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A web-based sight-reading tool that general exercises that can be customized to meet the needs of your band program. You can create opportunities for individual sight-reading as well full ensemble. The assessment tool can track the progress and report the practice sessions. Teacher subscription is $34.99 per year and students can receive access for as low as $2 per year.

The Sight Reading Factory link is one of the best sight-reading websites I have come across to date.  Within the free demo, I was able to access sight reading exercises for a number of band, instrumental, and vocal practice lessons.  In my personal exploration of the demo, I first looked into locating sight reading exercises for piano.  I was able to edit the time signature and key signature before seeing the practice exercises.  This feature is GREAT for people who are learning to play/count in different meters or using accidentals in their piano playing.  The same can be said for people learning to utilize solfedge in their singing, utilize new fingerings in their instrumental playing, or simply challenge themselves.  The website offers multiple difficulty levels, making the use of this website in a secondary music school setting ideal.  Sight reading exercises and study are some of the major contributors to my development as a musician and educator.  Since the exercises are generated on command, the site provides unlimited sight reading exercises to its users, making its longevity a strong selling-point.  

Sight Reading Factory is a cloud-based program allowing students daily practice with newly generated exercises each time. Check out the demo; free trials are available for up to 20 exercises generated.

Sight Reading Factory provides unlimited number of exercises for sight reading/singing to students. This program provides exercises based on instrumentation and other needs/skill levels to accommodate all levels. It also works as a great assessment tool by tracking what and how the student sight reads in real time.

SightReadingFactory.com makes practicing the important skill of sight reading quick, easy, effective and fun! This cloud-based service allows you to customize and generate unlimited sight reading examples instantly, on-demand for students of all ages and abilities.

Sight Reading Factory is a great resource for all musicians looking to better their sigh treading ability. It develops a random sight reading exercise for all instruments and is something that can be worked on at an individual level or through a school subscription. Quick set-up and easy to use!

This site offers customize-able sight-reading examples that are composed in real time in a variety of combinations. It may be used by the music teacher in whole group setting in the classroom, or student accounts may be purchased for use with at-home practice and assessment. The annual fee is reasonable.

This is the best sightreading website I have encountered. A student is able to customize the exercises to his/her level of ability and it will create random sightreading excerpts. It is certainly a tool I always suggest to my students to invest in.

This is the best sightreading website I have encountered. A student is able to customize the exercises to his/her level of ability and it will create random sightreading excerpts. It is certainly a tool I always suggest to my students to invest in.

Sight Reading Factory offers teachers and students opportunities to practice sight reading using complete customization of exercises: time signatures, key signatures, difficulty level and more.

Sight Reading Factory is a comprehensive online sight reading tool which provides on-demand computer-generated music examples which are customizable by instrument, playing level, length, key, and time signature. The service provides pre-programmed levels or can be fully customized by the user. Sight Reading Factory covers all major instruments (including voices and piano) and ensembles. Rhythm-only examples are also available. Once configured, the service provides unlimited, computer-generated sight reading examples based on the settings. Although randomly generated, the algorithm delivers rather authentic, musical selections. The user has two choices for participation: timed review period or free play. Settings can also be adjusted to toggle metronome click and cursor, as well as making measures disappear before or after playing.

Unlimited sight reading exercises for every instrument and ensemble. Music teachers can customize exercises for the skill level of their students and print each exercise if needed.

Sight Reading Factory is a great technology music-education tool. The site offers a short free trial, but the annual fee is very inexpensive. The technical support is great, and can problem solve quickly. Build sight-reading skills with the entire class, or create individual sight-reading assignments for students. Educators can generate custom sight-reading examples by easy selection of criteria. This site is worth the money and can be beneficial for student achievement in learning to read and sing musical notation.

Sight Reading Factory is an excellent application and website that generates customizable sight reading exercise for a variety of instruments or using solfege. You can customize the exact rhythms or pitches you would like and the program generates unlimited, yet musical, sight reading examples.

Great source for training rhythmic sight-reading! Various patterns will test students' capabilities to hear complex rhythmic structures.

A fun game for students to practice rhythms independently . Different combinations of rhtyhms can be played at different tempos.

Website where students can practice reading rhythms. In one mode a rhythm is played and then the student must use the available notes to write that rhythm. In the second mode a rhythm is written and students need to select which of four audio examples sounds like what is written. This is a great resource for quick check-ins of student understanding of rhythmic notation.

This game allows the player to work on reading rhythms and rhythmic notation. There are two ways to play the game: listen to a rhythm and spell it out with provided rhythmic blocks or view a whole rhythm and choose the correct recording.

The purpose of this resource is to help students with ear training for interval recognition using familiar tunes. The musical content is in the form of links to YouTube clips that demonstrate different intervals. This source is valuable for teachers because it builds on what students know (the familiar tunes) and provides immediate links for patterns of intervals both ascending and descending. It also allows you to select only the examples you want to use and print them out on their own chart. It also provides tutorials and music facts about theory and technology. Like many other software programs, it offers a free trial, making it more marketable and appealing to teachers and students alike.

This website will generate a list of intervals with related songs to learn the intervals. By picking the song of your choice, you can build a custom list to meet your students' interests. The list is printable and can be distributed to your students.

A helpful site for students who are working on learning and mastering their intervals. Provides a great list of songs that you can associate the intervals with to help remember them.

This website features free access to musical excerpts of famous songs and melodies to illustrate examples of musical intervals. Each excerpt is a link to a video on YouTube. You can create your own song chart of favorite pieces to use as an example of each interval in ascending or descending patterns. Music educators would find these examples very useful for classroom instruction. The Earmaster company also offers ear training materials for purchase including over 2000 exercises for musicians of all ability levels. Free trials are available and it is advertised that music schools and universities use these products.

Great resource for music teachers to teach intervals. It is a list of popular songs and pieces that utilize specific intervals, and includes links to the audio or youtube examples.

EarMaster organizes an ample amount of repertoire for learning specific intervals. The music examples are categorized by ascending and descending intervals of minor/major 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, perfect 4th, 5th, octaves, and tritones. The youtube examples will start immediately where the specified interval can be heard. Students can choose to memorize any examples listed to help them remember the sound of specific intervals.

This site offers a service that one wishes they had until they realize it exists. Essentially, if offers lists of songs that can be used to teach intervals. For many choirs - both middle and high school - the majority of students have not had proper ear training. A fun and effective way to do this remedially is to use familiar or easy to sing songs that students can reference to develop their ears. This site puts many song titles in one place to help facilitate that.

This website allows teachers to find songs that are associated with particular intervals. There is a free version but the paid (2.99/month) has more features. This software basically generates a chart with a list of songs for each interval and can be used as an excellent ear training activity!

This website provides browsers with a repertoire of songs that feature particular melodic intervals. Several of these songs are accompanied with links directing browsers to a YouTube recording of the corresponding song.

This website offers different musical examples for each musical interval. This instructional tool will help build students ear training skills.

This site has a lot of free sheet music and allows students to print it off and practice sight reading. This site also has a tuner, scales, and a metronome to allow students to practice properly. The purpose of this resource is to allow students to stay engaged and practice music of their choice when they get bored with the music for concerts. This helps them stay engaged and not get burned out.

Free Sheet Music!

8notes.com is full of music resources such as free sheet music and supplemental material for lessons. The sheet music includes categories such as classical, pop, jazz, film/TV, and traditional. Any music teacher knows how frequently students ask for specific tunes from television or movies. Even though they may not be played in class, students can greatly benefit from private practice on tunes they enjoy. 8notes.com also includes over forty theory lessons. These lessons begin with learning about lines and spaces on the staff and continue through many concepts all the way to the introduction of modes. In addition to the lessons, this website provides ear training exercises to accompany the theory lessons. 8notes.com is a great resource for all music teachers, not just instrumental or vocal. This site includes music and lessons for all instruments including banjo and ukulele, making it great for a general music classroom as well.

If you're not using Kahoot yet, you're missing out! It's a great place to find and create review quizzes that students can interact with using their iPads (or even their own phones for older kids). They absolutely love when we play Kahoot in our classroom!

A simple, yet effective, tool used to improve ear training technique. Addresses such topics as intervals, chords, cadences and more.

This site can be handy for high school or college students in a music theory or aural skills course. Students can practice identifying intervals, chords, scales, cadences, and more both visually and aurally. These skills likely reinforce ones they learn in class.

This website is meant for buying sheet music for a variety of musical groups. In addition to options to search for and purchase music, there are also reference recordings available for many pieces.

This is a sheet music database that provides music for band, choir, orchestra, guitar, solo instrument, and solo voice.

This site offers sheet music from arguably the biggest available library of music online. You can both e-print many of the pieces, as well as buy physical copies.

My go-to cite for purchasing music.

J.W. Pepper is a great resource for finding music for any traditional ensemble or instrument. Through the website, you can find music from various publishers, such as Hal Leonard or Boosey & Hawkes. When searching for music, it will bring up all available arrangements, as well as show the grade level of the work (with the exception of older, out-of-print music). There are also links and articles for other music resources.

J.W. Pepper is the easiest site I've used when choosing and purchasing sheet music. It is very helpful that most of the pieces allow you to hear a performance of the music you want to buy and you are able to see the scores for the pieces, this has helped me determine if my groups can play the piece before I buy it. I can see if the range is too high for trumpets, if there are a lot of string crossings for violins, etc.

J.W. Pepper distributes sheet music for every ensemble. Band, choir and orchestra teachers can find music from Beethoven to Whitaker in this one-stop-shop for sheet music.

J.W. Pepper is a website to access many types of music scores. Creating an account is very easy, and there is no annual fee. I find many pieces that work for my all my varying ability ensembles through this site because it offers various arrangements of the same work. I can sometimes find a piece in SATB and 2-part. Prices of music keep rising, but they have great customer service and shipping is usually quick. Many selections on the website are accompanied by a recording of the piece, but not always in the voicing selected.

JW Pepper is a resource I use to find music for my choirs of 4th-8th grade. It has music categorized by event, genre, grade, and ensemble. I also use this resource to play recordings for my students to model a new piece of repertoire.

J.W. Pepper Sheet music is an online music site in which you can get all your music needs taken care of in a very timely manner. You can search for almost any type of instrumentation, create your own library, read informative articles about music and music education. You can also listen to music samples of some of the pieces, and take a closer look at the notation. Once you have decided what you would like, you may order online and either have your music shipped to you or ePrinted immediately. J.W. Pepper is a wonderful resource that every music teacher should use when ordering music. You won't be disappointed with them.

J.W. Pepper has stock music at any music educators hands. Users can simply use the search bar to search for a piece to purchase. If the user needs ideas, they can use the tabs to find hat they are looking for (choral, band, orchestra, general music). JW Pepper proves audio recordings for most of their content, as well as scores for directors to view. Users can even choose to download music and print music with the e-print option, so directors do not need to wait to receive their purchased items in the mail.