This website provides music reading reinforcement through the use of online flash cards. There are even two versions, in case you do not have access to Flash player.
This website gives the user practice in note names,key signatures, intervals, and major and minor triads in root and inverted position. The website also gives you practice on note identification on the guitar.
Learning chords for older piano students can be tedious until they can effectively play them in a song. The use of technology could help students learn this necessary music theory skill and make it more enjoyable.
Through this site, students can engage in a variety of music theory or aural skills activities. Using the program's interface, one can engage with activities such as melodic, harmonic, two-part, and rhythmic dictation as well as chord analysis. It uses a click-drag method to assign notes and/or pitches to an exercise.
This website describes a curriculum for teaching rhythm to instrumental music students. It includes playing exercises, assessments, theory information, games, and formal articles.
Earl MacDonald, professor of jazz at the Univ. of Connecticut, has create this treasure trove of resources for teaching jazz improvisation, jazz theory, and jazz piano. It contains what is essentially a complete curriculum for teaching jazz improvisation that can used with singers as well as instrumentalists.
From "The Improving Musician", this is a great resource for teachers to reference for each tonality. It provides convenient information on what to chords to use to harmonize while singing songs in all tonalities. It also shows the tonal sequence for each tonality for when you are establishing tonality whilst in verbal association.
This resource is a web-based tool to practice hearing and labelling musical intervals. This would be an excellent tool to supplement aural skills training in middle or high school students.
This Jazz Transcriptions site not only houses many jazz transcriptions for all instrument, but it provides links to other transcription sites for additional material. Students can access these transcriptions to practice jazz, sight reading, and for analyzing jazz theory. I use jazz when practicing sight reading due to the added difficulty of syncopated rhythms and accidentals.
Freddie the Frog has great resources if for K-3 students, especially if you have to books to teach with. The site offers games, theory practice and coloring pages that goes along with the book series.
This is a search engine database of commonly used "licks" in jazz that can be used for specific functions. For instance, you may type in ii V I and bopland will search for all licks in its database that can satisfy a ii V I progression. It is very helpful for jazz classes and for students stuck on improvisation creativity.
This is a search engine database of commonly used "licks" in jazz that can be used for specific functions. For instance, you may type in ii V I and bopland will search for all licks in its database that can satisfy a ii V I progression. It is very helpful for jazz classes and for students stuck on improvisation creativity.
This website provides teachers with resources that include sample lesson plans, example student work, pre-made work sheets and interactive activities that students can use individually, in a group, or with the whole class.
Fun game for developing the young ear. This can be used as a visual for teaching melodic direction and can lead into a discussion about texture and form.