explore the fast-changing environment for public media.

Automatic tuning is synonymous with many things, good and bad. We take a look at Logic's Pitch Correction and then examine what Auto-Tune can add. Here's a quick guide on how to use Logic's pitch-correction plug-in. Step one: insert it onto the audio track playing back the recording whose pitch you want to correct.

The M-Audio M-Track along with Apple's Logic Pro is a easy to use yet versatile music production system. This guide walks through configuring the M-Track with Logic and recording audio.

8 ways to think about tech in ways that actually improve the classroom. Bringing technology into the classroom often winds up an awkward mash-up between the laws of Murphy and Moore: What can go wrong, will - only faster. It's a multi-headed challenge: Teachers need to connect with classrooms filled with distinct individuals.

I think this is a prime, fun example of how technology mediates our musical engagement. This is only one example out of many, but heres it is! Enjoy!

This is pretty interesting. A 5 year old kid created a hip-hop song in a 60 seconds that already has almost 700,000 hits. It's a great example of how technology is changing means of music creation.

Found by Patrick Harris and Jillian Kaplan

Legend of Zelda theme played on the theremin...

Without the keyboard, this cat would just be a cat and have to way of expressing himself through music